ITSC-16 Program
Tuesday 6 May 2008
15.00-19.00 Registration
Wednesday 7 May 2008
| 8.00 | Registration (continues to 15:00) | |
| 8.30-8.35 | Welcome | Co-chairs Allen Huang, Stephen English |
| Local arrangements | Dirceu Herdies, Rodrigo Souza, Simone Costa | |
| 8.35-8.55 | “Facing the challenges of Meteorology in Tropical South America” | Maria Assunção Faus da Silva Dias – CPTEC/INPE Director |
| 8.55-9.00 | Review of agenda | Co-chairs |
9.00-10.15
| Session 1: | Guy Rochard session on direct broadcast packages, preprocessing, calibration and frequency protection. |
| Chairs: Pascal Brunel and Liam Gumley |
10.15-10.45 BREAK
10.45-11.30
| Session 1: | Guy Rochard session on direct broadcast packages, preprocessing, calibration and frequency protection (continued) |
| Chairs: Pascal Brunel and Liam Gumley |
11.30-12.00
| Session 2: | The Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer |
| Chairs: Thierry Phulpin and Dieter Klaes |
| 2.1 | Denis Blumstein | IASI Performances on MetOp-A after one year in orbit |
| 2.2 | Lars Fiedler | IASI L1 data quality and NRT monitoring at EUMETSAT |
| 2.3 | Peter Schluessel | IASI Level-2 Product Processing at EUMETSAT |
12.00-13.45 LUNCH (including poster preparation)
13.45-15.00
| Session 2: | The Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (continued) |
| Chairs: Thierry Phulpin and Dieter Klaes |
15.00-15.30 BREAK
15.30-17.00
| Session 2: | The Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (continued) |
| Chairs: Thierry Phulpin and Dieter Klaes |
| 2.9 | Xu Liu | Retrieval algorithm using superchannels |
| 2.10 | Nikita Pougatchev | Error Assessment and Validation of the IASI Temperature and Water Vapor Profile Retrievals |
| 2.11 | Fiona Hilton | Assimilation of IASI Radiances at the Met Office (paper) |
| 2.12 | Andrew Collard | Monitoring and Assimilation of IASI Radiances at ECMWF (paper) |
| 2.13 | Marc Schwaerz | Assimilation of IASI Data into the Regional NWP Model COSMO-EU: Status and Perspectives (paper) |
| 2.14 | Thierry Phulpin | Atmospheric Chemistry using IASI / MetOp: Overview of initial results |
17.00-18.30 Poster Session A
19.00-19.30 Icebreaker
Thursday 8 May 2008
8.30-10.15
| Session 3: | Atmospheric radiative transfer |
| Chairs: Marco Matricardi and Louis Garand |
| 3.1 | Paul van Delst and Yong Han | Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM) Status |
| 3.2 | Roger Saunders | What can RTTOV-9 do for me? (paper) |
| 3.3 | Marco Matricardi | An assessment of the accuracy of the RTTOV fast radiative transfer model using IASI data. (paper) |
| 3.4 | Tom Kleespies | Microwave Radiative Transfer at the Sub-Field-of-View Resolution (paper) |
| 3.5 | Qi Chengli | Error analysis about using CO2-absorbing band for temperature retrieval |
| 3.6 | Alan Lipton | Fast Forward Modeling in Scattering Atmospheres with Optimum Spectral Sampling |
| 3.7 | Allen Huang | Development of the Multilayer Cloudy Radiative Transfer Model for the GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager |
10.15-10.45 BREAK
10.45-11.45
| Session 4: | Surface emission and scattering |
| Chairs: Fuzhong Weng and Roger Saunders |
11.45-13.15 LUNCH (including poster preparation)
13.15-15.00 Poster Session B (including refreshments from 14:30)
| 15.00-17.00 | ITSC-15 Action items presented by ITSC-15 WG co-chairs (10 minutes each) Moderators: Allen Huang and Stephen English RT WG (Louis Garand, Paul van Delst) Climate WG (Joerg Schulz, Peter Thorne) NWP WG (John Derber, Godelieve Deblonde) Advanced sounder WG (Bill Smith, Andrew Collard) International and future systems (Jerome Lafeuille, John Eyre) Satellite sounder science and products (Tony Reale, Lydie Lavanant) Technical sub-group reports (5 minutes each) ATOVS direct broadcast packages RTTOV CRTM Frequency protection |
17.00-17.15 Working group formation
Friday 9 May 2008
8.30-10.15
| Session 5: | Climate Studies |
| Chairs: Joerg Schulz and Peter Thorne |
10.15-10.45 BREAK
10.45-11.45
| Session 6: | Current use in NWP |
| Chairs: John Eyre and Nancy Baker |
3 minute short presentation on current status from NWP centres supporting posters to be presented in special poster session.
