Joint COSMIC Tenth Data Users' Workshop and IROWG-6 Meeting
Agenda Track
Agenda
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| 7:00 to 8:30 |
Working Breakfast Location: MacGregor Room |
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| 8:45 to 12:00 |
Opening SessionThis session is dedicated to the memory of Jay S. Fein, NSF program manager who played a key role in GPS/MET and COSMIC Location: Concert Hall |
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| 8:45 to 8:50 |
Opening remarks, welcome, logistics, etc. Location: Concert Hall |
Nick Pedatella | |
| 8:50 to 9:00 | Opening Remarks | Guey-Shin Chang, National Applied Research Laboratories, Taiwan | |
| 9:00 to 9:15 | Remembering Jay Fein and his Key Role in GPS/MET and COSMIC | Richard Anthes, COSMIC Program UCAR | Download |
| 9:15 to 9:55 |
Keynote #1 GNSSRO at NSF: A personal view from the NSF Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics Program |
Eric DeWeaver, National Science Foundation | Download |
| 9:55 to 10:35 |
Keynote #2 Radio Occultation in the NESDIS Enterprise |
Karen St. Germain, Director, Systems Architecture and Advanced Planning, NOAA/NESDIS | |
| 10:35 to 11:00 | Break | ||
| 11:00 to 11:45 |
Keynote #3 From FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC to FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 Mission Science Highlights from COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 |
Chung-Huei (Vicky) Chu, NSPO and Bill Schreiner, UCAR/COSMIC | Download Download |
| 11:45 to 12:00 | Discussion and Group Photo | ||
| 12:00 to 1:00 |
Working Lunch Location: MacGregor Room |
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| 1:00 to 4:30 |
Afternoon Session #1 — Current and Future Missions / GNSS TechnologyLocation: Concert Hall |
Karen St. Germain, Chair | |
| 1:00 to 1:30 | A future constellation of CubeSats for radio occultation yielding 10,000 soundings per day (Invited Talk) | Dominique Raspaud, Météo-France/CNRS, CNRM/GAME | Download |
| 1:30 to 1:50 | Overview of NOAA's Commercial Weather Data Pilot | Karen St. Germain, Director, Systems Architecture and Advanced Planning, NOAA/NESDIS | Download |
| 1:50 to 2:10 | Radio occultation profile results obtained from Spire’s CubeSat GNSS-RO constellation | Vladimir Irisov, Spire Global, Inc. | Download |
| 2:10 to 2:30 | WMO's status report on IROWG related issues update | Toshiyuki Kurino, World Meteorological Organization | Download |
| 2:30 to 3:00 | Break | ||
| 3:00 to 3:30 | Evolving the TriG RO Instrument to Life in a Cubesat Ecosystem (Invited Talk) | Tom Meehan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology | Download |
| 3:30 to 3:50 | ESA activities for future GNSS Radio Occultations receivers | Michel Tossaint, System Engineering - European Space Agency - Earth Observation Future Missions | Download |
| 3:50 to 4:10 | The RO Instrument for MetOp-SG - First Test Results | Anders Carlström, RUAG Space AB | Download |
| 4:10 to 4:30 | GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM OCCULTATION SOUNDER II (GNOS II) | Weihua Bai, National Space Science Center (NSSC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) | Download |
| 4:35 to 5:45 |
Afternoon Session #2 — Introduction to PostersLocation: Concert Hall |
Ulrich Foelsche, Chair | |
| 4:35 to 5:35 | Poster Introductions (1 minute oral introduction/summary per poster) | ||
| 5:45 to 8:00 |
Welcome Reception and Poster Session Location: Piñon Billiard Rooms (Dinner on your own) |
| Time | Session/Title | Presenter | Presentation |
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| 7:00 to 8:30 |
Working Breakfast Location: MacGregor Room |
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| 9:00 to 10:20 |
Morning Session #1 — Ionosphere and Space WeatherLocation: Concert Hall |
Tony Mannucci, Chair | |
| 9:00 to 9:20 | Ionospheric Weather Monitored by GNSS Radio Occultation and Ground- based Observations | J.Y. (Tiger) Liu, National Central University & National Space Organization | Download |
| 9:20 to 9:40 | Plans for Using COSMIC-II for Real-time Ionospheric Mapping at NOAA | Dominic Fuller-Rowell, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center | Download |
| 9:40 to 10:00 | Coupled whole atmosphere-ionosphere data assimilation in WACCM-X | Nicholas Pedatella, High Altitude Observatory, NCAR & COSMIC Program Office, UCAR | Download |
