ITSC-15 Program
Wednesday 4 October 2006
8:30-9:00 Welcome
Co-Chairs Tom Achtor, Roger Saunders
Vincenzo Cuomo, IMAA
Paolo Pagano, Italian Meteorological Service
Local Arrangements Filomena Romano
IRC Science Council Briefing Tom Achtor
Review Agenda/Key Issues Co-Chairs
9:00-10:00
Session 1: Radiative Transfer (Chair: Stephen Tjemkes)
1.1 Marco Matricardi Recent advances in the science of RTTOV
1.2 Fuzhong Weng Advances in Radiative Transfer Modeling in Support of Satellite Data Assimilation
1.3 Raymond Armante Recent Validations of infrared and microwave forward models at LMD
1.4 Roger Saunders A Comparison of AIRS Radiative Transfer models
10:00-10:30 BREAK
10:30-11:30
Session 1: Radiative Transfer (continued)
1.5 Carmine Serio Validation of the forward/inverse physical scheme φ-IASI with NAST-I and IMG data
1.6 Fuzhong Weng
(for Yong Han) A Fast Radiative Transfer Model for SSMIS Upper-air Sounding Channels Affected by Zeeman Splitting and Its Application for Temperature Retrieval
1.7 Ed Westwater Clear-Air Forward Microwave and Millimeterwave Radiative Transfer Models for Arctic Conditions
1.8 Nicole Jacquinet GEISA/IASI-03: Data Quality Evaluation Through Comparisons with other Public Database Archives
11:30-12:00
Session 2: Surface Studies (Chair: Ben Ruston)
2.1 Eric Pequignot Infrared continental surface emissivity spectra retrieved from hyperspectral sensors. Application to AIRS observations
2.2 Allen Huang (for Robert Knuteson) Land Surface Temperature and Infrared Emissivity at High Latitudes from Advanced Infrared Sounder Observations
12:00-13:30 Lunch (Plus Poster Session Preparation)
13:30-14:00
Session 3: Cloud Studies (Chair: Claudia Stubenrauch)
3.1 Allen Huang (for Hong Zhang) Global Analysis and Characterization of AIRS/MODIS Cloud-Clearing
3.2 Filomena Romano Analysis of day- and night-time Arctic clouds by means of hyperspectral infrared and ground-based observations
14:00-14:30
Session 4: Climate Studies (Chair: Vincenzo Cuomo)
4.1 John Bates NOAA’s archive, access, and assessment of satellite data for climate applications
4.2 Masami Sakamoto A follow-up study of the TOVS application for the Japanese Climatic Reanalysis: JRA-25
14:30-15:00 BREAK
15:00-16:00
Session 4: Climate Studies (continued)
4.3 Mark McCarthy Met Office plans for the development of a climate data record from HIRS and IASI
4.4 Claudia Stubenrauch Assessment of global cloud climatologies from satellite observations
4.5 Tony Reale Vicarious Satellite Monitoring / Validation and Pending Reference Networks
4.6 Cheng-Zhi Zou Recalibration of Microwave Sounding Unit for Climate Studies Using Simultaneous Nadir Overpasses
17:00-18:30 Poster Session A
18:30 Icebreaker
Thursday 5 October 2006
8:30-9:45
Session 5: Guy Rochard Session on DB Software, Education, and MW Frequency Protection (Chair: Roger Saunders)
5.1 Nigel Atkinson AAPP status report and experiences with processing METOP data
5.2 Allen Huang Status Update of IMAPP and IPOPP – The End-to-End Processing Package for EOS and future Polar Orbiting Satellite Systems
5.3 Frode Dinessen Integration of 3party processing packages in a satellite reception system
5.4 Jean Pla Passive Microwave Protection: Impact of Active Services on Satellite Passive Observations
5.5 Paolo Antonelli Fostering a new generation of Remote Sensing Scientists
9:45-10:15 BREAK
10:15-11:30
Session 6: Climate Applications (Chair: Allen Huang)
6.1 Tom Kleespies Results from the NOAA-14 Microwave Sounding Unit Pitch Test
6.2 Banghua Yan Recalibration of SSM/I/S for Weather and Climate Studies
6.3 Bjorn Lambrigtsen (for Hartmut Aumann) AIRS observations of Dome Concordia in Antarctica and comparison with Automated Weather Stations (AWS) during 2005
6.4 Allen Larar Satellite Infrared Radiance Validation Using the NAST-Interferometer
6.5 Dong Chaohua Plan of Calibration and Validation of FY-3 Instruments and Products
11:30-13:00 Lunch (Plus poster session preparation)
