ITSC-24 Meeting Agenda
Agenda of the next ITSC DA/NWP Working Group Meeting to be held on Saturday 18th March, Tromsø
- Welcome
- Review of progress of action items from the last meeting (10 minutes)
- WMO (CGMS) High Level Priority Plan Items (30 mins)
- Discussion on the optimum revisit time for MW sensing (specifically sounders, but any information on imagers is also of interest)
- What is the timeliness requirement for sounder observations ? How can we quantify this? For reference, DBnet threshold is 30 minutes; goal is 20 minutes.
- Other items for discussion: (40 mins)
- Feedback from the community is the impact of having a hyperspectral IR sounder in the early morning 5.30 AM orbit.
- Does the NWP community concur with decision to switch SNPP CrIS to SW+MW (which would be done when NOAA21 commissioning is complete)
- Request for feedback from the NWP group on the CrIS collocated VIIRS cluster BUFR test data.
- Progress on extension of MW sounders over sea-ice and difficult surfaces.
- Latest information on methods of PC compression for GEO/LEO hyperIR. Any updates on hybrid PC scores for instance.
- Any updates on the requirement of the MW constellation. The working group gave recommendations in 2022. Has this changed in light of recent small sat experience?
- Website (10 mins)
- Space agency contacts – please review!
- Ongoing request for links to LAM impact studies
- Survey (10 mins)
- Ideas for storing covariance information re Rmatrix
- Other improvements
- Review of standing recommendations (10 mins) (make sure we have the small sat recommendation)
- AOB (10 mins)