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Oral and poster programme PDF
P R O G R A M M E TOULOUSE. FRANCE. 21-25 SEPTEMBER 2015. PROGRAMME OVERVIEW CONFERENCE SESSIONS GUIDE 2 SESSION 1 Current and future satellites, instruments and their applications SESSION 2 Advances in utilisation of satellite data for nowcasting and limited area modelling SESSION 3 Preparation for the use of data from new geostationary satellites SESSION 4 Marine meteorology and oceanography SESSION 5 Scientific achievments and future objectives in climate observations with satellites SESSION 6 Instrument calibration and validation campaigns SESSION 7 Atmospheric composition CONFERENCE OVERVIEW M O N D AY 21 S E P 08:30 08:45 09:00 09:15 09:30 09:45 10:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 12:15 12:30 12:45 13:00 13:15 13:30 13:45 14:00 14:15 14:30 14:45 15:00 15:15 15:30 15:45 16:00 16:15 16:30 16:45 17:00 17:15 17:30 T U E S D AY 22 S E P W E D N E S D AY 23 S E P T H U R S D AY 24 S E P F R I D AY 25 S E P WELCOME COFFEE AND REGISTRATION Marquee/Registration Desk SESSION 1 Amphitheatre WELCOME ADDRESS Amphitheatre OPENING PLENARY Amphitheatre POSTER SESSION/ COFFEE BREAK Marquee SESSION 1 Amphitheatre SESSION 2 Room 2 SESSION 5 Room 3 SESSION 1 Amphitheatre SESSION 1 Amphitheatre SESSION 4 Room 2 Room 3 SESSION 7 Room 3 Room 4 POSTER SESSION/ COFFEE BREAK Marquee SESSION 2 Room 2 SESSION 2 Room 2 SESSION 3 Room 2 SESSION 5 SESSION 6 Room 3 Room 4 SESSION 7 Room 3 SESSION 7 SESSION 6 Room 4 SESSION 6 POSTER SESSION/COFFEE BREAK Marquee SESSION 1 Amphitheatre SESSION 1 Amphitheatre SESSION 1 Amphitheatre SESSION 2 Room 2 SESSION 2 Room 2 SESSION 3 Room 2 SESSION 5 Room 3 SESSION 7 Room 3 SESSION 7 Room 3 SESSION 6 Room 4 SESSION 6 Room 4 SESSION 6 Room 4 POSTER SESSION Marquee POSTER SESSION Marquee SESSION 1 Amphitheatre SESSION 2 Room 2 SESSION 5 Room 3 POSTER SESSION/ COFFEE BREAK Marquee SESSION 1 Amphitheatre SESSION 3 Room 2 SESSION 7 Room 3 SESSION 4 Room 4 POSTER SESSION/ COFFEE BREAK Marquee COFFEE BREAK Marquee COFFEE BREAK Marquee SESSION 1 Amphitheatre SESSION 4+6 Room 2 SESSION 3 Room 2 SESSION 1 Amphitheatre SESSION 2 Room 2 SESSION 5 Room 3 Room 2 Room 3 CLOSING CEREMONY Amphitheatre LUNCH BREAK Marquee LUNCH BREAK Marquee SESSION 4 SESSION 7 SESSION 5 Room 3 SESSION 7 Room 3 SESSION 7 Room 3 SESSION 2 Room 4 SESSION 6 Room 4 SESSION 4 Room 4 08:30 08:45 09:00 09:15 09:30 09:45 10:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 12:15 12:30 12:45 13:00 13:15 13:30 13:45 14:00 14:15 14:30 14:45 15:00 15:15 15:30 15:45 16:00 16:15 16:30 16:45 17:00 17:15 17:30 NETWORKING EVENTS 18:00 18:15 18:30 18:45 19:00 19:15 19:30 19:45 20:00 20:15 20:30 21:00 23:00 ICEBREAKER CIC Conference Centre CONFERENCE DINNER Hôtel-Dieu 2 rue de la Viguerie, 31300 Toulouse 18:00 18:15 18:30 18:45 19:00 19:15 19:30 19:45 20:00 20:15 20:30 21:00 23:00 3 SPONSORS CONFERENCE SPONSORS EUMETSAT AND MÉTÉO FRANCE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING SPONSORS: • Airbus Defence & Space • Enterprise Electronics Corporation (EEC) • HE Space Operations • Kongsberg Spacetec • Météo et Climat 4 • SCISYS Deutschland GmbH • Serco Services GmbH • Thales Alenia Space • UKIP Media & Events MONDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 21 21 SEPTEMBER CONFERENCE OPENING WELCOME COFFEE AND REGISTRATION Marquee/Registration Desk MORNING 08:30 Chair: Kenneth HOLMLUND, EUMETSAT OFFICIAL ADDRESS Alain RATIER, Director-General, EUMETSAT OFFICIAL ADDRESS Emmanuel LEGRAND, Directeur des systèmes d’observation et d’information, Météo-France EUMETSAT GEOSTATIONARY AND LOW EARTH ORBIT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES Clemens KAISER, Director of Programme Preparation and Development, EUMETSAT 09:30 NOAA CURRENT AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES Gregory MANDT, GOES-R System Program Director OVERVIEW OF THE NEXT GENERATION GEOSTATIONARY METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE, HIMAWARI-8 Toshiyuki KURINO, Japan Meteorological Agency/Meteorological Satellite Center CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS Lorna PUTZE, Core Communications Manager, EUMETSAT 10:30 COFFEE BREAK Marquee 11:00 09:45 10:00 10:45 11:00 5 O R A L P R E S E N TAT I O N S 11:45 CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITES, INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Satellite programmes 11:45 12:00 12:15 12:30 12:45 A ADVANCES IN UTILISATION OF SATELLITE DATA FOR NOWCASTING AND LIMITED AREA MODELLING Chairs: Kenneth HOLMLUND, EUMETSAT Ben VEIHELMANN, ESA/ESTEC WMO Space Programme Presenter TBC, WMO Joint Polar Satellite System: The United States next generation civilian polar orbiting environmental satellite system Harry CIKANEK, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS Presented by: Wanda J. HARDING, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS GOES-R series: The next generation GOES Gregory Alan MANDT, NOAA/NESDIS An advanced Himawari-8 imaging function and applications Masaya TAKAHASHI, Meteorological Satellite Center, Japan Meteorological Agency Current status and prospects of meteorological satellites based on METEOR-M polar-orbiting platform Vasily V. ASMUS, SRC Planeta Chair: Piotr STRUZIK, IMGW-PIB 11:45 12:15 12:30 12:45 13:00 13:00 14:30 2 Keynote address Using the Nowcasting SAF products over South Africa and southern Africa to enhance nowcasting capabilities in data sparse regions Estelle DE CONING, South African Weather Service An integrated 0-1 hour first-flash lightning nowcasting, lightning amount and lightning jump warning capability John MECIKALSKI, University of Alabama in Huntsville Passive microwave approaches to hailstorm detection Sante LAVIOLA, National Research Council of Italy Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Physical processes responsible for storm top IR features observed by satellites Pao K. WANG, University of Wisconsin-Madison Meteosat-based characterization of the spatio-temporal evolution of shallow cumulus cloud fields Sebastian BLEY, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) LUNCH BREAK Marquee CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITES, INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Satellite programmes 14:30 14:45 15:00 15:15 15:30 15:45 A ADVANCES IN UTILISATION OF SATELLITE DATA FOR NOWCASTING AND LIMITED AREA MODELLING Chairs: Kenneth HOLMLUND, EUMETSAT Ben VEIHELMANN, ESA/ESTEC Preparing the first mission of ESA’s series of Copernicus atmospheric monitoring service missions for launch Paul INGMANN, ESA/ESTEC Metop Second Generation - System overview Maurizio BETTO, ESA/ESTEC Metop Second Generation – Payload overview Marc LOISELET, ESA/ESTEC Presented by: Ville KANGAS, ESA/ESTEC IASI-NG level 1 processing principles Bernard TOURNIER, NOVELTIS Overview of IASI-NG the next generation of infrared atmospheric sounder after PDR Francois FAURE, Airbus Defence and Space SAS The Ice Cloud Imager on Metop-SG Stefan BUEHLER, University of Hamburg Chair: Natasa STRELEC MAHOVIC, DHMZ 14:30 14:45 15:00 15:15 15:30 16:00 POSTER SESSION/COFFEE BREAK Marquee 6 A = Amphitheatre 2 Space-based observation and nowcasting of high ice water content regions: Application to the High Altitude Ice Crystals (HAIC) aeronautic project Eric DEFER, LERMA Experimentation of real-time use of EUMETSAT observations and derived nowcast products using PLAne NETwork (PLANET) for HAIC-HIWC field campaigns Jean-Marc GAUBERT, ATMOSPHERE Analysis of the performance of the NWC SAF precipitation products during Hymex SOP1 cases over the Adriatic Izidor PELAJIC, Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia (DHMZ) Towards improvement of satellite cloud product derivation based on AVHRR data Jan Pawel MUSIAL, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography, Poland MSG Optimal Cloud Analysis (OCA) product in deep convection and storm monitoring Piotr STRUZIK, Institute of Meteorology and Water Management–National Research Institute Poland 2 = Room 2 MONDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 21 21 SEPTEMBER MORNING SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVMENTS AND FUTURE OBJECTIVES IN CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS WITH SATELLITES Climate data records 11:45 12:00 12:15 12:30 12:45 3 Chair: Roger William SAUNDERS, Met Office European Climate Data Record Capacity Assessment Jörg SCHULZ, EUMETSAT New features and improvements in the second release of the CMSAF Clouds Albedo and Surface Radiation dataset based on AVHRR data (CLARA-A2) Karl-Göran KARLSSON, SMHI The ESA Cloud_cci project: Generation of multi-decadal global datasets of cloud properties using an optimal estimation approach Oliver SUS, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst Long term cloud property datasets from MODIS and AVHRR using the CERES cloud algorithm Patrick MINNIS, NASA Langley Research Center Three decades of cloud amount and cloud top height A new HIRS-based climate dataset by CMSAF Martin STENGEL, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst LUNCH BREAK Marquee 13:00 SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVMENTS AND FUTURE OBJECTIVES IN CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS WITH SATELLITES Climate data records (14:30-15:30) Calibration and stability (15:30-15:45) 14:30 14:45 15:00 15:15 15:30 11:45 3 AFTERNOON 14:30 Chairs: Roger William SAUNDERS, Met Office Reto STÖCKLI, MeteoSwiss The CM SAF Solar Surface Radiation climate data set derived from Meteosat satellite observations (SARAH) Jörg TRENTMANN, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst ROM SAF global climate data records based on radio occultation data Hans GLEISNER, Danish Meteorological Institute An examination of a multi-decadal total column water vapour record from the high-resolution infrared radiation sounder and its application for climate studies Tim TRENT, University of Leicester Intercalibrated global ocean winds from multiple scatterometers/ radiometers Lucrezia RICCIARDULLI, Remote Sensing Systems Keynote