13:00-14:30 Poster Session B
14:30-16:45 ITSC-14 Action Items presented by ITSC-14 WG Chairs
Radiative Transfer and Surface Property Modeling (Louis Garand)
1st Workshop on Remote Sensing and Modeling of Surface Properties (Ben Ruston)
ATOVS/TOVS in Climate Studies (John Bates)
ATOVS/TOVS in NWP (Steve English)
Advanced Infrared Sounders (Allen Huang)
International Issues and Future Systems (Tom Achtor and Roger Saunders)
Satellite Sounder Science and Products (Tony Reale)
Technical Sub-Group Reports
ATOVS DB Packages (IAPP, AAPP)
Update on Radiative Transfer Packages (RTTOV, CRTM)
Frequency Protection
Moderators: Tom Achtor/Roger Saunders
16:45-17:00 Working Group Formation Chairs: Roger Saunders/Tom Achtor
Friday 6 October 2006
8:30-10:00
Session 7: Operational Use of ATOVS (Chair: Niels Bormann)
7.1 Nancy Baker Satellite Assimilation Activities for the NRL Atmospheric Variational Data Assimilation (NAVDAS) and NAVDAS-AR (Accelerated Representer) Systems
7.2 Benjamin Ruston Assimilation of AIRS data at NRL
7.3 Tony McNally The assimilation of satellite data at ECMWF: Operational status and research plans
7.4 Kozo Okamoto Use of satellite radiances in the global assimilation system at JMA
7.5 Antonio Vocino Assimilation of ATOVS retrievals and AMSU-A radiances at the Italian Weather Service: current status and perspectives
7.6 Louis Garand Operational implementation of AIRS and SSM/I assimilation at MSC
10:00-10:30 BREAK
10:30-11:00
Session 7 (continued)
7.7 Brett Candy Current and Future Use of Microwave Sounding Data in the Met Office Global NWP Model
7.8 Fiona Hilton Current status and future plans for the use of AIRS and IASI data at the Met Office
11:00-12:30
Session 8: Developments in use of ATOVS in NWP (Chair: Steve English)
8.1 Graeme Kelly The relative contributions of the various space observing systems to the ECMWF forecast system
8.2 Chris Tingwell Assimilation of Level-1D ATOVS Radiances in Australian Regional and Mesoscale Data Assimilation and Prediction Systems
8.3 Thomas Auligne Bias correction of satellite radiances at ECMWF
8.4 William Campbell Pre-operational testing and results from direct assimilation of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMIS)
8.5 Niels Bormann Assimilation and monitoring of SSMIS, AMSR-E, and TMI data at ECMWF
8.6 Jishan Xue (for Wei Han) Bias Correction of AMSU in GRAPES Global and Regional Models
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15
Session 8: (continued)
8.7 Roger Randriamampianina Estimation of satellite observations bias correction for limited area models
8.8 Godelieve Deblonde One-dimensional variational assimilation of SSM/I observations in Rainy Atmospheres at MSC
8.9 Nadia Fourrie Towards assimilation of cloudy radiances
8.10 John Le Marshall The use of hyperspectral infrared radiances in numerical weather prediction
8.11 Andrew Collard The use of AIRS Reconstructed Radiances in NWP and Preparations for IASI
15:15-15:45 BREAK
15:45-16:30
Session 9: International Issues (Chair: Carmine Serio)
9.1 Luigi De Leonibus The EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on support to Operational Hydrology and Water Management (H-SAF)
9.2 Jian Liu Space based Global Observing System Requirements for Satellite Sounders
9.3 Mitch Goldberg Global Space-based InterCalibration System (GSICS)
9.4 Marie DuMont The global regional ATOVS Retransmission Service Network
Saturday 7 October 2006
Working Groups
9am-11am (or as arranged by WG Chairs)
Sunday 8 October 2006
Working Groups
6-8pm (or as arranged by WG Chairs)
Monday 9 October 2006
8:30-9:30
Session 10: Agency Status Reports (Chair: Dong Chaohua)
10.1 Peter Schlüssel for Dieter Klaes EUMETSAT Plans
10.2 Mitch Goldberg NOAA Report
10.3 Dong Chaohua China
10.4 Alexander Uspensky Russia
10.5 Devendra Singh India
10.6 Kozo Okamoto Japan
9:30-10:00
Session 11: Products from ATOVS (Chair: Bill Smith)
11.1 Devendra Singh Validation and inter comparisons of profiles from ATOVS and AIRS data over India and it surrounding regions
