General Workshop Format
With about 105 participants it was a workshop with no parallel sessions, high-visibility of posters and ample of informal possibilities to enter into scientific discussion.
Presentation types:
- Oral presentation: Invited keynote talk: 30 min slot, invited talk: 20 or 30 min slot, contributed talk: 20 min slot; the allocated time includes 3 min for discussion
- Poster presentation: All posters up all-week, all to be mounted Thursday; poster board size is: 115 cm (width) x 148 cm (height)
Citing presentations:
NAME(S), TITLE, Presentation given at the ROM SAF - IROWG 2019 Workshop,
Elsinore, Denmark, 19-25 September 2019; obtainable from:
https://www.romsaf.org/romsaf-irowg-2019/ (or give the full URL to the PDF if this
is preferred; and possibly also mention the LAST ACCESS DATE)
Elsinore, Denmark, 19-25 September 2019; obtainable from:
https://www.romsaf.org/romsaf-irowg-2019/ (or give the full URL to the PDF if this
is preferred; and possibly also mention the LAST ACCESS DATE)
Program (as PDF file): Program
Program by day (tables below):
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Registration | |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Dinner (paid separately as part of the registration) | |
Thursday, 19 September 2019
| 7:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast and Registration | |
| Session 1: Missions – Introduction and welcome Chair: Sean Healy |
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| 9:00 - 9:10 | Welcome and practical information | |
| 9:10 - 9:20 | Marianne Thyrring, Director, DMI | |
| 9:20 - 9:30 | Lothar Schueller, SAF Network Manager, EUMETSAT | |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Richard A. Anthes | Advances in Atmospheric Science Using Radio Occultation* Observations (*Still the world’s most accurate and precise thermometer from space!) (Keynote) [abstract] [presentation] |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Kent B. Lauritsen | Overview of ROM SAF activities [abstract] [presentation] |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Christian Marquardt | EUMETSAT: RO Present Status and Future Plans (Invited) [abstract] [presentation] |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 2: Missions Chair: Kent B. Lauritsen |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | Chen-Joe Fong | From FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC to FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 Mission: A New Era of Operational GNSS Radio Occultation Constellation Observing System (Invited) [abstract] [presentation] |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Jan P. Weiss | COSMIC-2 Status and Initial Results (Keynote) (Invited) [abstract] [presentation] |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch Break and Group Photo | |
| Session 3: Missions Chair: Stig Syndergaard |
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| 13:00 - 13:20 | Bill Schreiner | Performance Assessment and Requirement Verification of COSMIC-2 Neutral Atmospheric Radio Occultation Data [abstract] [presentation] |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | T.K. Meehan | The TriG Radio-occultation System on COSMIC-2. Early Performance Assessment [abstract] [presentation] |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Anders Carlström | The RO Instrument for MetOp-SG – Engineering Model Test Results [abstract] [presentation] |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Dallas Masters | Status and Plans for Spire's Growing Commercial Constellation of GNSS Science CubeSats [abstract] [presentation] |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Neill Bowler | Initial assessment of GNSS-RO data from Spire [abstract] [presentation] |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Christian Marquardt | Assessment of Spire Commercial RO Data [abstract] [presentation] |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 4: Missions Chair: Bill Schreiner |
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| 15:20 - 15:40 | Alex Saltman | The CICERO constellation: Characteristics, status, and data [abstract] [presentation] |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Torsten Schmidt | An overview of radio occultation activities at GFZ Potsdam: data processing and applications [abstract] [presentation] |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Chad Galley | Jason-CS/Sentinel-6 GNSS Radio Occultation Instrument Overview and Performance [abstract] [presentation] |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | E. Robert Kursinski | PlanetiQ GNSS RO Update [abstract] [presentation] |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Weihua Bai | The FengYun-3 radio occultation sounder GNOS: a review of the missions and early results [abstract] [presentation] |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Early Dinner | |
| Ice-Breaker | ||
| 18:30 - 21:00 | Ice-Breaker (Bus departure at 18:30) | |
Friday, 20 September 2019
| 7:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast | |
| Session 1: Climate Chair: Axel von Engeln |
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| 9:00 - 9:20 | Peter Thorne | The potential role of GNSS-RO data in the IPCC AR6 report (Invited) [abstract] [presentation] |