| 10:00 to 10:20 | Assessment of the NeQuick and IRI-Plas model performance on electron content representation using Spaceborne RO and topside TEC GPS measurements | Iurii Cherniak, UCAR/COSMIC | Download |
| 10:20 to 10:40 | Break | ||
| 10:40 to 11:50 |
Morning Session #2 — GNSS TechnologyLocation: Concert Hall |
Jan Weiss, Chair | |
| 10:40 to 11:10 | Recent Development in GNSS-Reflected Signal Processing and Receiver Research in Taiwan (Invited Talk) | Jyh-Ching Juang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan | Download |
| 11:10 to 11:30 | Sensitivity of airborne radio occultation to tropospheric properties over ocean and land | Feiqin Xie, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi | Download |
| 11:30 to 11:50 | Mountain-top Radio Occultation with Multi-GNSS Signals: Experiment and Receiver Signal Processing Techniques | Yu Morton, University of Colorado at Boulder | Download |
| 11:50 to 12:50 |
Working Lunch Location: MacGregor Room |
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| 12:50 to 2:50 |
Afternoon Session #1 — Meteorology and NWPLocation: Concert Hall |
Bill Kuo, Chair | |
| 12:50 to 1:20 | Observing System Simulation Experiments with Radio Occultation observations (Invited Talk) | Lidia Cucurull, NOAA | Download |
| 1:20 to 1:50 | The impact of assimilating GPS-RO over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean | David Bromwich, The Ohio State University | Download |
| 1:50 to 2:10 | The GPS RO Data Assimilation in the Global MPAS-GSI Model | Shu-Ya Chen, GPS Science and Application Research Center, National Central University, Taiwan | Download |
| 2:10 to 2:30 | Assimilation of GNSS data in KMA NWP models | Eun-Hee Kim, Numerical Modeling Center/Korea Meteorological Administration | Download |
| 2:30 to 2:50 | Impact of GNSS-RO bending angle assimilation at NRL | Benjamin Ruston, Naval Research Laboratory | Download |
| 2:50 to 3:10 | Break | ||
| 3:10 to 4:50 |
Afternoon Session #2 — Meteorology and NWPLocation: Concert Hall |
Sean Healy, Chair | |
| 3:10 to 3:30 | The Impact of Assimilating COSMIC Radio Occultation Observations on Forecasts of an Intense Atmospheric River during CALWATER2015 | Michael Murphy, Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego | Download |
| 3:30 to 3:50 | Assimilation of GNSS Radio Occultation Data at JMA | Hiromi Owada, Numerical Prediction Division, Japan Meteorological Agency | Download |
| 3:50 to 4:10 | Impact of Physically Based Dynamic Observational Errors on the Assimilation of GPS RO Data in the Tropical Lower Troposphere | Hui Liu, UCAR/COSMIC | Download |
| 4:10 to 4:30 | Demonstrating the impact of RO dynamic error estimate on NWP using GFS/GSI | Hailing Zhang, COSMIC | Download |
| 4:30 to 4:50 | Estimation of Marine Boundary Layer Heights over the Western North Pacific using GPS Radio Occultation Profiles | Fang-Ching Chien, National Taiwan Normal University | |
| 4:50 to 5:30 |
Afternoon Session #3 — IROWGLocation: Concert Hall |
Axel von Engeln, Chair | |
| 4:50 to 5:30 |
Summary of IROWG Activities (invited) Location: Concert Hall |
Sean Healy and Ulrich Foelsche, IROWG Co-Chairs, and Tony Mannucci, NASA JPL | Download |
| 5:30 | Adjourn - Dinner on your own |
| Time | Session/Title | Presenter | Presentation |
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| 7:00 to 8:30 |
Working Breakfast Location: MacGregor Room |
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| 9:00 to 10:30 |
Morning Session #1 — Meteorology and NWPLocation: Concert Hall
IROWG Space Weather Working GroupLocation: Billiard Room |
Lidia Cucurull, Chair | |
| 9:00 to 9:30 | ECMWF Impact of GPS-RO measurements in NWP and climate reanalyses (Invited Talk) | Sean Healy, ECMWF | Download |
| 9:30 to 9:50 | How can the GNSS RO improve the volcanic clouds studies? | Riccardo Biondi, beneficiary of an AXA Research Fund postdoctoral grant, Istituto di Scienze dell’Atmosfera e del Clima - ISAC-CNR, Rome, Italy | Download |
| 9:50 to 10:10 | Thermodynamic Structure of Marine Atmospheric Boundary layer over Indian Ocean using GPS Radio Occultation (RO) | D. Narayana Rao, SRM Research Institute, SRM University, Kattankulathur | |
| 10:10 to 10:30 | Observing Atmospheric Rivers with GNSS RO data | Ulrich Foelsche, Institute of Physics/Institute for Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Meteorology (IGAM) and Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (WEGC), University of Graz, Austria | Download |
