ITSC-25 Program
Thursday 8th May 2025
| 9:00-9:30 | Opening session Reima Eresmaa and Fiona Smith ITWG co-chairs | Opening of ITSC-25 |
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| V. S. Prasad Head, NCMRWF | Welcome words from NCMRWF | |
| Reima Eresmaa and Fiona Smith ITWG co-chairs | Practical Information |
Session 1 – Coordination of satellite systems, operations and end-user support
Session Chairs: Reima Eresmaa and Fiona Smith
9:30 – 10:15 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 1.01 | Sreerekha Thonipparambil EUMETSAT | User preparation for EUMETSAT’s next generation sounding missions on MTG-S and EPS-SG |
| 1.02 | Vinia Mattioli EUMETSAT | EUMETSAT Polar System – Second Generation: highlights on the passive microwave missions |
| 1.03 | Jordan Gerth NOAA | Risks of RFI with environmental satellite sensing based on spectrum proceedings and regulations |
10:15 – 10:45 Health break
10:45 – 11:30 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 1.04 | Heikki Pohjola WMO | WMO Gap Analysis for Space-based Component of the WMO Integrated Global Observing System (WIGOS) Using WMO OSCAR/Space Tools |
| 1.05 | Liam Gumley SSEC, University of Wisconsin-Madison | The WMO DBNet service for providing low latency sounder data to NWP centers: Recent progress and future plans |
| 1.06 | Simon Elliott EUMETSAT | Global satellite data exchange in the era of WIS 2.0 |
11:30 – 11:35 poster introductions with no visual aids (each 1 minute)
| 1p.01 | Heikki Pohjola WMO | WMO Core and Recommended Satellite Data |
| 3p.08 | David Duncan ECMWF | Analysis of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) from 6.9 to 89 GHz in an NWP system |
Session 2 – Impact studies
Session Chairs: Kozo Okamoto and Indira Rani
11:35 – 11:50 poster introductions with no visual aids (each 1 minute)
| 2p.02 | Sumit Kumar NCMRWF | NCMRWF operational NWP system: status and observation impact analysis |
| 2p.05 | Sujata Pattanayak National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, MoES | Impact of Microwave Sounder Data from Polar-orbiting Satellites in NCMRWF Global Forecast System |
| 2p.06 | Ahreum Lee UMBC, GMAO NASA/GSFC, KIAPS* | Assimilation of clear-sky radiances from GOES-16 and 18 in the KIM data assimilation system |
| 2p.07 | Reima Eresmaa Finnish Meteorological Institute | The impact of microwave sounder radiance assimilation in convective-scale limited-area NWP over the Nordic region and in the Arctic |
| 2p.08 | Nahidul Samrat Bureau of Meteorology | Satellite Sounder Absence: Evaluating the Impact of Satellite Sounder Observation Across Diverse Geographic Regions |
| 2p.09 | Fiona Smith Bureau of Meteorology | Observation Impacts in Australian NWP Models |
11:50 – 12:00 Group photo
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
Session 3 – New microwave capabilities
Session Chairs: Mary Borderies and Dorothee Coppens
13:30 – 13:40 poster introductions with no visual aids (each 1 minute)
| 3p.01 | Niels Bormann ECMWF | Evaluations and exploratory assimilation trials with data from the TROPICS constellation in the ECMWF system |
| 3p.02 | Niels Bormann ECMWF | ECMWF Forecast impact expected from EPS-Sterna’s 325 GHz channels |
| 3p.03 | Benjamin Ruston UCAR/JCSDA | JEDI Skylab use for Observation Evaluation |
| 3p.04 | Brett Candy UK Met Office | An initial evaluation of the Sterna radiometer data using Met Office NWP fields |
| 3p.05 | Stephanie Guedj The Norwegian Meteorological Institute | Early evaluation of the Arctic Weather Satellite (AWS) data assimilation in regional NWP systems |
| 3p.06 | Vinia Mattioli EUMETSAT | EUMETSAT microwave sounder constellation: the EPS-Sterna Programme |
| 3p.07 | David Duncan ECMWF | Preparations for EPS-SG microwave instruments at ECMWF |