| 9:20 - 9:40 | Hans Hersbach | The importance of GNSS Radio Occultation data in the ERA5 global reanalysis (Invited) [abstract] [presentation] |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Hans Gleisner | The ROM SAF RO climate data record: validation and inter-mission consistency [abstract] [presentation] |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Panagiotis Vergados | Quantifying the lapse rate feedback using GNSS radio occultation [abstract] [presentation] |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Jeremiah P. Sjoberg | Estimates of errors in radio occultation and multiple reanalyses [abstract] [presentation] |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 2: Climate Chair: Julia Danzer |
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| 11:00 - 11:20 | Andrea K. Steiner | Atmospheric temperature trends from observations – an update on recent advances [abstract] [presentation] |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Anthony J Mannucci | An Assessment of Reprocessed GPS/MET Observations Spanning 1995-1997 [abstract] [presentation] |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Mayra Oyola | GNSS/RO Data Processing for Climate Applications at JPL: Assessing the performance of the next-generation OBS4MIPS atmospheric products retrievals [abstract] [presentation] |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 3: Climate Chair: Christian Marquardt |
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| 13:00 - 13:20 | Gottfried Kirchengast | Climate Monitoring of Atmospheric Heat Content and Heat Exchange with the Oceans: A New Key Role for Radio Occultation [abstract] [presentation] |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | Axel von Engeln | Latest Reprocessing and Occultation Prediction Activities at EUMETSAT [abstract] [presentation] |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Marc Schwärz | Radio occultation processing at the Wegener Center: Validation results and first long-term time series of rOPS [abstract] [presentation] |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Florian Ladstädter | Climatological trends from RO [abstract] [presentation] |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Jordis Tradowsky | The ongoing collaboration between GRUAN and the radio occultation community [abstract] [presentation] |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Johannes K. Nielsen | Uncertainty of temperature, humidity and pressure profiles from the first ROM SAF Climate Data Record. [abstract] [presentation] |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 4: Climate Chair: Congliang Liu |
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| 15:20 - 15:40 | Julia Danzer | Sensitivity and impact of the ionospheric kappa-correction on RO cli- matologies [abstract] [presentation] |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Stig Syndergaard | Implementation and results of the kappa residual ionospheric correction in ROM SAF processing [abstract] [presentation] |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Presentation of IROWG Working Groups and ROM SAF User Workshop objectives Sean Healy: Radio Occultation and IROWG Matters: Presented to CGMS-47, WG II [presentation] Ulrich Foelsche: Report on CGMS-46 (2018) [presentation] |
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| 16:30 - 16:45 | Heikki Pohjola | WMO Space Programme Update [abstract] [presentation] |
| Poster session ( 16:45 - 18:45 ) |
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| P01 | Richard A. Anthes | The Three-Cornered Hat Method for Estimating Random Error Variances in Multiple Data Sets [abstract] [poster] |
| P02 | M.E. Gorbunov | Kirkwood Distribution Function and its Application for the Analysis of Radio Occultation Observations [abstract] [poster] |
| P03 | Stanislav Kireev | NOAA STAR 1D-var Retrieval Algorithm to Process Radio Occultation Data [abstract] [poster] |
| P04 | Stephen S. Leroy | Analysis of the Diurnal Cycle in RO Data Using Bayesian Interpolation [abstract] [poster] |
| P05 | Pawel Hordyniec | The Southern Hemisphere jets and tropopause parameters derived from radio occultation monthly means [abstract] [poster] |
| P06 | Bin Zhang | Using Radio Occultation observations to detect ATMS brightness temperature bias [abstract] [poster] |
| P07 | Kuo-Nung Wang | A study on the effects of heavy precipitation on Polarimetric Radio Occultation (PRO) bending angle observations [abstract] [poster] |
| P08 | Evans A.Y. Adom | FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 GNSS Radio Occultation Mission: The role of University of Energy and Natural Resources and Capacity Building on RO data in Africa [abstract] [poster] |
| P09 | Thomas Sievert | Simulating reflected GNSS-RO signals with wave-optics propagation [abstract] [poster] |
| P10 | JaeGwan Kim | GNSS Radio Occultation Techniques and Applications at KMA [abstract] [poster] |
| P11 | Matthias Stocker | Stratospheric temperature signals from post-2000 volcanic eruptions [abstract] [poster] |
| P12 | Eun-Hee Kim | Assimilation of KOMPSAT-5 GNSS-RO data in KMA global NWP model [abstract] [poster] |
| P13 | Xinjia Zhou | Construction of Temperature Climate Data Records from June 2006 to December 2018 using Multiple RO Missions [abstract] [poster] |
| P14 | Jeremiah P. Sjoberg | The N-Cornered Hat method for estimating error variances between multiple data sets: theoretical considerations and comparisons with the two-cornered hat method [abstract] [poster] |
| P15 | Vladimir Irisov | Radio Occultation Observations and Processing from Spire's CubeSat Constellation [abstract] [poster] |
