IWGGMS-20 Workshop Agenda

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Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Time (MDT)	Session/Title	Presenter	Presentations
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Opening Statements
8:30 AM - 8:40 AM	Welcome to IWGGMS-20/Logistics	Helen Worden and Chris O'Dell
8:40 AM - 8:50 AM	Welcome from NSF/UCAR/NCAR	Everette Joseph, NSF/NCAR Director Pieternel Levelt, NSF/NCAR/ACOM Laboratory Director	View Presentation PDF
8:50 AM - 9:00 AM	NASA Statements	Ken Jucks
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM	Sponsor Statements	BAE Systems, MethaneSAT, and Carbon Mapper
9:10 AM - 9:30 AM	CEOS Priorities for GHG Measurements from Space; JAXA updates on GOSAT1-2 & GOBLEU	Hiroshi Suto
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Session 1: Status of Current Missions	Session chairs: Daniel Varon and Hiroshi Tanimoto
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM	IWGGMS-20 - Documenting Two Decades of Greenhouse Gas Measurements from Space	David Crisp, Crisp Spectra LLC	View Presentation PDF
9:50 AM - 10:05 AM	(Virtual Talk) Measurement of CO2 from Space using the ACDL Lidar onboard DQ-1	Lu Zhang, National Satellite Meteorological Center,China Meteorological Administration(CMA)	View Presentation PDF
10:05 AM - 10:30 AM	Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM	Current Status of GOSAT and GOSAT-2 Products and Their Contribution to Climate Change Mitigation Policies	Tsuneo Matsunaga, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM	The OCO-2 and OCO-3 Missions: Status, results and plans	Vivienne Payne, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM	The Operational TROPOMI CH4 Data Product: Advancing Data Quality and Coverage through future updates	Tobias Borsdorff, Netherlands Institute for Space Research, SRON, Leiden, the Netherlands
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM	The GHGSat constellation: Land and offshore greenhouse gases detection and quantification	Antoine Ramier, GHGSat Inc.
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM	Methane and CO2 emission attribution from space with EMIT and aircraft using AVIRIS-3 for calibration and validation	Andrew Thorpe, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States of America	View Presentation PDF
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM	The MethaneSAT mission: A new approach to quantifying area and point source methane emissions	Jonathan Franklin, Harvard University
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Day 1 Poster Session See Posters
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Session 2: Calibration and Validation	Session chairs: Hannakaisa Lindqvist and Jonathan Franklin
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM	Fiducial Reference Measurement for Greenhouse Gases (FRM4GHG) for the validation of satellite missions	Mahesh Kumar Sha, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB)
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM	The GGG2020.1 TCCON dataset	Joshua Laughner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology	View Presentation PDF
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM	Evaluating Satellite-based V11.1 OCO-2 XCO2 measurements against Ground-based COCCON and TCCON measurements	Saswati Das, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM	Using NOAA AirCore vertical profiles to evaluate satellite retrievals and establish WMO traceability: applications to NASA’s OCO-2 program and implications for future work	Bianca Baier, NOAA/Global Monitoring Laboratory	View Presentation PDF
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM	Empirical Orthogonal Functions to Diagnose and Correct OCO-2/3 Calibration Errors	Robert Rosenberg, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA	View Presentation PDF
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM	Coffee Break
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM	The CO2I imaging spectrometer of the CO2M mission: Calibration and correction of instrument effects	Rüdiger Lang, European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), Darmstadt, Germany
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM	MethaneSAT Observatory Design and Development	Nathan Leisso, Space & Mission Systems (SMS), BAE Systems, Inc (formerly Ball Aerospace)
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM	Consensus Standards for Methane Measurements: Plume Scale Data	Annmarie Eldering, National Institute of Standards and Technology	View Presentation PDF
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM	A Global Perspective on Aerosol Effect in Satellite CO2 Retrievals	Timo Virtanen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Climate Research Programme, Finland
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM	A Multi-sensor Approach for Quantifying and Localizing Diffuse Emissions	Christopher Usher, Bluesky Resources LLC
5:20 PM - 5:45 PM	Buses to Mesa Lab
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM	Icebreaker at Mesa Lab

