Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy

Simply listing the problems associated with the ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, air quality, the propagation of radio waves in the ionosphere or the magnetic storms that affect telecommunications, is enough to demonstrate the importance of knowing and understanding all the phenomena observed in the Earth’s atmosphere and the terrestrial environment.

Since its creation, the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB) has gained international recognition with its scientific study of the atmospheres of solar system bodies, from the surface up into interplanetary space, as well as with its study of how the Sun affects our environment. BIRA-IASB attempts to provide the answers to our society's questions on the condition of our atmosphere. One of present-day’s big research questions is the investigation of the links between changes in the atmospheric composition, air quality and climate. BIRA-IASB is hence strongly involved in both the atmosphere and climate components of the European Copernicus programme and in the ESA Climate Change Initiative and Space Situational Awareness programmes. BIRA-IASB is also involved in many international projects for the study of planetary atmospheres, such as Venus Express and ExoMars, in SOLSPEC (observation of extraterrestrial solar radiation) and the interplanetary observation Cluster II (interaction of solar wind with the magnetosphere). Moreover BIRA-IASB has the expertise to design its own space mission, of which ALTIUS is an example.

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Integrated satellite observations unravel the relationship between urbanization and anthropogenic non-methane volatile organic compound emissions globally

Pu, D.; Zhu, L.; Shen, H.De Smedt, I.Ye, J.Li, J.Shu, L.Wang, D.Li, X.Zuo, X.Yang, X.Fu, T.-M. et al.
Inversion of ultraviolet occultation profiles in a dusty atmosphere: Analytic and numerical methods

Hubert, B.; Soret, L.; Gérard, J.-C.Wautelet, G.Munhoven, G.Piccialli, A.Vandaele, A.C. et al.
Ultraviolet NO and Visible O2 Nightglow in the Mars Southern Winter Polar Region: Statistical Study and Model Comparison

Soret, L.; González-Galindo, F.; Gérard, J.-C.Thomas, I.R.Ristic, B.Willame, Y.Vandaele, A.C.Hubert, B.Lefèvre, F.Daerden, F.Patel, M.R. et al.
Intercomparison of long-term ground-based measurements of total, tropospheric, and stratospheric ozone at Lauder, New Zealand

Björklund, R.; Vigouroux, C.; Effertz, P.Garcia, O.E.Geddes, A.Hannigan, J.Miyagawa, K.Kotkamp, M.Langerock, B.Nedoluha, G.Ortega, I.Petropavlovskikh, I.Poyraz, D.Querel, R.Robinson, J.Shiona, H.Smale, D.Smale, P.Van Malderen, R.De Mazière, M. et al.
Fiducial Reference Measurements for Air Quality Monitoring Using Ground-Based MAX-DOAS Instruments (FRM4DOAS)

Van Roozendael, M.; Hendrick, F.; Friedrich, M.M.Fayt, C.Bais, A.Beirle, S.Bösch, T.Navarro Comas, M.Friess, U.Karagkiozidis, D.Kreher, K.Merlaud, A.Pinardi, G.Piters, A.Prados-Roman, C.Puentedura, O.Reischmann, L.Richter, A.Tirpitz, J. -L.Wagner, T.Yela, M.Ziegler, S. et al.
Radial Evolution of Non-Maxwellian Electron Populations Derived from Quasi-thermal Noise Spectroscopy: Parker Solar Probe Observations

Zheng, X.; Liu, K.; Martinović, M.M.Pierrard, V.Klein, K.G.Liu, M.Abraham, J.B.Liu, Y.Luo, J.Lin, X.Liu, G.Li, J. et al.
DUSTER Polvere di LUNA

Lefever, K.; Ranvier, S.; Sanz Mesa, R.Rodríguez Gómez, J. et al.
Calibration of MAJIS (Moons and Jupiter Imaging Spectrometer). IV. Radiometric calibration

Langevin, Y.; Poulet, F.; Piccioni, G.Filacchione, G.Dumesnil, C.Tosi, F.Carter, J.Barbis, A.Haffoud, P.Tommasi, L.Vincendon, M.De Angelis, S.Guerri, I.Pilorget, C.Rodriguez, S.Stefani, S.Bolsée, D.Cisneros, M.Van Laeken, L.Pereira, N.Carapelle, A. et al.
Recent Decreases in the Growth Rate of Atmospheric HCFC-22 Column Derived From the Ground-Based FTIR Harmonized Retrievals at 16 NDACC Sites