13:40 – 14:55 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 3.01 | Richard Delf Weather Stream (presented by Allen Huang) | The Global Environment Monitoring System (GEMS): a constellation of passive microwave radiometers on a CubeSat platform |
| 3.02 | B R R Hari Prasad Kottu National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting | Impact of Microsat-2B Radiance Data Assimilation in the NCMRWF Global Forecast System |
| 3.03 | Hélène Dumas Météo-France | Preliminary assessment of the Arctic Weather Satellite microwave sounder with the ARPEGE global model |
| 3.04 | David Duncan ECMWF | Evaluation of the Arctic Weather Satellite in the ECMWF system |
| 3.05 | Mitch Goldberg The City College of New York | The Limb Adjustment of the TROPICS Microwave Sounder Constellation |
Session 4 – New infrared capabilities
Session Chairs: Fuzhong Weng and Ethel Villeneuve
14:55 – 15:05 poster introductions with no visual aids (each 1 minute)
| 4p.01 | Chris Burrows ECMWF | Data quality assessment and assimilation of HIRAS-2 on FY-3E |
| 4p.02 | Chris Burrows ECMWF | Preparation for the next generation hyperspectral infrared sounders MTG-IRS and IASING at ECMWF |
| 4p.03 | Thomas Carrel-Billiard Météo-France (presented by Olivier Audouin) | Preparing Météo-France’s Numerical Weather Prediction Models for the Assimilation of anticipated MTG-IRS sounder data |
| 4p.04 | Stefano Migliorini Met Office | Plans for assimilation of MTG-IRS observations at the Met Office |
| 4p.05 | Tomoya Urata Japan Meteorological Agency | Preliminary studies for the assimilation of Himawari-10/GHMS in the JMA’s NWP systems |
| 4p.06 | Erica McGrath-Spangler NASA GMAO/GESTAR II (presented by Ahreum Lee) | Evaluation of GEO Sounder Impact for Numerical Weather Prediction |
15:05 – 16:05 Poster viewing (Sessions 1, 2, 3, and 4) and Coffee break
16:05 – 17:05 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 4.01 | Naoto Kusano JMA, ECMWF | Assimilation of GIIRS on-board FY-4B in the ECMWF IFS |
| 4.02 | Young-Jun Cho Numerical Modeling Center, Korea Meteorological Administration | Forecast Impact of Simulated GeoHIS based on KIM-OSSE |
| 4.03 | Andrew Heidinger NOAA NESDIS GEO | NOAA’s GXS Sounder |
| 4.04 | John Van Naarden L3Harris | Himawari-10 Sounder Overview and Update |
17:05 – 17:35 Introductions to the ITWG Working Groups (each 5 minutes)
Advanced sounders
Products and software
International issues and future systems
Numerical weather prediction
Climate
Radiative transfer and surface properties
Friday 9th May 2025
Session 5 – Radiative transfer studies
Session Chairs: Vito Galligani and Ben Johnson
8:45 – 9:45 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 5.01 | Benjamin Johnson UCAR/JCSDA | The JCSDA Community Radiative Transfer Model |
| 5.02 | Jun Yang CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre (presented by Fuzhong Weng) | Progress in Advanced Radiative Transfer Modeling System (ARMS) |
| 5.03 | Jean-Marie Lalande CNRM, Meteo France, CNRS | Enhancing Atmospheric Transmittance Estimation for TOVs through Advanced Statistical Approaches |
| 5.04 | Tiziano Maestri University of Bologna, Physics and Astronomy Department “Augusto Righi” | On Fast Computations of Upwelling Far- and Mid-Infrared Radiances for All-Sky analysis |
9:45 – 10:00 poster introductions with no visual aids (each 1 minute)
| 5p.01 | Brett Candy UK Met Office | Development of new fast radiative transfer coefficients for microwave sensors |
| 5p.02 | Vito Galligani Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA) | Exploring how uncertainties in NWP model microphysics are carried through to microwave radiance space / Exploring their relative importance compared with radiative transfer inconsistencies |
| 5p.03 | Christina Köpken-Watts DWD | Extending the fast forward operator MFASIS-NN for solar channels to NIR and water vapour sensitive channels, and aerosol affected profiles |
| 5p.04 | Cristina Lupu ECMWF | Evaluation of RTTOV-14 in the ECMWF NWP system |
