International TOVS Working Group

ITSC-23 Program

Thursday 24 June 2021

12:15Virtual Meeting opens 
 12:30WelcomeLiam Gumley, Vincent Guidard (ITWG Co-chairs)
Welcome messageFlorence Rabier (Director-General, ECMWF)
12:45-14:15 Working Group reports (oral presentations – 15 minutes)
Chair-persons: Liam Gumley, Vincent Guidard
Numerical Weather Prediction
Radiative Transfer and Surface Properties
Advanced Sounders
Products and Software
Climate
International Issues and Future Systems  
14:15-15:00 Session 1: International (oral presentations – 12 minutes)
Chair-person: Dorothée Coppens
1.01Richard Kelley
Alion Science for DOC/NOAA/NESDIS		Two ITU Items of Interest since ITSC-XXII
RFI TSG
1.02Mitch Goldberg
NOAA		Report from CGMS
1.03Philipe Chambon
Météo-France		Report from IPWG

15:00-15:15 Health Break

15:15-16:45 Session 2: Radiative Transfer (oral presentations – 12 minutes)
Chair-person: Christina Stumpf
2.01Xavier Calbet
AEMET		Results on the radiative transfer model effects from the in-homogeneity of water vapor fields in the field of view of infrared and microwave sounders
2.02Thibault Delahaye
LMD/CNRS		CO2 spectroscopy in 4A/OP: new developments and applications to satellite missions
2.03James Hocking
Met Office		RTTOV development status
2.04Benjamin Johnson
UCAR @ JCSDA		Recent advances in the Community Radiative Transfer Model
2.05Leonhard Scheck
Hans Ertel Centre For Weather Research / Lmu Munich		A fast neural network based method for generating synthetic satellite images in the solar spectral range
2.06Jun Yang
Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences		Recent developments and applications of advanced radiative transfer modeling system (ARMS)

16:45 End of Day 1

Friday 25 June 2021

12:15-12:30 Virtual Meeting open

12:30-14:00 Session 3: Products, Retrievals and Software (oral presentations – 12 minutes) 
Chair-person: Kathleen Strabala
3.01Nigel Atkinson
Met Office		NWP SAF Processing Packages to support EPS-SG and MTG
3.02Jérôme Pernin
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique		A newly born TIGR data set to meet the requirements of the high spectral resolution instruments : the TIGR-2020
3.03Graeme Martin
UW-Madison SSEC/CIMSS		Overview of the NASA CrIS Level 1B Version 3 Data Product and Product Assessment
3.04Hao Hu
Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences		GSDART: A Global Scene-Dependent Atmospheric Retrieval Testbed for Passive Microwave Sounding Instruments
3.05Tim Hultberg
EUMETSAT		Hyperspectral Infrared Machine Learning (HSIR ML)
3.06Anthony L. Reale
NOAA NESDIS STAR		Enterprise Comparison of Atmospheric Profiles Derived from Polar Satellite and GNSS Constellations