address Characterizing long-term stability in the PATMOS-x record Michael J FOSTER, CIMSS/ University of Wisconsin-Madison POSTER SESSION/COFFEE BREAK Marquee 3 = Room 3 16:00 7 O R A L P R E S E N TAT I O N S 16:45 CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITES, INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Satellite programmes 16:45 17:00 17:15 17:30 17:45 18:00 20:30 8 A ADVANCES IN UTILISATION OF SATELLITE DATA FOR NOWCASTING AND LIMITED AREA MODELLING Chairs: Kenneth HOLMLUND, EUMETSAT Ben VEIHELMANN, ESA/ESTEC Current and future satellites, instruments and their applications Sub-topic Satellite programmes NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System’s Proving Ground and Risk Reduction (PGRR) program – New initiatives in response to changing user needs! Bill SJOBERG, NOAA JPSS Program The contribution of operational and research applications from the Joint Polar Satellite System to societal benefits Mitch GOLDBERG, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS Presented by: Arron LAYNS, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS Optimizing requirements for the next generation of satellite observing systems Philip Edward ARDANUY, Raytheon Company Multi-sensor co-registration and co-location for synergetic retrievals from EPS-SG Ruediger LANG, EUMETSAT Longwave flux retrieval for the broadband radiometer on EarthCARE Almudena VELAZQUEZ BLAZQUEZ, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium Chair: Jean-François MAHFOUF, Météo-France and CNRS 16:45 17:15 17:30 17:45 Keynote address Scatterometer winds assimilation in the mesoscale HARMONIE model Gert-Jan MARSEILLE, KNMI Advances in the use of ASCAT winds in Met Office high resolution NWP James Andrew COTTON, Met Office All-sky SEVIRI radiance data impact on regional forecasts Xiaoyan ZHANG, NCEP/EMC A fast forward operator for the assimilation of visible SEVIRI observations in KENDA-COSMO Leonhard SCHECK, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich NETWORKING EVENT: ICEBREAKER CIC Conference Centre A = Amphitheatre 2 2 = Room 2 MONDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 21 21 SEPTEMBER AFTERNOON SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVMENTS AND FUTURE OBJECTIVES IN CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS WITH SATELLITES Calibration and stability (16:45-17:15) Retrieval algorithms (17:15-18:00) 16:45 17:00 17:15 17:30 17:45 3 16:45 Chairs: Reto STÖCKLI, MeteoSwiss Jörg SCHULZ, EUMETSAT An evaluation of the quality difference between water vapour profiles from ATOVS and IASI+MW Karsten FENNIG, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst A fundamental climate data record for microwave humidity sounder radiances Helen Marie HANLON, Met Office Presented by: Roger SAUNDERS, Met Office Developing a cloud algorithm suite that provides consistent performance across the MODIS and VIIRS data records for climate research Robert E. HOLZ, University of Wisconsin Madison ESA Climate Change Initiative: Cloud property retrievals from synergistic AATSR and MERIS measurements Cintia Karin CARBAJAL HENKEN, Freie Universität Berlin Advancements and validation of a global snow product fusing optical and passive microwave radiometer data Rune SOLBERG, Norwegian Computing Center NETWORKING EVENT: ICEBREAKER CIC Conference Centre 3 = Room 3 18:00 20:30 9 O R A L P R E S E N TAT I O N S 08:30 09:00 WELCOME COFFEE AND REGISTRATION Marquee/Registration Desk CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITES, INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Satellite programmes 09:00 09:15 09:30 09:45 10:00 10:15 10:30 11:15 A ADVANCES IN UTILISATION OF SATELLITE DATA FOR NOWCASTING AND LIMITED AREA MODELLING Chairs: Kenneth HOLMLUND, EUMETSAT Ben VEIHELMANN, ESA/ESTEC Chair: Teresa Maaria VALKONEN, Norwegian Meteorological Institute 09:00 MTG programme status Lionel DE LA TAILLE, EUMETSAT Meteosat Third Generation (MTG), space segment status and performances Donny M. A. AMINOU, ESA/ESTEC Image and data simulator of the Flexible Combined Imager on Meteosat Third Generation Cecile MONFORT, Thales Alenia Space Rapid scan – New flexibility for next generation geostationary imaging Paul C GRIFFITH, Exelis The MTG Infrared Sounder functional chain Stefano GIGLI, EUMETSAT The Sentinel-4 mission and its atmospheric composition products Ben VEIHELMANN, ESA/ESTEC 2 09:30 09:45 10:00 Keynote address Assimilating cloud-affected infrared brightness temperatures in a high-resolution numerical model using an ensemble data assimilation system Jason OTKIN, University of Wisconsin-Madison Assimiliation of EUMETSAT IASI Principal components product in AROME model Javier ANDREY, Météo-France A close look at the spatial resolution of the ASCAT backscatter Julia FIGA-SALDANA, EUMETSAT Lidar-based height correction of atmospheric motion vectors for data assimilation Kathrin FOLGER, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich POSTER SESSION / COFFEE BREAK Marquee CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITES, INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Clouds and wind 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 12:15 12:30 LUNCH BREAK Marquee 10 A = Amphitheatre ADVANCES IN UTILISATION OF SATELLITE DATA FOR NOWCASTING AND LIMITED AREA MODELLING 2 Chair:Hartwig Manfred DENEKE, TROPOS Chair: Jochen GRANDELL, EUMETSAT Merging Sounder and Imager data for optimal cloud height estimation Andrew Kevin HEIDINGER, NOAA Cloud retrievals over snow and sea-ice surface: a review for CLAVR-x Andi WALTHER, CIMSS, University of Wisconsin-Madison A new methodology for simultaneous multi-layer retrievals of ice and liquid cloud properties Odran SOURDEVAL, Institute for Meteorology, Universität Leipzig Survey of cloud optical parameters during night from lunar reflectance measurements Andi WALTHER, CIMSS, University of Wisconsin-Madison Improvements of AMV heights assignment extracted from MSG using the 2 layer OCA product Regis BORDE, EUMETSAT EUMETSAT triplet mode AVHRR winds product over Polar Regions Olivier HAUTECOEUR, METIS/ EUMETSAT 12:45 A 11:15 11:45 12:00 12:15 12:30 Keynote address Progress of microwave imager radiance assimilation in JMA NWP systems Masahiro KAZUMORI, Japan Meteorological Agency Investigating the impact of the SAPHIR microwave rainy and cloudy observations within the AROME regional model Philippe CHAMBON, CNRM/GAME Recent developments on the assimilation of scatterometer winds in NWP models at Météo-France Christophe PAYAN, CNRM and GAME Impact of Background Model to the MSG Global Instability Indices (GII) Processing Zsófia KOCSIS, Hungarian Meteorological Service Instability indices derived from current and future infrared hyperspectral instruments and NWP models: advantages and limitations Xavier CALBET, AEMET 2 = Room 2 TUESDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 22 22 SEPTEMBER MORNING 08:30 WELCOME COFFEE AND REGISTRATION Marquee/Registration Desk SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVMENTS AND FUTURE OBJECTIVES IN CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS WITH SATELLITES Retrieval algroithms 09:00 09:15 09:30 09:45 10:00 3 Chair: Jörg SCHULZ, EUMETSAT Land surface albedo from MSG and EPS satellites in the LSA-SAF project : method for retrieval and validation Grégoire JACOB, Météo-France Suitability of Meteosat satellite data for climatological LST retrieval Virgilio BENTO, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology Meteoswiss Towards GERB Edition 2 TOA fluxes Alessandro IPE, Royal Meteorological Institute, Belgium Enhanced CERES LW broadband diurnally averaged fluxes using Geostationary imager radiances Moguo SUN, SSAI Estimating TOA SW clear-sky fluxes: sensitivity to geophysical surface conditions Florian TORNOW, Freie Universität Berlin INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION CAMPAIGNS 09:30 09:45 10:00 10:15 Himawari-8 post-launch radiometric calibration and navigation analysis Masaya TAKAHASHI, Meteorological Satellite Center, Japan Meteorological Agency Summary of the joint GSICS–CEOS/IVOS Lunar Calibration Workshop: Moving towards inter-calibration using the Moon as a transfer target Tim HEWISON, EUMETSAT An inter-agency initiative to refine the radiometric reference of the Moon for on-orbit calibrations Thomas STONE, USGS Presented by: Tim HEWISON, EUMETSAT Improving the radiometric accuracy of 1.6 µm moderate resolution band of Suomi NPP VIIRS by comparing with GOSAT FTS Sirish UPRETY, Colorado State University Presented by: Changyong CAO, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Geostationary to MODIS visible inter-calibration improvements by targeting deep convective clouds. David DOELLING, NASA-Langley Research Center 10:30 POSTER SESSION / COFFEE BREAK Marquee SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVMENTS AND FUTURE OBJECTIVES IN CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS WITH SATELLITES 3 INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION CAMPAIGNS Processes and applications Chair: Michael J FOSTER, University of Wisconsin - Madison VIS/UV 11:15 11:15 11:45 12:00 12:15 12:30 Keynote address Exploitation of ESA CCI datasets for climate research Roger William SAUNDERS, Met Office The CMSAF CLARA-A2 satellite dataset simulator - a general description and demonstration assessing EC Earth modelled Arctic cloud response to changing sea-ice cover Salomon ELIASSON, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) Improving the understanding of freezing processes in clouds using SEVIRI-based cloud property datasets of CM SAF Martin STENGEL, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst Detecting Climate Trends with High Spectral Resolution Infrared Satellite Measurements Daniel H DESLOVER, University of Wisconsin-Madison Satellite-based snow cover monitoring in Lesotho to support sustainable water resource management Stefan WUNDERLE, Remote Sensing Research Group and Oeschger Centre for Climate Research, University of Bern 11:45 12:00 12:15 4 11:15 Chairs: Lawrence