AtmoHEAD 2014: <br> Atmospheric Monitoring for High Energy AstroParticle Detectors

Session

Highlights

19 May 2014, 14:00

Aula Nievo (Palazzo del Bo)

Conveners

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• Michele Doro (PD)

Highlights

• Karim Louedec (LPSC, CNRS/IN2P3, UJF-INPG, Grenoble)

0. Welcome

Michele Doro (PD)

19/05/2014, 14:00

Oral

1. Atmospheric Characterization of Sites

Prof. Sergio Ortolani

19/05/2014, 14:15

Oral

19. Climate Changes

Alessio Bellucci (CMCC)

19/05/2014, 15:00

Oral

16. The Innsbruck / ESO Sky Models and Telluric Correction Tools

Mr Stefan Kimeswenger (Universidad Catolica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile / University Innsbruck, Austria)

19/05/2014, 15:45

Oral

A large fraction of uncertainty for the interpretation of data from imaging Cerenkov telescopes originates from the use of static average atmosphere models. We present an alternative approach to this issue. As part of the entrance fee to the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Austrian universities developed software modules for various projects, called in-kind projects, dealing with the...

40. Science and More with Lasers and Astroparticle Observatories

Prof. Lawrence Wiencke (Colorado School of Mines)

19/05/2014, 17:00

Oral

Between the experiments in operation, including Auger and Telescope array, planned upgrades to Auger and TA, and activities in progress to realize JEM-EUSO and CTA, there is a growing interest in the design and applications of laser systems for optical astroparticle observatories. There are no particle test beams at EeV energies. Laser systems placed in the field have a history of providing a...

43. Multi-wavelength polarization Lidar characterization of mineral dust at Dunhuang (China)

Dr Xuan WANG (CNISM - University of Naples "Federico II"; CNR-SPIN, Napoli)

19/05/2014, 17:35

Oral

Xuan Wang1, Antonella Boselli2 , Alessia Sannino3 , Nicola Spinelli3 , Yiming Zhao4,, Song Changbo4 CNISM& BRIT - China-Italy Laser Remote Sensing Joint Research Center and 1CNR-SPIN, Napoli, Italy 2CNR-IMAA, Napoli, Italy 3Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy 4Beijing Research Institute for Telemetry, Beijing, P.R. China The Gobi desert is the...

37. GDAS/HYSPLIT models

Martin Will (IFAE)

19/05/2014, 18:10

Astroparticle experiments depend on a good knowledge of scattering and absorption of photons in the atmosphere. Typically two kinds of scattering can be distinguished, Mie scattering on large scale dust particles and Rayleigh scattering due to the molecular atmosphere. Both can be characterized quite well by measurements, but through advances in the modeling of the atmosphere in recent years,...

17. Raman LIDARs for Pierre Auger Observatory: field experiences and results.

Dr Vincenzo Rizi (CETEMPS-DSFC and INFN, Università Degli Studi dell'Aquila)

20/05/2014, 15:30

Oral

The optical properties of the troposphere are quite important for ultra-high energy cosmic ray observatories that use the atmosphere as a giant calorimeter. To estimate the energy of a cosmic ray extensive air shower (EAS), the amount of UV scintillation light generated by an EAS (air fluorescence) can be measured, and, the optical transparency of the atmosphere affects the amount of UV light...

46. Monte Carlo simulations of atmospheric showers in the future

Dr Tanguy Pierog (KIT, IKP)

20/05/2014, 16:00

Oral

Last year, the air shower simulation model CORSIKA had a major release opening new windows in term of uncertainty due to hadronic interaction models and of simulation time. On the one hand, the two hadronic models EPOS and QGSJETII were updated taking into account new LHC data. As a consequence the uncertainties in air shower observables were reduced by about a factor of 2 at the highest...