COSMIC / JCSDA Workshop and IROWG-10 Meeting Agenda

 

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Day 1 - Thursday, 12 September
    
08:50 Keynote Address Prof. Cliff Mass, University of Washington
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  Session:  Missions and Programs Chair:  Natalie Laudier
10:15 Invited Talk - EUMETSAT Radio Occultation activities - status and future plans Marquardt, Christian (EUMETSAT)
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10:35 Invited Talk - China's GNSS Radio Occultation Satellite Series Status and Development Xu, Na (CMA)  
10:55 FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 mission status and future operation Huang, Cheng-Yung (TASA)
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11:10 Status Update for Triton GNSS-R Mission Tsai, Yung-Fu  (TASA)
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11:25 Architecture Study for a US-Government Radio Occultation Backbone Gullotta, William (UCAR) 
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  GPS/MET/COSMIC Anniversary Session    
12:40 Guest Speaker Introduction Anthes, Richard (UCAR)  
13:00 History of GPS/MET and COSMIC Anthes, Richard (UCAR) Presentation
  GPS/MET Chair:  Bill Kuo
13:45   Meehan, Tom  Presentation
13:55   Kursinski, Rob Presentation
14:05 GPS/MET Team Panel Discussion Shreiner, Bill; Sokolovskiy, Sergey; Rocken, Chris; Hunt, Doug; Randel, Bill;  Meehan, Tom  
15:35   Mannucci, Tony Presentation
15:45   Kuo, Bill Presentation
15:55   Ector, Dave Presentation
16:05   Cucurull, Lidia Presentation
16:15   Reaves, Jeff Presentation
16:25   DeWeaver, Eric Presentation
  COSMIC-2 Chair:  John Braun
16:35 COSMIC-2 science highlights and its broader impacts Weiss, Jan-Peter Presentation
  Outside Perspectives Chair:
16:50 How GPS/MET led to CHAMP Wickert, Jens Presentation
17:00 DMI Perspectives Syndergaard, Stig Presentation
17:10 RO/NWP Bowler, Neill Presentation
17:20 RO/Climate Steiner, Andrea Presentation
17:30 EUMETSAT Marquardt, Christian Presentation
17:40 Closing Remarks Anthes, Richard  
20:00 Dinner Speakers

Dr. Antonio J. Busalacchi, President, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Dr. Pin-Chuan Chen, Director of Science and Technology Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Los Angeles

Mr. Bill Huang, Director-General, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Denver

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Day 2 - Friday, 13 September 
    
  Session:  Missions and Programs Chairs:  Bill Schreiner and Stig Syndergaard  
8:30 Invited Talk -EUMETSAT's Commercial RO Data Service
 		 Marquardt, Christian presenting for Nikolova, Karolina (EUMETSAT)
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8:50 Invited Talk - NASA Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program Update Martin, Melissa (NASA CSDA)
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9:10 Invited Talk - NOAA NESDIS Commercial Data Program  Laudier, Natalie (NOAA NESDIS)
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9:30 The NOAA NESDIS GNSS-R Ocean Surface Winds Pilot Project Peltzer, Gerard (NOAA)
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9:45 Status and Future Plans of Spire's GNSS Radio Occultation and Reflectometry Constellation Nguyen, Vu (Spire)
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10:35 PlanetiQ Radio Occultation Observing System Update Kursinski, Rob (PlanetiQ)
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10:50 Muon Space Constellation for GNSS-Based Remote Sensing Masters, Dallas (MuonSpace)
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  Session:  Methodology Chair:  Julia Danzer
11:05 Recent radio occultation reprocessing at the Wegener Center: Profile and climatology data validation including uncertainty evaluation

Schwӓrz, Marc (WEGC, University of Graz)

 
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11:20 New PlanetiQ Level-2 Data Processing and Validation Brandmeyer, Jonathan (PlanetiQ)
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11:35 Assessing the Impact of Radio Frequency Interference on GNSS Radio Occultation Measurements Parra Ortega, Maria Jose (Serco Services GmbH)
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  Session:  Atmospheric Physics and Climate  
11:50 Atmospheric Rivers in Three Dimensions Haase, Jennifer (Scripps-UCSD)
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12:05 Lunch    
  Session:  Data Assimilation Advances, Errors and Validation Studies Chair:  Harald Anlauf
13:30 Invited Talk - Assimilation of GNSS radio occultation data in CWA's regional NWP system: Operational use and recent development     Chen, Ying-Jhen  (CWA)
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13:50 Invited Talk - RO Impacts and Advances in NOAA NWP Operations Li, Xuanli (NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC)
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14:10 Recent advances in the use of GNSS-RO observations in NWP at NASA’s GMAO Murphy, Michael (NASA/GMAO/UMBC)
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14:20 Inter-comparison of GNSS RO Quality Control Methods in NWP Zhang, Hailing (UCAR)
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  Session: NWP ROMEX Overview, Processing and Errors Chair:  Neill Bowler
15:05 Invited Talk - ROMEX Unveiled: An International Collaborative Effort Shao, Hui (UCAR) 

