| Day One: Tuesday, 27 October 2009 (CG-1 Auditorium) |
| Session 1: 08:30-11:40 |
Programmatic
(Chair: Bill Kuo - UCAR/COSMIC)
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| 8:30-9:20 |
Registration (CG-1 Lobby)
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| 9:20-9:40 |
Opening Remarks |
Rick Anthes - UCAR
Nick Yen - National Space Organization
Kuan Hsiu Hsiao, TECO Houston
Bill Schreiner - UCAR/COSMIC |
| 9:40-10:00 |
GNSS Radio Occultation: Where We Are and Where We Are Going |
Anthony Mannucci - JPL/Caltech |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Break and Group Photo
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| 10:20-10:40 |
FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC: Current Status and Future Outlook |
Nick Yen - National Space Organization |
| 10:40-11:00 |
CDAAC: Current Status and Future Plans |
Bill Schreiner - UCAR/COSMIC |
| 11:00-11:20 |
Structural uncertainty and biases of radio occultation inversions in the lower troposphere |
Sergey Sokolovskiy - UCAR/COSMIC |
| 11:20-11:40 |
Error distribution of COSMIC electron density profile retrieval: Simulation study |
Xinan Yue - UCAR/COSMIC |
| 11:40-13:00 |
Lunch
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| Session 2: 13:00-14:00 |
Scientific Impact of Radio Occultation
(Chair: John LaBrecque - NASA HQ)
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| 13:00-13:20 |
COSMIC Contributions to Ionospheric Research |
Stan Solomon - NCAR/HAO |
| 13:20-13:40 |
The Road to Operational RO: A Historical Perspective |
Tom Yunck - GeoOptics LLC |
| 13:40-14:00 |
Climate Monitoring with GNSS RO |
Stephen Leroy - Harvard University |
| 14:00-14:20 |
Break
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| Session 3: 14:20-17:00 |
Scientific Application / Validation
(Chair: Toshitaka Tsuda - RISH, Kyoto University)
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| 14:20-14:40 |
GRAS Radio Occultation Measurements onboard of Metop |
Axel von Engeln - EUMETSAT |
| 14:40-15:00 |
The polar summer tropopause inversion layer observed by COSMIC |
Bill Randel - NCAR |
| 15:00-15:20 |
First results from the processing of GRAS raw sampling data |
Christian Marquardt - EUMETSAT |
| 15:20-15:40 |
Break |
| 15:40-16:00 |
Observing the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere with GPS radio occultation data: Results from CHAMP, GRACE, TerraSAR-X, and FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC |
Torsten Schmidt - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences |
| 16:00-16:20 |
Tropopause altitude identification using GPS radio occultation bending angle data |
Huw Lewis - Met Office |
| 16:20-16:40 |
COSMIC Observations of the Stratospheric Sudden Warming of January 2009 |
Jeffrey Taylor - NCAR/ACD |
| 16:40-17:00 |
Assessment of radiosonde temperature measurements in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere using COSMIC radio occultation data |
Wenying He - Institute of Atmospheric Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| 17:00-18:30 |
Poster Session + Reception / Refreshments
Posters (will stay up the entire meeting)
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| Radio Occultation Capability on Decadal Survey Missions |
Kenneth Hurst - JPL |
| Assessment of Systematic Biases of Radiosonde Temperature and Water Vapor Measurements using GPS Radio Occultation from COSMIC |
Ben Ho - NCAR |
| Meso-scale Data Assimilation Experiments in Low Latitudes with GPS RO data |
Masaru Kunii - Meteorological Research Institute |
| Using COSMIC to assess the accuracy of temperature and water vapor profiles from [NCEP,ECMWF,AIRS] under cloudy conditions |
Patrick Callaghan - UCAR/COSMIC |
| Mid-latitude summer nighttime anomaly in OI 135.6nm airglow emission monitored by TIP and other instruments |
Mei-Lan Hsu - National Cheng Kung University |
| Spectrum properties of gravity wave derived from GPS RO technique |
Shiang-Kun Yan - Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, National Central University |
| Seismo-ionospheric Electron Density Anomalies before the 12 May 2008 Mw7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake Observed by FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC |
Jann-Yenq Liu - NCU/ISS & NCAR/HAO |
| Electron density profiles in the equatorial ionosphere observed by the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC and a digisonde portable sounder at Jicamarca |
Chien-Chih Lee - General Education Center, CYU |
| The variations of equatorial ionization anomaly observed from FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC during solar minimum period |
