ITSC-22 Program
Thursday 31 October 2019
| 8:30-9:00 | Welcome | Liam Gumley, Vincent Guidard (ITWG Co-chairs) |
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| Welcome by ECCC | Louis Garand | |
| Local Arrangements | Louis Garand, Liam Gumley | |
| Review of agenda | Liam Gumley, Vincent Guidard (ITWG Co-chairs) |
| 9:00-10:00 Session 1: Direct readout (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Pascale Roquet, David Tobin | ||
| 1.01 | Nigel Atkinson Met Office | 20 years of the NWP SAF |
| 1.02 | Pascal Brunel (for Mikael Rattenborg) Meteo France | Status of the Direct Broadcast Network for globally coordinated real-time acquisition, processing and fast delivery of satellite direct readout data, an initiative of the World Meteorological Organisation |
| 1.03 | Liam Gumley UW-Madison/SSEC/CIMSS | The DBNet Cloud Service for providing low-latency sounder data to NWP centers |
| 1.04 | Kathleen Strabala UW-Madison/SSEC/CIMSS | The Utility of CSPP Atmospheric Sounding Products |
10:15-10:45 Health Break
| 10:45-12:15Session 1: Radiative Transfer and Community Software (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Kathleen Strabala and Nigel Atkinson | ||
| 1.05 | Benjamin Johnson UCAR/JCSDA | Recent Advances in the Community Radiative Transfer Model |
| 1.06 | James Hocking Met Office | RTTOV development status |
| 1.07 | Lise Kilic Paris Observatory | Comparisons of ocean radiative transfer models with satellite observations from 1.4 to 89 GHz |
| 1.08 | Ming Chen CICS-ESSIC, University of Maryland | Advances of the Community Surface Emissivity Models (CSEM) in Support of NWP Data Assimilation |
| 1.09 | Raymond Armante LMD/CNRS | How it could be possible to evaluate the spectroscopic parameters: the example of the new release of GEISA-2019 |
| 1.10 | Zhenglong Li UW-Madison/SSEC/CIMSS | An alternative method to quantify NLTE radiances |
| 12:15-12:30 Session 1: Radiative Transfer and Community Software (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aid) Chair-persons: Kathleen Strabala and Nigel Atkinson | ||
| 1p.10 | Xavier Calbet AEMET | Effects of Field of View Inhomegeneities in Radiative Transfer |
| 1p.11 | Nicholas Nalli IMSG Inc. at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR | CRTM Infrared Sea Surface Effective-Emissivity (IRSSE) Model Upgrade Status |
| 1p.12 | Cristina Lupu ECMWF | Evaluation of the RTTOV in the ECMWF NWP system |
| 1p.13 | Pascal Brunel (for Jérôme Vidot) Météo-France | RTTOV for hyperspectral far infrared (FIR) instruments : the FORUM example |
| 1p.14 | Philippe Chambon Météo-France | Development of an active sensor module for the RTTOV-SCATT radiative transfer simulator |
| 1p.15 | Benjamin Johnson (for Patrick Stegmann) UCAR/JCSDA | Progress towards a Polarized CRTM |
| 1p.16 | Raymond Armante LMD/CNRS | The 4A/OP model from NIR to TIR: new developments and validation results within the frame of international space missions |
| 1p.17 | Raymond Armante LMD/CNRS | Status of the new GEISA-2019 spectroscopic database |
| 1p.18 | Hu (Tiger) Yang University of Maryland | Comparison of Two Data Resampling Algorithms for Processing of Microwave Sounding Observations |
| 1p.19 | Eric Simon UCAR/NRL-Monterey | Automated Identification of Anomalous SSMIS Brightness Temperatures Using a Neural Network |
12:30-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:00 Poster viewing (Sessions 1, 2, 3)
| 14:00-15:20 Session 2: Calibration, validation (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Dorothée Coppens, Raymond Armante | ||
| 2.01 | Laura Le Barbier CNES | IASI on-board METOP-C : instrument status L1 calibration/validation results |
| 2.02 | Dorothée Coppens (for Stéphanie Guedj) EUMETSAT | EUMETSAT activities for IASI-C commissioning |