14:00-14:15 Information on how poster sessions will run

14:15-14:30 Health break

14:30-16:00 Poster session 1

1p.01Olivier Audouin
Météo-France		Assimilation of GOES16 ABI radiances in ARPEGE model
1p.02Younousse Biaye
Université Gaston Berger		Study of the evolution of the Sahelian climate based on satellite observation and ATOVS data
1p.03Brett Candy
Met Office		Impact of satellite sounder data on global forecasts, including the benefit of using the direct broadcast network (DBNet)
1p.04Ming Chen
Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies		Machine Learning Applications in Community Surface Emissivity Modeling (CSEM) System
1p.05Cheng Dang
JCSDA, UCAR		Recent developments in CRTM aerosol simulations
1p.06Peiming Dong
Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences		Impacts of Combined FY-3D MWTS and MWHS Data Stream on Typhoon Forecasts
1p.07Victoria Galligani
CIMA-UBA-CONICET		On the accuracy of RTTOV-SCATT for radiative transfer in all-sky conditions
1p.08Xueyan Hou
Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences		Evaluation of the In-Orbit Performance of the Microwave Temperature Sounder Onboard the FY-3D Satellite Using GPS Radio Occultation Data
1p.09Jisoo Kim
Ewha Womans University		Impact of assimilation of the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder data over sea-ice in the Korean Integrated Model
1p.10B R R Hari Prasa Kottu
NCMRWF		Impacts of assimilating ABI and AHI Water Vapor channel radiances in GFS-T1534 with GSI
1p.11Michelle Loveless
UW-Madison SSEC		Hyperspectral Sounder Radiance Comparisons of SNPP/NOAA-20 CrIS, METOP-A/B/C IASI, and Aqua AIRS: Refined Analysis Techniques and Updated Results
1p.12Yufen Ma
Institute of Desert Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Urumq		Evaluation of Infrared Land Surface Emissivity over the Taklimakan Desert
1p.13Nicholas Nalli
IMSG Inc. at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR		Addressing the temperature dependence of water within the CRTM IR sea surface emissivity (IRSSE) model
1p.14Chengli Qi
National Satellite Satellite Center, China Meteorological Administration		FY3E HIRAS-II and its pre-launch performance evaluation
1p.15Yi-ning Shi
China Meteorological Administration		Discrete Ordinate Adding Method (DOAM), a new solver for Advanced Radiative transfer Modeling System (ARMS)
1p.16Olaf Stiller
Deutscher Wetterdienst		Newly developed impact diagnostics for cross-validating satellite radiances with conventional observations
1p.17Joe Taylor
SSEC, University of Wisconsin-Madison		Doppler Shift Correction of the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) Observed Radiances
1p.18Robert Tubbs
Met Office		Results from OSEs for satellite observation types in the Met Office UKV 4D-Var regional NWP system
1p.19Ruoying Yin
Numerical Weather Prediction Center		The Impact of Geostationary Interferometric Infrared Sounder (GIIRS) Cloud Cleared Radiances on Typhoon forecasts: Maria (2018)
1p.20Yang Zhiyu
The Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences		A Model of Polarization Correction for the High-spectral Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (HIRAS-II) of FY-3E
1p.21Scott Mindock
SSEC/CIMSS		CSPP SDR 3.3, ASCI 1.1 – ATMS,CrIS,VIIRS plus OMPS and LSE

16:00-16:50 Session 4: Space agency reports (oral presentations – 8 minutes) 
Chair-person: Nadia Fourrié
4.01Dorothee Coppens
EUMETSAT		EUMETSAT
4.02Kozo Okamoto
JMA/MRI		JMA and JAXA
4.03Mitch Goldberg
NOAA		NOAA
4.04Peng Zhang
National Satellite Meteorological Center		CMA
4.05Sergey Uspensky
SRC Planeta		ROSHYDROMET
4.06Kenneth Holmlund
WMO		WMO

16:50 End of Day 2

Monday 28 June 2021

12:15-12:30 Virtual Meeting open

12:30-13:45 Session 5: Calibration – Validation (oral presentations – 12 minutes)
Chair-person: Michelle Loveless
5.01Hu Yang
University of Maryland		Current Status and Future Improvements for JPSS ATMS On-orbit Absolute Calibration
5.02Fei Tang
Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences		Bias characterization of FengYun-4A/AGRI infrared channels using Advanced Radiative Transfer Modeling System (ARMS)
5.03Peng Zhang
National Satellite Meteorological Center		The Progress on Retrospective Calibration of Historical Chinese Fengyun Satellite Data
5.04Jaap Onderwaater (for Timo Hanschmann)
EUMETSAT		A consistently calibrated data record of the High-Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) radiances
5.05Cheng-Zhi Zou
NOAA		The Reprocessed Suomi NPP Satellite Observations
13:45-14:00Session 1: International (Continued) (oral presentations – 12 minutes)
Chair-person: Michelle Loveless
1.04Gianpaolo Balsamo
ECMWF		The new International Earth Surface Working Group

