Scientific Objectives

The joint 6th ROM SAF User Workshop and 7th IROWG Workshop is an opportunity for the GNSS RO community to present and discuss the latest developments in the area. The objective of the joint workshop is to formulate a set of user driven recommendations for the operational space agencies, and to inform and recommend future work by the EUMETSAT ROM SAF.

The topics to be discussed at the workshop will include:

  • Current status of “agency-led” GNSS RO missions, including COSMIC-2, FY-3C,D and Metop-A,B,C
  • Latest assessments of measurements from commercial missions
  • Climate monitoring applications
  • Climate model validation with GNSS RO climatologies
  • New results from the PAZ polarimetric RO mission
  • Progress on the LEO-LEO measurement concept, and status of possible missions
  • Improving the impact of GNSS RO measurements in operational NWP and climate reanalyses
  • Improving GNSS RO retrievals in the lower troposphere and upper stratosphere
  • Estimating the impact of future GNSS RO missions with OSSEs and the Ensemble of Data Assimilations approach
  • Ionospheric retrievals and space weather applications  
  • New innovations and applications of RO data

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