| P16 | Christian Marquardt | Empirical RO Uncertainty Estimates Based on Signal Spectra [abstract] [poster] |
| P18 | Veronika Proschek | Analyzing structural uncertainty in rOPS and GPAC/ROPP processing: the chain from bending angle to dry-air atmospheric profiles [abstract] [poster] |
| P19 | Ying Li | A new method to detect and monitor Sudden Stratospheric Warming events based on radio occultation: demonstration using the Jan-Feb 2009 event [abstract] [poster] |
| P20 | Kent B. Lauritsen | The 17-year ROM SAF radio occultation climate data record [abstract] [poster] |
| P21 | Vinícius Ludwig Barbosa | MPS simulations of ionospheric irregularities in E and F-region on GNSS-RO signals [abstract] [poster] |
| P22 | Riccardo Biondi | How the recent Anak Krakatau eruption affected the atmospheric structure? [abstract] [poster] |
| P23 | Stig Syndergaard | A bi-local estimation approach for residual ionospheric correction of radio occultation bending angles [abstract] [poster] |
| P24 | Sean Healy | The ROM SAF reanalyses [abstract] [poster] |
| P25 | Sean Healy | Estimates of forward model and instrument error statistics in the troposphere [abstract] [poster] |
| P26 | Tom Yunck | To Everything A Season: RO Coming Of Age [abstract] [poster] |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Dinner | |
Saturday, 21 September 2019
| 7:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast | |
| Session 1 | ||
| 9:00 - 10:40 | Working groups | |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 2 | ||
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Working groups | |
| Excursion | ||
| 12:00 - 22:30 | Excursion and Conference Dinner (inc. lunch sandwich to-go) (Bus departure at 12:00) |
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Sunday, 22 September 2019
| 7:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast | |
| Session 1 | ||
| 9:00 - 10:40 | Working groups | |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 2 | ||
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Working groups | |
| Free | ||
| 12:00 - 23:59 | Free day (note, lunch and dinner are not included) | |
Monday, 23 September 2019
| 7:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast | |
| Session 1: Space Weather Chair: Weihua Bai |
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| 9:00 - 9:20 | Riccardo Notarpietro | A multi-mission topside Total Electron Content product from GNSS-POD receivers on-board the EUMETSAT satellites [abstract] [presentation] |
| 9:20 - 9:40 | Irina Zakharenkova | Underutilized space-borne GPS observations for Space Weather monitoring [abstract] [presentation] |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Haixia Lyu | Two methods of electron density retrieval from truncated ionospheric radio occultation data [abstract] [presentation] |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Dong L. Wu | Understanding solar cycle variations of D/E-region electron density and sporadic-E (Es) with new GPSRO data [abstract] [presentation] |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Vu Nguyen | Space Weather Observations from Spire's Growing CubeSat Constellation [abstract] [presentation] |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 2: Space Weather Chair: Riccardo Notarpietro |
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| 11:00 - 11:20 | John Braun | COSMIC-2 Early Orbit Space Weather Data Assessment and Validation Activity [abstract] [presentation] |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Iurii Cherniak | 3D geolocation of ionospheric plasma irregularities by combination of RO and ground-based GNSS measurements [abstract] [presentation] |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Mengjie Wu | An Abel inversion method assisted by an improved IRI model for GPS ionospheric radio occultation data [abstract] [presentation] |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 3: New Techniques Chair: Ben Ho |
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| 13:00 - 13:30 | Estel Cardellach | Polarimetric GNSS RO aboard the PAZ satellite: status of the ROHP-PAZ experiment (Invited) [abstract] [presentation] |
| 13:30 - 13:50 | Ramon Padullés | Calibration and Validation of the Polarimetric Radio Occultation and Heavy Precipitation onboard PAZ experiment and potential scientific applications [abstract] [presentation] |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Douglas Hunt | PAZ Neutral Atmosphere Radio Occultation Retrieval Processing [abstract] [presentation] |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Gottfried Kirchengast | ISSI-BJ Forum on Exploring Greenhouse Gases, Water and Climate Changes by LEO-LEO Occultation: Main Results and Next Steps [abstract] [presentation] |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Congliang Liu | Introduction of Atmosphere and Climate Explorers LABoratory (ACELAB) mission concept [abstract] [presentation] |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Jennifer S. Haase | Impact of Airborne Radio Occultation Observations on Atmospheric River Precipitation Forecasts on the US West Coast [abstract] [presentation] |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 4: Science Applications Chair: Estel Cardellach |
