Scientific Objectives
Topical areas to be discussed during the workshop include:
- Status of RO data processing and data availability
- RO retrieval improvements in the lower troposphere and upper stratosphere
- Data assimilation into numerical models and impact studies from leading weather centers
- NWP model verification and improvement using RO data - improvement of micro-physical processes and parameterizations of planetary boundary layer, cloud/convection schemes, and gravity wave activity
- Climate studies with RO data - climate trend detection, climate model verification and improvement
- Ionosphere and space weather research and applications – electron density, total electron content, scintillation, climatology, data assimilation, and model verification
- Precise orbit determination and excess atmospheric phase processing - algorithm improvements and validation studies
- Comparisons with other sensors including various RO missions and other measurement techniques
- Updates and progress of the RO Modeling EXperiment (ROMEX)
- Plans for future validation experiments, campaigns, or other projects in the neutral atmosphere and ionosphere
- Programmatic updates on current missions such as COSMIC-2
- Future missions
- Adjacent remote sensing techniques such as GNSS reflectometry and scatterometry