A COSMIC breakfast meeting was held at the AMS Annual Meeting, January 22, 2008 in New Orleans.

The potential value of GPS-RO to the climate observing system was addressed in a presentation:

Construction of Consistent Temparature Records using Global Positioning System Radio Occultation Data and Microwave Sounding Measurements by Shu-Peng Ho et al.

In response to Dr. Jay Fein's request, and based on above presentation, Drs. Dian Seidel, Rick Rosen, Tom Peterson, Bill Murray, have tried to articulate a few key questions regarding the potential value of GPS-RO observations for climate and to describe analyses that might answer these questions. The questions particularly address the claim that GPS-RO constitutes a benchmark observing system. Quantitative estimates of the various terms in the overall error budget for observations at a given time and location, as opposed to error estimates based on averages of large samples covering wide space and time scales are requested.

To access the Wiki Page for the workshop please go to: https://www.wiki.ucar.edu/display/ucargpsrocaw/Home