| 2.03 | David Tobin UW-Madison/SSEC/CIMSS | Studies of the CrIS Noise and Calibration Covariances |
| 2.04 | Chengli Qi (for Chunqiang Wu) NSMC/CMA | FY-3D HIRAS Radiometric Calibration and Accuracy Assessment |
| 2.05 | Martin J. Burgdorf Universität Hamburg | Checking Beam Performance of HIRS and MHS With the Moon |
| 15:20-15:30Session 2: Calibration, validation (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aid) Chair-persons: Dorothée Coppens, Raymond Armante | ||
| 2p.01 | Chengli Qi NSMC/CMA | HIRAS on-orbit performance and future development |
| 2p.02 | Jordi Chinaud CNES | Radiometric and spectral intercomparison of IASI-C with other infrared sounders |
| 2p.03 | Yong Chen GST, Inc., NOAA/STAR | Latest Improvements for CrIS Sensor Data Records |
| 2p.04 | Joe K. Taylor UW-Madison/SSEC | Implementation of a Polarization Correction for the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) Sensor |
| 2p.05 | Junye Chen GST | Progress of the Metop-C AMSU-A Lunar Contamination Correction Algorithm at NOAA/STAR |
| 2p.06 | Gu Songyan NSMC/CMA | The common re-calibration technology for long-term FY-3 microwave sounding data |
| 2p.07 | Yong Chen (for Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez) GST, Inc., NOAA/STAR | Status of S-NPP/CrIS SDR Product After the Loss of the MWIR Band |
15:30 Group photo
15:45-16:15 Health break
| 16:15-16:45 Session 2: Calibration, validation (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Nathalie Selbach, Andrew Collard | ||
| 2.06 | Chris Burrows ECMWF | An assessment of data from the GIIRS instrument |
| 2.07 | Peng Zhang NSMC/CMA | Retrospective Calibration of Historical Chinese Fengyun Satellite Data |
| 16:45-16:50 Session 2: Calibration, validation (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aid) Chair-persons: Nathalie Selbach, Andrew Collard | ||
| 2p.08 | Lihang Zhou NOAA/NESDIS/STAR | NOAA-20 Calibration/Validation and algorithms improvements |
| 2p.09 | David Duncan ECMWF | Evaluation of using measured SRFs in the radiative transfer for microwave sounders at ECMWF, UK Met Office, and DWD |
| 2p.10 | Yong Chen (for Denis Tremblay) GST, Inc., NOAA/STAR | NOAA-20 CrIS Noise Assessment |
| 2p.11 | withdrawn | |
| 2p.12 | Bomin Sun IMSG at NOAA/STAR | NOAA-JPSS dedicated radiosonde database in support of satellite data calibration/validation |
| 2p.13 | Ling Sun NSMC/CMA | Long-term assessment and recalibration of FY-1/3 VIRR and MERSI reflective solar bands |
17:45 Icebreaker
Friday 1 November 2019
| 08:30-9:30 Session 4: Assimilation of geostationary infrared sensors (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Fiona Smith, Philippe Chambon | ||
| 4.01 | Haixia Liu IMSG @ NOAA/NCEP/EMC | Assimilation of Infrared Radiances from Geostationary Satellites at NCEP |
| 4.02 | withdrawn | |
| 4.03 | Marc Pondrom DWD | Assimilation of geostationary water vapour clear sky radiances with an Ensemble Kalman Filter |
| 4.04 | Nancy Baker NRL Marine Meteorology Division | All-Sky Radiance Assimilation for COAMPS-TC Tropical Cyclone Track and Intensity Prediction |
| 9:30-9:35 Session 4: Assimilation of geostationary infrared sensors (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aid) Chair-persons: Fiona Smith, Philippe Chambon | ||
| 4p.01 | Nadia Fourrié CNRM Météo-France and CNRS | Towards the use of a bayesian approach for the assimilation of all-sky IASI radiances |
| 4p.02 | Nancy L. Baker NRL Marine Meteorology Division | All-Sky Radiance Assimilation for COAMPS-TC Tropical Cyclone Track and Intensity Prediction |
| 4p.03 | Ebony Lee Ewha Womans University | Assimilation of cloud-contaminated radiances in regional air quality model: a case study using GEMS synthetic radiance data |