| 5p.06 | Emma Turner ECMWF | A new and extended diverse 40,000 atmospheric profile dataset from the CAMS atmospheric composition forecasting system |
| 5p.07 | Viviana Volonnino CNRM, Université de Toulouse, MétéoFrance, CNRS | Evaluating Spectral Biases in IASI and FORUM Clear-Sky Simulations using RTTOV |
10:00 – 10:45 Health break
Session 6 – Generation of products
Session Chairs: Anna Booton and Joe Taylor
10:45 – 11:45 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 6.01 | Bryan Karpowicz UMBC/GESTAR II/NASA | Assimilation of Reconstructed Radiances from IASI and CrIS Principal Component Scores into the GEOS-ADAS |
| 6.02 | Joe Taylor SSEC, University of Wisconsin-Madison | The Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) NASA PCA RED Product |
| 6.03 | Jonas Wilzewski EUMETSAT (presented by Dorothee Coppens) | Hyperspectral infrared L2 product development at EUMETSAT |
| 6.04 | Hyun-sung Jang AMA / NASA LaRC | Planetary Boundary Layer Height Estimation: Methodology and Case Study using NAST-I FIREX-AQ Field Campaign Data |
11:45 – 12:00 poster introductions with no visual aids (each 1 minute)
| 6p.01 | Svetlana Akishina St. Petersburg State University | Methodology for determination of the ozone vertical distribution elements from satellite spectral measurements of IR thermal radiation |
| 6p.02 | Anna Booton Met Office | Met Office Update on the NWP SAF satellite data processing packages: AAPP, IRSPP and MWIPP |
| 6p.04 | Liam Gumley SSEC, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellites: Recent Updates and Future Plans |
| 6p.05 | Bozena Lapeta IMGW-PIB | Quality of the ATOVS-derived precipitation amount over Poland during the flood event in September 2024 |
| 6p.07 | Simon Warnach HamTec Consulting Ltd. (presented by Harshitha Bhat) | Level 2 validation and monitoring activities at EUMETSAT for future hyperspectral infrared mission |
| 11p.01 | Harshitha Bhat CLC Space GmbH | EUMETSAT’s IRS L2 Cal/Val and monitoring activities |
| 6p.08 | Jose Luis Villaescusa Nadal EUMETSAT (presented by Dorothee Coppens) | Validation of IASI Temperature and Humidity using 11 years of airplane (AMDAR) measurements |
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
Session 7 – Exploitation of artificial intelligence and machine learning
Session Chairs: Magnus Lindskog and Stephanie Guedj
13:30 – 14:45 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 7.01 | Chris Burrows ECMWF | Skilful weather predictions from observations alone: general concept |
| 7.02 | Niels Bormann ECMWF | Skilful weather predictions from observations alone: the role of passive sounders |
| 7.03 | Wei Han CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre (CEMC) | Assimilation of all satellite observations using AI: some primary results |
| 7.04 | Alice Abramowicz KNMI | Prototype for bias-correction of microwave radiance observations using machine learning methods |
| 7.05 | Alexander Polyakov Saint-Petersburg University | Neural network approach to determination of total and tropospheric ozone columns from spectral measurements of outgoing thermal radiation |
14:45 – 14:55 poster introductions with no visual aids (each 1 minute)
| 7p.01 | Niels Bormann ECMWF | Sea ice surface emissivity modelling using data assimilation and machine learning |
| 7p.02 | Swapan Mallick Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) | Deep Learning Approach to Estimating Uncertainty in the Copernicus Arctic Regional Second Generation Reanalysis: A Prototype |
| 7p.03 | Niobe Peinado-Galan AEMET | Analysis of severe convection situations in Africa and Europe with the new NWCSAF sSHAI product derived from IASI as a proxy for MTG-IRS data |
| 7p.04 | Likun Wang University of Maryland | Estimating Tropospheric Methane from Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) Spectra using a Machine Learning Method |
