ITSC-14 Program

15:00-16:45 ITSC-13 Action Items presented by ITSC-13 WG Chairs
Radiative Transfer and Surface Property Modeling (Roger Saunders)
ATOVS/TOVS in Climate Studies (John Bates)
ATOVS/TOVS in NWP (Steve English)
Advanced Infrared Sounders (Allen Huang)
International Issues and Future Systems (Guy Rochard)
Satellite Sounder Science and Products (Tony Reale)
Moderators: Tom Achtor/
Roger Saunders
16:45-17:00 Working Group Formation Chairs: Roger Saunders/
Tom Achtor

Friday 27 May 2005
8:30-10:30
Session 6: Radiative Transfer and Surface Models (Chair: Louis Garand)

6.1 Jean-Luc Moncet The OSS method: current research and new prospects (paper)
6.2 Ralf Bennartz The successive order of interaction (SOI) radiative transfer model and its possible applications to radiance assimilation of clouds and precipitation
6.3 Xu Liu Validations of a Principal Component-based Radiative Transfer Model Using AIRS and NAST-I Observed Radiances
6.4 Paul Poli Using microwave and infrared radiances from off-nadir pixels: application of radiative transfer to slanted line-of-sight and comparisons with NASA EOS Aqua data (paper)
6.5 Nicole Jacquinet-Husson Assessing spectroscopic parameter archives for the second generation vertical sounders radiance simulation; illustration through the GEISA/IASI database (paper)
6.6 Tom Kleespies Comparison of Simulated Radiances, Jacobians and Information Content for the Microwave Humidity Sounder and the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit–B (paper)
6.7 Fatima Karbou On the estimation and use of land surface microwave emissivities
6.8 Fuzhong Weng Development of the JCSDA Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM) (paper)

10:30-11:00 BREAK
11:00-12:15
Session 7: Operational Applications (Chair: John Eyre)

7.1 Graeme Kelly Use of satellite radiances in the 4D-VAR ECMWF system
7.2 Brett Harris Use of Level-1D ATOVS Radiances in GASP (paper)
7.3 Fiona Hilton Current Use of Satellite Data in the Met Office Global NWP Model (paper)
7.4 Thibaut Montmerle Respective contributions of polar orbiting and geostationary radiances within Météo-Frances’s operational 3D-Var assimilation system at regional scale

7.5 Florence Rabier Use of radiances in the operational assimilation system at Météo-France (paper)

12:15-13:45 Lunch
13:45-15:15
Session 8: Use of ATOVS in NWP (Chair: John Eyre)

8.1 Andrew Collard Improved use of AIRS data at ECMWF+IASI channel selection (paper)
8.2 Louis Garand AIRS assimilation at MSC
8.3 John Le Marshall AIRS Associated Accomplishments At The JCSDA (paper)
8.4 Chris Tingwell Assimilation of Level-1D ATOVS Radiances in the Australian Region LAPS System
8.5 John George Impact of ATOVS data in a mesoscale assimilation- forecast system over Indian region (paper)
8.6 Peiming Dong The Use of ATOVS Microwave Data in the Grapes-3Dvar System (paper)

15:15-15:45 BREAK

15:45-17:00
Session 8: Use of ATOVS in NWP (continued)

8.7 David Anselmo The assimilation of ATOVS and SSM/I brightness temperatures in clear skies at MSC (paper)
8.8 Roger Randriamampianina On the use of bias correction method and full grid AMSU-B data in a limited area model (paper)
8.9 Brett Candy Improved use of AMSU-B data in UK Met Office regional models (paper)
8.10 Lei Zhang Assimilation of total precipitable precipitation in a 4D-Var system: A case study (paper)
8.11 Thomas Auligne Progress of bias correction for satellite data at ECMWF (paper)

Saturday 28 May 2005

Working Groups
9am-12pm

Sunday 29 May 2005

Working Groups
6pm-8pm (or as arranged by chairmen)

Monday 30 May 2005
8:30-10:30
Session 9: International Status Reports (Chair: Paul Menzel)
9.1 Jim Purdom The Redesign and Evolution of the Global Observing System
9.2 Dong Chaohua (for Wenjian Zhang) China’s current and future meteorological satellite systems
9.3 Xu Jianmin Products from FY2C Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
9.4 Devendra Singh Report on Indian Meteorological Satellite Program
9.5 Tom Achtor
(for Alexander Uspensky) Report on Russian Meteorological Satellite Program
9.6 Dieter Klaes EUMETSAT Plans (paper)
9.7 John Eyre The NWP SAF: what can it do for you?
9.8 Mitch Goldberg NESDIS Plans for AIRS, CrIS and IASI: Program and Science
9.9 John Bates Overview of the CLASS and Scientific Data Stewardship programs within NOAA