| 09:35-10:20 Session 4: All-sky Assimilation of geostationary infrared sensors (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Fiona Smith, Philippe Chambon | ||
| 4.05 | Kozo Okamoto JMA/MRI | Evaluation and assimilation of all-sky infrared radiances of Himawari-8 in the regional and global data assimilation system |
| 4.06 | Jonathan Guerrette NCAR, MMM | Evaluating the impact of assimilating cloud-affected infrared radiances from GOES-16 ABI on the forecast of a severe storm in the Midwest U.S. |
| 4.07 | Zhiquan Liu NCAR | 4D variational and ensemble/variational assimilation of every 10-min AHI clear-sky and all-sky radiances at convective-scale |
10:20-10:50 Health break
Action Items from ITSC-21
Moderators: Liam Gumley and Vincent Guidard
10:50-11:05 CGMS and IRC reports
11:05-12:30 Working group action items from ITSC-21 (15 minutes)
- NWP (Fiona Smith and Andrew Collard)
- Radiative transfer and surface properties (Marco Matricardi and Benjamin Johnson)
- Advanced Sounders (Dorothee Coppens and Dave Tobin)
- Products and Software (Nigel Atkinson and Graeme Martin)
- Climate (Cheng-Zhi Zou and Nathalie Selbach)
- International and Future systems (Steve English and Peng Zhang)
12:30-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:00 Poster viewing (Sessions 4, 5, 6)
| 14:00-15:00 Session 5: All-sky assimilation for microwave sensors (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Nadia Fourrié and Peng Zhang | ||
| 5.01 | Brett Candy Met Office | Towards all-sky MHS: Observation Preprocessing and NWP Suite Design |
| 5.02 | Philippe Chambon Météo-France | Assimilating cloudy and rainy microwave observations within the ARPEGE global model |
| 5.03 | Katrin Lonitz ECMWF | All-sky assimilation over land for surface sensitive microwave channels |
| 5.04 | Yanqiu Zhu IMSG @ NOAA/NCEP/EMC | Studies of all-sky radiance assimilation at NCEP |
15:15-15.45 Health break
| 15:45-16:15 Communication from sibling working groups (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Vincent Guidard, Liam Gumley | ||
| a.01 | Philippe Chambon Météo-France | Research Highlights from the International Precipitation Working Group (IPWG) |
| a.02 | Benjamin Ruston NRL | Report on 3rd International Surface Working Group (ISWG) |
| a.03 | Benjamin Johnson UCAR/JCSDA | Report on the International Cloud Working Group |
| 16:15-17:00 Session 6: Climate (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Christina Köpken-Watts, Fabien Carminati | ||
| 6.01 | Cyril Crevoisier LMD/CNRS | Establishing times series of essential climate variables from 3 successive Metop/IASI |
| 6.02 | Cheng-Zhi Zou NOAA College Park | Toward Improved Climate Data Record Using Stable SNPP/ATMS Observations as References |
| 6.03 | Christoforos Tsamalis Met Office Hadley Centre | Validation of the 183 GHz C3S/EUMETSAT FCDR using ERA5 simulations, SNOs and operational datasets |
| 17:00-17:15 Session 6: Climate (poster introductions – 1 minute – no visual aid) Chair-persons: Christina Köpken-Watts, Fabien Carminati | ||
| 6p.01 | Cyril Crevoisier (for Virginie Capelle) LMD/CNRS | Stand alone night-time sea surface temperature retrieved by the IASI/Metop suite: Toward long time series |
| 6p.02 | Cyril Crevoisier (for Virginie Capelle) LMD/CNRS | A long time series of Metop/IASI observations of Saharan aerosols distribution using AOD-Altitude-Surface temperature triplets |
| 6p.03 | Daniel K. Zhou NASA | Surface skin temperature and its trend from recent 12-year IASI observations |
| 6p.04 | Bruna Barbosa Silveira (for Jérôme Vidot) CNRM/Météo-France | RTTOV for a C3S project on early satellite data rescue |
| 6p.05 | Nathalie Selbach DWD | Climate Data Records and user service of the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring |
| 6p.06 | Nathalie Selbach (for Karsten Fennig) DWD | The EUMETSAT CM SAF Fundamental Climate Data Record of Microwave Imager Radiances |
| 6p.07 | Nathalie Selbach (for Hannes Konrad) DWD | Towards a climate data record of precipitation merging satellite observations by passive microwave sounders and imagers |
| 6p.08 | Nathalie Selbach (for Marc Schröder) DWD | The GEWEX water vapor assessment (G-VAP): final results from first phase and the future of G-VAP |
| 6p.09 | Mitch Goldberg NOAA | The Value of Two Satellites in the Same Orbit for Nowcasting and Climate Monitoring |
| 6p.10 | Dirceu L. Herdies CPTEC/INPE | The increase in the impact of the observations in a multi-year Reanalysis on the tropical region with emphasis on the Amazon basin |
| 6p.11 | Lei Shi NCEI, NOAA | Satellite-Derived Upper Tropospheric Humidity Datasets and Comparison with Total Column Water Vapor |
| 6p.12 | Viju John EUMETSAT | EUMETSAT’s Contribution of Fundamental Climate Data Records (FCDR) to Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) |
| 17:15-18:00 Session 6: Reanalysis (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Christina Köpken-Watts, Fabien Carminati | ||
| 6.05 | Bill Bell ECMWF | The Assimilation of Radiance Data in the ERA5 Global Reanalysis |
| 6.06 | S. Indira Rani NCMRWF | Satellite era retrospective analysis over the Indian region |
| 6.07 | Ricardo Todling NASA/GMAO | Assessing the impact of observations in a multi-year Reanalysis |
18:30 – 20:30 GSICS Workshop
Saturday 2 November 2019
| 9.00-12.30 | Working group meetings (10:15-10:45 Health break) Advanced Sounders Climate Radiative transfer and surface properties |
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| 12.30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-17:00 | Working group meetings (15:15-15:45 Health break) NWP Products and Software International and Future Systems |
| 17:00-18:00 | Technical sub-group meeting RTTOV/CRTM |
Sunday 3 November 2019
Day Free
Monday 4 November 2019
| 8:30-10:00 Session 7: Assimilation of new hyperspectral infrared instruments (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Keyi Chen, Chris Burrows | ||
| 7.01 | Ruoying Yin (for Wei Han) IAP | Assimilation of high temporal GIIRS radiance in GRAPES |
| 7.02 | Chris Barnet Science and Tech. Corp. | Information content of the CrIS instrument and recent data denial experiments relevant to operational use of sounder data |
| 7.03 | Fabien Carminati Met Office | Implementation and assessment of FY-3D Hyperspectral Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (HIRAS) in the Met Office system |
| 7.04 | Reima Eresmaa ECMWF | New IR sounders in the ECMWF NWP system |
| 7.05 | Dmitry Gayfulin Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia | Assessment and assimilation of observations of the hyperspectral IR sounder IKFS-2 on board the Russian Meteor-M N2 satellite |
| 7.06 | Ruoying Yin IAP | The evaluation of GIIRS longwave temperature sounding channels using 4DVar |
| 10:00-10:15Session 7: Assimilation of new hyperspectral infrared instruments (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aid) Chair-persons: Keyi Chen, Chris Burrows | ||
| 7p.01 | Kirsti Salonen ECMWF | Impact assessment of IASI temperature and humidity retrievals in the ECMWF system |
| 7p.02 | Sylvain Heilliette ECCC | Evaluation of the performance of CrIS instrument under various assimilation scenarios |
| 7p.03 | Silke May DWD | Operational use of inter-channel correlations for IASI in the DWD EnVar and investigation into the use of Reconstructed Radiances |
| 7p.04 | Reima Eresmaa ECMWF | Detection of aerosol- and trace-gas-affected IR radiances at ECMWF |
| 7p.05 | James Jung UW-Madison/SSEC/CIMSS | Quantifying the effects of the CrIS-FSR Radiance Polarization Corrections using the NCEP Global Data Assimilation System |
