ITSC-21 Program
Wednesday 29 November 2017
| 8:30-9:00 | Welcome | Mitch Goldberg and Niels Bormann (ITWG Co-chairs) |
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| Welcome by EUMETSAT An Overview of EUMETSAT | Alain Ratier | |
| Local Arrangements | Dieter Klaes | |
| Review of agenda | Mitch Goldberg and Niels Bormann (ITWG Co-chairs) |
| 9:00-10:00 Session 1a: Community software – session dedicated to Paul van Delst (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Andrew Collard and Bill Smith | ||
| 1.01 | Benjamin Johnson | CRTM Development Status and Future Plans |
| 1.02 | Quanhua (Mark) Liu | Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM) Applications to Support Sensor Cal/Val and EDR Generations |
| 1.03 | James Hocking | RTTOV Development Status |
| 1.04 | Liam Gumley | Paul van Delst presentation / CSPP LEO: Recent updates and support for JPSS-1 |
| 10:00-10.15Session 1b: Community software – session dedicated to Paul van Delst (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Andrew Collard and Bill Smith | ||
| 1p.01 | Withdrawn | |
| 1p.02 | Benjamin Johnson | Radar Simulation in CRTM |
| 1p.03 | Pascale Roquet | RTTOV GUI, the graphical user interface for RTTOV |
| 1p.04 | Marco Matricardi | Modeling of nonlocal thermodynamic equilibrium effects in the classical and principal component based version of the RTTOV fast radiative transfer model |
| 1p.05 | Christina Lupu | Evaluation of the radiative transfer model RTTOV – 12 at ECMWF |
10:15-10:45 BREAK and poster viewing 1b
| 10:45-11:15Session 1c: Community software (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Allen Huang, Vivienne Payne and Guido Masiello | ||
| 1.05 | Kathleen Strabala | NASA International MODIS/AIRS Processing Package (IMAPP): Current Status and Future Plans |
| 1.06 | Nigel Atkinson | NWP SAF software deliverables: 2017 to 2022 |
| 11:15-11:35 Session 1d: Community software and direct broadcasting (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Allen Huang, Vivienne Payne and Guido Masiello | ||
| 1p.06 | Scott Mindock | CSPP SDR 3.0 Support for JPSS-1 |
| 1p.07 | Geoffrey Cureton | Himawari Support In The CSPP-GEO Direct Broadcast Package |
| 1p.08 | Graeme Martin | CSPP Geo direct broadcast software for GOES-16 and Himawari-8: project overview and lessons learned |
| 1p.09 | Nick Bearson | CSPP VIIRS Flood Detection |
| 1p.10 | Withdrawn | |
| 1p.11 | Qiang Zhao (for Walter Wolf) | Planned Updates to the STAR BUFR and GRIB Tailoring System for Satellite Operational Products |
| 1p.12 | Gloria Cristina Pujol | Contributions of DBNet South America-Argentina Component for NWP Community |
| 1p.13 | Jin Woo | Current Status and Future Plan of Direct-Readout LEO Weather Satellite Operation in NMSC/KMA |
| 1p.14 | Jessica Braun | Aqua and Terra Direct Broadcast Processing at CIMSS/SSEC |
| 1p.15 | Liam Gumley | NOAA DB Network: Providing advanced sounder data in near real-time for NWP |
| 11:35-12:20Session 2a: Radiative Transfer (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Allen Huang, Vivienne Payne and Guido Masiello | ||
| 2.01 | Raymond Armante (for Emilien Bernard) | The 4A/OP model: from NIR to TIR, new developments for time computing gain and validation results within the frame of international space missions |
| 2.02 | Raymond Armante | TIR and SWIR level-1 and level-2 products validation: a deeper insight to updated of the 4A line-by-line radiative transfer model |
| 2.03 | Niels Bormann | Radiative transfer along a slanted path |
12:40-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:00 Poster viewing 1d, 2b
| 14:00-15:15 Session 3a: Calibration, validation and uncertainty (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: William Bell and Tony Reale | ||
| 3.01 | Tim Hewison | Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System (GSICS) Infrared Reference Sensor Traceability and Uncertainty |
