European University RadiOsonde Partnership (EUROP)
The European University RadiOsonde Partnership (EUROP) consists of a university partnership for coordinated radiosonde launches during the NAWDIC campaign, which will take place between 12 January and 20 February 2026. This initiative aims to obtain additional radiosonde observations from several European institutions that will be assimilated directly into global weather forecasting systems, such as the ECMWF system: thus, the effort will have a direct impact on the quality of the forecasts during the NAWDIC campaign. In addition to the scientific goals, EUROP aims to provide an exciting educational opportunity to involve students in an international field campaign. The EUROP partnership will be paired to an analogous one connecting universities across North America (the AR Recon initiative), and will emphasize the importance of radiosonde launches and meteorological observations for forecast quality and research activities.
If you are interested in participating or in learning more about EUROP, you can find many details and a quick survey to gauge interest at this link.
We encourage you to share this link with other colleagues coordinating radiosonde launches for educational purposes, or that might be personally interested in contributing to the EUROP initiative. To have sufficient time for coordination, it would be optimal if you - or your interested colleagues - could fill the survey by the end of July 2025.
the EUROP steering group:
- Jacopo Riboldi (ETH Zurich)
- Bastian Kirsch, Julian Quinting, Alexandre Ramos (KIT)
- David Lavers (ECMWF)