FLYNN, (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/SMCD) Patrick MINNIS, NASA Langley Research Center Keynote address VIIRS Instrument Performance Updates for Suomi NPP and JPSS J1 Changyong CAO, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Estimating of the stray light dynamic variation of the FY-2E / VISSR around Dunhuang area by the use of highland lakes Yuan LI, NSMC National Satellite Meteorological Centre/ China Meteorological Administration Determination of the field of view of remote sensing instruments from complementary high-resolution imager data Holger SIHLER, Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry The new GOME-2 level 1 data version 6 for retrieval of atmospheric composition data, multi-sensor cross-calibrations and products Ruediger LANG, EUMETSAT 12:45 LUNCH BREAK Marquee 3 = Room 3 09:00 Chairs: Lawrence FLYNN, (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/SMCD) Patrick MINNIS, NASA Langley Research Center VIS/NIR 09:00 4 4 = Room 4 11 O R A L P R E S E N TAT I O N S 14:00 16:30 POSTER SESSION Marquee 15:45 16:30 POSTER SESSION / COFFEE BREAK Marquee 16:30 CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITES, INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Clouds and wind 16:30 16:45 17:00 17:15 12 A Chair: Jochen GRANDELL, EUMETSAT Investigations on accounting the systematic height assignment errors for AMVs in NWP Kirsti SALONEN, ECMWF Real-time generation of feature-tracked winds from humidity fields derived from satellite sounder retrievals David A. SANTEK, University of Wisconsin-Madison Aeolus/Aladin: Latest achievements Frédéric FABRE, Airbus Defence and Space Quasi Real-Time Aeolus wind services Ad STOFFELEN, KNMI A = Amphitheatre TUESDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 22 22 SEPTEMBER AFTERNOON POSTER SESSION Marquee 14:00 16:30 POSTER SESSION / COFFEE BREAK Marquee 15:45 16:30 SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVMENTS AND FUTURE OBJECTIVES IN CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS WITH SATELLITES Processes and applications 16:30 16:45 17:00 3 Chair: Michael J FOSTER, University of Wisconsin-Madison Cloud properties retrieved from infrared sounders and their analysis in synergy with active remote sensing Artem FEOFILOV, École Polytechnique/ Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique A study on the relation between clouds and total column water vapour derived from space- and groundbased measurements over land surfaces Hannes DIEDRICH, Freie Universität Berlin Retrieving cloud base and top updrafts from present and future satellites - a new dimension and resultant insights and prospects Daniel ROSENFELD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 3 = Room 3 ADVANCES IN UTILISATION OF SATELLITE DATA FOR NOWCASTING AND LIMITED AREA MODELLING 4 16:30 Chair: Zsofia KOCSIS, Hungarian Meteorological Service 16:30 16:45 17:00 17:15 Temporal analysis of cloud parameters fields from SEV06-CLD product before precipitation Maximilien PATOU, Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, Université Lille 1 Influence of surface temperature and emissivity on AMSU-A assimilation over land Wenying HE, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Land surface tempature retrieval from IASI for assimilation over the AROME-France domain Niama BOUKACHABA, Météo-France and CNRS Land surface model assimilation of SMOS soil moisture retrievals: Impact on weather forecasts Clay BLANKENSHIP, USRA 4 = Room 4 13 O R A L P R E S E N TAT I O N S 08:30 09:00 WELCOME COFFEE AND REGISTRATION Marquee/Registration Desk CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITES, INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Precipitation 09:00 09:30 09:45 10:00 10:15 10:30 11:15 A ADVANCES IN UTILISATION OF SATELLITE DATA FOR NOWCASTING AND LIMITED AREA MODELLING Chair: Julia FIGA-SALDANA, EUMETSAT Chair: Hervé ROQUET, Météo-France Keynote address NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement mission: Performance and science results 18 months after launch Gail SKOFRONICK-JACKSON, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Global Precipitation Measurement mission ground validation: Strategy and analysis in the post launch era Walter PETERSEN, NASA GSFC/ WallopsFlight Facilty Performance of the Global Precipitation Measurement mission precipitation retrievals Christopher KIDD, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and University of Maryland Initial evaluation of GPROF GPM rainfall estimates over Poland Bozena LAPETA, Institute of Meteorology and Water Management–National Research Institute Poland Presented by: Piotr STRUZIK Status and results from the Day-1 Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) George J. HUFFMAN, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Presented by: Gail SKOFRONICK-JACKSON 2 09:00 09:15 09:30 09:45 10:00 Sensitivity study of microphysical properties of cirrus in combination to natural aerosol on synthetic SEVIRI observation Anja HÜNERBEIN, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research TROPOS Application of water vapour imagery and potential vorticity analysis for diagnosis and forecasting interaction between tropical cyclones and upper-level dynamic structures Christo Georgiev GEORGIEV, National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Bulgaria Validation of different nowcasting models based on the Meteosat Second Generation satellite data Michele DE ROSA, GEO-K srl Object-based verification of regional convection forecasts using Meteosat observations Hartwig DENEKE, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, TROPOS Day time cloud forecasting for space-to-ground optical communication optimisation Sylvain CROS, Reuniwatt SAS POSTER SESSION / COFFEE BREAK Marquee CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITES, INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Specific applications 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 12:15 LUNCH BREAK Marquee 14 A = Amphitheatre ADVANCES IN UTILISATION OF SATELLITE DATA FOR NOWCASTING AND LIMITED AREA MODELLING 2 Chairs: Kenneth HOLMLUND, EUMETSAT Ben VEIHELMANN, ESA/ESTEC Improvements of the MPI-C water vapour retrieval in the red spectral range Johannes LAMPEL, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Water vapour total column from ATSR-like instruments: the design and application of the Advanced Infra-Red Water Vapour Estimator (AIRWAVE) tool Bianca Maria DINELLI, ISAC-CNR The MUSICA METOP/IASI water vapour isotopologue product and its validation Matthias SCHNEIDER, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Highlights of a new SEVIRI shortwave radiation product Ping WANG, KNMI Applications of MSG and GOES imagery in support of space to ground laser communications Randall Jamil ALLISS, Northrop Grumman, United States of America 12:30 A 11:15 Panel discussion on ‘Advances in utilisation of satellite data for nowcasting and limited area modelling’ Panel members: Florence Rabier (ECMWF, panel moderator), Jeanette Onvlee (KNMI), Stan Benjamin (NOAA), Masahiro Kazumori (JMA), Jean-Francois Mahfouf (Meteo-France), Roger Saunders (Met Office) 2 = Room 2 WEDNESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 23 23 SEPTEMBER MORNING 08:30 WELCOME COFFEE AND REGISTRATION Marquee/Registration Desk ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION Trace gases 09:00 09:30 09:45 10:00 10:15 3 Chair: Vincent-Henri PEUCH, ECMWF Keynote address The use of atmospheric composition data from Eumetsat in the CAMS data assimilation system Antje INNESS, ECMWF The atmospheric composition geostationary satellite constellation for air quality and climate science: Evaluating performance with Observation System Simulation Experiments Jerome Eloi BARRE, National Center For Atmospheric Research Reanalysis of TERRA-MOPITT CO retrievals Benjamin GAUBERT, NCAR, ACD 10 years of SCIAMACHY CO retrieved from the 2.3 μm SWIR spectral range in the perspective of the upcoming TROPOMI instrument Tobias BORSDORFF, SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research Ammonia emissions in tropical biomass burning regions: Comparison between satellite-derived emissions and bottom-up fire inventories. Simon WHITBURN, Université Libre de Bruxelles INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION CAMPAIGNS 09:30 09:45 10:00 10:15 Keynote address ABI’s unique calibration and validation capabilities Paul C GRIFFITH, Exelis Overview of the SNPP product performance and the plans for JPSS-1 calibration and validation Ivan CSISZAR, NOAA/NESDIS CLARREO Pathfinder/Tech Demo Flight on ISS: The IR Absolute Radiance Interferometer (ARI) has demonstrated readiness Henry REVERCOMB, University of Wisconsin-Madison L1 comparisons of IASI-A and IASI-B in two configurations of the cube corner compensation device Claude CAMY-PEYRET, IPSL The On-Orbit Verification and Test System (OVTS) for the Absolute Radiance Interferometer (ARI), an IR Prototype Instrument for NASA’s CLARREO Mission Fred Arthur BEST, University of Wisconsin-Madison 10:30 POSTER SESSION / COFFEE BREAK Marquee ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION 3 Trace gases Chair: Vincent-Henri PEUCH, ECMWF 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 Seasonal variation of bromine monoxide over the Rann of Kutch salt marsh seen from space Christoph HÖRMANN, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Analysis of bromine monoxide emissions from salt lakes based on satellite observations from OMI Raid M SULEIMAN, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Trace gas column observations from GOME-2 Pieter VALKS, German Aerospace Center Investigation of the representativeness of MAXDOAS and PANDORA measurement sites for the validation of tropospheric and total NO2 columns from space nadir sensors Gaia PINARDI, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB) INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION CAMPAIGNS 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 12:15 12:45 4 11:15 Chairs: Tim HEWISON, EUMETSAT