Session 8 – Climate studies
Session Chairs: Bill Bell and Nathalie Selbach
14:55 – 15:00 poster introductions with no visual aids (each 1 minute)
| 8p.01 | Nathalie Selbach Deutscher Wetterdienst | 25 Years of a Sustained Generation of Satellite-Based Climate Data Records by EUMETSAT CM SAF |
| 8p.02 | David Tobin CIMSS/SSEC (presented by Joe Taylor) | 22 Years of Hyperspectral Infrared Satellite Observations: Creating Climate Data Records and Examining Trends in Top-of-atmosphere Spectral Radiances, Integrated Nadir Longwave Radiance (INLR), and Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) |
15:00 – 16:00 Poster viewing (Sessions 5, 6, 7, and 8) and Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 8.02 | Bill Bell ECMWF | The assimilation of radiances in the ECMWF ERA6 global reanalysis |
| 8.03 | Timo Hanschmann EUMETSAT | Microwave temperature sounder fundamental climate data records for climate applications |
| 8.04 | Graeme Martin SSEC, University of Wisconsin-Madison (presented by Joe Taylor) | The NASA CrIS Level 1B Version 4 Software and Product |
| 8.05 | Likun Wang University of Maryland | New Stratospheric Temperature Climate Data Records by Merging SSU with AIRS |
Saturday 10th May 2025
9:00 – 10:15 Working groups session 1
Advanced sounders
Products and software
International issues and future systems
10:15 – 10:45 Health break
10:45 – 12:00 Working groups session 1 continued
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:45 Working groups session 2
Numerical weather prediction
Climate
Radiative transfer and surface properties
14:45 – 15:15 Health break
15:15 – 16:30 Working groups session 2 continued
16:30 – 16:45 Health break
16:45 – 18:00 Technical subgroups meetings Fast RTMs
Sunday 11th May 2025
Local excursions and socializing
Monday 12th May 2025
Session 9 – Advances in assimilation methods
Session Chairs: Roger Randriamampianina and Hyoung-Wook Chun
8:45 – 10:00 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 9.01 | Chris Hartman U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division | Adaptive Estimation of ATMS Observation Uncertainty to Improve Atmospheric Prediction |
| 9.02 | Ethel Villeneuve ECMWF | Expanding the use of geostationary satellite data at ECMWF |
| 9.03 | Erin Jones UMD ESSIC @ NASA GMAO | Developing a SWIR/MWIR-based Cloud Detection for CrIS in CADS |
| 9.04 | Young-Chan Noh Korea Polar Research Institute | Vertical localization for the microwave humidity sounder in the ensemble Kalman filter |
| 9.05 | William Campbell U.S. Naval Research Laboratory | Graph Theoretic Observation Thinning for Satellite Radiances |
10:00 – 10:30 Health break
10:30 – 11:15 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 9.06 | Xi Shuang Center for Earth System Modelling and Prediction of China Meteorological Administration | Effect of bias correction sample selection on FY-3D satellite microwave humidity data assimilation in CMA_GFS model |
| 9.07 | Thomas Buey Meteo France | Introducing horizontal correlations of satellite observation errors into the data assimilation system of the AROME model |
| 9.08 | Qifeng Lu CMA / CEMC | Enhancing Numerical Weather Prediction Accuracy through EN4DVAR and Novel Satellite Data Assimilation |
11:15 – 11:30 poster introductions with no visual aids (each 1 minute)
| 9p.01 | Olivier Audouin Meteo France | Assimilating FCI data within the Météo-France models |
| 9p.03 | Maria Eugenia Dillon Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Servicio Meteorológico Nacional | Usage of L2 soundings in the data assimilation and numerical weather prediction system at the Argentinian NMS: present implementation and experiments |
| 9p.04 | Na-Mi Lee Korea Meteorological Administration | Diagnostics of CrIS Preprocessing System in Korean Integrated Model (KIM) |
