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Purple Crow Lidar group members attended worldwide NDACC Lidar Working Group meeting in Switzerland

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Some members of Western’s Purple Crow Lidar in Payerne, Switzerland. (all photos by Alexy Tikhomirov)

The Lidar Working Group of the Network for Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC), met in Payerne, Switzerland, during the week of June 20, 2016. This working group represents approximately 50 worldwide lidar research groups.

LWG_300-2Western’s Purple Crow Lidar was represented by the entire research team, headed by Prof. Bob Sica, along with graduate students Ali Jalali, Shannon Hicks, Shayamila (Sham) Mahagammulla, Jeff VanKerkhove, Ghazal Farhani, as well as Western MSc graduate, now at the  LATMOS lab in France, Robin Wing.

LWG_300-3Each of the Western students gave a presentation at the meeting.

Western Adjunct professor  Alexander Haefele of MeteoSwiss was one of the organizers of the event.   He, along with Western’s Prof.  Sica,  gave a half day workshop on the Optimal Estimation Method.

After the meeting, the members of Western’s Purple Crow Lidar spent the week working with colleagues at MeteoSwiss.

[sample of beautiful images by Alexy Tikhomirov of Dalhousie University]