Changyong CAO, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR IR 12:30 Exploitation of SI-1 data from Meteor-28 and 29 spacecraft for climate purposes Dorothee COPPENS, EUMETSAT Soumi NPP CrIS Radiometric Calibration Stability Assessment: A Perspective from Two Years’ Inter-Comparison with AIRS and IASI LIkun WANG, University of Maryland In-flight assessment of the MTG-IRS Level-1b radiometric noise Emmanuel DUFOUR, NOVELTIS IRFS-2/Meteor-M N2 measurements analysis Alexander POLYAKOV, Saint-Petersburg State University Bridging the gap between AATSR and SLSTR IR observations using MetOp-A instruments AVHRR and IASI Christoforos TSAMALIS, Met Office AVHRR SST Reprocessing: Linking Instabilities in SST Time Series with Brightness Temperatures and Calibration Alexander IGNATOV, NOAA STAR Improved calibration of the MTG imager Philippe TANGUY, Thales Alenia Space 13:00 LUNCH BREAK Marquee 3 = Room 3 09:00 Chairs: Tim HEWISON, EUMETSAT Changyong CAO, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR IR 09:00 4 4 = Room 4 15 O R A L P R E S E N TAT I O N S 14:00 16:30 POSTER SESSION Marquee 15:45 16:30 POSTER SESSION / COFFEE BREAK Marquee JOINT SESSION 16:30 MARINE METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY & INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION CAMPAIGNS 2 Chair: Hans BONEKAMP, EUMETSAT 16:30 16:45 17:00 17:15 19:00 23:00 16 Sentinel-3 Mission performance implementations at EUMETSAT Hans BONEKAMP, EUMETSAT Jason-3 global ocean data quality assessment Sabine PHILIPPS, CLS Regional in situ CalVal of satellite altimeter range at non-dedicated sites Mathilde CANCET, NOVELTIS Calibration and validation of RapidScat ocean vector wind data Alexander FORE, Jet Propulsion Laboratory NETWORKING EVENT: CONFERENCE DINNER Hôtel-Dieu, 2 rue de la Viguerie, 31300 Toulouse 2 = Room 2 WEDNESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 23 23 SEPTEMBER AFTERNOON POSTER SESSION Marquee 14:00 16:30 POSTER SESSION / COFFEE BREAK Marquee 15:45 16:30 3 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION Trace gases 16:30 16:45 17:00 17:15 Chair: Vincent-Henri PEUCH, ECMWF Retrieval of sea surface temperature and column averaged CO2 mixing ratio from IASI-A and IASI-B over the Arctic Ocean in summer 2013 and 2014 Claude CAMY-PEYRET, IPSL Towards lowermost tropospheric CO2 content from satellite observation: validation of CO2 products retrieved from SWIR TANSO-FTS data on board GOSAT, and evaluation of spectral SWIR/TIR synergy methodologies for improved lower tropospheric CO2 product. Olivier LEZEAUX, NOVELTIS Methane and carbon dioxide total columns over oceans measured by shortwave infrared satellite sounders Jochen LANDGRAF, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research Time Resolved Atmospheric Carbon Satellite Observations from Geostationary Orbit David EDWARDS, NCAR INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION CAMPAIGNS Calibration facilities 16:30 17:00 16:30 Chairs: Tim HEWISON, EUMETSAT Christopher Dwight BARNET, Science and Technology Corporation Keynote address Extending the NOAA integrated calibration and validation system to benefit operational forecasters and improve weather forecasts Kenneth Fletcher CAREY, ERT Inc.; NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Open access to research aircraft in the EUFAR fleet Elisabeth GERARD, Météo-France NETWORKING EVENT: CONFERENCE DINNER Hôtel-Dieu, 2 rue de la Viguerie, 31300 Toulouse 3 = Room 3 4 19:00 23:00 4 = Room 4 17 O R A L P R E S E N TAT I O N S 08:30 09:00 WELCOME COFFEE AND REGISTRATION Marquee/Registration Desk CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITES, INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Precipitation 09:00 09:30 09:45 10:00 10:15 10:30 10:30 11:15 A Chair: Hervé ROQUET, Météo-France Keynote address The Megha-Tropiques mission: Review and status after almost 4 years in orbit Rémy ROCA, CNRS Assimilating Megha-Tropiques SAPHIR data in the NOAA GDAS Erin E JONES, RTi at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/JCSDA Latest status of the JAXA’s water-related missions: GCOM-W and GPM Misako KACHI, JAXA Use of the constellation of PMW radiometers in the GPM era for heavy precipitation event monitoring and analysis during fall 2014 in Italy Giulia PANEGROSSI, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate - National Research Council (ISAC-CNR) The Passive Microwave Neural Network Precipitation Retrieval (PNPR) for the cross-track scanning ATMS radiometer Paolo SANÒ, National Research Council (CNR) Precipitation estimation from MSG-SEVIRI infrared satellite imagery Noud BRASJEN, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) PREPARATION FOR THE USE OF DATA FROM NEW GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES Future imager applications 09:00 09:30 09:45 10:00 2 Chair: Ralph Alvin PETERSEN, University of Wisconsin-Madison Keynote address Diagnosing cumulus cloud updraft characteristics and inferring in-cloud parameters using 1-min GOES observations John R. MECIKALSKI, University of Alabama in Huntsville Development of the optimal cloud analysis product for the next geostationary meteorological satellites “Himawari-8/9” Masahiro HAYASHI, The Meteorological Satellite Center of The Japan Meteorological Agency Combined use of 1.6 and 2.25 micrometer reflectances to improve the cloud phase retrieval in the NWCSAF/GEO cloud microphysics Herve LE GLEAU, Météo-France The use of global sensitivity analysis for assessing capability of the MTG/FCI instrument to detect aerosols Youva Loic AOUN, MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University, O.I.E. POSTER SESSION / COFFEE BREAK Marquee CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITES, INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Specific applications 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 12:15 A Chairs: Kenneth HOLMLUND, EUMETSAT Ben VEIHELMANN, ESA/ESTEC Impact assessment of a degraded polar-orbiting satellite constellation on the NOAA Numerical Weather Prediction Kevin GARRETT, RTi, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR; Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation Impact of accounting for inter-channel error covariances at the Canadian Meteorological Center Sylvain HEILLIETTE, Environment Canada Status of RTTOV developments Jerome VIDOT, Météo-France All sky radiative transfer calculations for IASI-NG: The sigma-SACS code Giuliano LIUZZI, School of Engineering, University of Basilicata Usage of the VIIRS day night band to detect anthropogenic lights William C. STRAKA III, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Space Science and Engineering Center 12:30 LUNCH BREAK Marquee 18 A = Amphitheatre PREPARATION FOR THE USE OF DATA FROM NEW GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES User readiness 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 12:15 Chair: John R. MECIKALSKI, University of Alabama in Huntsville MTG user preparation Sally WANNOP, EUMETSAT MTG-FCI level 1c dataset for user format familiarisation Rebeca GUTIERREZ LOPEZ, EUMETSAT Product generation capabilities of the GOES-R ground system Satya KALLURI, NOAA GOES-R education proving ground Margaret MOONEY, University of Wisconsin-Madison Enhancing user readiness for the next generation geostationary meteorological satellites: Learning resources from the COMET program Patrick N. DILLS, UCAR-COMET 2 = Room 2 2 THURSDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 24 24 SEPTEMBER MORNING 08:30 WELCOME COFFEE AND REGISTRATION Marquee/Registration Desk 3 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION Volcanic ash and aerosol 09:00 09:30 09:45 10:00 10:15 Chair: Claus ZEHNER, ESA Microwave 09:00 Keynote address Volcanic ash and aviation Philippe HUSSON, Météo-France WMO inter-comparison of satellite-based volcanic ash retrieval algorithms Stephan BOJINSKI, WMO Presented by Richard SIDDANS, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Integrating volcanic ash observationss Simulations, and air traffic rerouting systems: A case study of the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajokull Eric Joseph HUGHES, University of Maryland Detection of volcanic ash clouds based on an neural network approach Kaspar GRAF, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Volcanic ash and SO2 monitoring using Suomi NPP OMPS version 2 direct broadcast data Colin SEFTOR, Science Systems and Applications Inc. 4 INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION CAMPAIGNS 09:30 09:45 10:00 10:15 Chairs: Roger William SAUNDERS, Met Office Tim HEWISON, EUMETSAT Keynote address Monitoring microwave sounder data on climate timescales with reanalysis William James INGRAM, Met Office Updates on ATMS calibration and SDR algorithm Fuzhong WENG, NOAA Presented by: Changyong CAO, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR On-orbit antenna reflector loss measurements for Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) calibration Hu YANG, University of Maryland Reflector emissivity biases on ATMS Kent ANDERSON, Northrop Grumman Corporation Characterization of on-orbit performance of FY-3C microwave sounding instruments Xiaolei ZOU, UMD/ESSIC Presented by: Hu YANG, University of Maryland 10:30 POSTER SESSION / COFFEE BREAK Marquee ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION Volcanic ash and aerosol 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 12:15 12:30 3 Chair: Claus ZEHNER, ESA The NASA applied sciences program: Volcanic ash observations and applications John Joseph MURRAY, NASA Langley Research Center IASI observations of volcanic SO2 and ash Maria ATHANASSIADOU, Met Office Monitoring volcanic SO2 emissions using GOME-2/Metop-A & -B Pascal HEDELT, DLR, IMF-ATP Retrieval of aerosol optical properties over land using PMAp Michael GRZEGORSKI, EUMETSAT Observing the chemical and micro-physical properties of upper tropospheric-lower stratospheric sulphate aerosols by means of thermal infrared nadir satellite instruments Pasquale