| 9p.05 | Cristina Lupu ECMWF | Assimilation of data from the FCI onboard MTG-I1 into the ECMWF system |
| 9p.06 | Hiroyuki Shimizu Japan Meteorological Agency | Development for better utilization of AMSR3 humidity sounding channels in JMA’s global NWP system |
| 9p.07 | Liam Steele ECMWF (presented by Niels Bormann) | Assessing the thinning scale for humidity sounding observations at ECMWF |
Session 10 – All-sky assimilation
Session Chairs: Mitch Goldberg and Stefano Migliorini
11:30 – 12:15 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 10.01 | Mary Borderies Météo-France/cnrm | Perturbations of all-sky microwave radiances forward operator specifications within the Ensemble of Data Assimilation system of Météo-France |
| 10.02 | Christina Köpken-Watts DWD | Operational all-sky assimilation of geostationary water vapour channels in a regional ensemble Kalman filter NWP system |
| 10.03 | Izumi Okabe MRI / Japan Meteorological Agency | Global all-sky radiance assimilation for geostationary satellite imagers |
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 10.04 | Liam Steele ECMWF | Enhancing the exploitation of all-sky microwave sensors at ECMWF using inter-channel error correlations |
| 10.05 | Kozo Okamoto JMA/MRI | Global all-sky radiance assimilation for IASI |
14:00 – 14:05 poster introductions with no visual aids (each 1 minute)
| 10p.01 | Antoine Chemouny CNRM/CNES | Assimilation of IASI all-sky radiances for Numerical Weather Prediction |
| 10p.02 | Christina Köpken-Watts DWD | ICON and IFS model cloud evaluation using visible imagers on geostationary satellites |
Session 11 – Calibration of sensors
Session Chair: Jerome Vidot
14:05 – 14:10 poster introductions with no visual aids (each 1 minute)
| 11p.02 | Vinia Mattioli EUMETSAT | EUMETSAT Polar System – Second Generation: pre-launch characterization of the microwave sounder (MWS) onboard Metop-SGA1 |
| 11p.03 | Joe Taylor SSEC, University of Wisconsin-Madison | High Spatial and Spectral Resolution Infrared Observations from the Scanning High-resolution Interferometer Sounder (S-HIS): Recent Datasets and Next-Gen Sensor Development |
14:10 – 14:55 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 11.01 | Quentin Cebe CNES | IASI-NG : Overview of L1 processing and performances |
| 11.02 | Guillaume Deschamps EUMETSAT | Spectral Response Function Retrieval of spaceborne Fourier Transform Spectrometers – Application to Metop IASI |
| 11.03 | Fuzhong Weng CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre | An energy-conservation system developed for calibrating satellite microwave instruments |
14:55 – 16:00 Poster viewing (Sessions 9, 10, and 11) and Coffee break
16:00 – 16:15 speeches
| M. Ravichandran Ministry of Earth Sciences, India | Ministry of Earth Sciences statement at ITSC-25 |
Session 8 – Climate studies
Session Chairs: Heikki Pohjola and Sreerekha Thonipparambil
16:15 – 16:30 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 8.06 | Guido Masiello University of Basilicata | Comprehensive Infrared forward-inverse analysis of the Ozone hole with IASI |
Session 12 – Space agency reports
Session Chairs: Heikki Pohjola and Sreerekha Thonipparambil
16:30 – 17:45 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 12.01 | Bojan Bojkov EUMETSAT | Overview of the EUMETSAT operated missions and their applications |
| 12.02 | Kozo Okamoto JMA/MRI | Status report of space agency: JMA and JAXA |
| 12.03 | Pradeep Thapliyal Space Applications Centre (ISRO) | ISRO Agency Report: Present and future satellite instruments in support of Met-Ocean applications |
| 12.04 | Lihang Zhou NOAA | An Update of NOAA Satellite Missions for ITWG |
| 12.05 | Francisco Bermudo CNES – Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales | Overview of CNES Earth Observation programs |
Tuesday 13th May 2025
Session 13 – NWP centre status reports
Session Chairs: Niels Bormann and Brett Candy
