Date: 9-13 June, 2025
Venue:
9-12 June: Small Hall 1, Sunport Hall Takamatsu, Takamatsu Symbol Tower Hall building 4F, 2-1 Sunport Takamatsu, Kagawa 760-0019, Japan
13 June: Shoko-Shorei-Kan Hall, Ritsurin Garden, 1-20-16, Ritsurin, Takamatsu, Kagawa 760-0073, Japan
Objective: The 21st annual meeting of CEOS AC-VC will be held to discuss current and future atmospheric composition mission updates from space agencies including algorithms, calibration and validation, user applications, and stakeholder engagement
Participants: By invitation members of space agencies and affiliated academic and industry researchers/partners
Agenda: To be posted here. Stay tuned!
Registration: Go to CEOS AC-VC website. To be closed on 6 May.
Websites:
AC-VC: https://ceos.org/ourwork/virtual-constellations/acc/
WGCV/ACSG: https://ceos.org/ourwork/workinggroups/wgcv/subgroups/acsg/
The 21st meeting of the CEOS Atmospheric Composition Virtual Constellation (AC-VC) is planned to take place on 9-13 June 2025 in Takamatsu, Japan, hosted by the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) of Japan. The meeting will be jointly held with Working Group on Calibration & Validation (WGCV)/Atmospheric Composition Subgroup (ACSG).
The agenda will be built around the AC-VC activity areas including greenhouse gases, air quality trace gases and aerosol, and ozone. Please feel free to suggest specific agenda items. The agenda will be made available on AC-VC-21.
The meeting will be held in parallel with the 21st meeting of the International Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Measurements from Space (IWGGMS-21); it is envisaged to hold the GHG session of AC-VC jointly with the IWGGMS.
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Best wishes,
Ben Veihelmann, Barry Lefer, AC-VC Co-Chairs
Hiroshi Tanimoto, AC-VC Co-Chair and Local Host of the AC-VC#21 meeting
Shobha Kondragunta, AQ-aerosol Topical Lead
Digo Loyola, Ozone Topical Lead
John Worden, Greenhouse Gases Topical Lead
Jean-Christopher Lambert, WGCV/ACSG Lead
Note: This schedule is still preliminary. The days of ozone, AQ (trace gas) and AQ (aerosol) are subject to change, depending on the final arrangement of solicited talks.
Sunport Hall Takamatsu, Small Hall 1
website: https://www.sunport-hall.jp/en/facilities/small1.html
access: https://www.sunport-hall.jp/en/access/
Ritsurin Garden, Shoko-Shorei-Kan Hall
website: https://www.my-kagawa.jp/static/en/ritsurin/
access: https://www.my-kagawa.jp/static/en/ritsurin/access
AC-VC-21 Secretariat
Satellite Observation Center,
Earth System Division,
National Institute for Environmental Studies,
16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8506, Japan
E-mail: iwggms-21[at]nies.go.jp