ITSC-24 Program
Thursday 16 March 2023
| 8:30-9:00 | Liam Gumley, Vincent Guidard (ITWG Co-chairs) | Opening of ITSC-24 |
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| Met Norway | Welcome words from Met Norway Weather briefing | |
| Liam Gumley, Vincent Guidard (ITWG Co-chairs) | Practical Information |
10:15-10:45 Health Break
| 10:45-11:30Session 1: Radiative Transfer (continued) Chair-persons: Vito Galligani and Niels Bormann | ||
| Oral presentations (Presentations 12 minutes + Questions 3 minutes) | ||
| 1.05 | Ethel Villeneuve CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS | Statistical study of inconsistencies between infrared and microwave cloudy simulations |
| 1.06 | Hanna Hallborn Chalmers University of Technology | All-sky simulations of the Ice Cloud Imager |
| 1.07 | Xu Liu NASA Langley Research Center | Principal Component-based Radiative Transfer Model (PCRTM) for Hyperspectral Remote Sensors for UV, VVIS, NIR, IR, and FIR Spectral Regions |
| 11:30-11:45 Session 2: Calibration and Validation Session 3: Geo Imager Assimilation Chair-persons: Jonathan Taylor and Wei Han | ||
| Poster introductions (Presentations 1 minute, no visual aid) | ||
| 2p.01 | Niels Bormann ECMWF | Orbital biases in microwave temperature-sounding observations? |
| 2p.02 | withdrawn | |
| 2p.03 | withdrawn | |
| 2p.04 | Dimitrios Kilymis CNES | IASI radiometric error uncertainty budget and inter-comparison results |
| 2p.05 | Tim Hultberg (for Imke Krizek) EUMETSAT | Exploitation of Metop-A End-Of-Life backflip manoeuvre: estimating MHS mirror reflectivity and revealing scan-dependent biases |
| 2p.06 | Bomin Sun IMSG at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR | Recent Advances in Global Radiosonde Observations for Their Applications in Satellite Data Calibration/Validation |
| 2p.07 | withdrawn | |
| 3p.01 | Cristina Lupu ECMWF | Monitoring visible reflectances from geostationary satellites at ECMWF |
| 11:45-12:15 Presentation of ITWG working groups Chair-persons: ITWG Co-chairs | ||
| Oral presentations (Presentations 5 minutes) | ||
| b.01 Climate b.02 Products and Software b.03 International and Future Systems b.04 Radiative Transfer and Surface Properties b.05 Advanced Sounders b.06 Numerical Weather Prediction |
12:15-13:15 LUNCH
13:15-13:45 Poster viewing (Sessions 1, 2, 3)
| 13:45-15:15 Session 2: Calibration and Validation Chair-persons: Jonathan Taylor and Daniel Zhou | ||
| Oral presentations (Presentations 12 minutes + Questions 3 minutes) | ||
| 2.01 | Manik Bali NOAA/UMD | GSICS Products and Tools for scientific applications |
| 2.02 | Peng Zhang National Satellite Meteorological Center, CMA | The on-orbit Performance of FY-3E in an Early Morning Orbit |
| 2.03 | Flavio Iturbide Sanchez NOAA/NESDIS/STAR | Initial Assessment of the NOAA JPSS-2 CrIS Observations |
| 2.04 | Chengli Qi CMA | FY-3E/HIRAS-II post launch instrument status and data accuracy analysis |
| 2.05 | Vincent Leslie MIT Lincoln Laboratory | TROPICS Earth Venture Mission: Update on Pathfinder’s Yearlong Calibration and Validation |
| 2.06 | Bertrand Theodore EUMETSAT | How well the new generation of Chinese IR hyperspectral sounders compare with IASI? |
15:15-15:45 Health break
| 15:45-16:45 Session 2: Calibration and Validation (continued) Chair-persons: Jonathan Taylor and Daniel Zhou | ||
| Oral presentations (Presentations 12 minutes + Questions 3 minutes) | ||
| 2.07 | Joe Taylor UW-Madison/SSEC | Rigorous and Traceable Assessment of the CrIS Radiometric Calibration Uncertainty |
| 2.08 | Hu (Tiger) Yang CISESS, University of Maryland | On the study of the absolute on-orbit calibration consistency between ATMS instruments from SNPP to JPSS-02 |
