At EGU2026 in Vienna, EULIAA partners were active throughout the week:
- On the first conference day, several posters presented results from lidar development, deployment and data management, which attracted considerable interest from the geoscience community.
- EULIAA then co‑organised Townhall TM6 “Exploring remote sensing and in‑situ observations in hard‑to‑reach areas: Challenges and opportunities for understanding climate change impacts”, together with the DEAL cluster and projects such as CiROCCO, UAWOS, TEMBO Africa, MISO, SYLVAN and RemoTrees.
- During the Townhall, EULIAA highlighted two complementary aspects of “hard‑to‑reach environments”:
- harsh deployment sites for ground‑based lidars (Northern Norway, Southern France, high‑altitude mountain stations), and
- measurements of wind, aerosols and temperature up to 50 km and above, in altitude regions that are otherwise inaccessible.
The discussions showed that many groups – using very different instruments – face similar challenges and are willing to share best practices. EULIAA thanks CiROCCO for leading the organisation and Chrysoula Papathanasiou for moderating the event.
