1st Workshop on Surface Properties: Agenda
9:00 June 20
- Welcome
Daniel Egret, président de l’Observatoire de Paris - Practical matters
Catherine Prigent, LERMA/CNRS, Observatiore de Paris, France - Introduction to Workshop and Opening Statements
Catherine Prigent, LERMA/CNRS, Observatiore de Paris, France
Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, Maryland, USA
Session I: Assimilation of surface sensitive observations in Numerical Weather Prediction systems (Chairs: Godelieve Deblonde and Niels Bormann)
- I-1: An overview of current surface assimilation in NWP centers
Benjamin Ruston, NRL, Monterey, CA, USA
Sid-Ahmed Boukabara, IMSG Inc., NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Springs, USA - I-2 US Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA): Surface Emissivity Modeling and Impacts on NWP
Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD, USA - I-3 US NOAA/NCEP: The NOAA/NCEP GLobal Land Data Assimilation System
Jesse Meng, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD, USA - I-4 ECMWF: Status and plans for assimilation of infrared and microwave radiances over land at ECMWF
Niels Bormann, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK
10:40 June 20
+ 20 mn break
11:00 June 20 - I-5 UK Met Office: A discussion of issues for near surface radiance data assimilation
Stephen English, UK Met Office, UK - I-6 UK Met Office: Status of ocean surface emissivity modelling for operational NWP
Stephen English, UK Met Office, UK - I-7 Canada: Assimilation of surface-sensitive infrared radiances at MSC
Louis Garand, MSC, Dorval, Canada - I-8 Météo-France: Microwave land emissivity and skin temperature for AMSU-A and AMSU-B assimilation over land
Fatima Karbou, Météo-France, Toulouse, France
13:00 June 20
+ 1hr lunch
14:00 June 20 - I-9 Météo-France: Impact of improved microwave land surface emissivities in the 4DVar assimilation system at Météo-France
Elisabeth Gérard, Météo-France, Toulouse, France - I-10 Norwegian Met Institute: Assimilating AMSU-A over sea ice in HIRLAM 3D-Var
Harald Schyberg, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway - Discussion
Session II: Emissivity Modeling (Chairs: Norman Grody and Stephen English)
- II-1: Correcting green vegetation fraction for calibration and spectral effects in AVHRR and VIIRS
Dan Tarpley, Center for Satellite Applications and Research, NESDIS/NOAA, Camp Springs, MD, USA - II-2: Adaptation of the leaf optical property model PROSPECT to thermal infrared
Albert Olioso, INRA/CSE, Domaine Saint Paul, Agroparc, Avignon, France - II-3: Test of the SAIL-Thermique radiative transfer model for simulating thermal infrared emissivity and emissivity spectra of plant canopies
Albert Olioso, INRA/CSE, Domaine Saint Paul, Agroparc, Avignon, France - II-4: Analysis of thermal infrared directional anisotropy over different surface types
Jean-Pierre Lagouarde, INRA, Villenave d’Ornon, France
15:40 June 20
+ 20mn break
16:00 June 20 - II-5: Comparisons of modeled microwave and indexed infrared emissivities to satellite retrieval
Benjamin Ruston, NRL, Monterey, CA, USA - II-6: Dependence of brightness temperature on bistatic scattering with applications to Antarctica
Christian Mätzler, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland - II-7: Sea ice microwave emission modelling
Rasmus Tonboe, Center for Ocean & Ice, Copenhagen, Denmark - II-8: Recent advances in estimating the L-band microwave signature of natural land surface covers
J-P Wigneron, INRA, EPHYSE, Villenave d’Ornon, France
9:00 June 21
Session III: Emissivity retrieved from observations (Chairs: Dan Tarpley and Christian Mätzler)
- III-1: A global infrared land surface emissivity database
Eva E. Borbas, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA - III-2: Continental surface emissivity spectra retrieved from AIRS observations
E. Péquignot, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France - III-3: Land surface emissivity retrieval from satellite data and ground-based measurements
J. A. Sobrino, Global Change Unit. Dpt. of Earth Physics and Thermodynamics, University of Valencia, Spain - III-4: Mapping land surface emissivity with multispectral thermal infrared data from space
Thomas Schmugge, New Mexico State University, New Mexico, US - III-5: Emissivity retrieval from combined mid-infrared and thermal infrared data of MSG-SEVIRI: Study of seasonal variations
Françoise Nerry, Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Image, de l’Informatique et de la Télédétection, Illkirch, France
10:40 June 21
+ 20mn break
11:00 June 21 - III-6: Producing realistic emissivity maps from SEVIRI/MSG
Isabel Trigo, Centro Geofísico da Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Meteorologia, Lisboa, Portugal - III-7: Microwave land surface emissivities over the globe for a decade
Catherine Prigent, LERMA/CNRS, Observatiore de Paris, France - III-8: Error sources and their minimization in AMSR-E and SSM/I land surface microwave emissivity retrievals
Jean-Luc Moncet, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., Lexington, MA, USA - III-9: Microwave emissivity retrieval over ocean in clear, cloudy, and precipitating conditions. Validation using satellite sensors and airborne GPS-dropsondes
Sid-Ahmed Boukabara, IMSG Inc., NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Springs, USA - III-10: Review of surface emissivities measured at 4.9, 10.4, 21, 35, and 94 GHz for different surface conditions
Christian Mätzler, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland - III-11: Land surface emissivities calculated from TMI, SSM/I, and AMSU observations: parameterization of the frequency, angular, and polarization dependences and comparison with model results
Catherine Prigent, LERMA/CNRS, Observatiore de Paris, France
13:00 June 21
+ 1hr lunch
14:00 June 21 - Discussion about emissivity modeling and retrievals from satellite
- 16:00 June 21
+ 20mn break
16:20 June 21
Session IV: Satellite retrievals of atmospheric and surface parameters over continental surfaces (Chairs: Thomas Schmugge and José Sobrino)
- IV-1: Comparison of land surface skin temperature derived from operational NWP modeling and data assimilation systems, LDAS, satellite retrieval, and ground observations
Jesse Meng, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD, USA - IV-2: Regression of Surface Emissivity from AIRS
Lihang Zhou, QSS Group at NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD, USA - IV-3: Retrieval of Land Surface Temperatures from Infrared High Spectral Resolution Satellite Observations: AIRS, IASI, and CrIS
Robert O. Knuteson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA - IV-4: Ozone column retrieval using the 9.7 micron band satellite observations
F. Karcher, Météo-France CNRM, Toulouse - 17:20 June 21 – Everyone is invited to a brief réception in the salle Cassini
9:00 June 22
- IV-5: Simultaneous retrieval of surface temperature, emissivity, water vapor and liquid water integrated contents over land from combined IR and SSM/I observations
Filipe Aires, CNRS, Université Paris, France - IV-6: Extending retrieval of total water vapour over the Arctic from AMSU-B data using surface emissivity information
Christian Melsheimer, Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Germany - IV-7: Surface emissivity and temperature profile retrieval from AMSU in polar regions
Nizy Mathew, Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Germany - IV-8: Effective temperature for L-band radiometry
P. de Rosnay, CESBIO, Toulouse, France - IV-9: An emissivity-temperature separation algorithm for the 19 and 37 GHz SSM/I brightness temperatures over Northern land surface without snow
Alain Royer, Centre d’applications et de recherches en télédétection, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
10:40 June 22
+ 20mn break
11:00 June 22 - Discussion
- 13:00 June 22