| Day One: Monday, 16 October 2006 |
| Session 1: 09:30-12:00 |
Status of the Mission + Status of Data processing
Reports from the processing centers - Chair: C. Rocken
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| 9:00 |
Introduction to First Formosat-3/COSMIC Data Users Workshop |
Richard Anthes - President UCAR |
| 9:00-9:20 |
FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Mission to Global Earth Weather Monitoring: Early Orbit, Orbit Transfer and Mission Operation Overview |
Nick Yen - National Space Organization (NSPO) |
| 9:20-9:40 |
Formosat-3/COSMIC Data Processing Status |
Christian Rocken - UCAR/COSMIC |
| 9:40-10:00 |
Inversion of the neutral atmospheric COSMIC signals at CDAAC |
Sergey Sokolovskiy - UCAR/COSMIC |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Assessment of Open-Loop Tracking Occultation Data from COSMIC |
Chi Ao - JPL |
| 10:20-10:40 |
Estimates of the precision of LEO Orbit Determination and GPS radio occultations from the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC mission |
Bill Schreiner - UCAR/COSMIC |
| 10:40-11:00 |
Break
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| 11:00-11:20 |
Generating Climate Benchmark Atmospheric Soundings Using GPS Occultation Data And Early Results From COSMIC |
Anthony Mannucci - JPL |
| 11:20-11:40 |
Issues regarding
GPS RO-Derived Tropospheric Humidity |
Emil R. Kursinski - University of Arizona |
| 11:40-12:00 |
Global climatologies based on RO data from CHAMP and FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC |
Ulrich Foelsche - Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Discussion and Questions for NSPO / CDAAC
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| 12:30-1:30 |
Lunch
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| Session 2: 13:30-17:00 |
Processing results - neutral atmosphere, reports from data users - Chair: R. Kursinski
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| 13:30-13:50 |
Comparison of COSMIC Refractivity with Meso-scale Numerical Weather Prediction Model of Japan Meteorological Agency |
Yoshinori Shoji - Meteorological Research Institute Japan |
| 13:50-14:10 |
Validation of GPS RO data in Japan/India |
Toshitaka Tsuda - RISH, Kyoto University Japan |
| 14:10-14:30 |
Estimating Eliassen-Palm Flux by COSMIC Radio Occultation |
Stephen Leroy - Harvard University |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Break
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| 15:00-15:20 |
The extratropical tropopause inversion layer observed in GPS data |
Bill Randel - NCAR |
| 15:20-15:40 |
Tropical Tropopause Climatology as Observed With Radio Occultation Measurements From CHAMP and Formosat-3/COSMIC Compared to ECMWF and NCEP Analyses |
Michael Borsche - Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change |
| 15:40-16:00 |
Local Time Influence in Radio Occultation Climatologies |
Barbara Pirscher - Wegener Center for Global and Climate Change |
| 16:00-16:50 |
Introduction to posters (5 min. highlight presentation each)
16:00-16:05 Guo
16:05-16:10 Liu
16:10-16:15 Ho
16:15-16:20 Xiong
16:20-16:25 Shum
16:25-16:30 Shum
16:30-16:35 Strauss
16:35-16:40 Tsai
16:40-16:45 Pavelyev
16:45-16:50 Lei
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| 17:30-18:30 |
Poster Session + Reception/ Refreshments
Posters (will stay up the entire meeting)
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| Preliminary results of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC GPSRO data assimilation with WRF 3DVar |
Yong-Run Guo - NCAR/MMM |
| Application of COSMIC refractivity in improving temperature and moisture analyses in the tropics: Plan and first results |
Hui Liu - NCAR/IMAGe |
| Validation of Microwave Lower Stratosphere Temperature using CHAMP GPS RO Data |
Shu-Peng Ho - NCAR ACD/UCAR COSMIC |
| Comparison between mountain-based GPS occultation and radiosonde |
Hu Xiong - Center for Space Science and Applied Research |
| Possible Role of FS-3/COSMIC in Pressure Field Improvement over Antarctica |
C.K. Shum - Ohio State University |
| 4-D Modeling of Ionospheric Electron Density with GNSS Data and the
International Reference Ionosphere (IRI),
D. Bilitza, M. Schmidt and C. Shum
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C.K. Shum - Ohio State University |
| Occultation Measurements of the E-Region Ionosphere |
Paul Strauss - The Aerospace Corporation |
| Ionospheric electron density specification using the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC data |
Lung-Chih Tsai - Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, NCU |
