Current Funded Projects

P.I.: 
Bernd Funke & Maya García-Comas
Ref.: 
PID2022-141216NB-I00
Period: 
Sep 01, 2023 to Aug 31, 2026
Amount: 
287500€
Funding agency: 
MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033
Summary: 

SPACES is mainly dedicated to carrying out scientific studies leading to demonstrate the suitability of the CAIRT mission to meet its scientific goals and to generate scientific and societal impact. CAIRT is one of the four space mission candidates of the 11th Earth Explorer (EE11) of ESA that will observe simultaneously from the middle troposphere to the lower thermosphere at high spectral resolution and with unprecedented horizontal and vertical resolution.

In addition, this project continues our previous efforts on improving our knowledge of solar influences on Earths middle...

P.I.: 
M.A. López Valverde & F. González Galindo
Ref.: 
PID2022-137579NB-I00
Period: 
Sep 01, 2023 to Sep 01, 2026
Amount: 
265000€
Funding agency: 
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MCIU), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) y Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER)
Summary: 

This project aims at two principal technical and scientific objectives related to the European mission Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter, in its fourth year of regular science operations from its orbit around Mars. First, an accurate analysis and inversion of very unique measurements by the instruments NOMAD and ACS, taken in a solar occultation geometry on board TGO; and secondly, an ambitious scientific exploitation plan of these data. We envision this last goal from two different angles, which comprise two major goals of the project. First the study of the vertical profiles of atmospheric...