11.45-14.00 LUNCH
Including Poster session on current use of sounding data in NWP
14.00-15.15
| Session 7: | Developments in use of sounding data in NWP and Environmental Prediction |
| Chairs: Dirceu Herdies and John Derber |
15.15-15.45 BREAK
15.45-17.00
| Session 7: | Developments in use of sounding data in NWP and Environmental Prediction (continued) |
| Chairs: Dirceu Herdies and John Derber |
17.30-19.00 Working Groups
Saturday 10 May 2008
| 9.00-11.00 | Working Groups |
| 11.00-11.15 | BREAK |
| 11.15-12.00 | Working Groups |
| 12.00-13.00 | LUNCH |
Sunday 11 May 2008
| 18.00-19.00 | Working groups (or as arranged by WG co-chairs) |
| 19.00-19.15 | BREAK |
| 19.15-20.00 | Working groups (or as arranged by WG co-chairs) |
| 19.30 | DINNER |
Monday 12 May 2008
8.30-9.15
| Session 8: | Cloud Studies |
| Chairs: Sid Boukabara and Jun Li |
9.15-10.00
| Session 9: | Developments in assimilation of sounding data in NWP in cloud regions. |
| Chairs: Niels Bormann and Michael Uddstrom |
10.00-10.30 BREAK
10.30-11.00
| Session 9: | Developments in assimilation of sounding data in NWP in cloud regions (continued). |
| Chairs: Niels Bormann and Michael Uddstrom |
| 9.4 | John Le Marshall | Using Clear and Cloudy AIRS Data in Numerical Weather Prediction (paper) |
| 9.5 | Sid Boukabara | 1DVAR Pre-processing System for NWP Assimilation |
11.00-12.30
| Session 10: | Other applications of sounder data |
| Chairs: Lydie Lavanant and Rodrigo Souza |
| 10.1 | Zhang Jie | Effect and Improvement of Aerosol on Temperature Profile from MODIS |
| 10.2 | Fuzhong Weng | Environmental Data Records from Special Sensor Microwave Imager and Sounder (SSMIS) (paper) |
| 10.3 | Laure Chaumat | Potential of CO2 Retrieval from IASI |
| 10.4 | Filomena Romano | Analysis of Arctic clouds by means of hyper-spectral satellite (paper) |
| 10.5 | Tony Reale | NOAA Products Integrated Validation Dataset / Database |
12.30-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-15.15
| Session 10: | Other applications of sounder data (continued) |
| Chairs: Lydie Lavanant and Rodrigo Souza |
15.15-15.45 BREAK
15.45-17.25
| Session 11: | Agency status Report |
| Chairs: Jerome Lafeuille and Tom Kleespies |
| 11.1 | John Eyre | Evolution of the Global Observing System |
| 11.2 | David Griersmith | Status report on the Global RARS initiative |
| 11.3 | Dieter Klaes | EUMETSAT (paper) |
| 11.4 | Hal Bloom | NOAA |
| 11.5 | Gang Ma | China |
| 11.6 | Alexander Uspensky | Russia |
| 11.7 | Devendra Singh | India |
| 11.8 | Kozo Okamoto | JMA and JAXA |
| 11.9 | Luiz Augusto | Brazilian Earth Observations Satellites |
17.25-17.55
| Session 12: | Future instruments |
| Chairs: Pete Wilczynski and Dieter Klaes |
19.00 Churrasco
Tuesday 13 May 2008
8.30-9.30
| Working Group Reports | |
| Co-chairs: Allen Huang and Stephen English | |
9.30-10.00 BREAK
10.00-11.00
| Working Group Reports (continued) | |
| Co-chairs: Allen Huang and Stephen English | |
11.00-12.00
| Future meetings, other events relevant to ITWG Plans for next meetings and closing remarks | |
| Co-chairs: Allen Huang and Stephen English | |
12.00-13.00 LUNCH
Poster Session A:
A01 Fuzhong Weng: Radiative transfer in vertically statified soil and vegetation boundary
A02 Stephen Tjemkes: A clear sky radiative transfer model for MTG-IRS
A03 Stephen Tjemkes: Scenes Analysis for the Meteosat Third Generation Infrared Sounder Observations
A04 Fiona Hilton: Comparison of IASI radiances with models from seven operational centres
A05 Allen Larar: IASI Validation Studies using Airborne Field Campaign Data
A06 Stuart Newman: Identification of biases in the modelling of high peaking water vapour channels from IASI (paper)
A07 Simone Costa: The water vapor continuum effect on the surface transmitted irradiance at 8 – 12 mu m atmospheric window
A08 Yong Han: The effect of Doppler shift due to Earth’s spin on SSMIS UAS channels (paper)
A09 Yong Han: A fast radiative transfer model for AMSU-A channel 14 with the inclusion of the Zeeman-splitting effect (paper)
A10 Pascal Brunel: A graphical user interface for RTTOV
A11 Laure Chaumat 4A/OP: An operational fast and accurate radiative transfer model for the infrared
A12 Xiaoqing Li: Forward Simulation for FY-3 MWHS using RTTOV-7