11.2 Tony Reale (for A. K. Sharma) Updates on Operational Processing for NOAA/NESDIS Sounding Data Products and Services
10:00-10:30 BREAK
10:30-12:30
Session 11: Products from ATOVS (continued)
11.3 Nikita Pougatchev Assessment of Atmospheric Profile Retrieved from Satellite: Theory and Case Study
11.4 Anton Kaifel Neural Network based Ozone Profile Retrieval Using Combined UV/VIS and IR Satellite Data
11.5 Alexander Uspensky Retrieval of Atmospheric Trace Gases Variability with Satellite Advanced IR sounders
11.6 Sid Ahmed Boukabara Introducing NOAA’s Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MIRS)
11.7 Silvia Puca Refinement and operation implemetation of a rain rate algorithm based AMSU/MHS and raingauges data over the H-SAF
11.8 Bormin Huang Linear form of the radiative transfer equation revisited
11.9 Yves Rochon Jacobian mapping between vertical coordinate systems in variational assimilation
11.10 Ralf Bennartz Progress in modeling efforts related to radiance assimilation of clouds and precipitation
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45
Session 12: METOP Development (Chair: Peter Schlüssel)
12.1 Denis Blumstein IASI in-flight calibration and preliminary results
12.2 Thierry Phulpin Use of IASI data for tropospheric trace gas retrieval
12.3 Thomas King Development of the IASI Near Real-Time Operational Product Processing System
14:45-15:15
Session 13: Future Sensors (Chair: Mitch Goldberg)
13.1 Peter Wilczynski NPOESS – A Restructured Program
13.2 Hal Bloom Recent Updates to the NPOESS Space Segment and Sensor Manifest
15:15-15:45 BREAK
15:45-16:45
Session 13: Future Sensors (continued)
13.3 Bill Smith GIFTS
13.4 Jun Li GOES Infrared Sounders – the future perspective from the current applications
13.5 Ed Westwater (for Al Gasiewski) Geostationary Passive Microwave Observation System Simulation Experiments for Hydrometric Tracking
13.6 Bjorn Lambrigtsen GeoSTAR
16:45-19:00 BREAK (Working Group Meetings to finish reports if needed)
Tuesday 10 October 2006
8:30-9:30 Working Group Reports and actions summary
Radiative Transfer and Surface Property Modeling
ATOVS/TOVS in Climate Studies
ATOVS/TOVS in NWP
9:30-10:00 BREAK
10:00-11:00 Working Group Reports and actions summary (continued)
Advanced Infrared Sounders
International Issues and Future Systems
Satellite Sounder Science and Products
11:00-12:00 Future meetings, election, and other events relevant to ITWG
Plans for next ITSC meeting and closing remarks
Co-Chairs Tom Achtor, Roger Saunders
Poster Session A: Wednesday, 4 October — 17:00-18:30
A01 David Anselmo: Impact Evaluation of AIRS and SSM/I Assimilation
A02 Alain Beaulne: Impact evaluation of AIRS and SSM/I assimilation
A03 Steve English: Assimilation of cloudy AMSU-A radiances in 4D-var
A04 Steve English: Assimilation of near surface sounding radiances
A05 Alan Geer:Assimilation of cloud and precipitation affected microwave radiances at ECMWF
A06 Yann Michel : Automated tracking of dry intrusions on satellite water vapour imagery and model output for data assimilation
A07 Martin Stengel: 1DVAR studies with SEVIRI data and the HIRLAM model
A08 Elisabetta Ricciardelli: Physical and statistical approach for MSG cloud identification
A09 Stephen Tjemkes: Performance analysis of MTG-IRS
A10 Tom Kleespies: Relative Information Content of the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder, and the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit and the Microwave Humidity Sounder Suite
A11 Tom Kleespies: The Use of Google Earth in Meteorological Satellite Visualization
A12 Steven Swadley: Calibration Anomalies and Radiance Assimilation Correction Strategies for the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMIS)
A13 cancelled
A14 Tom Achtor: SSEC/CIMSS Participation in the NPP PEATE Program
A15 Kathleen Strabala: Polar Orbiting Satellite Direct Broadcast Activities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
