The 13th International Limb Workshop will be organized by the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMKASF) of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, the home of MIPAS, GLORIA and CAIRT. It will take place on 2-6 June 2025 in Karlsruhe Palace, in the heart of Karlsruhe City, Germany.
The workshop aims to inform the community of the status of upcoming and existing missions and their data products, bring together limb-sounding communities from Earth and planetary atmospheres, and share their latest results.
We welcome contributions from all teams involved in the development, data processing, and scientific research of atmospheric limb missions:
- Past: e.g., UARS-MLS, SAGE-II, HIRDLS, SMILES, SCIAMACHY, GOMOS, MIPAS
- Ongoing: e.g., SAGE-III/ISS, OSIRIS, OMPS-LP, ACE-FTS, Aura-MLS, MATS
- Future and Proposed: e.g., ALTIUS, ALI, CAIRT, HAWC, STRIVE, ESOTERIC, KEYSTONE.
Building on the success of the previous 12th Limb Workshop, this workshop will also include planetary limb missions (e.g., SOIR/VEx, NOMAD/TGO, OMEGA/MEx).
Solicited topics for both Earth and planetary missions include:
- Current and past limb and occultation instruments: algorithms, products, validation
- Upcoming Earth observation limb and occultation instruments
- Planetary missions: instruments and algorithms
- Atmospheric composition (Earth and planets), chemistry and transport
- Aerosols and clouds
- Gravity waves
- Applications (e.g., data assimilation, gridded products, spacecraft re-entry plumes)
Timeline
- Abstract submissions are open until March 25, 2025
- Registration: Starting early April
Confirmed invited speakers
Robert Damadeo (NASA Langley, USA)
Doug Degenstein (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Emmanuel Dekemper (BIRA, Belgium)
Kimberlee Dube (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Bernd Funke (IAA, Spain)
Daniel Gerber (RAL Space, UK)
Sergey Khaykin (LATMOS, France)
Linda Megner (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Frank Montmessin (LATMOS, France)
Luke Oman (NASA Goddard, USA)
Scientific Organizing Committee
Adam Bourassa (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Alex Hoffmann (ESA)
Yasuko Kasai (NICT, Japan)
Natalya Kramarova (NASA/GSFC, USA)
Hilke Oetjen (ESA)
Michelle Santee (JPL/Caltech, USA)
Björn-Martin Sinnhuber (KIT, Germany)
Gabriele Stiller (KIT, Germany)
Ann Carine Vandaele (BIRA, Belgium)
Kaley Walker (University of Toronto, Canada)
Local Organizing Committee
Alexandra Laeng
Derya Cayiroglu
Sören Johansson
Tobias Kerzenmacher
Esther Prietzel
Thomas Reddmann
Roland Ruhnke
Gerald Wetzel
Wolfgang Woiwode
Sponsors
This event is generously sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA)