14:00-14:15 Health break

14:15-15:45 Poster Session 2

2p.01Liselotte Bach
Deutscher Wetterdienst		Assimilating visible reflectances of SEVIRI in a convective-scale ensemble Kalman Filter
2p.02Eva Borbas
UW-Madison/CIMSS		Tropospheric Moisture Retrievals from HIRS, MODIS, and VIIRS plus CrIS
2p.03Fabien Carminati
Met Office		A channel selection for the assimilation of CrIS and HIRAS instruments at full spectral resolution
2p.04Olivier Coopmann
CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France & CNRS		First steps in the preparation for the assimilation of the future IRS sounder in NWP models
2p.05James Davies
SSEC/UW-Madison		IMAPP IDEA-I: An Air Quality Forecast Software Package for Aerosols, Ozone and Carbon Monoxide from Polar Orbiting Satellites using Global Forecast System (GFS) Winds
2p.06David Duncan
ECMWF		The impact of background error specification on microwave sounder OSEs
2p.07Vincent Guidard
CNRM, Météo-France, CNRS		Estimation of the error covariance matrix for IASI radiances and its impact on ozone analyses
2p.08Jianbing Jin
Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology		Dust emission inversion through assimilating satellite measurements
2p.09Toshiyuki Kitajima
Japan Meteorological Agency		Current Status and Future Plan on direct readout activity in MSC/JMA
2p.10Katie Lean
ECMWF		Investigating the optimal design for a future constellation of microwave sounding instruments on small satellites using the Ensemble of Data Assimilations method
2p.11Yu Lu
Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences		Microwave land surface emissivity over Tibetan Plateau retrieved from FY-3D Microwave Radiation Imager
2p.12Miguel-Angel Martinez
AEMET		Preparation of MTG era: developing of nowcasting tools for GEO imagers and sounders
2p.13Zhuoya Ni
National Satellite Meteorological Centre		Introduction of FY4B GIIRS and its application prospect
2p.14Moved to oral presentation   
2p.15Hiroyuki Shimizu
Japan Meteorological Agency		Addition of microwave humidity sounder radiance data to all-sky assimilation in the JMA global NWP system
2p.16Kathleen Strabala
UW-Madison/SSEC/CIMSS		Features and Advancements in Polar2Grid and Geo2Grid Image Creation Software
2p.17Joao Teixeira
Jet Propulsion Laboratory		Toward a Global Planetary Boundary Layer Observing System: The NASA PBL Incubation Study Team Report
2p.18Jerome Vidot
CNRM/CNRS		Evaluation of the RTTOV IR/MW underlying spectroscopy in the frame of the C3S project on early satellites
2p.19Feng Zhang
Fudan University		An efficient radiative transfer model for thermal infrared brightness temperature simulation in cloudy atmospheres
2p.20Yanqiu Zhu
GMAO		Improving the use of surface-sensitive radiances in the GMAO GEOS system

15:45-16:45 Session 6: Climate (oral presentations – 12 minutes) 
Chair-person: Nathalie Selbach
6.01William Bell 
ECMWF		Preparations for Assimilating Sounding Observations in the Next Generation Global Atmospheric Reanalysis at ECMWF – ERA6
6.02Indira S. Rani
NCMRWF		An overview of the satellite sounding radiance assimilation in the IMDAA regional reanalysis
6.03Henry Revercomb
UW-Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center		Rationale for Flight of an Infrared SI Reference Sensor for Climate Data Uncertainty Quantification
6.04Yoann Tellier
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, CNRS, IPSL		Clear-Sky Estimation of Earth Outgoing Longwave Radiation and Atmospheric Heating Rate with IASI

16:50 End of Day 3

Tuesday 29 June 2021

12:15-12:30 Virtual meeting open

12:30-14:20 Session 7: NWP centre reports (oral presentations – 10 minutes) 
Chair-person: Agnes Lane
7.01Indira S. Rani
NCMRWF		NCMRWF
7.02Chris Tingwell
Bureau of Meteorology		Bureau of Meteorology
7.03Ruoying Yin
Numerical Weather Prediction Center		CMA
7.04Hidehiko Murata
Japan Meteorological Agency		JMA 
7.05Emily Liu
NOAA/NCEP/EMC		NCEP
7.06Philippe Chambon
Météo-France		Météo-France
7.07Christina Köpken-Watts
DWD		DWD
7.08Alain Beaulne
ECCC		ECCC
7.09Chawn Harlow
Met Office		Met Office
7.10Mohammed Dahoui
ECMWF		ECMWF
7.11Benjamin Ruston
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory		NRL