| 3.02 | Gerrit Holl | A new Fundamental Climate Data Record (FCDR) for nearly 40 years of measurements from the High resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) based on a metrologically traceable uncertainty analysis |
| 3.03 | Fabien Carminati | Characterisation of numerical weather prediction model biases for improved satellite cal/val |
| 3.04 | Alexander Uspensky | Cal/Val studies for microwave and infrared sounding data from METEOR-M series satellites (paper) |
| 3.05 | Stuart Newman | An assessment of Meteor-M N2 MTVZA imager/sounder data at the Met Office and ECMWF for GAIA-CLIM |
| 15:15-15:35Session 3b: Calibration, validation and uncertainty (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: William Bell and Tony Reale | ||
| 3p.01 | Stuart Newman | The GAIA-CLIM project |
| 3p.02 | Stefano Migliorioni | Robust quantification of uncertainty on short-range model forecasts in radiance space based on reference sonde data |
| 3p.03 | Bretty Candy | Assessment and assimilation of microwave imager observations in NWP global models |
| 3p.04 | Heather Lawrence | Assimilation of FY-3C MWHS-2 at ECMWF and evaluation of the microwave imager FY-3C MWRI at ECMWF and the Met Office |
| 3p.05 | Marc Prange | Natural and vicarious calibration targets for satellite based microwave sensors |
| 3p.06 | Lihang Zhou | Post Launch Calibration and Validation of JPSS-1 Sensor Data Records (SDRs) and Environment Data Records (EDRs) Algorithms |
| 3p.07 | Joe Taylor | Current Status of the CrIS Calibration Activities at UW-SSEC |
| 3p.08 | Allen Larar | Arctic field campaign inter-comparisons in support of SNPP CrIS validation |
| 3p.09 | Ninghai Sun | Advances in Suomi NPP ATMS Data Reprocessing |
| 3p.10 | Bomin Sun | Vaisala Radiosonde RS92 to RS41 Transition: Implications for Satellite Data Cal/Val |
15:50-16:15 Break and poster viewing 3b
| 16:15-17:15 Session 4a: New and current observations (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Peng Zhang and Stephen English | ||
| 4.01 | Qifeng Lu | The status of FY-3C and FY-4A in NWP and the preparation of FY-3D for NWP |
| 4.02 | Wei Han (for Peiming Dong) | Study on the simulation and bias characteristics of FY-4A GIIRS observation |
| 4.03 | Indira Rani | Impact of the assimilation of water vapor imager radiances from INSAT 3D and 3DR satellites in the NCMRWF Unified Model (paper) |
| 4.04 | Hyeyoung Kim | Application of Microwave Satellite Data to KMA Local Data Assimilation and Prediction System (LDAPS) |
| 17:15-17:30 Session 4b: New and current observations (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Peng Zhang and Stephen English | ||
| 4p.01 | Andrew Collard | Plans for the utilization of JPSS and GOES-R satellite systems |
| 4p.02 | Yoichi Hirahara | Operational use of Suomi NPP ATMS radiance data in JMA’s global NWP system |
| 4p.03 | Yasutaka Murakami | Assimilating clear-sky radiance of SSMIS humidity sounding channels in the JMA global NWP system with newly developed cloud detection algorithm (paper) |
| 4p.04 | Jeon-Ho Kang | Development of the SSMIS processing system and their impacts on the 3DVAR in KIAPS |
| 4p.05 | Bryan Karpowicz | Microwave Radiance Assimilation at NRL: Advanced Techniques, Developments, and Future Sensors |
| 4p.06 | Bryan Karpowicz (for Steve Swadley) | Salvaging of the Final SSMIS Flight Unit for a Future Flight-of-Opportunity |
| 4p.07 | Withdrawn | |
| 4p.08 | Stuart Newman (for Amy Doherty) | Investigation into the impact of SAPHIR on humidity analyses at the Met Office |
17:45 Icebreaker (with poster viewing 1b, 1d, 2b, 3b, 4b)
Thursday 30 November 2017
| 08:30-10:00 Session 5a: Assimilation – clouds (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Kozo Okamoto and Christina Köpken-Watts | ||
| 5.01 | Alan Geer | All-sky assimilation of IASI upper-troposphere water vapour channels |
| 5.02 | Kozo Okamoto | Evaluation and assimilation of all-sky infrared radiances of Himawari-8 |