SELLITTO, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, UMR8539, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS-École Normale Supérieure/Université Pierre et Marie Curie/École Polytechnique L2A Aerosol products from the future space lidar mission ADM-Aeolus: Algorithms and results. Pauline MARTINET, CNRM-GAME, Météo-France & CNRS 4 INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION CAMPAIGNS Microwave 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 12:15 12:30 11:15 Chairs: Roger William SAUNDERS, Met Office Tim HEWISON, EUMETSAT An interesting bias in spaceborne observations in the 183GHz line: Some clues to understand it Helene BROGNIEZ, LATMOS, UVSQ/UPMC/CNRS What is the actual NEDT for US microwave sounding instruments? Miao TIAN, Earth Resource Technology Inc. Plans and schedule for the first GPM reprocessing of GPM mission data Erich Franz STOCKER, NASA/GSFC A fundamental climate data record of SSM/I & SSMIS brightness temperatures Karsten FENNIG, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst Use of MHS and SAPHIR for validation of GMI Thomas Turner WILHEIT, Texas A&M University Impact of polarization mixing on ocean surface wind speed retrievals using SSMIS brightness temperatures David B. KUNKEE, The Aerospace Corporation 12:45 LUNCH BREAK Marquee 3 = Room 3 09:00 4 = Room 4 19 O R A L P R E S E N TAT I O N S 14:00 CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITES, INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Land 14:00 14:30 14:45 15:00 15:15 15:30 16:30 A Chair: Hervé ROQUET, Météo-France PREPARATION FOR THE USE OF DATA FROM NEW GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES 14:30 14:45 15:00 15:15 15:30 Keynote address Meteosat Third Generation Lightning Imager (MTG-LI): Flash and accumulated products and test data for user readiness activities Jochen GRANDELL, EUMETSAT Experimental MTG Lightning Imager proxy data at national meteorological services Rafal IWANSKI, Institute of Meteorology and Water ManagementNational Research Institute Poland Assimilation of future MTG Lightning Imager (LI)- and InfraRed Sounder (IRS) mission data - Improving the LAPS analysis Erik Ingmar GREGOW, Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) Learning from concurrent Lightning Imaging Sensor and Lightning Mapping Array observations in preparation for the MTG-LI mission Eric DEFER, LERMA, Observatoire de Paris & CNRS Operational uses and demonstrations of total lightning in preparation for space-based platforms Kevin Kenneth FUELL, NASA Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center (SPoRT); University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) An optical lightning simulator in an electrified Cloud Resolving Model as a support of future lightning observation missions Christophe BOVALO, Laboratoire d’Aérologie POSTER SESSION / COFFEE BREAK Marquee CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITES, INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR APPLICATION Land 16:30 16:45 17:00 A Chair: Hervé ROQUET, Météo-France ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission – Status and perspectives Susanne MECKLENBURG, ESA/ ESRIN Setup of the Sentinel-1 soil moisture validation sites in Biebrza wetlands, Poland Jan Pawel MUSIAL, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography SMOS measurements in forecasting systems: A quantitative assessment of skill Susanne Martha MECKLENBURG, ESA/ ESRIN PREPARATION FOR THE USE OF DATA FROM NEW GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES Other applications 16:30 16:45 17:00 17:15 20 Chair: Rolf STUHLMANN, EUMETSAT Lightning 14:00 Keynote address A multiplatform Land Surface Temperature dataset using AATSR, SEVIRI, MTSAT and GOES-E for WACMOS-ET: Algorithms and validation results Joao Paulo MARTINS, IPMA; Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), University of Lisbon Towards a consistent suite of land data products from NOAA operational polar orbiter and geostationary satellites Ivan CSISZAR, NOAA/NESDIS Modelling the angular effects on satellite retrieved Land Surface Temperature over Europe Sofia L. ERMIDA, Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), University of Lisbon Retrieval of surface temperature and emissivity from SEVIRI data: Implementation of Kalman filter methodology to full disk and validation with in-situ observations Sara VENAFRA, School of Engineering, University of Basilicata Using a thermal infrared-based drought index to assess drought conditions and to provide early warning of flash drought development Jason OTKIN, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2 A = Amphitheatre Chair: David A. SANTEK, University of Wisconsin-Madison First results of assimilation of MTG-IRS L2 observations in HARMONIE Siebren DE HAAN, KNMI Exploring new forecaster applications and data sources for NearCasts as a prelude to MTG-IRS Ralph Alvin PETERSEN, SSEC/CIMSS, University of Wisconsin-Madison Evaluation of GOES-R and JPSS Land Surface Temperature products using Himawari-8 AHI data Yunyue YU, NOAA/NESDIS Presented by: Ivan CSISZAR, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Utility of GOES-R Super Rapid Scan mesoscale atmospheric motion vectors for diagnosing storm types: Can we discriminate between ordinary and supercellular storms by satellite? Jason APKE, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Atmospheric Science 2 = Room 2 2 THURSDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 24 24 SEPTEMBER AFTERNOON 3 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION Volcanic ash and aerosol 14:00 14:15 14:30 14:45 15:00 15:15 Chair: Ruediger LANG, EUMETSAT MARINE METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY Winds 14:00 The long-term trend and spatiotemporal variations of haze over China by satellite observations from 1979 to 2013 Xingying ZHANG, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration IASI Dust algorithm inter-comparison within ESA’s Climate Change Initiative Lars KLUESER, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Retrieving dust optical depth and infrared radiative forcing from IASI observations: A new global public dataset Lieven CLARISSE, Spectroscopie de l’Atmosphère, Chimie Quantique et Photophysique, Université Libre de Bruxelle Dust infrared aerosol properties observed from infrared hyperspectral sounders: Analysis of the diurnal variation Virginie CAPELLE, LMD/CNR Dust detection with IASI measurements in the weather forecast Julie LETERTRE-DANCZAK, ECMWF How satellite aerosol products can improve mineral dust prediction Enza DI TOMASO, Barcelona Supercomputing Center 14:30 14:45 15:00 15:15 15:30 4 Chair: David Francis MORONI, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Keynote address Scatterometer stress-equivalent winds for ocean and climate applications Ad STOFFELEN, KNMI ASCAT-6.25 product quality Jur VOGELZANG, KNMI Presented by: Ad STOFFELEN Improvement of the ASCAT ambiguity removal scheme for mesoscale analysis Wenming LIN, Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) RapidScat winds along coasts, in storms, and everywhere else Bryan W STILES, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Towards an improved wind quality control for Ku-band scatterometer Marcos PORTABELLA, Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) Status of Scatterometer winds in the ECMWF system: Operational and research activities Giovanna DE CHIARA, ECMWF 15:45 POSTER SESSION / COFFEE BREAK Marquee 3 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION Volcanic ash and aerosol 16:30 16:45 17:00 Chair: Ruediger LANG, EUMETSAT Investigating the sensitivity of OMI Satellite observations of the Ring effect to aerosol properties Thomas WAGNER, MPI for Chemistry AERUS-GEO : A new aerosol product based on MSG geostationary satellite observations Dominique CARRER, Météo-France A global long-term record on aerosol absorption optical depth and single scattering albedo Omar TORRES, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center MARINE METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY Winds and waves 16:30 16:45 17:00 17:15 3 = Room 3 14:00 4 16:30 Chair: Dr. Lotfi AOUF, Météo-France eSurge: Improving storm surge forecasting with EO data, and implications for exploiting future missions Phillip HARWOOD, CGI A unique algorithm of sea surface wind speed and its application to Typhoon analysis Sungwook HONG, Dept. of Environment, Energy & Geoinformatics, Sejong University Altimeter wave height data base and application to analysis of time variability of sea state Pierre QUEFFEULOU, IFREMER The assimilation of altimeters in the operational wave model MFWAM : Global and regional scales Lotfi AOUF, Météo-France 4 = Room 4 21 22 FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 25 25 SEPTEMBER O R A L P R E S E N TAT I O N S MORNING 08:30 WELCOME COFFEE AND REGISTRATION Marquee/Registration Desk MARINE METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY Operational oceanography 09:00 09:15 09:30 09:45 10:00 10:15 2 Chair: Joel DORANDEU, Mercator Ocean Ozone and UV 09:00 Satellite impact and design studies with the Mercator Ocean monitoring and forecasting systems Elisabeth REMY, Mercator Ocean Two decades of global and regional sea level observations from the ESA Climate Change Initiative Sea Level Project Jean-Francois LEGEAIS, CLS Assessment of Orbit Quality through the Sea Surface Height calculation Annabelle OLLIVIER, CLS Spectral analysis of microwave radiometers brightness temperatures and wet tropospheric correction Bruno PICARD, CLS A one-dimensional variational approach for wet tropospheric correction retrieval in the perspective of high resolution altimetry mission Laura HERMOZO, CLS Where is operational oceanography heading? Francois J. MONTAGNER, EUMETSAT 3 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION 09:30 09:45 10:00 10:15 Chair: Rosemary MUNRO, EUMETSAT Keynote address Results of the ESA Climate Change Initiative project on the generation of Ozone Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) including the usage of GOME2 and IASI