| 2.09 | Lu Lee National Satellite Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration | FY-4B/GIIRS performance after one year on orbit |
| 2.10 | Henry Revercomb UW-Madison/SSEC | Correction for Ringing in the Calibrated Spectra of the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) |
| 16:45-17:45 Session 3: Geo Imager Assimilation Chair-persons: Wei Han and Cristina Lupu | ||
| Oral presentations (Presentations 12 minutes + Questions 3 minutes) | ||
| 3.01 | Christina Köpken-Watts (for Liselotte Bach) DWD | Data assimilation of visible and combination with water vapour imager channels for very short-range forecasting |
| 3.02 | withdrawn | |
| 3.03 | Olivier Audouin CNRM, Météo-France & CNRS | Assimilating the infrared data from geostationary satellites within the Météo- France models |
| 3.04 | Samuel Quesada-Ruiz ECMWF | Towards a fuller exploitation of the window channel from geostationary satellites in NWP |
18:00 Icebreaker
Friday 17 March 2023
8:25 Weather briefing (Met Norway)
| 08:30-9:20 Session 4: NWP Centre reports Chair-persons: Nadia Fourrié and Kozo Okamoto | ||
| Poster introductions (Presentations 3 minutes, 1 slide) | ||
| 4p.01 | Alain Beaulne ECCC | Recent upgrades and developments in the use of satellite radiances at ECCC (poster) |
| 4p.02 | Niels Bormann ECMWF | NWP centre report: ECMWF (poster) |
| 4p.03 | Philippe Chambon CNRM, Météo-France & CNRS | Ongoing developments on satellite radiance assimilation at Météo-France (poster) |
| 4p.04 | Hui Christophersen U.S. Naval Research Laboratory | Recent observation assimilation advancement for U.S. Navy’s numerical weather prediction systems (poster) |
| 4p.05 | Hyoung-Wook Chun KMA | Satellite Radiance Data Assimilation at Korea Meteorological Administration (poster) |
| 4p.06 | Andrew Collard NOAA/NCEP/EMC | Progress and plans for the use of radiance data in the NCEP global and regional data assimilation systems (poster) |
| 4p.07 | Reima Eresmaa Finnish Meteorological Institute | Radiance assimilation in MetCoOp limited-area NWP systems (poster) |
| 4p.08 | Wei Han CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre | Recent developments in satellite radiance assimilation at CMA (poster) |
| 4p.09 | Chawn Harlow Met Office | State of play of radiance processing in the NWP system at the Met Office (poster) |
| 4p.10 | Christina Köpken-Watts DWD | Status and developments of satellite radiance assimilation at DWD (poster) |
| 4p.11 | Isabel Monteiro KNMI | Use of satellite atmospheric sounding data in United Weather Centres West (poster) |
| 4p.12 | Hidehiko Murata Japan Meteorological Agency | Recent upgrades and progresses of satellite radiance data assimilation at JMA (poster) |
| 4p.13 | Indira Rani Sukumara Pillai NCMRWF | NCMRWF NWP: Current status and future plans (poster) |
| 4p.14 | Jana Sánchez-Arriola AEMET | Radiance assimilation in AEMET Harmonie-AROME model operational run (poster) |
| 4p.15 | Fiona Smith Bureau of Meteorology | Satellite radiance assimilation at the Bureau of Meteorology (NWP Centre Update) (poster) |
| 4p.16 | Yanqiu Zhu GMAO | Status and Progress of Observation Usages in the GMAO GEOS Atmospheric Data Assimilation System (poster) |
| 4p.17 | Krishnamoorthy Chandramouli Centre for Climate Research Singapore | Status of satellite data assimilation in Meteorological Service Singapore (poster) |
| 9:20-10:05 Session 5: Climate Chair-persons: Nathalie Selbach and Dirceu Herdies | ||
| Oral presentations (Presentations 12 minutes + Questions 3 minutes) | ||
| 5.01 | Lihang Zhou (for Lin Lin) NOAA | Reprocessing of S-NPP/JPSS Sensor Data Records |