10:30-11:00 BREAK

11:00-11:45
Session 9:International Status Reports (continued)

9.10 Guy Rochard Frequency Management
9.11 George Ohring Assimilation of Satellite Cloud and Precipitation Observations in NWP Models: Report of a Workshop
9.12 Jim Purdom The Virtual Laboratory for Satellite Training and Data Utilization: Maximizing the Use of Satellite Data across the Globe

11:45-12:30
Session 10: Direct Reception/Software Packages (Chair: Guy Rochard)

10.1 Einar Grønås MEOS POLAR – A cost effective Direct Broadcast terminal for current and future L and X-band polar orbiting satellites
10.2 Nigel Atkinson AAPP status report and review of developments for NOAA-N and METOP (paper)
10.3 Philippe Marguinaud The IASI L1 processing software and its integration within AAPP

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30
Session 11: Preparations for METOP (Chair: Dieter Klaes)

11.1 Denis Blumstein IASI on METOP: On ground calibration of the FM2 instrument
11.2 Peter Schlüssel Super Channel Selection for IASI Retrievals (paper)
11.3 Thomas King Development of the IASI operational processing and distribution system
11.4 Simon Elliott Dissemination of global products from MetOp (paper)
11.5 Marc Schwaerz A Joint Temperature, Humidity, Ozone, and SST Retrieval Processing System for IASI Sensor Data: Properties and Retrieval Performance Analysis (paper)
11.6 Éamonn McKernan Calibration and Validation of Metop/ATOVS and AVHRR products (paper)

15:30-16:00 BREAK

16:00-16:45
Session 12: Future Instruments (Chair: Jim Purdom)

12.1 Paul Menzel (for Jeff Puschell) NPOESS VIIRS: Design, Performance Estimates and Applications
12.2 Vince Tabor Initial Joint Polar-orbiting Satellite System (IJPS) Era Processing and Beyond at the Information Processing Division (IPD) of the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS)
12.3 Bjorn Lambrigtsen Microwave Sounder for GOES-R – A GeoSTAR Progress Report (paper)

16:45-19:00 BREAK (Working Group Meetings to finish reports)
19:00 Banquet (sponsored by NSMC)

Tuesday 31 May 2005
9:00-10:00 Technical and Working Group Reports and actions summary
AAPP, IAPP, 3I, ERA-40
Radiative Transfer and Surface Property Modeling (Louis Garand)
ATOVS/TOVS in Climate Studies (John Bates)
ATOVS/TOVS in NWP (Steve English)

10:00-10:30 BREAK
10:30-11:30 Working Group Reports and actions summary (continued)
Advanced Infrared Sounders (Bill Smith)
International Issues and Future Systems (Paul Menzel)
Satellite Sounder Science and Products (Tony Reale)

11:30-11:45 Future meetings relevant to ITWG
11:45-12:00 Plans for next ITSC meeting and closing remarks Co-Chairs Tom Achtor,
Roger Saunders