measurements. Claus ZEHNER, ESA/ ESRIN Continuing 30 years of ozone monitoring from NOAA satellite instruments Lawrence FLYNN, NOAA Improved ozone and carbon monoxide profile retrievals using multispectral measurements from NASA “A Train”, Suomi-NPP, and TROPOMI satellites Dejian FU, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Long-term satellite record of ozone and methane profiles: From GOME through to GOME2 and IASI Georgina MILES, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Presented by: Richard SIDDANS Evaluation of GOME-2 total ozone against dynamical proxies such as the QBO/ENSO/NAO Kostas ELEFTHERATOS, University of Athens 10:30 POSTER SESSION / COFFEE BREAK Marquee MARINE METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY Operational oceanography 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 12:15 12:30 12:45 2 Chair: Francois Montagner, EUMETSAT Continuing the altimetric sea level record with Sentinel-6/Jason-CS Remko SCHARROO, EUMETSAT DUACS sea level products: The 2015-2018 roadmap Yannice FAUGERE, CLS Two-dimensional surface currents from the combination of MSG and Jason observations Jordi ISERN-FONTANET, Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC) JPSS SST product at NOAA Alexander IGNATOV, NOAA/STAR A high latitude Sea and Sea Ice Surface Temperature (SSI/SIST) observation climate record. Gorm DYBKJAER, Danish Meteorological Institute Observing the Sea Surface Temperature with ATSRs: Validation of CCI data and comparison with ARC dataset Christoforos TSAMALIS, Met Office MODIS observations of the spatial and temporal distributions of sea-ice leads in the Arctic Steven A ACKERMAN, CIMSS/ Univesity of Wisconsin-Madison ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION Ozone and UV 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 3 11:15 Chair: Rosemary MUNRO, EUMETSAT Versatile QA/validation system for the evaluation of Copernicus Sentinel-4 and Sentinel-5(p) ozone profiling algorithms and data: Demonstration on Metop-A GOME-2 and IASI retrievals Arno KEPPENS, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB) Validation of IASI ozone profiles from Metop A and Metop B, using balloon sounding data Andy DELCLOO, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium Impact of vertical stratification of atmosphere on radiative transfer in O2-A and SWIR CO2 band Minzheng DUAN, Institute of Atmospheric Physics Keynote address The GOME-2 level 1 instrument degradation model version 1 and its application for atmospheric composition retrievals Ruediger LANG, EUMETSAT 13:00 13:30 CLOSING CEREMONY Amphitheatre 2 = Room 2 09:00 3 = Room 3 23 POSTER SESSION 1 AND 2 CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITES, INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Marquee 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 24 Current and future satellites and their applications for renewable energy sources in Kazakhstan Aygul AKYLBEKOVA, U.M. Ahmedsafin Institute of Hydrogeology and Environmental Geoscience GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS OF FLOOD RISK AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT IN KOGI STATE, NIGERIA Ifeoluwa Adebowale BALOGUN, Federal University of Technology, Nigeria Evaluation of eco-environmental changes and vulnerability using remote sensing and GIS techniques Ifeoluwa Adebowale BALOGUN, Federal University of Technology, Nigeria Validation of S-NPP CrIMSS atmospheric temperature and water vapor retrievals using coordinated ARM site radiosondes Lori A BORG, SSEC, University of Wisconsin-Madison Assimilation of GNSS radio occultation data at Météo-France Nathalie BOULLOT, Météo-France Cloud top pressure retrieval from oxygen A-band with METimage Mathieu COMPIÈGNE, HYGEOS Restitution of atmospheric moisture from satellite sounder at the interface earth-sea Bouya DIOP, Université Gaston Berger de Saint Louis, Sénégal Limb and bias correction of VIIRS and SEVIRI IR channels for the improved interpretation of RGB composites Nicholas J ELMER, University of Alabama in Huntsville Detection of the multilayer character of cloudy atmospheres: Description and performance of a statistical approach applied to polder measurements on parasol platform Nicolas FERLAY, Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique Evaluation of IASI cloud parameter retrieval Nadia FOURRIE, Météo-France and CNRS Assured Weather Satellite Information Delivery Kerry Dale GRANT, Raytheon Improvements and extensions for Joint Polar Satellite System algorithms Kerry Dale GRANT, Raytheon Maintaining JPSS product quality Kerry Dale GRANT, Raytheon Rapid algorithm integration in the JPSS CGS Kerry Dale GRANT, Raytheon Impact of revised satellite radiance thinning on forecasts at the Canadian Meteorological Center Sylvain HEILLIETTE, Environment Canada Can satellite-based snow products help in Quality Control of automatic in-situ snow observations in Nordic region? Otto HYVÄRINEN, Finnish Meteorological Institute MSG toolbox to facilitate the use of operational LSA-SAF products Tim JACOBS, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO) Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS) multimission support Michael Louis JAMILKOWSKI, Raytheon 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.37 Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS) use of space link extension protocol Michael Louis JAMILKOWSKI, Raytheon Near real time processing of MSG-SEVIRI data at the Global Change Unit of the University of Valencia Yves JULIEN, University of Valencia Ground-based validation of GOME-2/Metop total column water vapour Niilo KALAKOSKI; Finnish Meteorological Institute Architecture of satellite data management and service system for GEO-KOMPSAT-2A In Jun KIM, ETRI A dynamic warping based discrimination of snow cover and cloud using reflectances of MODIS solar spectrum channels Kyeong-Sang LEE, Pukyong National University Impact assessment of COMS AMVs at the ECMWF system Sihye LEE, KIAPS Adding a mission to the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS) Shawn W MILLER, Raytheon Remote sensing, model and in-situ data fusion for snowpack parameters and related hazards in a climate change perspective (SnowBall) Oana NICOLA, National Meteorological Administration Romania The French Atmospheric Data and Services Center Nicole PAPINEAU, IPSL Trollduction: A fast and flexible Pytroll-based batch production system Martin RASPAUD, SMHI Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute AMVs in the operational ECMWF system Kirsti SALONEN, ECMWF Python access to an online satellite data archive David SANTEK, University of Wisconsin-Madison EUMETSAT’s network of Satellite Application Facilities (SAFs) Lothar SCHÜLLER, EUMETSAT The value of H-SAF snow products for ensemble streamflow predictions in the mountainous upper Euphrates basin, Turkey Aynur SENSOY, Anadolu University An evaluation of water stress of forest canopy using NDWI Nohun SEONG, Pukyong National University Validation of T/q retrievals from Metop/IASI using AERI at South Korea Jinho SHIN, National Institute of Meteorological Research NIMR NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System’s proving ground and risk reduction program: Bringing new capabilities to operations! Bill SJOBERG, NOAA JPSS Program EUMETSAT Regional services EARS Anders Meier SOERENSEN, EUMETSAT Study of the height assignment of atmospheric motion vector for the future Geo-KOMPSAT-2A satellite KIM TAE-MYUNG, National Meteorological Satellite Center/ Korea Meteorological Administration KMA POSTER ADVANCES IN UTILISATION OF SATELLITE DATA FOR NOWCASTING AND LIMITED AREA MODELLING Marquee 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 Monitoring and forecasting dust haze over West Africa using satellite imageries and Numerical Weather Prediction output: Some applications Abdou Adam ABDOUL AZIZ ABEBE, ASECNA Extreme weather event verification: Case study on heavy rainfall over western Niger Abdou Adam ABDOUL AZIZ ABEBE, ASECNA Radiance bias correction in LAM Patrik BENACEK, The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute EUMETSAT Hydrological Satellite Application Facility: Precipitation products generation system at C.N.M.C.A. Daniele BIRON, Centro Nazionale di Meteorologia e Climatologia Aeronautica Extremely strong winds during severe storm “Felix” in Lithuania and other Baltic countries Ieva BUDZIENE, Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service under the Ministry of Environment Life-cycles of thunderstorms: Cloud and aerosol characteristics from satellite and weather model data Luca BUGLIARO, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt DLR Analysis of the severe MCC system occurred in the Mediterranean Region on the 20th September 2014 Miria CELANO, ARPA-ER Use of new scatterometer wind observations at the German Weather Service Alexander CRESS, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst Clutter removal beneficial for Automated CB/TCU METAR based on radar and satellite data Paul DE VALK, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute Taking the heritage of ASCAT beyond: The new scatterometer on board the METOP-SG platforms Julia FIGA-SALDANA, EUMETSAT Transition and assessment of LEO night time and 24-hour microphysics imagery to support nowcasting for aviation at high latitudes Kevin Kenneth FUELL, University of Alabama Huntsville - NASA SAFNWC/GEO V2015: A major milestone for the project Gaelle KERDRAON, Météo-France Application on satellite surface data in land surface data assimilation Mee Ja KIM, National Institute of Meteorological Research, Korea A prototype system for the analysis and investigation of extreme rainfall events Sante LAVIOLA, National Research Council of Italy - Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Validation of various satellite quantitative precipitation estimation algorithms based on daily rainfall totals over South Africa Bathobile MASEKO, South African Weather Service Comparison of water vapor, clouds, and precipitation derived from satellite sensor to measurements