| 5.02 | Jonathan Mittaz University of Reading | Investigating possible sources of error in the calibration of the Microwave Sounding Instrument |
| 5.03 | Timo Hanschmann EUMETSAT | Applying inter-satellite Harmonisation to various Microwave Humidity Sounders |
10:05-10:35 Health break
| 10:35-11:10 Session 5: Climate (continued) Chair-persons: Nathalie Selbach and Dirceu Herdies | ||
| Oral presentations (Presentations 12 minutes + Questions 3 minutes) | ||
| 5.04 | William Bell ECMWF | Preparations for ERA6: the assimilation of reprocessed and rescued radiance observations |
| 5.05 | Graeme Martin UW-Madison / SSEC | Status of the NASA CrIS Level 1B Product for Climate Applications |
| Poster introductions (Presentations 1 minute, no visual aid) | ||
| 5p.01 | Per Dahlgren MET Norway | Use of satellite data in regional reanalysis |
| 5p.02 | Nathalie Selbach (for Karsten Fennig) DWD | Fundamental Climate Data Record of Microwave Imager Radiances, Edition 4 |
| 5p.03 | Nathalie Selbach DWD | Climate Data Records of the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring |
| 5p.04 | Peng Zhang National Satellite Meteorological Center, CMA | The Progress of Re-processing Historical FengYun Meteorological Satellite |
| 11:25-11:55 Invited Presentation (Presentation 25 minutes + Questions 5 minutes) | ||
| William Smith UW-SSEC | State of Atmospheric Sounding from Space – My Perspective on Past, Present, and Future, in the Infrared | |
12:10-13:10 LUNCH
13:10-13:40 Poster viewing (Sessions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
15:25-15.55 Health break
| 15:55-16:25 Session 7: Geo Hyperspectral Sounder Assimilation Chair-persons: Stéphanie Guedj and Joel Bedard | ||
| Poster introductions (Presentations 1 minute, no visual aid) | ||
| 7p.01 | Chris Burrows ECMWF | Initial assessment of GIIRS on board FY-4B |
| 7p.02 | Yufen Ma Institute of Desert Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration | Accuracy evaluation of GIIRS/FY-4A retrieved temperature profile in the Taklimakan Desert |
| 7p.03 | Erica McGrath-Spangler NASA GMAO/GESTAR II Morgan State | Global NWP Impacts of Infrared Sounders from Geostationary Orbit |
| 7p.04 | Niobe Peinado-Galán AEMET | Non-linear Retrieval of atmospheric vertical profiles from MTG-IRS data |
| 7p.05 | Haofei Sun Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences | Nonlinear bias correction of FY-4A GIIRS radiance observations based on EEMD-MLP |
| 7p.06 | Qian Xie Lanzhou University | Impact of assimilating atmospheric motion vectors from Himawari-8 and clear-sky radiance from FY-4A GIIRS on binary typhoons |
| Oral presentations (Presentations 12 minutes + Questions 3 minutes) | ||
| 7.01 | Olivier Coopmann CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France and CNRS | Project to assimilate the future MTG-IRS sounder into the mesoscale NWP model |
| 7.02 | Ke Chen Huazhong University of Science and Technology | Evaluation of the Potential Impact to the Prediction of Typhoon of Geostationary Microwave Sounder using the GRAPES 4D-Var |
| 16:25-16:55 General discussion: Future format for ITSCs Chair-persons: Vincent Guidard and Liam Gumley |
| 16:55-17:50 Session 8: Small Satellites Chair-persons: Mary Borderies and Kristen Bathmann | ||
| Poster introductions (Presentations 1 minute, no visual aid) | ||
| 8p.01 | Bill Blackwell MIT Lincoln Laboratory | TROPICS Pathfinder On-orbit Results and Preparations for the NASA TROPICS Constellation Mission |
| 8p.02 | Thomas Carrel Billiard CNRM | Evaluating the impact of the CMIM satellite constellation on NWP using an OSSE framework |
| 8p.03 | David Duncan ECMWF | Initial Evaluation of TROPICS Radiances in the IFS |