| 5.03 | Imane Farouk | Towards the improvement of the assimilation of cloudy IASI observations in numerical weather prediction (paper) |
| 5.04 | Masahiro Kazumori | Development of an all-sky assimilation of microwave imager and sounder radiances for the Japan Meteorological Agency global numerical weather prediction system (paper) |
| 5.05 | Peter Weston | Assimilation of AMSU-A in the presence of cloud and precipitation |
| 5.06 | Stefano Migliorini | All-sky assimilation of microwave sounders at the Met Office |
| 10:00-10:15 Session 5b: Clouds: assimilation and radiative transfer (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs:Kozo Okamoto and Christina Köpken-Watts | ||
| 5p.01 | Katrin Lonitz | Matching scales of observed and simulated cloud and precipitation processes seen in the microwave spectrum |
| 5p.02 | Yanqiu Zhu | Further developments in the all-sky microwave radiance assimilation and expansion to ATMS in the GSI at NCEP (paper) |
| 5p.03 | Andrew Collard (for Li Bi) | All-sky infrared radiances assimilation of selected humidity sensitive IASI channels at NCEP/EMC |
| 5p.04 | Moved to 5.02 | |
| 5p.05 | Alan Geer | Scattering from non-spherical frozen particles in all-sky microwave radiative transfer |
| 5p.06 | Victoria Galligani | Evaluation and comparison of simulated microwave cloudy radiances using RTTOV-SCAT and ARTS (paper) |
| 5p.07 | Jerome Vidot | Hyperspectral IR cloudy radiance and Jacobian simulations: comparison between RTTOV and LIDORT |
10:15-10:45 BREAK and poster viewing 5b
| 10:45-12:00 Session 6a: Climate (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Hank Revercomb and Claudia Stubenrauch | ||
| 6.01 | Claudia J. Stubenrauch | The role of upper tropospheric cloud systems in climate: building observational metrics for Process Evaluation Studies |
| 6.02 | Martin Stengel | 35 years of cloud observations based on HIRS measurements |
| 6.03 | Christoforos Tsamalis | Evaluation of the CM SAF Upper Tropospheric Humidity (UTH) climate data record from AMSU-B/MHS sounders |
| 6.04 | Cheng-Zhi Zou | Evaluation of Inter-Sensor Biases between SNPP/ATMS and POES/AMSU-A |
| 6.05 | William Bell | The use of satellite radiances in the C3S ERA5 Reanalysis |
| 12:00-12:15 Session 6b: Climate (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Hank Revercomb and Claudia Stubenrauch | ||
| 6p.01 | Eui-Seok Chung | An assessment of the consistency between satellite measurements of upper tropospheric water vapor |
| 6p.02 | Nathalie Selbach | The GEWEX water vapor assessment (G-VAP) – results from inter-comparisons and stability analysis |
| 6p.03 | Nathalie Selbach | Climate Data Records and user service of the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring |
| 6p.04 | Timo Hanschmann | Preparing HIRS radiances as input to Reanalysis within the Copernicus Climate Change Service |
| 6p.05 | Cyril Crevoisier | Towards homogeneous reference datasets from Metop-A and Metop-B validated observations |
| 6p.06 | Mayte Vasquez | Intercomparisons and Validation of IASI L1 Reprocessed Data of MetOp-A |
| 6p.07 | Mohamed Dahoui | Detection of trends and variability of certain atmospheric features by analysing long time series of satellite monitoring statistics (paper) |
| 6p.08 | Withdrawn | |
12:15-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:00 Poster viewing 6b
| 14:00-14:40 Session 7: NWP centre reports (poster introductions – 3 minutes: 1 slide) Chairs: Dirceu Herdies and Eunhee Lee | ||
| 7p.01 | Norio Kamekawa (JMA) | Recent upgrades of satellite radiance data assimilation at JMA (poster) (paper) |
| 7p.02 | Mohamed Dahoui (ECMWF) | Overview of ECMWF NWP changes since ITSC-20 (poster) |
| 7p.03 | Christina Köpken-Watts (DWD) | Developments in satellite data assimilation at DWD since ITSC-XX (poster) |