 

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15:25 The ROMEX core data set - statistics, reprocessing and lessons learned Marquardt, Christian (EUMETSAT)
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15:40 Results from CDAAC Processing of the ROMEX Excess Phase Data Weiss, Jan-Peter (UCAR)
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15:55 Lessons Learned from the Preparation and Evaluation of Multiple GNSS RO Data for the ROMEX from NOAA/STAR Ho, Shu-Peng (NOAA/STAR)
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  Session:  IROWG Topics Chairs:  Uli Foelsche, Hui Shao and  Tony Mannucci
16:25 IROWG Actions: BUFR format proposal review request

Marquardt, Christian

Shao, Hui
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16:35 IROWG:  Report from CGMS-52 and next steps

Foelshe, Uli

Shao, Hui
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17:05 Formation of Subgroups and Subgroup discussions Mannucci, Tony
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Day 3 - Saturday, 14 September
    
  Session:  Working Groups    
10:00 Working Groups - 4 groups needed
(NWP, climate, techniques and space weather) and other optional discussions (TBD, ROMEX, BUFR)		    
11:15 Working Groups    
13:15 Working Groups (subgroups continues + consolidation of IROWG Subgroup-Recommendations)    
14:30 Working Groups (subgroups continues + 
Consolidation of IROWG Subgroup-Recommendations)		    

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Day 4 - Monday, 16 September 
    
  Session:  NWP ROMEX Data Assimilation and Impacts Chair:  Ben Ruston
8:30 Invited Talk - Sensitivity to the RO observation operator when assimilating 35,000 radio occultations per day during ROMEX Lonitz, Katrin (ECMWF)
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8:50 Evaluation of the ROMEX data sets-Bias and uncertainty estimates Anthes, Richard (UCAR)
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9:05 Results from data assimilation experiments with ROMEX data at DWD Anlauf, Harald (DWD)
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9:20 ROMEX: Attempts to understand model and observation biases Bowler, Neill (MET Office UK)
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9:35 Forecast impact of ROMEX observations in the METEO-FRANCE system Raspaud, Dominique (METEO France)
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9:50 Impact of ROMEX data on the Korean Integrated Model (KIM) of KMA Chun, Hyoung-Wook (KMA)
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10:25 ROMEX results at the Central Weather Administration of Taiwan Lien, Guo-Yuan (CWA)

 

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10:40 Impact of ROMEX Data on NCEP GFS Forecast  Li, Xuanli (NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC)
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10:55 Does Assimilating PlanetIQ and Spire GNSS RO Bending Angles Improve HAFS Forecasts of Four 2022 Atlantic Hurricanes? An Evaluation in Support of the ROMEX Experiment
 		 Miller, William (University of Maryland)
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  Session:  Data Impact Studies Chair:  
11:10 Studies at Environment Canada with 20,000 RO profiles/day Aparicio, Josep (ECC Canada)
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11:25 Impacts of GNSS RO Data Assimilation on Tropical Cyclogenesis Predictions Using WRF Hybrid 3DEnVar Chen, Shu-Ya (National Central University)
 
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11:40 Invited Talk - Preliminary results of TRITON ocean surface windspeed assimilation and increasing the value of GNSS-R wind for Tropical cyclone analysis Yang, Shu-Chih (National Central University)
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  Session:  Novel and RO Complementary Techniques Chair:  Chi Ao
13:15 Invited Talk - Estimation of the heights of superrefraction layers from radio occultation signals Zeng, Zhen (UCAR) 
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13:35 Ducting Detection and Reconstruction with COSMIC-2 GNSS Radio Occultation Observations Xie, Feiqin (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
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13:50 Invited Talk - Advances in Remote Sensing Using the Polarimetric RO Technique Padullés, Ramon(ICE-CSIS, IEEC)
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14:10 Roadmap towards full exploitation of the polarimetric radio occultations Cardellach, Estel (ICE-CSIS, IEEC)
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14:25 Polarimetric Radio Occultation Processing at CDAAC Hunt, Douglas (UCAR) 
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14:40 Observing GNSS-RO Grazing Reflections and Its Applications to Characterize Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) Wang, Kuo-Nung (JPL)
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  Session Continues Chair:  Shu-Ya Chen
15:15 Invited Talk - PBL Remote Sensing with GNSS-RO Chi Ao (JPL)
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15:35 ROM SAF processing and new products: A focus on the retrieval of planetary boundary layer height Syndergaard, Stig (DMI)
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15:50 Quality Control in the Planetary Boundary Layer: An Intercomparison of GNSS Radio Occultation Retrievals Processed by UCAR, JPL, and ROM SAF Vannah, Sara (AER, Inc.)
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16:05 GNSS-Reflectometry Based Mapping of Antarctic Ice Shelf Surface Characteristics Anderson, Sophie (University of Colorado-Boulder)
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16:20 Global Monitoring of Soil Moisture Using Spire GNSS-Reflectometry Observations Zhang, Jiahua (UCAR) 
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16:35 Studying the Tonle Sap Lake Surface using GNSS-Reflectometry and ICESat-2 Scott, Margaret (University of Colorado-Boulder)
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Day 5 - Tuesday, 17 September 
    