Thursday, May 30, 2024
Time (MDT)	Session/Title	Presenter	Presentations
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Session 3: Local-to-Regional Sources	Session chairs: David Crisp and Gregoire Broquet
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM	Global Oil-Gas and Coal Methane Emissions Behaviour Measured by the GHGSat Constellation	Dylan Jervis, GHGSat
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM	Monitoring urban CO2 emissions from space: current status and future potential	Abhishek Chatterjee, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM	Constraining urban GHG emissions from space: A simulation study and evaluation against observations	Roisin Commane, Columbia University
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM	Towards monitoring, reporting, and verifying urban emissions from space	Dien Wu, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM	Unveiling Emissions: Comparing OCO-3 and EMIT Observations of CO2 Point Sources from the ISS	Robert Nelson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology	View Presentation PDF
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM	Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM	Quantifying agricultural CH4 emissions using MethaneSAT and MethaneAIR data	Sara Mikaloff-Fletcher, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM	Continuous monitoring of methane emissions from space	Daniel Varon, Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM	Evaluation of National Methane Inventories using GOSAT based Methane Fluxes for 2010-2022	John Worden, JPL / Caltech
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM	(Virtual Talk) Methane super-emitter detection and identification combining TROPOMI with VIIRS	Tobias A. de Jong, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Leiden, The Netherlands	View Presentation PDF
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM	Increased methane emissions from oil and gas following the Soviet Union's collapse	Tai-Long He, University of Washington
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Day 2 Poster Session See posters
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Session 4: Algorithms, Priors, and Products	Session chairs: Julia Marshall and Otto Laminpää
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM	L2 Retrieval Efforts within the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center	Peter Somkuti, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA	View Presentation PDF
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM	XCO2 Retrievals of OCO-3 Snapshot Area Maps using the FOCAL Algorithm with the Goal of CO2 Emission Estimates	Michael Weimer, Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Germany
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM	Developing Modern Machine Learning Methods to Retrieve XCO2 with Associated Uncertainties from OCO-2 and OCO-3 Solar Absorption Spectra	Otto Lamminpää, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM	Assimilating the OCO-2 forward stream: Don't knock it 'til you've tried it	Brad Weir, NASA GSFC & Morgan State University
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM	Uncertainty Quantification Linkages for Atmospheric CO2 Retrievals from the OCO Missions	Jonathan Hobbs, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM	Coffee Break
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center contributions to the U.S. GHG Center: focus on expanding cal/val, quasi-operational modeling, and data access	Lesley Ott, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM	Standards for satellite-derived methane product	Paul Green, National Physical Laboratory, UK
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM	Constructing a measurement-based spatially explicit inventory of US oil and gas methane emissions for interpretation of remote sensing observations	Anthony Himmelberger, MethaneSAT, LLC
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM	Detection Limits and a Multi-Sensor Persistence Framework for Airborne and Satellite Acquisitions of Methane Plumes	Alana Ayasse, Carbon Mapper
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM	The UNEP International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO) Methane Alert and Response System (MARS) One Year Later: Lessons Learned and Way Forward	Cynthia Randles, United Nations Environment Program International Methane Emissions Observatory