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| 15:30 - 15:50 | Riley Fitzgerald | Formation-Flying CubeSat Constellations for Internal Gravity Wave Tomography [abstract] [presentation] |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Hallgeir Wilhelmsen | Double tropopause characteristics from the full radio occultation record [abstract] [presentation] |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | Patrick Laloyaux | Towards an unbiased stratopsheric analysis [abstract] [presentation] |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | E. Robert Kursinski | ERA5, MERRA2 and GNSS RO Water Vapor Comparisons and Implications [abstract] [presentation] |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Ulrich Foelsche | Observing Water Vapor with GNSS Radio Occultation Data [abstract] [presentation] |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Bomin Sun | Utilization of GPSRO in the NOAA Products Validation System (NPROVS) [abstract] [presentation] |
| 17:30 - 19:00 | SCOPE-CM RO-CLIM side-meeting | |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Dinner | |
Tuesday, 24 September 2019
| 7:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast | |
| Session 1: NWP Chair: Harald Anlauf |
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| 9:00 - 9:20 | Hui Shao | GNSS-RO data assimilation advancement and implementation at JCSDA and NCEP [abstract] [presentation] |
| 9:20 - 9:40 | Francois Vandenberghe | Recent and New GNSS-RO missions: Quality Assessment and Comparative Data Assimilation Study [abstract] [presentation] |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Benjamin Ruston | Present status and future directions of GNSS assimilation at NRL [abstract] [presentation] |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Neill Bowler | Revised observation uncertainties for bending angle assimilation [abstract] [presentation] |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Mitsuhiro Shimada | Effect of GNSS Radio Occultation Data Assimilation in JMA’s Global NWP System [abstract] [presentation] |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 2: NWP Chair: Neill Bowler |
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| 11:00 - 11:20 | Dominique Raspaud | Recent developments on the assimilation of GNSS-RO bending angles in the Météo-France 4D-Var system [abstract] [presentation] |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Sean Healy | The use of GPS-RO at ECMWF [abstract] [presentation] |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Liu Yan | Assimilation of FengYun GNOS Radio Occultation Data in GRAPES [abstract] [presentation] |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 3: NWP and Science Applications Chair: Ben Ruston and Andrea Steiner |
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| 13:00 - 13:20 | Mi Liao | Processing and quality control of FY-3C/GNOS data used in numerical weather prediction applications [abstract] [presentation] |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | Chad Galley | Near-real-time radio occultation processing operations for weather forecasting applications [abstract] [presentation] |
| 13:40 - 14:10 | M.E. Gorbunov | Generalized Canonical Transform Method (Invited) [abstract] [presentation] |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Chi Ao | Characterizing the Vertical Stratification of the Earth’s Planetary Boundary Layer with GNSS Radio Occultation [abstract] [presentation] |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Sergey Sokolovskiy | Initial Assessment of the First Results of Sensing the Lower Troposphere with COSMIC-2 [abstract] [presentation] |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 4: Science Applications Chair: Ulrich Foelsche |
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| 15:10 - 15:30 | Shu-peng Ho | Inter-comparison between GNSS RO and hyperspectral infrared soundings and combined retrieval results [abstract] [presentation] |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Michelle Feltz | Investigating the Comparisons of Hyperspectral IR Sounders, Radio Occultation, and Radiosondes in Radiance Space [abstract] [presentation] |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Shu-peng Ho | NESDIS RO Science Studies and Quality Assurance through the STAR Integrated Cal/Val System [abstract] [presentation] |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | Changyong Cao | The Significant Roles of COSMIC2 GNSS RO in NOAA Integrated Calibration/Validation System for NWP [abstract] [presentation] |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Valeria Cigala | GNSS RO technique pushes forward the detection of volcanic clouds. [abstract] [presentation] |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Pawel Hordyniec | Simulations and observations of cloud contributions to RO refractivity biases [abstract] [presentation] |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Josef Innerkofler | Multi-Mission Multi-Center Level 1 Data Inter-Validation towards Wegener Center Reference Occultation System Reprocessing [abstract] [presentation] |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Dinner | |
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
| 7:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast | |
| Session 1: Working Groups | ||
| 9:00 - 10:10 | Working groups | |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 2: Plenary and Closing | ||
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Plenary Session: Reporting from Working Groups | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Closing Session (with lunch sandwich) | |
| 13:00 - End of Workshop | ||