08:45 – 09:00 oral presentation
| 13.01 | Andrew Collard NOAA/NCEP/EMC | Progress and plans for the use of radiance data in the NCEP global and regional data assimilation systems |
9:00 – 10:00 one-slide introductions to poster presentations (each 3 minutes)
| 13p.01 | Olivier Audouin Meteo France | Ongoing developments on satellite radiance assimilation at Météo-France (intro slide) |
| 13p.02 | Hyoung-Wook Chun KMA | Satellite Radiance Data Assimilation at Korea Meteorological Administration (intro slide) |
| 13p.03 | Mohamed Dahoui ECMWF | ECMWF NWP changes |
| 13p.04 | Christina Köpken-Watts DWD | Overview of recent developments in satellite radiance data assimilation at DWD (intro slide) |
| 13p.06 | Isabel Monteiro KNMI | Present and future use of satellite atmospheric sounding data in United Weather Centres West (intro slide) |
| 13p.07 | Hidehiko Murata Japan Meteorological Agency | Recent upgrades and progresses of satellite radiance data assimilation at JMA (intro slide) |
| 13p.08 | Stefano Migliorini Met Office | Satellite radiance assimilation at the Met Office (intro slide) |
| 13p.09 | John P George NCMRWF, Ministry of Earth Sciences (Government of India) | NCMRWF NWP status since ITSC-24 (intro slide) |
| 13p.10 | Yanqiu Zhu NASA/GSFC/GMAO (presented by Ahreum Lee) | Status and ongoing developments of satellite data assimilation in NASA GMAO’s GEOS (intro slide) |
| 13p.11 | Dirceu Herdies CPTEC/INPE | Advances in Data Assimilation at CPTEC/INPE |
| 13p.12 | Alain Beaulne Environment and Climate Change Canada (presented by Zheng-Qi Wang) | Latest upgrades and developments in the use of satellite radiances at ECCC (intro slide) |
Session 14 – Future microwave technologies
Session Chair: David Duncan
10:00 – 10:30 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 14.01 | Kristen Bathmann Spire Global | Deep Learning-Based Retrievals from Spire’s Hyperspectral Microwave Sounder |
| 14.02 | Bill Blackwell MIT Lincoln Laboratory | Recent Advances in Microwave Sounding: Smallsat Constellations, Beam-steering Arrays, and Cognitive Sensing |
10:30 – 11:00 Health break
11:00 – 12:15 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 14.03 | Antonia Gambacorta NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | The Advanced Ultra-high Resolution Optical RAdiometer (AURORA) Pathfinder |
| 14.04 | Ryan Honeyager The Tomorrow Companies, Inc. | The Tomorrow Microwave Sounder program: an assessment of the observations and observing system impacts |
| 14.05 | Satya Kalluri NOAA | Experiments in Support of Next Generation Low Earth Orbit Microwave Sounder Formulation at NOAA |
| 14.06 | Zaizhong Ma UMD/CISESS | Simulation and Evaluation of NOAA Next-gen Microwave Satellite Observation System with the ECMWF EDA method |
| 14.07 | Manju Henry Spire Global UK Ltd. | Development and pre-launch characterisation of a Hyperspectral Microwave sounder In Orbit Demonstrator |
12:15 – 12:20 poster introductions with no visual aids (each 1 minute)
| 14p.01 | Mary Borderies Météo-France/cnrm | Impact of WIVERN 94GHz brightness temperature observations on global NWP model forecasts using an OSSE framework |
| 14p.02 | Niels Bormann ECMWF | Developing the use of hyperspectral MW observations for global NWP in an Ensemble of Data Assimilations (EDA) |
| 14p.03 | Richard Delf Weather Stream (presented by Allen Huang) | The Global Environment Monitoring System (GEMS) suite of novel passive microwave instrumentation |
12:20 – 13:50 Lunch
Session 15 – Impacts in Indian regional applications
Session Chairs: Christina Köpken-Watts and Chris Burrows
13:50 – 14:00 poster introductions with no visual aids (each 1 minute)
| 15p.01 | Rishi Kumar Gangwar Space Applications Centre (Indian Space Research Organisation) | Atmospheric Temperature and Moisture Profiles from Recently Launched INSAT-3DS Sounder |
