8th EUMETSAT ROM SAF user workshop on GNSS radio occultation measurements

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Tuesday, 11 June 2024 Speaker(s)
09:15 – 09:55 Registration and welcome
09:15 – 09:45 Registration
09:45 – 09:50 Welcome
Andy Brown (ECMWF)
09:50 – 09:55 Welcome to SAF
Lothar Schüller (EUMETSAT)
09:55 – 10:00 Welcome to ROM SAF User Workshop 8
Kent Lauritsen (DMI)
10:00 – 14:00 Numerical Weather Prediction - 1

Chair: Katrin Lonitz 

10:00 – 10:30 On the assimilation of GNSS radio occultation data at DWD
Presentation slides
Harald Anlauf (DWD)
10:35 – 11:05 Pathways for Integrating GNSS-RO in JCSDA JEDI
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Ben Ruston (UCAR/JCSDA)
11:05 – 11:25 Coffee break
11:25 – 11:55 Recent developments on the assimilation of GNSS-RO in the METEO-FRANCE global and regional NWP models
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Dominique Raspaud (Meteo France)
12:00 – 12:30 Met Office highlights using GNSS-RO for NWP
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Neill Bowler (Met Office)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:00 Lessons learned from the assimilation of RO data at high volume at ECCC
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Josep Aparicio (Environment Canada)
14:05 – 17:20 Climate applications

Chair: Kent Lauritsen

14:05 – 14:35 Current and potential future applications of RO measurements in climate applications
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Peter Thorne (Maynooth University)
14:40 – 15:10 Stratospheric Temperature Biases in the ERA5 reanalysis & plans for ERA6
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Bill Bell (ECMWF)
15:10 – 15:40 Group photo and coffee break
15:40 – 16:10 Wegener Center RO processing and climate studies: recent results and ROM SAF perspectives
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Gottfried Kirchengast (Wegener Center)
16:15 – 16:45 ROM SAF climate data records: applications and plans
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Hans Gleisner (DMI)
17:30 – 19:30
17:00 – 19:00 Ice breaker and posters

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Wednesday, 12 June 2024 Speaker(s)
09:15 – 11:15 Numerical Weather Prediction - 2

Chair: Harald Anlauf

09:15 – 09:45 Status on the operational assimilation of GNSS-RO data at ECMWF
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Katrin Lonitz (ECMWF)
09:50 – 10:20 Recent Progress in GNSS RO Data Assimilation in NCEP GFS
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Xuanli Li (SAIC@NOAA/NCEP/EMC)
10:25 – 10:55 Current status of GNOS data processing at CMA
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Mi Liao (CMA)
10:55 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 11:45 RO data processing - recent trends and open points
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Christian Marquardt (EUMETSAT)
11:15 – 14:00 Polarimetric and Airborne RO

Chair: Sean Healy

11:50 – 12:20 Advances in GNSS PRO forward model and sensitivity to NWP microphysics schemes
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Estel Cardellach (ICE-CSIC, IEEC)
Ramon Padullés Rulló (ICE-CSIC, IEEC)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:00 Moisture in the Lower Free Troposphere and Radio Occultation Strategies for Obtaining Vertical Profiles In and Near Convection
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Joe Turk (JPL, California Institute of Technology)
14:05 – 14:35 Assimilation of Airborne Radio Occultation data
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Jennifer Haase (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD)
14:05 – 15:45 Space weather

Chair: Stig Syndergaard

14:40 – 15:10 Assimilation of Radio Occultation Bending Angles in a Global Ionospheric Model
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Sean Elvidge (University of Birmingham)
15:15 – 15:45 1D Var Ionospheric Electron Density Retrieval – Analysis and Challenging Cases​
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Ishita Gulati (Met Office)
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 16:30 High resolution Abel-Vary Chap Hybrid modeling from topside incomplete ionospheric GNSS RO data: Present and future improvements
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Manuel Hernández-Pajares (UPC-IonSAT)
16:30 – 18:30 Working groups
16:30 – 16:40 Working group introductions
16:45 – 18:30 Working group discussions

Proposed topics:

• NWP assimilation with PRO/ARO  (including New processing and technologies) [co-chairs: Harald Anlauf, Katrin Lonitz]

• Climate applications [co-chair: Hans Gleisner]

• Space Weather [co-chairs: Sean Elvidge, Riccardo  Notarpietro]

18:30 – 20:30 Dinner at ECMWF restaurant

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Thursday, 13 June 2024 Speaker(s)
09:30 – 15:00 Working group discussions and plenary
09:30 – 12:30 Working group discussions and drafting of recommendations
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 15:00 Plenary session