  Session:  Climate Monitoring and Research Chair:  Panagiotis Vergados
8:30 Invited Talk - Advances  in  using  GNSS  radio occultation for climate  Steiner, Andrea (Wegener Center- University of Graz)
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8:50 The potential of radio occultation data for climate wind field monitoring: an overview of latest results Danzer, Julia (Wegener Center-University of Graz)
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9:05 ROM SAF climate data records: plans and applications Gleisner, Hans (DMI)
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9:20 Insights of TC’s responses to global warming from GNSS RO data over the past 16 years Yu, Shiwei (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
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  Session:  Atmospheric Physics and Climate Chair:    
10:05 Improving stratospheric gravity wave tomography from GPS-RO Staten, Paul (Indiana University Bloomington)
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10:20 Investigating the Anomalous Warming of the Lower Stratosphere Using Radio Occultations Sweeney, Aodhan (University of Washington)
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 Studying Vertical Variability of Small-Scale Gravity Waves using GNSS-RO Temperature Measurements Wang, Yuying (Alice) 
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10:50 Humidity profiles from GNSS radio occultation for observing atmospheric rivers and the influence of background data Foelsche, Ulrich (Wegener Center-University of Graz)
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11:05 Atmospheric Structures Observed in the Lower Troposphere with PlanetiQ RO Data Kursinski, Rob (PlanetiQ)
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  Session:  Ionosphere/Space Weather  Chair:  Irina Zakharenkova
12:40 Invited Talk - The CGMS SWCG Task Group on Ionospheric Radio Occultation System
Optimisation		 Lynch, Erin (NOAA/SWO)
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13:00 Invited Talk - NOAA NESDIS Space Weather Data Pilot Project Gasbarro, Marc (NOAA)
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13:20 Recent Progress on Sensing Thermospheric Density Using COSMIC-2 Satellites Yao, Jian (UCAR) 
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13:35 Leveraging GNSS Radio Occultation for Enhanced Ionospheric Monitoring and Space Weather Preparedness Azeem, Irfan (NOAA/SWO)
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13:50 Examining the impact of equatorial plasma bubbles on the retrieval of electron density profiles via radio occultation with machine learning Chen, Shih-Ping  (National Cheng Kung University)

 

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14:05 Impact of Commercial Radio Occultation Data on Ionospheric Data Assimilation Collett, Ian (Orion Space Solutions)
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14:20 Invited Talk - Radio Occultation Effective Coverage/Refresh Analysis for Mid & Low Latitude Total Electron Content Specification Straus, Paul (Aerospace)
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  Session:  Ionosphere/Space Weather 2 Chair:  Erin Lynch
15:00 Invited Talk - ANCHOR: Global Parametrized Ionospheric Data Assimilation Forsythe, Victoria (NRL)
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15:20 FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 observations of ionosphere responses to forcing from Sun to Earth's surface Lin, Charles (National Cheng Kung University)
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15:35 The impact of increasing numbers of radio occultation observations on specification and forecasting of the ionosphere and thermosphere Pedatella, Nick (UCAR)
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15:50 Geolocation of the ionospheric scintillation in the equatorial F-layer Sokolovskiy, Sergey (UCAR) 
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16:05 Inhomogeneous Responses of Lower-Ionospheric Electron Density to the May 2024 Geomagnetic Storm Wu, Dong (NASA Goddard)
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16:20 IComparative Analysis of Differential Code Bias Estimation Techniques for LEO GNSS receivers: Methodological Insights. Notarpietro, Riccardo (EUMETSAT)
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Day 6 - Wednesday, 18 September 
    
  Session:  IROWG Special Topics Chair:  Hui Shao
8:45 Proposed new BUFR Format Bowler, Neill (MET Office UK) and Syndergaard, Stig (DMI)
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  Plenary Session:  Subgroup Reports Chair:  Uli Foelsche
9:05 NWP (including ROMEX) Bowler, Neill (MET Office UK) and Lonitz, Katrin (ECMWF)
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9:35 Climate Steiner, Andrea (WEGC) and Vergados, Panagiotis (JPL)
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10:00 Techniques Kursinski, Rob (PlanetiQ)  and Braun, John (UCAR)
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10:20 Space Weather Straus, Paul (Aerospace) and Notarpietro, Riccardo (EUMETSAT)
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10:40 Break    
  Plenary Session:  IROWG Recommendations to CGMS Chair:  Jan-Peter Weiss
11:00 Main IROWG Recommendations Foelsche, Shao
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11:50 Pre-planning of IROWG-11 Foelsche, Shao  
12:00 Closing Remarks Foelsche, Shao, Weiss