Posters

A01 Fuzhong Weng: Intersatellite calibration of HIRS from 1980 to 2003 using the simultaneous nadir overpass method for improved consistency and quality of climate data (paper)
A02 Zhaohui Cheng: Study of MSU Channel-3 Brightness Temperature Time Series Using SNO calibration method
A03 Clémence Pierangelo: 8-year climatology of dust aerosol in the infrared with HIRS
A04 Clémence Pierangelo: Impact of tropical biomass burning emissions on the diurnal cycle of mid to upper tropospheric CO2 retrieved from NOAA-10 satellite observations
A05 Claudia Stubenrauch: Evaluation of parametrizations of microphysical and optical properties for radiative fluxes computations in climate models using TOVS-ScaRaB satellite observations (paper)
A06 Chunxiang Shi: Study on Cloud Classifications by using AVHRR, GMS-5 and Terra/MODIS satellite data (paper)
A07 Donald Chu: Resolving Tropical Storm Inner Core Temperatures with a Three-Meter Geostationary Microwave Sounder (paper)
A08 cancelled
A09 Jeff Puschell: Wind Imaging Spectrometer and Humidity-sounder (WISH) (paper)
A10 – A16 cancelled
A17 Bjarne Amstrup: First experiences with RTTOV8 for assimilating AMSU-A data in the DMI 3DVAR data assimilation system (paper)
A18 Steve English: Implications for modelling ocean surface emissivity for AMSU, ATMS and CMIS from the Windsat mission
A19 Steve English: The assimilation of SSMIS radiances at the Met Office
A20 Ralf Bennartz: The Second International Precipitation Working Group (IPWG-2004) Workshop
A21 Jakob Grove-Rasmussen: Implementation of AMSU-A usage over sea-ice regions in DMI-HIRLAM (paper)
A22 Sang-Won Joo: Recent Development of ATOVS usage in Korea Meteorological Administration (paper)
A23 Fatima Karbou: On the assimilation of AMSU-A & -B raw radiances over land at Météo-France
A24 Kozo Okamoto: Assimilation of SSM/I radiances in the NCEP global data assimilation system (paper)
A25 Yoshihiro Yamasaki: TOVS and the MM5 analysis over Portugal (paper)
A26 Vibeke Thyness: Assimilating AMSU-A over sea ice (paper)
A27 Per Dahlgren: Data Assimilation of ATOVS at SMHI, Sweden (paper)
A28 Izabela Dyras: The retrieval of the atmospheric humidity parameters from NOAA/AMSU data for winter season (paper)
A29 Songyan Gu: Soil Moisture Retrieval Test over The West of China by Use of AMSU Microwave Data
A30 Zhe Liu: Analysis of typhoon rananim using products retrieved from ATOVS (paper)
A31 Zhiquan Liu: Robust Variational Inversion : A Study with ATOVS data (paper)
A32 Mitch Goldberg: Total Ozone Analysis from SBUV/2 and TOVS (TOAST)
A33 Mitch Goldberg: MSU channel 2 brightness temperature trend when calibrated using simultaneous nadir overpasses
A35 Peter Wang: Assessment of Precipitation Characters between Ocean and Coast area during Winter Monsoon in Taiwan (paper)
A36 Thwong-Zong Yang: Rain Rate Estimation in Summer of Taiwan (paper)
A37 Tom Kleespies (for Yong Han): Optran Version 7
A38 Tom Kleespies (for Paul van Delst): The Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM) Framework
A39 Fiona Hilton: Establishing a Microwave Land Surface Emissivity Scheme in the Met Office 1D-Var (paper)
A40 Chengli Qi: Atmospheric transmittance calculation of Infrared atmospheric sounder of FY-3A meteorological satellite (paper)
A41 Dieter Klaes: First results from NOAA-N with the ATOVS and AVHRR Product Processing Facility for EPS (paper)
A42 Fengying Zhang: Overview of ATOVS data processing and applications at NSMC of China (paper)
A43 R. Suresh: Foreshadowing the tracks of tropical depressions and cyclonic storms and understanding their thermodynamical structure over Bay of Bengal and Arabian sea using TOVS and ATOVS data (paper)