Weisheng Chen - Institute of Space Science, National Central University |
| Applying WVR to verify the precipitable water vapor measured by ground-based GPS |
Ta-Kang Yeh - Ching Yun University |
| Assimilating FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Radio Occultation Data with NCAR Thermosphere-Ionosphere Electrodynamics Global Circulation Model |
Ming-Quey Chen - National Central University,Taiwan |
| Comparisons of COSMIC and C/NOFS GPS Occultation Ionospheric Scintillation Measurements with Ground-based Radar and VHF Measurements |
Kenneth Tanyi - AFRL |
| An Impact study of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Radio Occultation and Other Satellite Data Cyclone Gonu Prediction |
Prasad Rao Anisetty - National Central University |
| The validation of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC atmospheric retrieval profile with high-resolution in-situ sounding data |
Po-Hsuing Lin - National Taiwan University |
| An Examination of Spatial and Temporal Variability Statistics from FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC and Rayleigh Lidar Observations |
Adrian McDonald - University of Canterbury |
| Atmospheric Parameter Estimations in Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Retrieved by FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Satellites |
Shun-Peng Shih - Shu-Te University/Department of Computer and Communication |
| The Radio Occultation Processing Package (ROPP) |
Huw Lewis - Met Office |
| 17:00-18:30 |
Student Poster Session/Competition + Reception / Refreshments
Posters (will stay up the entire meeting)
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| Studying the effect of GPS RO bending angle variations on the retrieval process of dry atmospheric temperature profiles: A sensitivity analysis |
Panagiotis Vergados - York University |
| Impact of COSMIC data on Tropical Cyclogenesis |
Xingqin Fang - UCAR/COSMIC |
| The low-latitude ionospheric plasma caves underneath the equatorial ionization anomaly discovered by FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC |
I-Te Lee - Institute of Space Science, National Central University |
| COSMIC Observations of TEC Enhancements during a Geomagnetic Disturbance |
Peichen Lai - Boston College |
| Impact to CWB/GFS for assimilation of the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC GPS RO local refractivity observations |
Yu-Chun Chen - National Central University |
| An Investigation of GPS Radio Occultation of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC by means of International Reference Ionosphere |
Chi-Yen Lin - National Central University, Institute of Space Science |
| A Study of IRI-2007 Spread-F and FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC S4 Index |
Shih-Ping Chen - National Central University (NCU) Institute of Space Science |
| The El Nino - Southern Oscillation Signatures in the Troposphere Observed by FORMOSAT3/COSMIC |
Yang-Yi Sun - National Central University, Institute of space science |
| Validation of High Latitude Electron Density Measurements from COSMIC Radio Occultations under Disturbed Ionospheric Conditions |
Man Feng - University of Calgary |
| Comparison of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC data with ionosonde for three Brazilian stations |
Claudia Ely - INPE |
| Precise orbit determination and quality assessment of GPS observables for FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC and GRACE missions |
Tzu-Pang Tseng - National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan |
| COSMIC radio occultation technique for analysis of the tropopause during Tropical Cyclones |
Riccardo Biondi - DTU Space |
| GNSS Radio Occultation Technique and Detailed Evaluation Study Using COSMIC Data for Australia |
Erjiang Fu - RMIT University |
| Observations of the ionospheric response to the 15 December 2006 geomagnetic storm: long duration positive storm effect |
Nicholas Pedatella - Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado |
| Study of total electronic content anomalies observed by FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC, GIM, IRI, and Jason-1 satellite altimetry |
Kuo-Hsin Tseng - The Ohio State University |
| A Global Survey of COSMIC electron density characteristics in the comparison with Ground-based Ionosonde Measurements |
Tam Dao - Institute of Space Science |
| Determination of Sea Surface Height Using Shipborne GPS |
Claire Yi-Ju Chen - NCTU |
| Day Two: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 (Parallel Sessions) |
| Session 3 (Continued) 9:00-14:40 |