| 7p.04/7p.05 | Nadia Fourrie (Météo France)/Florian Suzat (Météo France) | Overview of infrared radiance assimilation in Météo-France models/Ongoing developments on the use of microwave sounders and imagers at Météo-France (7p.04poster) (7p.05 poster) |
| 7p.06 | Brett Candy (Met Office) | NWP Centre Update: Met Office |
| 7p.07 | Fiona Smith (BoM) | Satellite assimilation at the Bureau of Meteorology (poster) |
| 7p.08 | Indira Rani (NCMRWF) | NCMRWF NWP status |
| 7p.09 | Andrew Collard (NCEP, for John Derber) | Progress and plans for the use of radiance data in the NCEP global and regional data assimilation systems |
Action Items from ITSC-20
Moderators: Mitch Goldberg and Niels Bormann
14:40-14:50 CGMS report (Mitch Goldberg)
14:50-15.30 Working group action items from ITSC-20 (10 minutes)
- NWP (Fiona Smith and Andrew Collard)
- Radiative transfer and surface properties (Marco Matricardi and Benjamin Johnson)
- Advanced Sounders (Dieter Klaes and Bill Smith)
15:30-16.00 BREAK
16:00-16:40 Working group action items from ITSC-20 (10 minutes)
- Products and Software (Nigel Atkinson and Liam Gumley)
- Climate (Nathalie Selbach and Cheng-Zhi Zou)
- International and Future Systems (Stephen English and Peng Zhang)
16:40-17:05 Special topics (10 minutes each)
- World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) items of interest to ITSC (Richard Kelley)
- DBNet implementation status and planning (Mikael Rattenborg)
17:05-17:15 Technical sub-group reports (5 minutes each)
- Direct broadcast packages (Liam Gumley)
17:30-18:30 Technical Sub-Group Meetings
- RTTOV (James Hocking)
- CRTM (Benjamin Johnson)
- RARS/DBNet and direct broadcast packages (Liam Gumley and Mikael Rattenborg)
18:45-20:45 GAIA-CLIM workshop on satellite validation with NWP
Friday 1 December 2017
| 8:30-9:45 Session 8a: Hyperspectral IR (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Nigel Atkinson and Thomas August | ||
| 8.01 | Tim Hultberg | A global-local hybrid approach to retain new signals in hyperspectral PC products |
| 8.02 | Hank Revercomb | Correction to Remove the Residual Responsivity Dependence of Spectral Instrument-Line-Shapes for Fourier Transform Spectrometers |
| 8.03 | Yong Chen | Reprocessing of Suomi NPP CrIS SDR and Impacts on Radiometric and Spectral Long-term Accuracy and Stability |
| 8.04 | Dorothee Coppens | MTG-IRS L1 processing overview and performances |
| 8.05 | Carmine Serio | Determination of the experimental error of high spectral resolution infrared observations from spectral residuals: application to IASI |
10:15-10:45 BREAK and poster viewing 8b
| 10:45-12:15 Session 9a: Hyperspectral IR assimilation (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Fiona Smith and Louis Garand | ||
| 9.01 | Vincent Guidard | What is the impact of IASI in global NWP? |
| 9.02 | Norio Kamekawa | Assimilation of Suomi-NPP/CrIS radiances into the JMA’s global NWP system (paper) |
| 9.03 | Marco Matricardi | The use of reconstructed radiances to assimilate the full IASI spectrum at ECMWF |
| 9.04 | Jun Li | Impact of assimilating the VIIRS-based CrIS cloud-cleared radiances on hurricane forecasts |
| 9.05 | Kirsti Salonen | Impact of hyperspectral IR radiances on wind analyses |
| 9.06 | David Santek | Feature-tracked 3D winds from hyperspectral infrared sounders: Status and requirements for future missions |
12:35-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:00 Poster viewing 9b
| 14:00-14:45 Session 10a: Land surface studies (Oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Eva Borbas and Ben Ruston | ||
| 10.01 | Reima Eresmaa | Assimilation of tropospheric-sensitive infrared radiances over land |
| 10.02 | Virginie Capelle | Impact of dust aerosols on the retrieval of IR land surface emissivity spectrum: a new simultaneous approach accounting for dust characteristics and surface temperature from IASI |
| 10.03 | Rory Gray | A Dynamic Infrared Land Surface Emissivity Atlas based on IASI Retrievals |
15:10-16:00 BREAK and poster viewing for 5b, 6b, 7b, 8b, 9b, 10b