Poster Session B: Thursday, 26 May — 13:30-15:00
B01 Domenico Cimini: Analysis of radiosonde quality characteristics by ground- and satellite-based simultaneous observations during the WVIOP2004 experiment (paper)
B02 Tony Reale: Satellite Coincident Reference Upper Air Network and Potential Impacts on Real-time and Retrospective Satellite Products
B03 Tony Reale: NOAA Operational Sounding Products for Advanced -TOVS: 2004/5
B04 Jörg Schulz: The Humidity Composite Product of EUMETSAT’s Climate Monitoring SAF: Towards Optimal Merging of Satellite Data Sets (paper)
B05 Vanessa Sherlock: Preliminary results from the Lauder site of the Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) (paper)
B06 Vanessa Sherlock: A simulation study of the impact of AIRS fast model errors on the accuracy of 1D-Var retrievals from AIRS radiances (paper)
B07 Steve Ackerman: Cloud Detection: Optical Depth Thresholds and FOV Considerations
B08 Jian Liu: An Automated, Dynamic Threshold Cloud Detection Algorithm (paper)
B09 Rolando Rizzi: Preliminary results combining ground based-Raman lidar and airborne spectrometers to describe the evolution of a cirrus cloud (Italian Eaquate campaign) (paper)
B10 Chaohua Dong: Experimental study on water vapor amount calculation using 940 NM absorption spectral band data (paper)
B11 Yang Hu: FY3 MicroWave Imaging Radiometer (MWIR) surface parameters inversion algorithm and validation in China
B12 Chian-Yi Liu: Applications of the GOES-R HES (Hyperspectral Environmental Suite) Infrared measurements
B13 Chian-Yi Liu: Improvement on sounding retrievals from GOES Sounder measurements (paper)
B14 Chian-Yi Liu: Synergistic Use of the ABI and HES for Atmospheric Sounding and Cloud Property Retrieval
B15 Thomas Kleespies: NOAA-KLM HIRS Level 1b Data Issues (paper)
B16 Thomas Kleespies: Plotting Realistic Instantaneous Field of View Ellipsoids on an Arbitrary Earth Projection (paper)
B17 Bjorn Lambrigsten: Microwave Sounder Scan Bias Analysis From AIRS/AMSU Observations
B18 Guy Rochard: Frequency Management
B19 Licheng Zhao: Introduction to China Meteorological Satellite Operational System
B20 Denis Blumstein: IASI on METOP: In-flight calibration plan
B21 Andrew Collard: Selection of a subset of IASI Channels for Near Real Time Dissemination (paper)
B22 Andrew Collard (for Marco Matricardi): The introduction of clouds and aerosols in RTIASI
B23 Niels Bormann: Assimilation of infrared limb radiances from MIPAS in the ECMWF model (paper)
B24 Niels Bormann: RTMIPAS: A fast radiative transfer model for the assimilation of infrared limb radiances from MIPAS (paper)
B25 James Cameron: Operational use of AIRS Observations at the Met Office (paper)
B26 James Cameron: Estimation of the Representivity Error for AIRS
B27 cancelled
B28 Louis Garand: Assimilation of cloudy radiances from hyperspectral infrared radiances
B29 Reinhold Hess: Status of Assimilating Satellite Data at DWD (paper)
B30 Matthew Szyndel: SEVIRI radiance assimilation at ECMWF (paper)
B31 Hua Zhang: The assimilation of AIRS radiance over land at Météo-France (paper)
B32 Eva Borbas: Global profile training database for satellite regression retrievals with estimates of skin temperature and global ecosystem-based emissivity (paper)
B33 Jing Huang: Estimating the Retrievability of Atmospheric Temperature from Satellite Infrared Simulation data (paper)
B34 Paolo Mazzetti: Investigating AMSU and AMSR-E Rainfall Estimates using Active Microwave Sensors
B35 Rodrigo Souza: ICI Atmospheric profiles over Rondonia using HSB data emulated from AIRS information (paper)
B36 Rodrigo Souza: Performance of the AQUA/NASA and NOAA-16/ICI soundings over Rondonia during the dry-to-wet LBA Experiment (paper)
B37 Rodrigo Souza: Investigation of Methodologies for Atmospheric Retrieval for the CPTEC Operational System (paper)
B38 Martin Stengel: Remote sensing of vertical integrated water vapor using SEVIRI infrared measurements
B39 Jean-Luc Moncet: Land surface emissivity database for conically scanning microwave sensors
B40 Roger Saunders: RTTOV-8 the latest update to the RTTOV models (paper)
B41 Roger Saunders: Results of a comparison of radiative transfer models for simulating AIRS radiances (paper)
B42 David Shawn Turner: The Gradient Fast Line-by-Line Model (paper)
B43 Hal Woolf: Do Training Datasets Make a Difference?
B44 Thomas Achtor: The International MODIS – AIRS Processing Package (IMAPP)
B45 Adam Dybbroe: Improved navigation of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer data at high latitudes (paper)
B46 Thomas King: A Near Real-Time AIRS Processing and Distribution System: Current Products and Future Plans
B47 Lihang Zhou: The Application of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to AIRS Data Compression
B48 Yunlong Lin: Introduction to Spatial Heterodyne Observations of Water (SHOW) Project and its Instrument Development (paper)
B49 Einar Grønås MEOS POLAR – Direct Broadcast terminal for L and X-band polar orbiting satellites
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Awards for Best Oral Presentation and Best Poster

The Best Oral Presentation was awarded to Clémence Pierangelo of LMD/IPSL Ecole Polytechnique for her talk on “Retrieving the effective radius of Saharan dust coarse mode with AIRS observations.” Co-authors on the presentation include Michael Mishchenko, Yves Balkanski, Alain Chédin.

The Best Poster was awarded to Chunxiang Shi of NSMC/CMA for a poster on “Study on cloud classifications by using AVHRR, GMS-5 and Terra/MODIS satellite data.” Wenjian Zhang was a co-author on the poster.