A13 Fanny Duffourg: Convective-scale data assimilation of satellite infrared radiances over the Mediterranean: adaptation of the observation operator to the high-resolution (paper)
A14 Stephen English: Potential enhancement of AMSU-A/MHS/ATMS baseline microwave humidity and temperature sounders
A15 Stephen English: A Randomisation Method to quantify the B-matrix for 1D-var
A16 Steve Swadley: SSIMS Upper Atmospheric Radiance Assimilation: Preprocessing Requirements and Preliminary Results
A17 Bill Bell: Joint poster with NRL on Upper atmospheric sounder data
A18 Carlos Bastarz: Evaluating the impact of the geopotential height profile data assimilation deriving from the AIRS/AQUA sensor by the CPTEC’s RPSAS assimilation model
A19 Jairo Gomes Jr: Impact of ATOVS geopotential heights retrievals over analyses generated by RPSAS (paper)
A20 Roger Randriamampianina: Investigating the assimilation of IASI data in a limited area model
A21 Brett Candy: Use of Regional Retransmission Networks in Global Data Assimilation (paper)
A22 Aurélie Bouchard: Satellite Data Assimilation over Antarctica: The Concordiasi Field Experiment (paper)
A23 Yann Michel: Case studies of 4D-Var assimilation of potential vorticity observations derived from image processing
A24 James Cameron: Impact of variable O3 and CO2 on assimilation of high spectral resolution sounder data
A25 Luiz Sapucci: Impact analysis of assimilation of integrated water vapor estimates from AIRS/AMSU over Amazonian region
A26 Blazej Krzeminski: Towards better usage of AMSU observations over land at ECMWF (paper)
A27 Rita Valéria Andreoli: The relative contributions of the various observing systems in the CPTEC global data assimilation/forecast system
A28 Thomas Pangaud: Assimilation of cloudy AIRS observations in the French global atmospheric model ARPEGE (paper)
A29 Qifeng Lu: Data assimilation and use of EOS data in land surface model
A30 Ricardo Todling: The GMAO 4d-Var System
A31 Nancy Baker NRL: Implementing Radiance Assimilation in NAVDAS-AR:lessons Learned
A32 Michael Uddstrom: Environmental Forecasting at NIWA:A Progress Report
Poster Session B:
B01 Paolo Antonelli: Fostering a new generation of Remote Sensing Scientists
B02 Allen Huang: Processing Package and Remote Sensing Training Workshops for International Direct Broadcast Users
B03 Thierry Phulpin: Report on the first International IASI Conference
B04 Thierry Phulpin: Synergy between IASI sounding and AVHRR imagery for the processing of IASI data in non-uniform scenes
B05 David Tobin: Validation of IASI spectral radiances using aircraft underflight data collected during JAIVEx
B06 David Tobin: Principle component analysis of IASI spectra with a focus on non-uniform scene effects on the ILS
B07 David Tobin: Evaluation of IASI and AIRS spectral radiances using Simultaneous Nadir Overpasses
B08 Zhaohui Cheng The use of principal component analysis in monitoring IASI radiances and diagnosing climate anomaly
B09 Nathalie Selbach: Operational Processing of ATOVS data at the Satellite Application Facility on Climate monitoring
B10 Raymond Armante Validation of level1b/1c LEO instruments in synergy with LEO/GEO companion instruments or in stand alone mode: Application to AIRS/Aqua, IIR/Calipso, IASI/Metop
B11 Raymond Armante Cloud properties from AIRS and evaluation with Calipso
B12 Cyril Crevoisier A quantitative link between CO2 emissions from tropical vegetation fires and the daily tropospheric excess (DTE) of CO2 seen by NOAA-10 (1987-1991)
B13 Clemence Pierangelo: SIFTI : A Static Infrared Fourier Transform Interferometer dedicated to ozone and CO pollution monitoring (paper)
B14 Alexander Uspensky: Derivation of tropospheric carbon dioxide and methane concentrations in the boreal zone from satellite-based hyper-spectral infrared sounders data (paper)
B15 Devendra Singh: Total ozone depletion due to tropical cyclones over Indian Ocean
B16 Bozena Lapeta: From TOVS to ATOVS based ozone monitoring – implication for the quality and homogeneity (paper)
B17 Rodrigo Augusto Ferreira de Souza Preliminary comparisons between the CO retrievals from AIRS and the CO CATT-BRAMS model estimations over the Amazon region during the 2002 dry-to-wet season.