14:20-14:30 Health break

14:30-15:45 Poster Session 3

3p.01Nancy Baker
Naval Research Lab		Update on Activities of the U.S. National Academies’ Committee on Radio Frequencies
3p.02Niels Bormann
ECMWF		The Arctic Weather Satellite – a small satellite concept to improve Arctic and global weather forecasts through millimetre and sub-millimetre microwave sounding
3p.03Hao Chen
Jiangsu Meteorological Observatory		Why and how does the actual spectral response matter for microwave radiance assimilation?
3p.04Paola Corrales
UBA-CIMA-CONICET		A first attempt to assimilate satellite radiance observations in a deep convection case during RELAMPAGO using the WRF-GSI-LETFK system
3p.05James Davies
SSEC/UW-Madison		CSPP (Community Satellite Processing Package) Software for Satellite Sounders in Direct Broadcast
3p.06Stephen English
ECMWF		A reference ocean surface emission and backscatter model
3p.07Moved to oral presentation 
3p.08Erin Jones
CISESS @ NOAA/NESDIS/STAR		Evaluating CrIS Shortwave Infrared Observations in the NOAA Global Data Assimilation System: Impacts and Recommendations
3p.09Robert Knuteson
University of Wisconsin-Madison SSEC/CIMSS		Quality Assessment of the Radiometric and Spectral Calibration of the FY4A Geostationary Interferometric Infrared Sounder (GIIRS) using NOAA-20 CrIS and METOP-B IASI as On-Orbit Reference Sensors
3p.10Emily Liu
NOAA/NCEP/EMC		Progress and Plans for Satellite Data Assimilation in the NCEP Global and Regional Data Assimilation Systems
3p.11Cristina Lupu
ECMWF		Evaluation of the radiative transfer model RTTOV-13.0 at ECMWF
3p.12Erica McGrath-Spangler
USRA/GESTAR and NASA GSFC/GMAO		Assimilation of hyperspectral infrared radiances from the cloud-clearing methodology: Results from the 2017 Atlantic Tropical Cyclone season
3p.13Ester Nikolla
University of Wisconsin-Madison SSEC/CIMSS		Hyperspectral Infrared Near Surface Observations of Arctic Snow, Sea Ice, and Non-Frozen Ocean from the RV PolarStern during the MOSAiC Expedition October 2019 to September 2020
3p.14Noelle A. Scott
LMD/IPSL/ Ecole Polytechnique		At the confluence of forward and inverse remote sensing, IA and calval studies : The 2021 overview of the LMD (GEISA, ARSA, TIGR, ICO) databases
3p.15Patrick Stegmann
Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation		The 2021 Iteration of the TAMU Aerosol Refractive Index Database
3p.16Christina Stumpf
DWD		Evaluation of ICON’s model cloud fields using simulated and observed visible satellite images
3p.17Sreerekha Thonipparambil
EUMETSAT		EUMETSAT user preparation towards Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) and European Polar System – Second Generation (EPS-SG)
3p.18Francesca Vittorioso
CNRM		An Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer – New Generation (IASI-NG) channel selection for Numerical Weather Prediction
3p.19Peng Zhang
National Satellite Meteorological Center		Development of the Chinese Space-Based Radiometric Benchmark Mission LIBRA

15:45-16:45 Session 8: NWP Advances (oral presentations – 12 minutes) 
Chair-person: Nancy Baker
8.01Roger Randriamampianina
Norwegian Meteorological Institute		Improving the use of satellite radiances in high latitude regional NWP
8.02Fiona Smith
Bureau of Meteorology		Operational Hyperspectral Sounder Error Correlations
8.03Hongyi Xiao
China Meteorological Administration		Impact of FY-3D MWRI Radiance Assimilation in GRAPES 4D-Var on Typhoon Shanshan Forecasts
8.04Wei Han
JCSDA		Assimilation of Geostationary Hyperspectral InfraRed Sounders (GeoHIS) : progresses, challenges and perspectives

16:45 End of Day 4

Wednesday 30 June 2021

12:15-12:30 Virtual meeting open

12:30-13:30 Session 9: All-sky assimilation (oral presentations – 12 minutes) 
Chair-person: Christina Köpken-Watts
9.01Maziar Bani Shahabadi
Environment and Climate Change Canada		Recent Progress for All-Sky Microwave Radiance Assimilation in Environment Canada’s Global Deterministic Weather Prediction System
9.02Philipe Chambon (on behalf of Mary Borderies)
Météo-France/ DESR/ CNRM		Status of the assimilation of cloudy and rainy microwave observations in the Météo-France global NWP model ARPEGE
9.03David Duncan
ECMWF		Moving AMSU-A to all-sky assimilation at ECMWF
9.04Kozo Okamoto
JMA/MRI		Preliminary assimilation of all-sky IR radiances of Himawari-8 in the global data assimilation system at JMA

