5th Atmospheric Limb Conference

The special issue "Atmospheric Remote Sensing using Limb-observations" in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT) is now open. Note that the focus of the AMT is on measurement techniques, retrievals, validation etc. AMT does not publish scientific applications and science issues.

Please, submit your manuscripts here. In submission, remember to choose the correct special issue.

Deadline for submissions: 31.5.2010

The editors are:

Christian von Savigny, IUP, Bremen
csavigny@iup.physik.uni-bremen.de

Erkki Kyrola, FMI, Helsinki
erkki.kyrola@fmi.fi

The FMI's organising team of the 5th Limb meeting would like to thank all of you for your active participation and excellent presentations. There are also a few photos of the conference available.

The information about the proposed special publication and the SPARC report will be announced on this site later on. The 6th limb meeting will take place in 2011 in Japan.

All presentations are now online.

The book of abstracts is now available. You will receive a printed copy from the registration desk at the beginning of the conference.

Author instructions

The registration and abstract submission pages.

The 5th International Atmospheric Limb Conference and Workshop will be hosted by Finnish Meteorological Institute in November 2009. The meeting will take place 16-19.11.2009 in Helsinki, Finland, at FMI's Dynamicum building.

• Limb measurements: Emission (IR, microwave), occultation (solar, lunar, stellar), scattering
• Instruments: GOMOS, MIPAS, SCIAMACHY, OSIRIS, SMR, SAGE, SABER, ACE, MLS, HIRDLS, AIM/SOFIE
• New instruments: OMPS, ALTIUS, PREMIER, JEM -SMILES, ...
• Data and modelling: Mesosphere and above, stratosphere, UTLS and troposphere
• Retrieval algorithms and data assimilation
• Radiative transfer and spectroscopy