10:15-10:45 Health break
| 10:45-11:15Session 8: Space agency posters (poster introductions – 5 minutes – 2 slides) Chair-persons: Vincent Guidard, Liam Gumley | ||
| 8p.01 | Kozo Okamoto JMA/MRI | Status report of space agency: JMA and JAXA (poster) |
| 8p.02 | Dieter Klaes EUMETSAT | The Current EUMETSAT Polar System (poster) |
| 8p.03 | Karen St. Germain (for Mitch Goldberg) NOAA | NOAA Agency Report |
| 8p.04 | Peng Zhang NSMC/CMA | CMA |
| 8p.05 | Dmitry Gayfulin Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia | Russian Meteorological Satellite Programs |
| 8p.06 | Chu-Yong Chung KMA | KMA Agency Report |
| 11:15-12:30 Session 9: Advances in the assimilation of infrared sensors (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Nadia Smith, Brett Candy | ||
| 9.01 | Erin Jones UMD CISESS | Assimilation of Hyperspectral Infrared Shortwave CrIS Observations in the NOAA Global Data Assimilation System |
| 9.02 | Kirsti Salonen ECMWF | Enhancing the hyperspectral infrared radiance assimilation in the ECMWF system |
| 9.03 | Olivier Coopmann CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS | 4D-Var assimilation of IASI ozone-sensitive radiances in operational global model ARPEGE |
| 9.04 | Christina Köpken-Watts (for Liselotte Bach) DWD | Assimilating solar satellite channels in a convective-scale LETKF |
| 9.05 | Bryan M. Karpowicz GESTAR/USRA/NASA GMAO | Improvements to Ozone Analyses using Hyperspectral Sounders in the 9.6um Band |
12:30-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:00 Poster viewing (Sessions 7, 8, 10, 11, 12)
| 14:00-15:00 Session 10: Retrievals (Oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Kirsti Salonen, Dieter Klaes | ||
| 10.01 | Thomas August EUMETSAT | Status of regional IASI L2 products at EUMETSAT and studies in view of MTG-IRS |
| 10.02 | Bjorn Lambrigtsen Jet Propulsion Laboratory | The New NASA Multi-mission Microwave Sounder Retrieval System |
| 10.03 | Nadia Smith Science and Tech. Corp. | Continuity in Sounding Products from Multiple Platforms examples from CLIMCAPS and NUCAPS |
| 10.04 | Yoann Tellier CNRS, LMD | Retrieval of the radiative flux and atmospheric vertical heating rate profiles in the thermal infrared with the IASI instruments onboard the Metop platforms |
| 15:00-15:15 Session 10: Retrievals (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aid) Chair-persons: Kirsti Salonen, Dieter Klaes | ||
| 10p.01 | Hee-Jung Kang NMSC/KMA | Atmospheric profile retrieval using rapid scan observation of Geo-KOMPSAT-2A Satellite |
| 10p.02 | Thomas August EUMETSAT | First results from the Metop-C IASI Level 2 cal/val |
| 10p.03 | Thomas August EUMETSAT | An adaptative OEM retrieval for IASI |
| 10p.04 | Geoff Cureton UW-Madison/SSEC/CIMSS | Near Real Time Active Fires and GAASP Level-2 Products Via Direct Broadcast Using the Community Satellite Processing Package |
| 10p.05 | Hyun-Sung Jang NASA LaRC | Comparison of PCRTM-derived CrIS retrievals of temperature, water vapor, and trace gases (O3, CO, CH4, and N2O) with in-situ measurements |
| 10p.06 | withdrawn | |
| 10p.07 | Awdhesh K. Sharma NOAA | Sounding Data Products generated at NOAA/NESDIS Using High Spectral Resolution Infrared and Advanced Microwave Sounders (CrIS/ATMS) |
| 10p.08 | Nadia Smith (for Rebekah Esmaili) Science and Tech. Corp. | Expanding the capability of real-time temperature, humidity, and trace gas retrieval products in field campaigns |
| 10p.09 | Zied Sassi CNRM/Météo-France and CNRS | Towards A Further Use Of Satellite Observations For A Better Definition Of Surface Temperature |
| 10p.10 | Dorothée Coppens (for Mayté Vasquez) EUMETSAT | IASI L1 and L2 reprocessing status at EUMETSAT |
