| Day One: Monday, 22 October 2007 (CG-1 Auditorium) |
Session 1: Programmatic
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| Welcoming Remarks |
Rick Anthes, Christian Rocken, Nick Yen |
| The Rising of a Remarkable Radio Occultation Constellation Program |
Nick Yen - National Space Organization - Invited |
| FORMOSAT-3/ COSMIC Radio Occultation - Successes and Challenges |
Christian Rocken - UCAR/COSMIC |
| Impact of FORMOSAT-3/ COSMIC Data on Typhoon Prediction |
Bill Kuo - UCAR/COSMIC |
| Concepts and Requirements for Future Radio Occultation Missions |
Thomas Yunck - GeoOptics LLC - Invited |
| GRAS on MetOp: Overview and first results |
Axel von Engeln - EUMETSAT - Invited |
| GRAS on Metop: Data Quality |
Christian Marquardt - EUMETSAT - Invited |
| GPS radio occultation with CHAMP, GRACE-A, TerraSAR-X and COSMIC: Recent results from GFZ |
Jens Wickert - GFZ Potsdam - Invited |
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Session 2: Science Application / Validation
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| Diagnosis of an Intense Atmospheric River Impacting the Pacific Northwest: Storm Summary and Offshore Vertical Structure Observed with COSMIC Satellite Retrievals |
Paul Neiman - NOAA/ESRL/Physical Sciences Division |
| Intercomparison of Integrated Water Vapor Retrievals from SSM/I and COSMIC |
Gary Wick - NOAA ESRL/PS |
| An examination of COSMIC in the tropical cyclone environment |
Haldun Karan - Mississippi State University Northern Gulf Institute |
| Monitoring the moist troposphere with COSMIC radio occultation signals |
Sergey Sokolovskiy - UCAR/COSMIC |
| Assessment of the Precision of GPS Radio Occultation Data From the COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 Mission |
William Schreiner - UCAR/COSMIC |
| 27-Day Solar Cycle Observed by FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC |
Mao-Chang Liang - Academia Sinica |
| Statistical comparisons of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC radio occultation soundings with balloon-borne observations |
Hiroo Hayashi - RISH, Kyoto University |
| Error Estimation of Airborne GPS Radio Occultation Measurements: Simulation Analysis |
Feiqin Xie - Purdue University |
Introduction to Posters.
Chi Ao: Analysis of Moisture Profiles from COSMIC Radio Occultation Data
Ling Wang: Gravity Waves from GPS/COSMIC and GPS/CHAMP Temperature Profiles
Kaiti Wang: Radio Occultation Retrieval of Atmospheric Profiles in the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Mission: Current Status
Wen-Hao Yeh: Open Loop Correction and Data Quality Determination of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Data
Po-Ya Chang: Ionospheric electron density observed by FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC
Sergey Sokolovskiy: Optimal noise filtering and ionospheric calibration of GPS radio occultation signals
Zaizhong Ma: Comparison of GPS Refractivity Local and Non-local Approaches in the NCEP GSI Data Assimilation System: an Observing System Simulation Experiment
Mei-Lan Hsu: Intercomparison between TIP and GOX ionospheric data
Peng Guo: A method for automatic detection of the tropical atmospheric boundary layer depth using COSMIC radio occultation data
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| Day Two: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 (CG-1 Auditorium) |
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Session 3: Forecasting and Assimilation
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| Assimilation of GPS radio occultation measurements at ECMWF |
Sean Healy - ECMWF - Invited |
| Operational use of COSMIC observations at NOAA |
Lidia Cucurull - NOAA - Invited |
| Latest Results on the Assimilation of COSMIC Data at the Met Office |
Michael Rennie - Met Office - Invited |
| Status of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC GPS radio occultation data assimilation at Meteo-France |
Paul Poli - METEO-France - Invited |
| Impact of COSMIC data at Environment Canadas forecasts |
Josep Aparicio - Meteorological Service of Canada - Invited |
| A Study for the Impact of GPS RO Data Assimilation on Regional Weather Prediction |
Ching-Yuang Huang - National Central University, Taiwan |
| Toward the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC data assimilation in JMA |
Eiji Ozawa - Japan Meteorological Agency |
| Development of GPS Radio Occultation Data Assimilation System for Meso-scale Numerical Weather Prediction Model |
Yoshinori Shoji - Meteorological Research Institute |
| Assimilation and Analysis of Typhoon Sepat in the 2007 FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC IOP campaigns |
Mien-Tze Kueh - National Central University, Taiwan |
| Improving Analyses and Forecasts of the Asian Monsoon with GPS Radio Occultation Refractivity Observations |
Hui Liu - NCAR/IMAGe |
| Impact of FORMOSAT-3 GPS Data Assimilation on WRF Real Time Regional Weather Prediction |
Shyuan-Ru Miaw - National Central University, Taiwan |
| Impact of COSMIC refractivity observations in East-Asia domain |
Hui Shao - NCAR |