by airborne remote sensing instruments on HALO Mario MECH, University of Cologne Leveraging observations and NWP models to improve 1-4 forecasts of convective initiation John R. MECIKALSKI, University of Alabama in Huntsville 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 2.33 2.34 The initiation of convection: A new NWCSAF product Jean-Marc MOISSELIN, Météo-France Development of a GOES-based verification and forecaster guidance system for the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh model Jason OTKIN, University of Wisconsin-Madison Impact of satellite temporal resolution to detect and monitor of deep convection Monika Antonina PAJEK, Institute of Meteorology and Water Management - National Research Institute Study on the possibility of automated observation and very short range forecast using cloud amount from COMS Hyesook PARK, Korea Meteorological Administration KMA/National Satellite Center Study of lightning initiation from MSG Super Rapid Scan Service over Italy Marco PETRACCA, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), Italian National Research Council (CNR), University of Ferrara Satellite nowcasting for aviation safety Simon PROUD, University of Copenhagen RGB colour interpretation guide of EUMeTrain Maria PUTSAY, Hungarian Meteorological Service The use of the High Resolution Winds in the AROME mesoscale model at the Hungarian Meteorological Service Maria PUTSAY, Hungarian Meteorological Service Possible prediction of damaging surface winds from the mesoscale convective systems by patterns in the water vapor infrared satellite images Maja RABRENOVIC, Ministry of Interior, Sector for Emergency Management The Weather-Light: A severe weather alert system for air traffic control centers in Italy Isabella Francesca RIVA, ENAV Evaluation of retrieved cloud properties from SEVIRI imagery Vanda SALGUEIRO, Universidade de Évora Bias correction for AMSU-A radiance data assimilation in KMA numerical weather prediction system Dong-Bin SHIN, Yonsei University The NWCSAF/PPS processing package: Status, performance and plans Anke THOSS, SMHI Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute Lightning activity and satellite observations of convective storms in central Europe Michaela VALACHOVA, Czech Hydrometeorological Institute/ Charles University in Prague Towards assimilation of scatterometer winds in the HARMONIE model system at MET Norway Teresa Maaria VALKONEN, Norwegian Meteorological Institute A Snow RGB composite for Suomi NPP VIIRS Jerome VIDOT, Météo-France EUMeTrain colour interpretation guide for RGB images Andreas WIRTH, ZAMG 25 POSTER SESSION 3 & 4 AND JOINT SESSION 4 & 6 PREPARATION FOR THE USE OF DATA FROM NEW GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES Marquee 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 GOES-R synthetic imagery over Alaska Renate BRUMMER, Colorado State University Unique RGB products for forecasters using COMS satellite Sungwook HONG, Sejong University Assimilation of GOES-R ABI satellite and WSR-88D radar observations during a convection-resolving OSSE Jason A. OTKIN, CIMSS/ University of Wisconsin-Madison Testing of stability indices derived from the Meteosat Third Generation infrared sounder proxy data Izidor PELAJIC, Meteorological and Hydrological Service, Croatia Access to satellite data and products using McIDAS-V, RealEarth WMS, and mobile apps David A. SANTEK, University of Wisconsin-Madison Meteosat Third Generation Lightning Imager: A review of future operational applications Massimiliano SIST, University of Tor Vergata Routine validation of the GOES-R multi-satellite processing system framework William C. STRAKA III, SSEC/CIMSS MARINE METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY Marquee 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 26 OSI SAF ocean and sea ice products Signe AABOE, Norwegian Meteorological Institute Reviewing past natural hazards associated with water using satellite analysed daily wind and Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data Ndui AIKAYO, ZMD The use of ASCAT and JASON data in operational storm forecasting in the Central part of the Baltic Sea and in the Gulf of Riga Zanita AVOTNIECE, Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre High resolution tidal modelling in the Arctic Ocean Mathilde CANCET, NOVELTIS Validation of the high resolution wave model Wavewatch III with the Satellite altimetry for the north western Mediterranean Sea Alice DALPHINET, Météo-France Verification and error estimation of altimeter and scatterometer wind speed Giovanna DE CHIARA, ECMWF Cloud/No cloud separability at high latitudes with VIIRS and AVHRR for the retrieval of Ice Surface Temperatures and Radiative Fluxes over sea ice Steinar EASTWOOD, Norwegian Meteorological Institute ASCAT sensors onboard Metops: Applications for sea ice Fanny GIRARD-ARDHUIN, IFREMER Citclops, a citizens observatory for coast and Ocean optical monitoring Eric JEANSOU, NOVELTIS Assessment of the ASCAT sub-cell wind variability Wenming LIN, Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM - CSIC) Detecting the surface signature of eastern Atlantic low-level coastal jets with ASCAT Ângela LOURENÇO, IPMA - Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera Operational use of ASCAT and JASON-2 data during the winter of 2013-2014 oever eastern North Atlantic Ângela LOURENÇO, IPMA - Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera Recent developments on the characterisation of the whitecap for the assimilation of microwave radiances over ocean Louis-Francois MEUNIER, Météo-France and CNRS Identifying and addressing data quality challenges for satellite oceanography and meteorology from a data stewardship perspective David Francis MORONI, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Assessment of long-term errors of wet tropospheric correction for altimetry missions: a mean sea level issue Bruno PICARD, CNRM/GAME Turbulent heat exchange over the Japan Sea in the cold season using multisensory satellite measurements and reanalyses data Mikhail PICHUGIN, POI FEB RAS Visualization of satellite imagery using ADAGUC web map services Maarten PLIEGER, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute POSTER MARINE METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY Marquee 4.18 4.19 4.20 4.21 4.22 4.23 A new assessment of Sentinel-3 SRAL L1b ground processing prototype using Cryosat-2 data over Ocean Matthias RAYNAL, Collecte Localisation Satellites CLS A new OSI SAF processing chain for sea surface temperature from Metop/AVHRR Stéphane SAUX PICART, Météo-France Merging of in-flight radiometers for an alternative wet tropospheric correction estimation Jacques STUM, Collecte Localisation Satellites CLS Using daily Ocean wind vector and speed measurements to estimate the diurnal cycle modes Francis J TURK, Jet Propulsion Laboratory RapidScat winds from the OSI SAF Anton VERHOEF, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute Improvement of the CMOD GMF for C-band scatterometers Jeroen Adriaan VERSPEEK, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION CAMPAIGNS Marquee 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sentinel-3 mission performance centre: The surface topography mission component Sylvie LABROUE, Collecte Localisation Satellites CLS Using Argo and GRACE data to assess the performances of Jason-3 and Sentinel-3 altimeter missions JeanFrancois LEGEAIS, Collecte Localisation Satellites CLS Quality assessment of Jason-3 and Sentinel-3 altimeter data through tide gauge comparisons Pierre PRANDI, Collecte Localisation Satellites CLS 27 POSTER SESSION 5 AND 6 SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE OBJECTIVES IN CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS WITH SATELLITES Marquee 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 28 Variation of radio refractivity over Nigeria using CMSAF data Babatunde ADEYEMI, The Federal University of Technology Akure Contribution de MSG dans l’Etude de la Mousson Ouest Africaine Koffigan Sitsopé ATTITSO, ASECNA Using Serviri VIS imagery for monitoring solar radiation over Brazil and Spain Juan Carlos CEBALLOS, National Institute for Space Research (INPE) Top of the atmosphere radiation products provided within the Climate Monitoring SAF Nicolas CLERBAUX, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium A downscaled, high-resolution METEOSAT SEVIRI cloud property dataset for characterizing the temporal evolution of shallow convective cloud fields Hartwig Manfred DENEKE, TROPOS Characterisation of radio refractivity over Nigeria using ERA interim and CM-SAF data Israel EMMANUEL, Federal University of Technology Akure The HOAPS climatology version 3.2 release and climate model evaluation using satellite data sets Karsten FENNING, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst Climatology of free tropospheric humidity: Extension into the SEVIRI era, evaluation and exemplary analysis Karsten FENNING, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst Non-LTE radiative transfer in the context of infrared satellite observations of the lower atmosphere Artem FEOFILOV, Ecole Polytechnique / LMD / FX-Conseil Internal and external heterogeneity in the MODIS cloud record Michael J FOSTER, CIMSS/ University of Wisconsin-Madison CDP: The CIMSS Climate Data Portal - Easy web access to the entire AVHRR archive Michael J FOSTER, CIMSS/ University of Wisconsin-Madison Climate data records of the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring Petra FUCHS, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst Application of CHARMe in satellite based climate monitoring Petra FUCHS, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst Towards improved spatiotemporal estimates of soil moisture availability based on satellite observations Christo Georgiev GEORGIEV, National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Bulgaria Terrestrial vegetation dynamic state as an indicator of fire risk: MSG applications Christo Georgiev GEORGIEV, National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Bulgaria