B18 Kung Hwa Wang: Multi-satellite observation on upwelling after the passage of typhoon Hai-Tang in the southern East China Sea
B19 Filipe Aires Retrieval of atmospheric water vapour profile using the Megha-Tropiques
B20 Wagner Lima The use of HSB to derive the integrated water vapor content: an example using the RACCI/LBA experiment
B21 William Blackwell: High-Resolution Passive Millimeter-wave Measurements from Aircraft: Validation of Satellite Observations and Radiative Transfer Modeling
B22 Dieter Klaes: Synergetic Operational Earth observations with Metop-A instruments
B23 Gary Weymouth: Australian Bureau of Meteorology Satellite Data Exchange and Use
B24 Simon Elliot Operational dissemintaion of IASI data using principle componant compression.
B25 A. K. Sharma: NOAA/NESDIS Updates on Operational Sounding Data Products and Services
B26 Limin Zhao: Operational Implementation of Integrated Microwave Retrieval System
B27 Lihang Zhou Enhancements of the AIRS Eigenvector Regression Algorithm
B28 Sid Boukabara: Global Coverage of Total Precipitable Water using the Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MIRS)
B29 Haibing Sun: CrIS Radiance Simulations in Preparation for Near Real-Time Data Distribution
B30 Tom Kleespies: Serendipitious Characterization of the Microwave Sounding Unit during an Accidental Spacecraft Tumble
B31 Hartmut Aumann A Geostationary Microwave Sounder for NASA and NOAA (paper)
B32 Louis Garand: A Canadian satellite mission for continous imaging of the northern latitudes
B33 Tom Achtor Examining the mid winter severe weather outbreak of 7 January 2008 using high resolution data with McIDAS-V
B34 Bill Bellon The ITWG Website
Poster Session 6:
S6.1 John Derber Current Status: A Summary of the NWP survey
S6.2 John Derber NCEP: Progress and Plans for the use of radiance data in the NCEP global and regional data assimilation systems
S6.3 Neils Bormann NCEP: Progress and Plans for the use of radiance data in the NCEP global and regional data assimilation systems
S6.4 Nancy Baker NRL Status Report
S6.5 Brett Candy: Met Office: An Update on the Operational Use of Satellite Sounding Data in the Met Office
S6.6 Thibaut Montmerle: Met Office: MetroFrance: Recent advances in the use of Satellite Data in the French NWP Models
S6.7 Godelieve DeBlonde: Inclsuion of new data types in the Canadian data assimilation system
S6.8 Qifeng Lu CMA/NSMC Satellite Data Assimilation Activities: Uses of ATOVS and Fengyun VASS Data in WRF
S6.9 Kozo Okamoto: JMA: Assimilation of radiance data at JMA: Recent development and prospective plans
S6.10 Zhiquan Liu: WRF: Direct Radiance Assimilation for WRF: Implementation and Initial Results
S6.11: Martin Stengel HIRLAM (SMHI): The Assimilation of Clear-Sky Infared Radiances in the HIRLAM Model
S6.12 Jose A. Aravequia Assimilation of AIRS radiances at CPTEC/INPE using the LETKF system
S6.13 Roger Randriamampianina Use of Satellite Data in ALADIN/HARMONIE-Norway