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Session 4: Ionosphere and Space Weather
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| Data Assimilation Models for Ionosphere Specifications and Forecasts |
Robert cSchunk - Utah State University - Invited |
| Ionospheric annual asymmetry observed by the COSMIC radio occultation measurements and simulated by the TIEGCM |
Zhen Zeng - UCAR/COSMIC&HAO |
| Low-latitude ionospheric electron density structure monitored by FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC |
Jann-Yenq Liu - National Center University, Taiwan |
| Ionospheric Electron Density Measurements using FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC |
Kenneth Dymond - Naval Research Laboratory - Invited |
| Annual variations of ionospheric electron densities observed by the COSMIC satellites |
Jiuhou Lei - NCAR/HAO |
| Mid-latitude nighttime enhancement in F-region electron density using COSMIC measurements |
Xiaoli Luan - NCAR/HAO |
| Day Three, Morning: Wednesday, 24 October 2007 (Parallel Sessions) |
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Session 4: Ionosphere and Space Weather (Continued in CG-1, Room 3131)
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| Automated data retrieval for ionospheric GPS occultation measurements |
Theodore Beach - Air Force Research Laboratory |
| A Comparison of CHAMP and COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 equatorial electron density profiles |
Kerri Cahoy - Stanford University |
| Comparison of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Radio Occultation Link Scintillation with Ground-based Observations |
Michael Starks - Air Force Research Laboratory |
| JPL/USC GAIM: On The Impact of Using COSMIC and Ground-Based GPS Measurements to Estimate Ionospheric Parameters | Attila Komjathy - NASA JPL |
| Concurrent Observations of Electron Density Irregularities in Ionospheric Es Region made with FORMOSAT-3 and Chung-Li 30 MHz Radar |
Chien-Ya Wang - Chinese Culture University |
| Radio beacon and optical observations of the ionosphere |
Clayton Coker - NRL |
| Observations of tri-band beacon signal scintillation in the Taiwan zone |
Tung Yuan Hsiao - Institute of Space Science, National Central University, Taiwan |
| Wrap-up Discussion - Community Statement on value of and need for RO data |
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Session 5: Climate (CG-1 Auditorium)
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| An imperative: Building a climate information system to enable adaptation to regional climate change |
Kevin Trenberth - NCAR/CGD/CAS Sr. Scientist & Section Head - Invited |
| The impact of large scale ionospheric structure on GNSS radio occultation retrievals |
Anthony Mannucci - JPL - Invited |
| Diurnal Sampling Utilizing FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Data |
Barbara Pirscher - WegCenter/IGAM, University of Graz |
| Climatologies of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere using radio occultation data from FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC and CHAMP |
Ulrich Foelsche - UCAR/COSMIC and WegCenter/IGAM, University of Graz |
| Estimates of the Uncertainty for using GPS RO Data for Climate Monitoring: Inter-comparisons of Refractivity Derived from Different Data Centers |
Shu-peng Ben Ho - UCAR/COSMIC |
| Wrap-up Discussion - Community Statement on value of and need for RO data |
Day Three, Afternoon: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
Future Missions and New Technologies Workshop Part 1
Presentations are open to all participants (CG-1 Auditorium) |
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Overview of current and planned radio occultation missions, and outlook for the future |
Bill Kuo, Christian Rocken, Rick Anthes - UCAR |
| Cross-Link Missions |
| An Active cm and mm Wavelength Occultation Spectrometer for Climate: The ATOMMS Project |
Rob Kursinski - University of Arizona - Invited |
| Profiling greenhouse gases, isotopes, wind and thermodynamic variables by MW radio+IR laser occultation: the ACCURATE concept |
Gottfried Kirchengast / Uli Foelsche - Invited
WegCenter/IGAM, University of Graz and UCAR/COSMIC
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| RO Missions |
| The CICERO Project: A Community Initiative for Continuing Earth Radio Occultation |
Thomas Yunck - GeoOptics LLC - Invited |
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FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Future Mission |
Nick Yen - National Space Organization - Invited |
Iridium NEXT Partnership in Earth Observation: Hosting Radio Occultation Sensors on Commercial Communications Satellite Constellations
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Don Thoma - Iridium Satellite LLC - Invited |
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The NASA/JPL G-MAN Receiver (Good To The Last ROP) |
Tom Meehan - JPL - Invited |
| Third Generation Radio Occultation Instrument, L1/L2/L5 & Galileo enabled |
Chris McCormick - Broad Reach Engineering - Invited |