| 8p.04 | Stephanie Guedj The Norwegian Meteorological Institute | Implementation of a Regional Observing System Simulation Experiments to assess the potential impact of the EPS-Sterna constellation in AROME-Arctic NWP system |
| 8p.05 | Flavio Iturbide (for Min-Jeong Kim) NOAA/NESDIS/STAR | Impact Assessment of Microwave Sounder Observations on Small Satellites in The NOAA Global NWP and MIRS 1D-Var Systems |
| 8p.06 | Louis Rivoire CNRM (CNRS – Météo-France) | A global Observing System Simulation Experiment to evaluate the impact of the EPS-Sterna constellation of microwave sounders |
| Oral presentations (Presentations 12 minutes + Questions 3 minutes) | ||
| 8.01 | Katie Lean ECMWF | Assessing potential future constellations of small satellites carrying microwave sounders using the Ensemble of Data Assimilations method |
| 8.02 | Magnus Lindskog Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute | Preparing for and evaluating the arctic weather satellite data in the nordic limited-area numerical weather prediction systems |
| 8.03 | William Campbell U.S. Naval Research Laboratory | A Strategy for Assimilating Data from Microsats |
Saturday 18 March 2023
8:55 Weather briefing (Met Norway)
| 9:00-12:00 | Working group meetings (10:15-10:45 Health break) Advanced Sounders Climate Radiative transfer and surface properties |
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| 12:00-13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15-16:15 | Working group meetings (14:45-15:15 Health break) NWP Products and Software International and Future Systems |
| 16:30-17:30 | Technical sub-group meeting RTTOV/CRTM RFI |
Sunday 19 March 2023
Day Free
19:00 Banquet
Monday 20 March 2023
8:25 Weather briefing (Met Norway)
10:05-10:35 Health break
12:15-13:15 LUNCH
13:15-13:45 Poster viewing (Sessions 9, 10, 11, 12)
| 13:45-15:00 Session 11: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Chair-persons: Thomas Auligné and Philippe Chambon | ||
| Oral presentations (Presentations 12 minutes + Questions 3 minutes) | ||
| 11.01 | Flavio Iturbide (for Sid Boukabara) NOAA/NESDIS/STAR | Can we Design NWP Data Assimilation Based Entirely on AI Techniques? Assessing Advantages and Challenges |
| 11.02 | Wei Han CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre | Constrained Deep learning Bias Correction (CDBC) for Satellite Radiances in Data Assimilation |
| 11.03 | Chris Burrows ECMWF | A neural network approach to cloud detection in NWP |
| 11.04 | withdrawn | |
| 11.05 | Lei Bi Zhejiang University | Optical Properties of Nonspherical Particles: Physical Models and Machine Learning |
| 11.06 | Leonhard Scheck Hans Ertel Centre for Weather Research / LMU Munich | Neural network-based methods for simulating cloud- and aerosol-affected solar satellite channels |
15:00-15:15 Group photo
15:15-15:45 Health break
| 15:45-16:15 General discussion: Future election for ITWG Co-chairs Chair-persons: Liam Gumley and Vincent Guidard |
Tuesday 21 March 2023
8:25 Weather briefing (Met Norway)
| 9:40-10:15 Session 14: Space Agency reports Chair-persons: Dorothée Coppens and Agnes Lim | ||
| Poster introductions (Presentations 5 minutes, 2 slides) | ||
| 14p.01 | Heikki Pohjola WMO | The Current Status and The Future Development Plans of WMO OSCAR/Space (poster) |
| 14p.02 | Kozo Okamoto JMA | Status report of space agency: JMA and JAXA (poster) |
| 14p.04 | Peng Zhang CMA | CMA |
| 14p.06 | Lihang Zhou NOAA | NOAA (poster) |
10:15-10:45 Health break
| 12:05-12:15 Session 16: International Session 17: Future Systems Chair-persons: Indira Rani and Nancy Baker | ||
| Poster introductions (Presentations 1 minute, no visual aid) | ||