13:30-14:45 Poster Session 4

4p.01Nick Bearson
UW-Madison SSEC/CIMSS		CSPP Geo Gridded GLM
4p.02Chris Burrows
ECMWF		Progress in the assimilation of GIIRS data
4p.03Ke Chen
Huazhong University of Science and Technology		A Remapping technique of FY-3D MWRI using deep learning for better use in data assimilation
4p.04Geoff Cureton
CIMSS, University of Wisconsin – Madison		Near Real Time Active Fires and GAASP Level-2 Products Via Direct Broadcast Using the Community Satellite Processing Package
4p.05Di Di
Nanjing University of Information, Science & Technology		Geostationary hyperspectral infrared sounder channel selection for capturing fast-changing atmospheric information
4p.06Stephen English
ECMWF		An overview of current EESS Spectrum issues relevant to ATOVS-heritage systems
4p.07Sylvain Heilliette
Environment Canada		Impact of various ozone profile sources on the simulation of hyperspectral Infrared radiances by RTTOV. Towards the assimilation of ozone sensitive IR radiances in Environment Canada NWP analysis system
4p.08Bryan Karpowicz
GESTAR/USRA/NASA GMAO		Assimilation of CrIS Shortwave Infrared Channels into the GEOS Atmospheric Data Assimilation System
4p.09Keiichi Kondo
Meteorological Research Institute		Impact of microwave radiance assimilation over land using dynamic emissivity in the global NWP system of JMA
4p.10David Loveless
University of Wisconsin-Madison		Supplementing Space-based Sounding with the Ground-based Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) to Improve Thermodynamic Sounding of the Planetary Boundary Layer
4p.11Cristina Lupu
ECMWF		The assimilation of EUMETSAT reconstructed radiances for IASI data compression
4p.12moved to 1p.21
4p.13Alexander Polyakov
Saint-Petersburg State University		Observation of the total ozone columns using the IKFS-2 instrument aboard the Meteor-M N2 satellite in 2015-2020
4p.14Nathalie Selbach (on behalf of CM SAF team)
Deutscher Wetterdienst		Climate Data Records of the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring
4p.15Patrick Stegmann
Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation		Version 1.0 of the CRTM Transmittance Coefficient Generation Package
4p.16Bomin Sun
IMSG at NOAA/STAR		Accuracy of newly emerging Vaisala radiosonde humidity measurements in comparison with satellite hyperspectral infrared measurements
4p.17David Tobin
SSEC		The Curious Case of the Hottest (and Coldest) FOVs
4p.18withdrawn
4p.19Xiaoyan Zhang
NOAA/NCEP/EMC & IMSG		Assimilating all-sky microwave radiance within NOAA’s prototype Rapid Refresh Forecast System

14:45-15:00 Health break

15:00-15:30 Session 10: NWP Surface (oral presentations – 12 minutes)
Chair-person: Cristina Lupu
10.01Niels Bormann
ECMWF		Advances in the assimilation of MW sounding data over snow and sea-ice
10.02Camille Birman
CNRM-UMR3589, Météo-France & CNRS		Assimilation of SEVIRI retrieved land surface temperature in AROME NWP model
15:30-16:30 Session 11: NWP Future (oral presentations – 12 minutes)  
Chair-person: Kirsti Salonen
11.01Will McCarty
NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office		Investigating the Impacts of Hyperspectral Infrared Sounders in Geostationary Orbits Using Observing System Simulation Experiments
11.02Chris Burrows
ECMWF		Initial assimilation tests of CrIS short-wave channels at ECMWF
11.03William Smith
CIMSS/SSEC		Hyperspectral Radiance Sounding Information Content
11.04Bjorn Lambrigtsen
Jet Propulsion Laboratory		Is a Geostationary Microwave Sounder Now Feasible?

16:30-16:45 Closing Session
Co-chairs: Vincent Guidard, Liam Gumley

16:45 End of Day 5 – End of ITSC-23