| 10p.11 | David Duncan ECMWF | An experimental 2DVAR retrieval using AMSR2 |
15:15-15:45 Health break
| 15:45-16:30 Session 11: Validation (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Thomas August, Benjamin Ruston | ||
| 11.01 | Maria Toporov University of Cologne | Combining satellite- with ground-based measurements for near-real-time monitoring of atmospheric stability, atmospheric water vapor and liquid water |
| 11.02 | Michelle Feltz UW-Madison/SSEC | Investigating the Comparisons of Hyperspectral IR Sounders, Radio Occultation, and Radiosondes in Radiance Space |
| 11.03 | Fabien Carminati Met Office | Characterisation of NWP Model Biases and Uncertainties in the MW and IR Spectral Domains |
| 16:45-17:30 Session 12: Satellite data impact in NWP (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Cristina Lupu, Cyril Crevoisier | ||
| 12.01 | Niels Bormann ECMWF | Global observing system experiments in the ECMWF assimilation system |
| 12.02 | Buddhi Prakash Jangid NCMRWF | Impact of Hyperspectral Radiances in 4D-VAR data assimilation system |
| 12.03 | Bruna Barbosa Silveira CNRM/Météo-France | Assessment of assimilating Metop combined retrieval L2 product in AROME-France |
Tuesday 5 November 2019
| 08:30-10:00 Session 13: Advances in satellite data assimilation (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Heather Lawrence, Kozo Okamoto | ||
| 13.01 | Maziar Bani Shahabadi ECCC | Implementation of slant-path radiative transfer in Environment Canada’s Global Deterministic Weather Prediction system |
| 13.02 | Hyo-Jong Song KIAPS | Impact of the mid-loop for satellite radiance on a hybrid data assimilation skill |
| 13.03 | Ruth B. E. Taylor Met Office | Observation selection for variational bias correction |
| 13.04 | Kristen Bathmann IMSG @ NOAA/NCEP/EMC | Surface Dependent Correlated Infrared Observation Errors in the FV3 Framework |
| 13.05 | Joël Bédard ECCC | Understanding the link between satellite radiance thinning and observation error variance inflation in global 4D-EnVar |
| 13.06 | Cristina Lupu ECMWF | Surface skin temperature for satellite data assimilation at ECMWF |
| 10:00-10:15 Session 13: Advances in satellite data assimilation (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chair-persons: Heather Lawrence, Kozo Okamoto | ||
| 13p.01 | Kwangjae Sung KIAPS | Local Unscented Transform Kalman Filter for Highly Nonlinear System |
| 13p.02 | Jeon-Ho Kang KIAPS | Impact of SSMIS BC method considering background-error in KIAPS DA system |
| 13p.03 | withdrawn | |
| 13p.04 | In-Hyuk Kwon KIAPS | Evaluation of Variational Bias correction using an iterative bias correction against analysis |
| 13p.05 | withdrawn | |
| 13p.06 | Marco Matricardi ECMWF | The assimilation of the IASI full spectrum using reconstructed radiances |
| 13p.07 | Agnes Lim UW-Madison/SSEC/CIMSS | Quantifying the Sensitivity of NCEPs s GDAS/GFS to CrIS Detector Differences |
| 13p.08 | withdrawn | |
10:15-10:45 Health break
| 10:45-12:30 Session 14: Preparation for new hyperspectral instruments (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Karen St. Germain, Niels Bormann | ||
| 14.01 | Dorothée Coppens EUMETSAT | MTG-IRS: scientific improvements for a user-friendly mission |
| 14.02 | Francisco Bermudo CNES | IASI-NG Program: General Status Overview |
| 14.03 | Adrien Deschamps CNES | IASI-NG L1 processing: how to estimate the instrument response function in real-time? |
| 14.04 | Eric Jurado, Clemence Le Fevre CNES | Development and Verification challenges of the IASI-NG system |
| 14.05 | Francesca Vittorioso CNRM, Météo-France, CNRS | Evaluation of a first IASI-NG channel selection for Numerical Weather Prediction |
| 14.06 | Lucie Leonarski Université de Lille – LOA | Ice cloud properties, an information content analysis from high spectral resolution measurements in the thermal infrared: Application to IASI and IAS-NG |