| 16p.01 | Simon Elliott EUMETSAT | International Data Exchange and the transition to WMO’s WIS 2.0 |
| 16p.02 | withdrawn | |
| 17p.01 | Francisco Bermudo Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales | IASI-NG Program: General Status Overview |
| 17p.02 | withdrawn | |
| 17p.03 | Eric Jurado Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales | IASI-NG mission performances and ground segment development status |
| 17p.04 | Benjamin Ruston JCSDA | JEDI Skylab Observation Evaluation and Use With Emerging Sensors |
| 17p.05 | Fiona Smith Bureau of Meteorology | A Microwave Sounding Mission for Australia |
12:15-13:15 LUNCH
13:15-13:45 Poster viewing (Sessions 13, 14, 15, 16,17)
| 13:45-15:00 Session 15: Data Impact Studies (continued) Chair-persons:Fiona Smith and Magnus Lindskog | ||
| Oral presentations (Presentations 12 minutes + Questions 3 minutes) | ||
| 15.05 | David Tobin CIMSS/SSEC/UW-Madison | Channel Selection and Apodization considerations for Hyperspectral Infrared Sounder Data |
| 15.06 | Per Dahlgren MET Norway | Impact of satellite data in a regional reanalysis system |
| 15.07 | Indira Rani Sukumara Pillai NCMRWF | DBNet data reception, processing and assimilation at NCMRWF |
| 15.08 | Erin Jones UMD CISESS at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR | On Expanding the Use of CrIS Observations in NOAA’s Global Systems: What Has Been, and Still Needs to Be, Done |
| 15.09 | Thomas Deppisch DWD | Studying the Interaction between NWP Models and Data Assimilation with Observing System Simulation Experiments – Case Studies with SEVIRI Data in ICON-LAM |
15:00-15:30 Health break
| 15:30-16:45 Session 16: International Chair-persons: Indira Rani and Bill Bell | ||
| Oral presentations (Presentations 12 minutes + Questions 3 minutes) | ||
| 16.01 | Heikki Pohjola WMO | WMO Unified Data Policy and Core Satellite Data |
| 16.02 | Mikael Rattenborg WMO | Status of the Direct Broadcast Network for globally coordinated real-time acquisition, processing and fast delivery of satellite direct readout data, coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization |
| 16.03 | Philippe Chambon CNRM, Météo-France & CNRS | Research Highlights from the International Precipitation Working Group (IPWG) |
| 16.04 | Mikael Rattenborg (for Mitch Goldberg) WMO | Report from CGMS |
| 16.05 | Benjamin Ruston JCSDA | Update from the International Earth Surface Working Group (IESWG) |
| 16:45-17:30 Session 17: Future Systems Chair-persons: Nancy Baker and Jérôme Vidot | ||
| Oral presentations (Presentations 12 minutes + Questions 3 minutes) | ||
| 17.01 | Kristen Bathmann Spire Global | Initial Validation of the Hyperspectral Microwave Sensor |
| 17.02 | Andrew Heidinger NOAA/NESDIS | Status of NOAA’s GeoXO Hyperspectral Infrared Sounder (GXS) |
| 17.03 | Sreerekha Thonipparambil EUMETSAT | An overview of EUMETSAT activities towards preparing users on the uptake of data from Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) and European Polar System – Second Generation (EPS-SG) missions |
Wednesday 22 March 2023
| 8:30-8:45 | About future co-chair election (15 minutes) |
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| 8:45-8:50 | European Meteorological Society Young Scientist Award |
| 8:45-9:00 | ITWG Awards for best oral and poster presentations |
| 9:00-10:00 | Working group reports (15 minutes) Advanced Sounders Climate Products and Software Radiative transfer and surface properties |
| 10:00-10:25 | Health break |
| 10:25-10:55 | Working group reports (15 minutes) NWP International and Future Systems |
| 10:55-11:05 | Technical sub-group reports (5 minutes) RTTOV/CRTM RFI |
| 11:05-11:20 | Closing |