CAMELOT study (July 2007 - November 2009), Chemistry of the Atmosphere Mission concEpts and sentineL Observations Techniques.

ESA CONTRACT NO: 21533/07/NL/HE.
This international study has been led by the department of Climate Observations.

OBJECTIVES:
The key objective of the CAMELOT study was to contribute to the definition of the air quality and climate protocol monitoring parts of GMES Sentinels 4 and 5 missions, in particular regarding the Sentinel 4 and 5 Level 1B requirements and the mission scenarios.

LINKS:

• Executive summary
• Final Report

The CAMELOT consortium, led by KNMI, consisted of the following institutes and universities:

• Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB)
• Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
• Institute of Applied Physics "Nello Carrara" (IFAC-CNR)
• Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
• Laboratory for Atmospheric Optics (LOA, a joint laboratory of University of Lille - 1 & CNRS)
• Laboratory of Molecular Physics for the Atmosphere and Astronophysics (LPMAA, a joint laboratory of University Pierre et Marie Curie & CNRS)
• Noveltis
• Rhenish Institute for Environmental Research at the University of Cologne (RIU)
• Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)
• Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)
• Free University of Brussels (ULB)
• University of Leicester

This project is a cooperation between the two KNMI departments KS-AK and KS-CK