Time schedule

Title

Speaker

Function

13h00-13h15                    

Welcome (.pdf)

Martine De Mazière

Director General a.i.,

BIRA-IASB

Belgian support to space aeronomy

Frank Monteny

Director General Research & Space,

Belgian Science Policy Office President of the BIRA-IASB Management Board

13h30–14h00

Discovering the Impact of the Sun on the Earth's Atmosphere: Aeronomy in Belgium during the past 50 years

Guy Brasseur

Senior Scientist Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany

National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado

14h00–14h20

BIRA-IASB, an (inter) nationally renowned partner in atmospheric research (.pdf)

Jean-Claude Gérard

President Scientific Council

Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics, ULg

14h20-14h50

Going up: Out of the atmosphere and into space (.pdf)

Johan De Keyser

Head of Department a.i.,
Head of Division “Space Physics”, BIRA-IASB

14h50-15h20

Solar radiation and limb sounding: methods, missions and retrievals (.pptx)

Didier Fussen

Head of Department,
Head of Division “Solar Radiation in Atmospheres”, BIRA-IASB

15h20-15h50

Coffee break

15h50-16h20

Reactive gases in a changing atmosphere: global observations, data assimilation and services (.pdf)

Michel Van Roozendael

Head of Division “Reactive gases in the atmosphere”, BIRA-IASB

16h20-16h50

Understanding atmospheric composition: challenges, importance and progress (.ppt)

Jean-François Müller

Head of Division “Sources and sinks of atmospheric components”, BIRA-IASB

16h50-17h20

“Bits” and “pieces” for Aeronomy (.ppt)
(Full text version)

Johan Bulcke

Eddy Neefs

Head of Support Service “IT”

Head of Support Service “Engineering”

BIRA-IASB

17h20-17h40

Conclusions and perspectives (.pptx)

Martine De Mazière

Director General a.i.,

BIRA-IASB

17h40

End of the Academic Session

Reception