| Radio-Holographic Location of Internal Waves in the Ionosphere and Atmosphere |
A.G. Pavelyev - Russian Academy of Sciences |
| Validation of COSMIC ionospheric data |
Jiuhou Lei - NCAR/HAO |
| Day Two: Tuesday, 17 October 2006 |
| Session 2b: 8:30-12:00 |
Processing results - ionosphere, reports from data users - Chair: S. Syndergaard
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| 8:30-8:50 |
Processing of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Ionospheric Data at CDAAC |
Stig Syndergaard - UCAR/COSMIC |
| 8:50-9:10 |
First Observations of the Ionosphere using the Tiny Ionospheric Photometer |
Clayton Coker - Naval Research Laboratory |
| 9:10-9:30 |
First NRL Results for the TBB/CERTO Radio Beacon Measurements |
Paul Bernhardt - Naval Research Laboratory |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Does FS3/COSMIC Data Improve Ionospheric Specification? |
Craig Baker - AFRL |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Global 3D Imaging of the August 19-20 2006 Storm using COSMIC Data |
Gary Bust - Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates |
| 10:20-10:50 |
Break
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| 10:50-11:10 |
Characteristic Analysis of COSMIC Ionospheric Electron Density Profile: Preliminary Results |
Yen-Hsyang Chu |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Observations of Global Ionospheric Sructure by FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC |
Charles Lin - National Space Organization (NSPO) |
| 11:30-11:50 |
Ionospheric F2-layer Parameter Mapping Based on the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Data |
Lung-Chih Tsai - National Central Univ, Taiwan, ROC |
| 11:50-12:30 |
Discussion of COSMIC products for climate and space weather research
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| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch
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| Session 3: 13:30-17:00 |
Data assimilation - neutral atmosphere and ionosphere - Chair: Bill Kuo
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| 13:30-13:50 |
Status of the assimilation of GPS RO at NOAA |
Lidia Cucurull - NOAA/NCEP & UCAR |
| 13:50-14:10 |
Towards the Assimilation of COSMIC Data at Environment Canada |
Josep Aparicio - Environment Canada |
| 14:10-14:30 |
Assimilation of COSMIC at ECMWF: Preliminary results |
S. Healy - ECMWF. Presented by: Ying-Hwa Kuo - UCAR/COSMIC |
| 14:30-14:50 |
Typhoon Predictions with GPS Radio Occultation Data Assimilations Using WRF 3DVAR with Local and Nonlocal Operators |
Shu-Ya Chen - National Central University, Taiwan |
| 14:50-15:20 |
Break
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| 15:20-15:40 |
Comparisons of Formosat-3/COSMIC ionospheric data with ground based measurements and model simulations |
Zhen Zeng - UCAR/COSMIC |
| 15:40-16:00 |
On the use of COSMIC podTEC data in the Electron Density Assimilative Model (EDAM) |
Matthew Angling - QinetiQ, UK |
| 16:00-16:20 |
Assimilating Formosat-3/COSMIC Ionospheric Data Into A Global Model: Preliminary GAIM Results |
Brian Wilson - JPL |
| 16:20-16:40 |
Assimilation of COSMIC Data with the USU GAIM Model |
Ludger Scherliess - Utah State University |
| 16:40-17:40 |
Discussion of all data issues, Discussion of data for data assimilation applications. Changes in BUFR, latency etc. |
| 18:00 |
Bus to restaurant leaves from CG1, front door.
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| 18:30-21:50 |
Dinner for Workshop Participants
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| Day Three: Wednesday, 18 October 2006 |
| Session 4: 8:30-10:30 |
Validation, Campaigns, Projects - Chair: Bill Schreiner
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| 8:30-8:50 |
The ROPIC Project and Processing of COSMIC Data at DMI |
Armin Loscher - DMI, Denmark |
| 8:50-9:10 |
Validation of AIRS temperature data with GPSRO |
Thomas Yunck - JPL |
| 9:10-9:30 |
Using COSMIC refractivity profiles in an evaluation of Antarctic NWP forecasts |
Kevin Manning - NCAR/MMM |
| 9:30-9:50 |
Preliminary results from COSMIC Campaigns |
Santimay Basu - Air Force Research Laboratory |
| 9:50-10:10 |
Calibration of COSMIC Ionospheric Occultation Profiles using the Arecibo Incoherent Scatter Radar |
Michael Kelley - Cornell University |
| 10:10-10:30 |
Formosat-3 COSMIC Campaign Observations at Kwajalein Atoll |
Chin Lin - Air Force Research Laboratory |
| 10:30-10:45 |
Break
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Session 5: 10:45-12:30 |
Wrap-up + Summary
Adjourn - Chairs: Doug Hunt, Christian Rocken, Ying-Hwa Kuo, Nick Yen
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