| 10:30 to 10:50 | Break | ||
| 10:50 to 12:30 |
Morning Session #2 — COSMIC-2 UpdatesLocation: Concert Hall |
Estel Cardellach, Chair | |
| 10:50 to 11:20 | GNSS reflectometry from space for Earth observation: GEROS-ISS and G-TERN (Invited Talk) | Jens Wickert, GFZ Potsdam/Technische Universität Berlin, Germany | Download |
| 11:20 to 11:50 | COSMIC Data Analysis and Archive Center (CDAAC): Processing Status, Science Highlights, and Plans | Jan Weiss, UCAR/COSMIC | Download |
| 11:50 to 12:10 | Joint Program Verification and Validation Plan on FORMOSAT-7COSMIC-2 | Joe Hackel, Riverside/NOAA | Download |
| 12:10 to 12:30 | COSMIC-2 Space Weather Cal/Val Plans | Lynette Gelinas, The Aerospace Corporation | Download |
| 12:20 to 1:20 |
Working Lunch Location: MacGregor Room |
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| 1:20 to 3:10 |
Afternoon Session #1 — Ionosphere and Space WeatherLocation: Concert Hall |
Nick Pedatella, Chair | |
| 1:20 to 1:50 | Characterizing Irregularities and Scintillation with GNSS Radio Occultations (Invited Talk) | Keith Groves, Boston College | Download |
| 1:50 to 2:10 | Climatology and Characteristics F region Ionospheric Plasma Irregularities Observed by COSMIC Radio Occultation Receivers | Chris Watson, COSMIC | Download |
| 2:10 to 2:30 | On Unseasonal Equatorial Plasma Bubbles above South-East Asia Using Ground- and Space-based Observations | Julie Currie, SPACE Research Centre, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC Australia | Download |
| 2:30 to 2:50 | COSMIC-2 for Specification of the Global Scintillation Environment | Ronald Caton, Space Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory | Download |
| 2:50 to 3:10 | New Global Electron Density Observations from GPS-RO in the D- and E-Region Ionosphere | Dong Wu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Download |
| 3:10 to 3:30 | Break | ||
| 3:30 to 5:20 |
Afternoon Session #2 — ClimateLocation: Concert Hall |
Ben Ho, Chair | |
| 3:30 to 4:00 | Advancing Earth Science With Global Navigation Satellite Signals (GNSS): The Benefits of a Community Approach (Invited Talk) | Anthony Mannucci, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology | Download |
| 4:00 to 4:20 | Latest new EUMETSAT Products: A 15 year Reprocessed RO Data Set / GRAS Occultation Prediction | Axel von Engeln, EUMETSAT | Download |
| 4:20 to 4:40 | Overview of ROM SAF activities and the generation of climate data records | Kent Lauritsen, Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark | Download |
| 4:40 to 5:00 | The ROM SAF multi-mission reprocessing: Bending angle, refractivity, and dry temperature | Stig Syndergaard, Danish Meteorological Institute | Download |
| 5:00 to 5:20 | Structural uncertainty of multi-satellite RO records from different data centers: latest results | Andrea K. Steiner, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (WEGC) and Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Graz, Austria | |
| 5:30 | Adjourn — Dinner on your own |
| Time | Session/Title | Presenter | Presentation |
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| 7:00 to 8:30 |
Working Breakfast Location: MacGregor |
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| 9:10 to 10:10 |
Morning Session #1 — Data Processing and Alogrithms |
Vicky Chu, Chair | |
| 9:10 to 9:30 | Representation of vertical atmospheric structures by radio occultation (RO) observations – Comparison of high resolution RO and radiosonde profiles | Zhen Zeng, UCAR | Download |
| 9:30 to 9:50 | GPS RO Retrieval Improvements in Ice Clouds | Xiaolei Zou, ESSIC, University of Maryland | Download |
| 9:50 to 10:10 | Assessment of Radio Occultation refractivity under heavy precipitation | Ramon Padullés, Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (IEEC-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain | Download |
| 10:10 to 10:30 | Break | ||
| 10:30 to 12:00 |
Morning Session #2 — Wrap-Up Discussions |
Bill Schreiner and Tiger Liu, Chair | |
| 10:30 to 12:00 | IROWG Subgroups & Recommendations | Sean Healy and Ulrich Foelsche, IROWG Co-Chairs | |
| 12:00 to 12:20 | Closing Remarks | ||
| 12:30 to 1:30 |
Working Lunch (box lunch) Location: MacGregor Room |
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| 1:30 | Workshop Ends |