Zhou, M.; Langerock, B.; Vigouroux, C.Smale, D.Toon, G.Polyakov, A.Hannigan, J.W.Mellqvist, J.Robinson, J.Notholt, J.Strong, K.Mahieu, E.Palm, M.Prignon, M.Jones, N.García, O.Morino, I.Murata, I.Ortega, I.Nagahama, T.Wizenberg, T.Flood, V.Walker, K.De Mazière, M. et al.
Satellite-Based Identification of Large Anthropogenic NMVOC Emission Sources

Franco, B.; Clarisse, L.; Van Damme, M.Hadji-Lazaro, J.Clerbaux, C.Coheur, P. et al.
Evidence for Abiotic Dimethyl Sulfide in Cometary Matter

Hänni, N.; Altwegg, K.; Combi, M.Fuselier, S.A.De Keyser, J.Ligterink, N.F.W.Rubin, M.Wampfler, S.F. et al.
Solar Wind Turbulence and Complexity Probed with Rank-Ordered Multifractal Analysis (ROMA)

Echim, M.; Munteanu, C.; Voitcu, G.Teodorescu, E. et al.
A Satellite-Based Indicator for Diagnosing Particulate Nitrate Sensitivity to Precursor Emissions: Application to East Asia, Europe, and North America

Dang, R.; Jacob, D.J.; Zhai, S.Yang, L.H.Pendergrass, D.C.Coheur, P.Clarisse, L.Van Damme, M.Choi, J.-S.Park, J.-S.Liu, Z.Xie, P.Liao, H. et al.
Global Temperature Dependency of Biogenic HCHO Columns Observed From Space: Interpretation of TROPOMI Results Using GEOS-Chem Model

Li, X.; Zhu, L.; De Smedt, I.Sun, W.Chen, Y.Shu, L.Wang, D.Liu, S.Pu, D.Li, J.Zuo, X.Fu, W.Li, Y.Zhang, P.Yan, Z.Fu, T.-M.Shen, H.Wang, C.Ye, J.Yang, X. et al.
Project BIOSPHERE / Projet BIOSPHERE

Pierrard, V.
Atmospheric propane (C3H8) column retrievals from ground-based FTIR observations in Xianghe, China

Zhou, M.; Wang, P.; Dils, B.Langerock, B.Toon, G.Hermans, C.Nan, W.Cheng, Q.De Mazière, M. et al.
Data availability and requirements relevant for the Ariel space mission and other exoplanet atmosphere applications

Chubb, K.L.; Robert, S.; Sousa-Silva, C.Yurchenko, S.N.Allard, N.F.Boudon, V.Buldyreva, J.Bultel, B.Coustenis, A.Foltynowicz, A.Gordon, I.E.Hargreaves, R.J.Helling, C.Hill, C.Hrodmarsson, H.R.Karman, T.Lecoq-Molinos, H.Migliorini, A.Rey, M.Richard, C.Sadiek, I.Schmidt, F.Sokolov, A.Stefani, S.Tennyson, J.Venot, O.Wright, S.O.M.Arenales-Lope, R.Barstow, J.K.Bocchieri, A.Carrasco, N.Dubey, D.Egorov, O.Muñoz, A.G.Gharib-Nezhad, E.Gkouvelis, L.Grübel, F.Irwin, P.G.J.Knížek, A.Lewis, D.A.Lodge, M.G.Ma, S.Martins, Z.Molaverdikhani, K.Morello, G.Nikitin, A.Panek, E.Rengel, M.Rinaldi, G.Skinner, J.W.Tinetti, G.Van Kempen, T.A.Yang, J.Zingales, T. et al.
First evaluation of the GEMS glyoxal products against TROPOMI and ground-based measurements

Ha, E.S.; Park, R.J.; Kwon, H.-A.Lee, G.T.Lee, S.D.Shin, S.Lee, D.-W.Hong, H.Lerot, C.De Smedt, I.Hendrick, F.Irie, H. et al.
Validation of GEMS tropospheric NO2 columns and their diurnal variation with ground-based DOAS measurements

Lange, K.; Richter, A.; Bösch, T.Zilker, B.Latsch, M.Behrens, L.K.Okafor, C.M.Bösch, H.Burrows, J.P.Merlaud, A.Pinardi, G.Fayt, C.Friedrich, M.M.Dimitropoulou, E.Van Roozendael, M.Ziegler, S.Ripperger-Lukosiunaite, S.Kuhn, L.Lauster, B.Wagner, T.Hong, H.Kim, D.Chang, L.-S.Bae, K.Song, C.-K.Lee, H. et al.
Shifts in Maritime Trade Routes as a Result of Red Sea Shipping Crisis Detected in TROPOMI NO2 Data

Pseftogkas, A.; Stavrakou, T.; Müller, J.-F.Koukouli, M.-E.Balis, D.Meleti, C. et al.