| 16:00-17:00 Session 11a: Retrieval products (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Bomin Sun and Kathleen Strabala | ||
| 11.01 | Thomas August | The EUMETSAT operational IASI L2 products and services, from Global to Regional |
| 11.02 | Lihang Zhou (for Antonia Gambacorta) | Status of the NPP and J1 NOAA Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System (NUCAPS) for atmospheric thermal sounding: recent algorithm enhancements and near real time users applications (paper) |
| 11.03 | Sergio DeSouza-Machado | Single Footprint All-Sky Retrievals using a Fast, Accurate TwoSlab Cloud Representation |
| 11.04 | William Smith Sr. | Combining Polar Hyper-spectral and Geostationary Multi-spectral Sounding Data – A Method to Optimize Sounding Spatial and Temporal Resolution (paper) |
| 17:00-17:20 Session 11b: Retrieval products and applications (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Bomin Sun and Kathleen Strabala | ||
| 11p.01 | Quanhua (Mark) Liu | Overview of JPSS-1 and Suomi NPP ATMS SDR and EDR Products |
| 11p.02 | A. K. Sharma | Exploitation of Hyperspectral Sounder and Microwaves sounder Data Products generated at NOAA/NESDIS |
| 11p.03 | F. Di Paola | Retrieval of Temperature and Water Vapor vertical profile from ATMS Measurements with Random Forests technique |
| 11p.04 | M. Crapeau | Experimenting different a priori sources for optimal estimation retrievals with IASI |
| 11p.05 | Bill Smith (for Elisabeth Weisz) | Hyper-Spectral Sounder Derived Severe Weather Indices (paper) |
| 11p.06 | Nai-Yu Wang | Combining Imager and Lightning For Enhanced GOES-R Rain Estimates in the NWS Pacific Region |
| 11p.07 | Eva Borbas | The Suomi-NPP VIIRS Total Precipitable Water Product |
| 11p.08 | Junhyung Heo | Application of Cumulative Probability Distribution Function to Compositing Precipitable Water with Low Earth Orbit satellite data |
| 11p.09 | Withdrawn | |
| 11p.10 | Wei Dong | Structure Analysis of Heavy Precipitation Over the Eastern Slope of the Tibet Plateau Based on TRMM Data |
| 11p.11 | Elisabetta Ricciardelli | Analysis of heavy rainfall events occurred in Italy by using Microwave and Infrared Technique |
17:20-17:50 Poster viewing 11b
Saturday 2 December 2017
| 8.30-12.30 | Working Groups (Break at 10:15-10:45) Advanced Sounders (Dieter Klaes and Bill Smith) Climate (Nathalie Selbach and Cheng-Zhi Zou) Radiative transfer and surface properties (Marco Matricardi and Benjamin Johnson) |
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Sunday 1 November 2015
| 8.30-12.30 | Working Groups (Break at 10:15-10:45) NWP (Fiona Smith and Andrew Collard) Products and software (Nigel Atkinson and Liam Gumley) International (Stephen English and Peng Zhang) |
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Monday 4 December 2017
| 08:30-9:45 Session 12a: Assimilation studies (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Vincent Guidard and Brett Candy | ||
| 12.01 | John Eyre | The effect of NWP model bias on radiance bias correction schemes |
| 12.02 | Wei Han | Constrained variational bias correction for satellite radiances assimilation |
| 12.03 | Benjamin Ruston | Radiance Bias Correction from an Alternative Analysis |
| 12.04 | Erin Jones | Benefits of Using a Variational Preprocessing Approach for the Assimilation of Satellite Radiances: An Application to Data Assimilation in Environmental Data Fusion |
| 12.05 | Sid Boukabara | Exploring Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) for NWP and Situational Awareness Applications. Application to Remote Sensing and Data Assimilation/Fusion |
10:15-10:45 BREAK and poster viewing 12b
| 10:45-11:30 Session 13a: Sounding science and validation (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Sid Boukabara and Tim Hewison | ||
| 13.01 | Tony Reale | Satellite Sounding Product Characteristic Performance and Impact of Satellite Overpass Time |