| 15p.02 | Ashim Kumar Mitra India Meteorological Department | Analysis of diurnal nature of spatial variability of Land Surface Temperature in Delhi NCR using Sentinel 3 and INSAT-3D/R satellite data |
| 15p.03 | Devanil Choudhury National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, Ministry of Earth Sciences, India | Assimilating NOAA-21 Data for Enhanced Forecasting of Deep Depressions in India |
| 15p.04 | Ashish Routray NCMRWF, MoES | Assimilation of Microwave Imager Radiance Data in NCUM-R-4DVAR System and Its Impact on Simulation of TCs over Bay of Bengal |
14:00 – 15:00 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 15.01 | Indira Rani S NCMRWF, Ministry of Earth Sciences | Radiance assimilation over the extra-tropics and polar regions: Impact on the simulation of Indian Monsoon |
| 15.02 | Srinivas Desamsetti National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), MoES | DBNet data assimilation during cyclone events- Advantage of timeliness |
| 15.03 | Sujata Pattanayak National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, MoES | Seasonal Impact of INSAT-3DR Satellite Radiance in NCMRWF Global Forecast System |
| 15.04 | Prashant Kumar Space Applications Centre, ISRO | All-sky radiance assimilation of INSAT-3DS Sounder Radiance in the WRF Model |
Session 16 – The use of surface-sensitive data and Session 17 – Regional Studies: poster introductions
Session Chairs: Cristina Lupu and B R R Hari Prasad Kottu
15:00 – 15:15 poster introductions with no visual aids (each 1 minute)
Session 16 – The use of surface-sensitive data
Session Chairs: Cristina Lupu and B R R Hari Prasad Kottu
15:15 – 15:30 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 16.01 | Swapan Mallick Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) | Significance and Impact of High-Resolution Variational Assimilation of Satellite Microwave Radiances over Difference Surfaces |
15:30 – 16:30 Poster viewing (Sessions 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17) and Coffee break
16:30 – 17:15 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 16.02 | Mate Mile Norwegian Meteorological Institute (presented by Roger Randriamampianina) | An Observing System Simulation Experiment for satellite observations: Uncertainty estimation of emissivity retrieval over sea-ice and land |
| 16.03 | Zheng Qi Wang McGill University / Environment and Climate Change Canada | Simultaneous Estimation of Atmospheric Temperature, Surface Emissivity and Skin Temperature by Assimilating Surface-Sensitive Microwave Observations Over Land in a 1D-EnVar System |
| 16.04 | Hongyi Xiao National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, MoES | CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Center Toward the all-surface assimilation of surface-sensitive satellite data from microwave temperature- and humidity-sounding channels in CMA-GFS 4D-Var system |
Session 17 – Regional studies
Session Chairs: Cristina Lupu and B R R Hari Prasad Kottu
17:15 – 17:45 oral presentations (each 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)
| 17.01 | Tobiasz Górecki Institute of Meteorology and Water Management – National Research Institute | Taking Advantage of Vertical Temperature and Dew Point Profiles Derived from HEAP and MIRS Software: Validation Products over Poland and Case Study Analysis |
| 17.02 | Stephanie Guedj The Norwegian Meteorological Institute | Optimizing the assimilation of radiances in the operational AROME-Arctic NWP system |
Wednesday 14th May 2025
Closing session
9:00 – 10:20 Recaps from the WG meetings (each 20 minutes)
Advanced sounders
Products and software
International issues and future systems
Numerical weather prediction
10:20 – 10:50 Health break
10:50 – 11:50 Recaps from the WG meetings (each 20 minutes)
Climate
Radiative transfer and surface properties
Fast RTMs technical subgroup
11:50 – 12:00 Closing ceremonies