Science Team
Anthony Illingworth
Emeritus Professor at the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
Contribution to WIVERN
He is the PI of the mission and leader of the Wivern research team in Phase 0.
Alessandro Battaglia
Associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino and the University of Leicester
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Contribution to WIVERN
He has expertise in space-borne Doppler radar. He will be in charge of the development of the Level 2 wind products of the mission and of the development of an end to end simulator to assess the performance of the Doppler radar. He will be assisted in his work by: – Dr. Frederic Tridon – Dr. Ali Rizik – Dr. Fabrizio Stesina – Paolo Martire – Filippo Emilio Scarsi
Mary Borderies
CNRM, Météo-France, CNRS
Current position
Since 2020 she is a researcher in the “observation” team in the NWP research division (GMAP) of the CNRM (Météo-France/CNRS). She is in charge of research and developments concerning the operational use of spaceborne active and passive microwave observations in NWP models (monitoring and data assimilation).
Contribution to WIVERN
She is conducting data assimilation experiments in order to assess the impact of WIVERN horizontal line-of-sight wind observations in the global NWP model ARPEGE of Météo-France.
Julien Delanoë
Professor at University of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines Paris Saclay and LATMOS
Contribution to WIVERN
He has expertise in cloud radar development, operation and analysis, both ground-based and airborne. He is exploiting the airborne multiple views Doppler cloud radar RASTA to retrieve cloud and precipitation winds. These data are used to contribute to the preparation of the WIVERN mission.
Cathy Hohenegger
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI)
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Contribution to WIVERN
Expertise in convective processes, km-scale modelling, especially for climate applications, and parameterisation development.
Pavlos Kollias
McGill University
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Contribution to WIVERN
He has expertise in cloud and precipitation microphysics, convective dynamics, and lifecycle studies. He will help in the development of the Level 2 products of the mission and in the synergy with past and future cloud and precipitation spaceborne radar mission.
Maximilian Maahn
Leipzig Institute for Meteorology
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Contribution to WIVERN
Dr. Maahn is interested in how cloud and precipitation measurements from space can be advanced with WIVERN.
Eleni Marinou
National Observatory of Athens
Contribution to WIVERN
Member of the WIVERN MAG with expertise in data assimilation, limited area modelling and pollutant transport.
Mario Montopoli
National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC)
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Contribution to WIVERN
Support the requirement document activity, advises on WIVERN radar and radiometer mode system choices.
Kamil Mroz
National Center for Earth Observation
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Contribution to WIVERN
He has expertise in in radar remote sensing, inversion algorithm development. He is part of the EarthCARE Level 2 product developing team.
Ewan O'Connor
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Contribution to WIVERN
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Michael Rennie
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
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Contribution to WIVERN
Support data assimilation studies.
Rémy Roca
Laboratory of Space Geophysical and Oceanographic Studies
Contribution to WIVERN
His broad interests are focused on the study of the water cycle in the tropics and the use of satellite observations to investigate the tropical variability. He was appointed PI of the Megha-Tropiques Indo–French Satellite Mission in 2007.
