BIRA-IASB publications

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.

Recent Submissions

On the capability of the future ALTIUS ultraviolet–visible–near-infrared limb sounder to constrain modelled stratospheric ozone

Errera, Q.; Dekemper, E.; Baker, N.Debosscher, J.Demoulin, P.Mateshvili, N.Pieroux, D.Vanhellemont, F.Fussen, D. et al.
The Adaptable 4A Inversion (5AI): description and first XCO2 retrievals from Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) observations

Dogniaux, M.; Crevoisier, C.; Armante, R.Capelle, V.Delahaye, T.Cassé, V.De Mazière, M.Deutscher, N.M.Feist, D.G.Garcia, O.E.Griffith, D.W.T.Hase, F.Iraci, L.T.Kivi, R.Morino, I.Notholt, J.Pollard, D.F.Roehl, C.M.Shiomi, K.Strong, K.Té, Y.Velazco, V.A.Warneke, T. et al.
Planetary Data in the Virtual Observatory: VESPA (Virtual European Solar and Planetary Access)

Erard, S.; Cecconi, B.; Le Sidaner, P.Rossi, A.P.Tomasik, L.Ivanovski, S.Schmitt, B.André, N.Trompet, L.Scherf, M.Hueso, R.Demleitner, M.Manaud, N.Taylor, M.Alexeev, I.Määttänen, A.Millour, E.Schmidt, F.Waldmann, I.Fernique, P.D’Amore, M.Brandt, C.Rothkaehl, H.Molinaro, M.Génot, V.Vandaele, A.C. et al.
Tropospheric Volcanic SO2 Mass and Flux Retrievals from Satellite. The Etna December 2018 Eruption

Corradini, S.; Guerrieri, L.; Brenot, H.Clarisse, L.Merucci, L.Pardini, F.Prata, A.J.Realmuto, V.J.Stelitano, D.Theys, N. et al.
Intense Zonal Wind in the Martian Mesosphere During the 2018 Planet-Encircling Dust Event Observed by Ground-Based Infrared Heterodyne Spectroscopy

Miyamoto, A.; Nakagawa, H.; Kuroda, T.Takami, K.Murata, I.Medvedev, A.S.Yoshida, N.Aoki, S.Sagawa, H.Kasaba, Y.Terada, N. et al.
Annual Appearance of Hydrogen Chloride on Mars and a Striking Similarity With the Water Vapor Vertical Distribution Observed by TGO/NOMAD

Aoki, S.; Daerden, F.; Viscardy, S.Thomas, I.R.Erwin, J.T.Robert, S.Trompet, L.Neary, L.Villanueva, G.L.Liuzzi, G.Crismani, M.M.J.Clancy, R.T.Whiteway, J.Schmidt, F.Lopez-Valverde, M.A.Ristic, B.Patel, M.R.Bellucci, G.Lopez-Moreno, J.-J.Olsen, K.S.Lefèvre, F.Montmessin, F.Trokhimovskiy, A.Fedorova, A.A.Korablev, O.Vandaele, A.C. et al.
Diverse response of surface ozone to COVID-19 lockdown in China

Liu, Y.; Wang, T.; Stavrakou, T.Elguindi, N.Doumbia, T.Granier, C.Bouarar, I.Gaubert, B.Brasseur, G.P. et al.
Global and regional impacts of land cover changes on isoprene emissions derived from spaceborne data and the MEGAN model

Opacka, B.; Müller, J.-F.; Stavrakou, T.Bauwens, M.Sindelarova, K.Markova, J.Guenther, A.B. et al.
Systematic comparison of vectorial spherical radiative transfer models in limb scattering geometry

Zawada, D.; Franssens, G.; Loughman, R.Mikkonen, A.Rozanov, A.Emde, C.Bourassa, A.Dueck, S.Lindqvist, H.Ramon, D.Rozanov, V.Dekemper, E.Kyrölä, E.Burrows, J.P.Fussen, D.Degenstein, D. et al.
XCO2 retrieval for GOSAT and GOSAT-2 based on the FOCAL algorithm

Noël, S.; Reuter, M.; Buchwitz, M.Borchardt, J.Hilker, M.Bovensmann, H.Burrows, J.P.Di Noia, A.Suto, H.Yoshida, Y.Buschmann, M.Deutscher, N.M.Feist, D.G.Griffith, D.W.T.Hase, F.Kivi, R.Morino, I.Notholt, J.Ohyama, H.Petri, C.Podolske, J.R.Pollard, D.F.Sha, M.K.Shiomi, K.Sussmann, R.Té, Y.Velazco, V.A.Warneke, T. et al.
Comprehensive evaluation of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) reanalysis against independent observations: Reactive gases

Wagner, A.; Bennouna, Y.; Blechschmidt, A.-M.Brasseur, G.Chabrillat, S.Christophe, Y.Errera, Q.Eskes, H.Flemming, J.Hansen, K.M.Inness, A.Kapsomenakis, J.Langerock, B.Richter, A.Sudarchikova, N.Thouret, V.Zerefos, C. et al.
Global ionospheric response to a periodic sequence of HSS/CIR events during the 2007-2008 solar minimum

Negrea, C.; Munteanu, C.; Echim, M.M.
Improving Predictions of the 3D Dynamic Model of the Plasmasphere

Pierrard, V.; Botek, E.; Darrouzet, F.
Birth of a Magnetosphere

Nilsson, H.; Behar, E.; Burch, J.L.Carr, C.M.Eriksson, A.I.Glassmeier, K.‐H.Henri, P.Galand, M.Goetz, C.Gunell, H.Karlsson, T. et al.
Multispacecraft Measurements in the Magnetosphere

Dunlop, M.W.; Wang, T.; Dong, X.Haarland, S.Shi, Q.Fu, H.De Keyser, J.Shen, C.Rong, Z.Escoubet, C.P.Pu, Z.Eastwood, J. et al.
The Plasmasphere: Its Interactions and Dynamics

Darrouzet, F.; Gallagher, D.L.; De Keyser, J.
Ubiquitous atmospheric production of organic acids mediated by cloud droplets

Franco, B.; Blumenstock, T.; Cho, C.Clarisse, L.Clerbaux, C.Coheur, P.-F.De Mazière, M.De Smedt, I.Dorn, H.-P.Emmerichs, T.Fuchs, H.Gkatzelis, G.Griffith, D.W.T.Gromov, S.Hannigan, J.W.Hase, F.Hohaus, T.Jones, N.Kerkweg, A.Kiendler-Scharr, A.Lutsch, E.Mahieu, E.Novelli, A.Ortega, I.Paton-Walsh, C.Pommier, M.Pozzer, A.Reimer, D.Rosanka, S.Sander, R.Schneider, M.Strong, K.Tillmann, R.Van Roozendael, M.Vereecken, L.Vigouroux, C.Wahner, A.Taraborrelli, D. et al.
Does a Magnetosphere Protect the Ionosphere?

Maggiolo, R.; Gunell, H.
The Equations of the Magnetosphere

Gunell, H.
Magnetospheres in the Solar System