| 13.02 | Alexander Polyakov | Studies using spectral measurements of satellite atmospheric FTIR sounder IRFS-2 |
| 13.03 | Bjorn Lambrigtsen | Sounding Science at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| 11:30-11:35 Session 13b: Retrieved products and validation (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Sid Boukabara and Tim Hewison | ||
| 13p.01 | Withdrawn | |
| 13p.02 | Alexander Polyakov | Validation of temperature sounding of the atmosphere from a board of «Меteor-М» No 2 satellite (IRFS-2 device) |
| 13p.03 | Sanjeev Singh | Identifying downburst events using INSAT-3D satellite system |
| 11:35-12:15 Session 14: Space agency reports (Space agency poster introductions – 5 minutes: 2 slides) Chairs: John Eyre and Alexander Uspensky | ||
| 14p.01 | Peng Zhang | Updates on CMA Meteorological Satellite Programs |
| 14p.02 | Dieter Klaes | An update on EUMETSAT Programmes and Plans (poster) |
| 14p.03 | Mitch Goldberg | NOAA Report |
| 14p.04 | Kozo Okamoto | Status report of space agency: JMA and JAXA (poster) |
| 14p.05 | Alexander Uspensky | Russian Meteorological Satellite Programs |
12:15-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:00 Poster viewing 13b, 14
| 14:00-15:30 Session 15a: Future observations (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Dorothee Coppens and Fuzhong Weng | ||
| 15.01 | Cyril Crevoisier | IASI-New generation: scientific objectives and foreseen validation |
| 15.02 | Likun Wang | A Study on the Benefits of Spatial Resolution for Next Generation Infrared Hyperspectral Sounder Instruments |
| 15.03 | Agnes Lim | Impact Analysis of LEO Hyperspectral Sensor IFOV size on the next generation high-resolution NWP model forecast performance |
| 15.04 | Will McCarty | An OSSE Investigating a Constellation of 4-5 μm Infrared Sounders |
| 15.05 | Ralf Bennartz | The TROPICS mission’s sounding capabilities |
| 15.06 | Fuzhong Weng | Future Opportunities of Using Microwave Data from Small Satellites |
| 15:30-15:50 Session 14b: Future observations (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Dorothee Coppens and Fuzhong Weng | ||
| 15p.01 | Francisco Bermudo | IASI-NG Program: General Status Overview |
| 15p.02 | Adrien Deschamps | Overview of the IASI-NG Level 1 Processing |
| 15p.03 | Flavia Lenti | Introduction to the IASI-NG principal components and L2 operational processor |
| 15p.04 | Francesca Vittorioso | Preparing the assimilation of IASI-NG in NWP models: a first channel selection (paper) |
| 15p.05 | Cédric Goukenleuque | Preparing test data for the IRS Level 2 processor |
| 15p.06 | Zhenglong Li | Value-added Impact from Geostationary Hyperspectral Infrared Sounder on high impact weather forecasting – demonstration with quick regional OSSE |
| 15p.07 | Zhenglong Li | Using CIRAS and MicroMAS-2 to mitigate the data gap of CrIS and ATMS |
| 15p.08 | Nigel Atkinson | Level 1 processing for the Microwave Sounder on Metop-SG |
| 15p.09 | Fiona Smith | Evaluation of Laser Heterodyne Radiometry (LHR) for Numerical Weather Prediction Applications |
15:50-16:50 BREAK and poster session 10b, 11b, 12b, 13b, 14, 15b
17:50-17:30 Working groups finalise reports
Tuesday 5 December 2017
9:00-10:15 Session 15: Working Group Reports (15 minutes)
Co-chairs: Mitch Goldberg and Niels Bormann
- Advanced Sounders (Dieter Klaes and Bill Smith)
- Climate (Nathalie Selbach and Cheng-Zhi Zou)
- NWP (Andrew Collard and Fiona Smith)
10:15-10:45 BREAK
10:45-12:00 Session 15: Working Group Reports (15 minutes)
Co-chairs: Mitch Goldberg and Niels Bormann
- RT (Marco Matricardi and Benjamin Johnson)
- International and Future Systems (Peng Zhang and Stephen English)
- Products and Software (Liam Gumley and Nigel Atkinson)
12:00-12:30 Session 16: Technical Sub-Group Reports (5 minutes)
Co-chairs: Mitch Goldberg and Niels Bormann
- Direct broadcast packages/DBNet (Liam Gumley and Mikael Rattenborg)
- RTTOV and CRTM (James Hocking)