Climate data record of evapotranspiration and surface heat fluxes: a feasibility study based on joint LSA-SAF and CM-SAF capabilities Nicolas GHILAIN, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium Applications of PATMOS-x to the study of changes in global characteristics of atmospheric convection Andrew Kevin HEIDINGER, NOAA 5.18 5.19 5.20 5.21 5.22 5.23 5.24 5.25 5.26 5.27 5.28 5.29 5.30 5.31 5.32 5.33 Studies on water vapor and its impact on climate change Venkata Subba Reddy IMMA REDDY, GITAM University Extension and improvement of a multi-sensor level-2 total ozone climate data record based on GOME, SCIAMACHY, GOME-2 and OMI observations Christophe LEROT, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB) Albedo (CLARA-A1-SAL) and sea ice extent cumulative anomalies of the Arctic Terhikki MANNINEN, Finnish Meteorological Institute Study of the variation and monitoring of the anomalies of the soil moisture in Bulgaria Borislav MILEV, European Polytechnical University, Bulgaria Monthly validation of TRMM rainfall distribution over West of Iran Soodabeh NAMDARI, Tabriz University Drought estimation maps using high resolution satellite data Argentina Teodora NERTAN, National Meteorological Administration, Romania Coherence between estimation of sunshine duration based on SEVIRI VIS imagery and in-situ measurements over Northeast Brazil and Spain Anthony Carlos Silva PORFIRIO, National Institute for Space Research (INPE) Downwelling shortwave radiation from MSG geostationary satellite for Land SAF SAF: Accuracy Assessment of the diffuse component using SIRAMix method and input aerosol load and type Jean-Louis Claude ROUJEAN, Météo-France An experience the using of satellite-based drought indexes in modelling of spring barley yields in Ukraine Inna SEMENOVA, Odessa State Environmental University Long-term variability of albedo over Antarctic glaciers Minji SEO, Pukyong National University Recent developments of the H-SAF MSG/SEVIRI and Metop/ AVHRR based snow extent products Niilo SILJAMO, Finnish Meteorological Institute Relation between cloud texture and vertical extinction profile Soeren TESTORP, Freie Universität Berlin MVIRI/SEVIRI/GERB TOA Radiation Datasets within the Climate Monitoring SAF Manon URBAIN, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium Long term climatological data records from scatterometer winds Anton VERHOEF, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute Nonstationary time series prediction combined with slow feature analysis Geli WANG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Satellite monitoring of the surface radiation budget of the Baltic Sea Tomasz ZAPADKA, Pomeranian University in Słupsk POSTER INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION CAMPAIGNS Marquee 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 Monitoring Suomi-NPP VIIRS Day/Night Band stability using bridge lights Yan BAI, University of Maryland Towards a validation of IASI derived Land Surface Temperature (LST) and Emissivity (LSE) with spectrally resolved in-situ measurements Annika BORK-UNKELBACH, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Impact of GSICS calibration coefficients on Meteosat-7 meteorological products derived at EUMETSAT Manuel CARRANZA, GMV Aerospace and Defence at EUMETSAT Radiometric and geometric performance of COMS MI over half of mission life Jae-gwan KIM, National Meteorological Satellite Center of KMA COMS Visible Channel Vicarious Calibration using Moon and Deep Convective Cloud targets Tae Hyeong OH, NMS/ Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) Application of radar altimetry on water resources management in the Nile river Carlos Miniano PASCUAL, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University How well does IASI capture the water vapour anomalies, annual cycles and the interannual variability? Eliezer SEPÚLVEDA, Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET) Calibration validation of the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) with the aircraft based Scanning High-resolution Interferometer Sounder (S-HIS) Joe K. TAYLOR, SSEC, University of Wisconsin-Madison The University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center Absolute Radiance Interferometer (ARI): Successful demonstration of 0.1 K absolute calibration accuracy Joe K. TAYLOR, SSEC/ University of Wisconsin-Madison Suomi-NPP Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS): Radiometric calibration and validation David Charles TOBIN, University of Wisconsin-Madison Comparison of the NOAA and NASA VIIRS DNB stray light correction methods Wenhui WANG, ERT@NOAA/NESDIS/STAR DMSP and S-NPP sensor data record calibration/ validation using ground Lidar and radiative transfer modelling Christopher P. WOODS, The Aerospace Corporation Vicarious calibration of the Suomi NPP VIIRS day night band using different targets WEI YAN, PLA University of Science and Technology Characterization of the photometric properties at selected lunar targets for GOES Imager Visible Channel using SELENE/SP data Fangfang YU, ERT Inc@NOAA/NESDIS 29 POSTER SESSION 7 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION Marquee 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.16 7.17 30 Advances in Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) proximal remote sensing technology for weather monitoring including predicting/evaluating volcanic ashes R. Alberto BERNABEO, SAL Engineering 4A/OP: A fast & accurate operational forward radiative transfer model - new developments Emilien BERNARD, NOVELTIS Desert dust observations from PARASOL over the Mediterranean Sea Isabelle CHIAPELLO, Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique Validation of GOME-2A and GOME-2B ozone profiles and tropospheric ozon column products, using balloon sounding data Andy DELCLOO, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium Satellite & in-situ Information for Advanced Air Quality Forecast Services – SiAiR Andrei DIAMANDI, National Meteorological Administration Romania Using realistic ozone fields for the assimilation of IASI data Vincent GUIDARD, Météo France and CNRS MAXDOAS measurements of air pollutants at SORPES station in Nanjing, China Nan HAO, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Continuous quality monitoring of GOME-2 MetopA and MetopB upper stratospheric ozone profiles Michael HESS, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst The Multi-TASTE satellite validation system: Twenty years of support to the development of reactive and greenhouse gas data products from multiple satellites Daan HUBERT, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB) New AOD-treatment in CLARA-A2-SAL Emmihenna JÄÄSKELÄINEN, Finnish Meteorological Institute The key role of spectroscopy in atmospheric remote sensing applications: The GEISA spectroscopic database context Nicole JACQUINET, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Polytechnique Comparison of O3M SAF Off-line UV to ground-based observations Niilo KALAKOSKI, Finnish Meteoroligical Institute The new EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility for atmospheric composition and UV radiation validation portal Maria Elissavet KOUKOULI, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Validating the reprocessed GOME2/MetopA and /MetopB data records - Part I: The total ozone column measurements Maria Elissavet KOUKOULI, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Validating the reprocessed GOME2/MetopA and /MetopB data records - Part II: The sulphur dioxide measurements Maria Elissavet KOUKOULI, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki SEVIRI based aerosol optical depth retrieval Stijn NEVENS, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium Validation of IASI ozone retrievals with ground based measurements and other satellite data in Madrid Niobe PEINADO-GALAN, University of Valencia 7.18 7.19 7.20 7.21 7.22 7.23 7.24 7.25 Spatial and temporal variability of stratospheric HNO3 from IASI global measurements Gaétane RONSMANS, Université Libre de Bruxelles Aerosols and clouds pre-characterization from high spectral resolution infrared measurements using Principal Component Analysis Justin RUSALEM, Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique Université de Lille 1 Long-term validation of the IASI operational L2 products (total column amounts and vertical profiles) by using ground-based Fourier Transform Spectrometry at the Izaña Atmospheric Observatory Eliezer SEPÚLVEDA, Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET) Updated HICRU cloud fraction retrieval to comply with satellite instruments featuring large viewing angles Holger SIHLER, Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry Analysis of the vertical distributions of aerosol optical properties from CALIOP on North China Plain Qiang SUN, Institute of Atmospheric Physics/ Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology Recent improvements in GOME-2 surface albedo and Absorbing Aerosol Index products Lieuwe Gijsbert TILSTRA; Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) Ozone climatology obtained by a combination of MLS/Aura and SHADOZ ozonesondes profiles over the southern tropic and subtropic Abdoulwahab Mohamed TOIHIR, Laboratoire de Latmosphère est des Cyclones Université de La Réunion Degradation corrected vertical ozone profiles from Metop/GOME-2 Olaf TUINDER, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute POSTER 31 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBERS •• Chris Barnet (Science and Technology Corporation) •• Joel Dorandeu (Mercator Ocean) •• Tim Hewison (EUMETSAT) •• Kenneth Holmlund (EUMETSAT) •• Francois Montagner (EUMETSAT) •• Rosemary Munro (EUMETSAT) •• Jeanette Onvlee-Hooimeijer (KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute) •• Vincent-Henri Peuch (ECMWF) •• Johannes Schmetz (EUMETSAT •• Jörg Schulz (EUMETSAT) •• Reto Stöckli (MeteoSwiss) •• Rolf Stuhlmann (EUMETSAT) •• Ben Veihelmann (ESA) •• Chris Velden (University of Wisconsin-Madison)