Friday, May 31, 2024
Time (MDT)	Session/Title	Presenter	Presentations
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Session 5: Regional-to-Global Fluxes	Session chairs: Hannah Nesser and John Miller
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM	The U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center: Uniting Data and Technology to Empower Tomorrow's Climate Solutions	Argyro Kavvada, NASA
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM	Neutral Tropical African CO2 Exchange Estimated From Aircraft and Satellite Observations	Benjamin Gaubert, NSF NCAR	View Presentation PDF
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM	Atmospheric methane surges in 2020-2023	Xin Lan, CIRES; NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM	Carbon cycle anomalies in 2023 as viewed by the Orbiting Carbon Observatory missions	Junjie Liu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM	Comprehensive high-resolution assessment of diffuse area and point source methane emissions from the oil and gas sector using MethaneAIR and MethaneSAT	Mark Omara, Environmental Defense Fund
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM	Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM	Detection of CH4 emissions from permafrost peatlands with TROPOMI XCH4	Ray Nassar, Environment and Climate Change Canada (Toronto, Canada)
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM	(Virtual Talk) Seasonal and Inter-Annual Variability of Carbon Fluxes in Southern Semi-Arid Africa Seen by GOSAT	Eva-Marie Metz, Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM	Detectiibility of ocean flux variations from OCO-2 observatiosn	Gretchen Keppel-Aleks, University of Michigan
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM	A closer look at the seasonal amplitude of global, biogenic CO2 fluxes using OCO-2 and in situ observations	Scot Miller, Johns Hopkins University
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM	JPL Multiscale Greenhouse Gas System in Support of the U.S. GHG Center	Kevin Bowman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Day 3 Poster Session See Posters
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Session 6: Status and Plans for Future Missions	Session chairs: Junjie Liu and Hayoung Park
2:00 PM - 2:13 PM	The GOSAT-GW greenhouse gas observing mission: Updates	Hiroshi Tanimoto, National Institute for Environmental Studies	View Presentation PDF
2:13 PM - 2:26 PM	Carbon Mapper: performance predictions and airborne prototyping	Riley Duren, Carbon Mapper
2:26 PM - 2:39 PM	(Virtual Talk) The MicroCarb CO2 mission: status and performances	Denis JOUGLET, CNES
2:39 PM - 2:52 PM	Data Drought in the Humid Tropics: How to Overcome the Cloud Barrier in Greenhouse Gas Remote Sensing	Christian Frankenberg, Caltech/JPL
2:52 PM - 3:05 PM	More frequent spaceborne sampling of XCO2 improves detectability of carbon cycle seasonal transitions in Arctic	Nicholas Parazoo, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
3:05 PM - 3:18 PM	City-Scale Methane Retrievals from the HALO lidar During the 2023 STAQS Campaign and Prospects for Future Cross-Cutting Lidar Space-Mission Concepts	Rory Barton-Grimley, NASA Langley Research Center
3:18 PM - 3:45 PM	Coffee Break
3:45 PM - 3:58 PM	Mission Design and Introduction to the First Korean Spaceborne Methane Monitoring Project: Narsha	Hayoung Park, Climate Lab, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University, South Korea	View Presentation PDF
3:58 PM - 4:11 PM	TANGO - the Twin Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Observers	Jochen Landgraf, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, NL
4:11 PM - 4:24 PM	Status of the Copernicus anthropogenic CO2 Monitoring (CO2M) mission	Yasjka Meijer, European Space Agency (ESA)	View Presentation PDF
4:24 PM - 4:37 PM	(Virtual Talk) Development of China’s greenhouse gas monitoring satellite missions	Yi Liu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
4:37 PM - 4:50 PM	The GeoCarb Mission: Recent Progress and Scientific Necessity	Berrien Moore III, University of Oklahoma
4:50 PM - 5:10 PM	Closing Statements & Next Year's IWGGMS Location

IWGGMS-20 Workshop Agenda

Opening Statements

Session 1: Status of Current Missions

Day 1 Poster Session

Session 2: Calibration and Validation

Session 3: Local-to-Regional Sources

Day 2 Poster Session

Session 4: Algorithms, Priors, and Products

Session 5: Regional-to-Global Fluxes

Day 3 Poster Session

Session 6: Status and Plans for Future Missions

Closing Statements & Next Year's IWGGMS Location