| 14.07 | Karen St. Germain NOAA/NESDIS | Accelerating Toward NOAA’s Next-Generation Observing Architecture |
12:30-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:00 Poster viewing (Sessions 13, 14, 15, 16)
| 14:00-14:45 Session 15: Polar regions (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Erin Jones, Reima Eresmaa | ||
| 15.01 | Heather Lawrence ECMWF | Arctic Observing System Experiments at ECMWF for the APPLICATE project |
| 15.02 | Zheng Qi Wang (for Roger Randriamampianina) Norwegian Meteorological Institute | Impact of observations on the AROME-Arctic regional model |
| 15.03 | Louis Garand ECCC | Continuous observation of high latitudes from space: a review of medium Earth orbit (MEO) and highly elliptical orbit (HEO) options |
| 14:45-14:50 Session 15: Polar regions (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aid) Chair-persons: Erin Jones, Reima Eresmaa | ||
| 15p.01 | Zheng Qi Wang Norwegian Meteorological Institute | PRECISE: Production of a regional Reanalysis for Europe within the Copernicus climate change Services |
| 15p.02 | Zheng Qi Wang (for Harald Schyberg) Norwegian Meteorological Institute | The Arctic Regional Reanalysis of the Copernicus Climate Change Service |
| 15p.03 | Stéphane Laroche ECCC | Impact of Terrestrial and Satellite Observations over the Polar Regions on the ECCC Global Weather Forecasts during the YOPP Special Observing Periods |
| 14:50-15:20 International (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Vincent Guidard, Liam Gumley | ||
| b.01 | Stephen English ECMWF | Communicating the value of passive bands used by TOVS-heritage microwave instruments in the context of radio frequency interference and spectrum allocation |
| b.02 | Richard Kelley Alion Science for DOC/NOAA/NESDIS | Update to World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 and WRC-23 items of interest |
15:20-15:50 Health break
| 15:50-16:05 International (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Vincent Guidard, Liam Gumley | ||
| b.03 | Heikki Pohjola WMO | WMO Space Programme Update |
| 16:05-16:50 Session 16: Future missions (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chair-persons: Bill Bell, Stephen English | ||
| 16.01 | William Smith Sr. UW-Madison/SSEC/CIMSS | Combined Polar Hyper-spectral and Geo-multispectral Data – Demonstration of the Need for Geo-Hyper-spectral Sounder |
| 16.02 | Joe K. Taylor (for Hank Revercomb) UW-Madison/SSEC | Hyperspectral Imaging Infrared Sounding from geostationary orbit |
| 16.03 | moved to 14.07 | |
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| 16p.01 | Dieter Klaes EUMETSAT | EUMETSAT Plans (poster) |
16:50-17:30 Working groups finalise reports
18:00 Banquet
and presentation of prizes for best oral and poster presentations
Oral Presentations
Gold: Joël Bédard (Environment Canada) for Understanding the link between satellite radiance thinning and observation error variance inflation in global 4D-EnVar (13.05)
Silver: Philippe Chambon (Météo-France) for Assimilating cloudy and rainy microwave observations within the ARPEGE model (5.02)
Bronze: Zhenglong Li (UW-Madison/SSEC/CIMSS) for An alternative method to quantify NLTE radiances (1.10)
Poster Presentations
Gold: Victoria Galligani (CIMA-CONICET) for Microphysical properties of ice particles as revealed by satellite microwave polarimetric measurements and radiative transfer modeling (5p.08)
Silver: Eric Simon (UCAR / NRL-Monterey) for Automated Identification of Anomalous SSMIS Brightness Temperatures Using a Neural Network (1p.19)
Bronze: Pascale Roquet (Météo-France) for Porting the OPS AVHRR clusters algorithm to VIIRS in CrIS footprint (1p.06)