A16 Luigi De Leonibus: HYDROLOGY SATELLITE APPLICATION FACILITY (H-SAF): a distributed element of the EUMETSAT Application Ground Segment
A17 Zhaohui Cheng: The use of principal component analysis in processing simulated IASI data
A18 Per Dahlgren: Direct assimilation of AMSU-B radiances in the HIRLAM 3DVAR analysis
A19 Dezso Devenyi: Satellite products in the Rapid Update Cycle and plans for the Rapid Refresh
A20 Nathalie Selbach: Comparison of ATOVS, CHAMP and ground based humidity estimates on different spatiotemporal scales
A21 Xu Liu: Application of a Principal Component-based Radiative Transfer Model to NAST-I data Retrievals
A22 Niels Bormann: Assimilation of limb radiances from MIPAS at ECMWF using 1d and 2d radiative transfer models
A23 David Shawn Turner: A Fast Forward Model for the Stratospheric Wind Interferometer For Transport studies
A24 Domenico Cimini: On the role of surface emissivity in polar night-time cloud detection
A25 Teodosio Lacava: Monitoring space-time soil wetness variations by a multi-temporal microwave satellite records analysis
A26 Nadia Fourrie: Status of ATOVS-like and SSM/I data in the operational assimilation system at Météo-France and perspectives towards the use of microwave surface sensitive channels over land
A27 Izabela Dyras/Bozena Lapeta: Homogenization of the total ozone amount series derived from NOAA/TOVS data
A28 Stefan Buehler: CIWSIR: A Proposed ESA Mission to Measure Cloud Ice Water Path
A29 Anthony Rea: Current and Future Plans for Satellite Data Reception and Utilisation at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology
Poster Session B: Thursday, 5 October — 13:00-14:30
B01 Bjorn Lambrigtsen: Climate Research With the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
B02 Lydie Lavanant: AVHRR operational cloud masks intercomparison
B03 Brett Candy: Improvements to Use of Satellite Sounding Data in Met Office Regional Models
B04 cancelled
B05 Sylvain Heilliette: Variational estimation of cloud parameters with a view towards cloudy radiance assimilation. Application to AIRS observations
B06 Ed Pavelin: Plans for the assimilation of cloud-affected infrared soundings at the Met Office
B07 Dirceu Herdies (for Luiz Fernando Sapucci): The Inclusion of Integrated Water Vapor Estimates from AIRS/AMSU and SSM/I Sensors into PSAS Data Assimilation System in the CPTEC
B08 moved to talk 8.2
B09 Rodrigo Souza: First Results from the Use of the Aqua Sounding System in the CPTEC Global Data Assimilation/Forecast System
B10 Rodrigo Souza: Performance of the AIRS/AMSU and MODIS Soundings over Natal/Brazil using collocated sondes: SHADOZ campaign 2004-2005
B11 John Palmer: Standard back-propagation artificial neural networks for cloud liquid water path retrieval from AMSU-B data
B12 Thierry Phulpin: SIFTI : a new generation FTIR spectrometer for the TRopospheric composition and Air Quality (TRAQ) mission
B13 Peter Schlüssel: Impact of thermal inhomogeneity on IASI spectral response and its correction
B14 Jishan Xue (for Wei Han): Satellite Data Assimilation in Tropical Cyclone Forecasts
B15 Tom Achtor: ITWG Overview
B16 Leanne Avila: The ITWG Web Site: How to Create a Useful Forum for the Community
B17 Lihang Zhou: An Integrated Web-based Visualization System for Monitoring and Validation of the Products from Hyper-spectral Instruments
B18 Walter Wolf: Distribution of Hyperspectral Radiances to Numerical Weather Prediction Centers
B19 Paul van Delst (for Yong Han): JCSDA Community Radiative Transfer Mode (CRTM) version 1 and development prospects
B20 Raymond Armante: The status of the 4A (Automatized Atmospheric Absorption Atlas) forward model
B21 – B22 cancelled
B23 Dan Zhou: Surface emissivity retrieved from AIRS
B24 Claudia Stubenrauch: Cloud properties from AIRS
B25 José Aravéquia: Observation operator and estimation of uncertainty in the assimilation of AIRS radiances using ensemble Kalman Filter