Scientific Application / Validation (Continued in CG-1, Room TBD)
(Chairs: Robert Kursinski - University of Arizona and Christian Marquardt - EUMETSAT)
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| 9:00-9:20 |
Global studies of stratospheric gravity wave activity using COSMIC GPS-RO |
Toshitaka Tsuda - RISH, Kyoto University |
| 9:20-9:40 |
Global estimates of gravity wave propagation direction and momentum flux from the COSMIC/CHAMP GPS RO temperature retrievals |
Ling Wang - NorthWest Research Associates, CoRA Division |
| 9:40-10:00 |
Coupling of Large-Scale Atmospheric Waves in Stratospheric/Mesospheric Temperature at Middle and High Latitudes: COSMIC GPS VS. MLS-AURO Observations |
Marianna Shepherd - CRESS, York University |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Quasi-Stationary Temperature Structure in the Upper Troposphere over the Tropical Indian Ocean Inferred from COSMIC RO |
Noriyuki Nishi - Japan/Kyoto University |
| 10:20-10:40 |
Break
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| 10:40-11:00 |
Planetary boundary layer characteristics from GPS water vapor profiles |
Chi Ao - JPL |
| 11:00-11:20 |
Comparison of methods for estimating planetary boundary layer height from radiosonde temperature, humidity and refractivity profiles |
Dian Seidel - NOAA |
| 11:20-11:40 |
Atmospheric diurnal cycle observed from GPS radio occultation soundings |
Feiqin Xie - JPL |
| 11:40-12:00 |
Vertical Structure of the Atmosphere within Clouds Revealed by COSMIC Data |
Xiaolei Zou, Florida State University and Bill Kuo (presenter), UCAR/COSMIC |
| 12:00-12:20 |
New insight into ENSO from GPS RO and related observations |
Robert Kursinski - University of Arizona |
| 12:20-13:40 |
Lunch
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| 13:40-14:00 |
The calibration of the expression of the refractivity and its impact in Numerical Weather Prediction |
Josep Aparicio - Environment Canada |
| 14:00-14:20 |
The Use of GPS/COSMIC Occultations to Analyze Turbulent Structures in the Atmosphere |
Larry Cornman - Research Applications Laboratory, NCAR |
| 14:20-14:40 |
Turbulence Estimation Techniques for COSMIC Occultation Data |
James Burkert - Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research |
| 14:40-15:00 |
Break
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| Session 4: 15:00-17:20 |
Climate
(Chair: Dian Seidel - NOAA)
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| 15:00-15:20 |
Data Quality Issues Affecting Current GPS RO Retrievals and Implications for Future Receiver Development |
Anthony Mannuci - JPL/Caltech |
| 15:20-15:40 |
Carrier phase and bending angle noise in CHAMP, COSMIC and GRAS data |
Christian Marquardt - EUMETSAT |
| 15:40-16:00 |
Bending Angle Data Quality and Its Effects on Refractivity and Temperature Climate Records from Different RO Satellites |
Barbara Pirscher - Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change |
| 16:00-16:20 |
Break
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| 16:20-16:40 |
Comparability of GPS Radio Occulation: inter-comparison of COSMIC, CHAMP, SAC-C, and GRACE-A Data |
Ben Ho - NCAR |
| 16:40-17:00 |
GLOBCLIM: A Database for Climatologies based on Radio Occultation |
Ulrich Foelsche - IGAM, University of Graz |
| 17:00-17:20 |
Climate Change Detection with the GPS Radio Occultation Record |
Andrea K. Steiner - Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (WegCenter) |
| 17:30 |
Bus to restaurant leaves from CG-1 front door.
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| 18:30 |
Workshop banquet for all workshop registered participants and speakers at Heaven Star Restaurant.
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| Day Two: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 (Parallel Sessions) |
| Session 5: 9:00-12:20 |
Forecasting and Data Assimilation (CG-1, Room TBD)
(Chairs: Lidia Cucurull - NOAA/NCEP and Stephen Mango - NOAA/NESDIS/OSD)
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| 9:00-9:20 |
Update on the assimilation of GPS RO data at NCEP |
Lidia Cucurull - NOAA/NCEP |
| 9:20-9:40 |
Recent progress in the assimilation of GPSRO at the Met Office |
Michael Rennie - UK Met Office |
| 9:40-10:00 |
An Impact Study of COSMIC Refractivity Data on the CWB Global Forecast System |
Ming-Jen Yang - National Central University |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Impacts of COSMIC GPS Observations on a Climate Reanalysis |
Jeff Anderson - NCAR |
| 10:20-10:40 |
Break
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| 10:40-11:00 |
Impact of GPS Radio Occultation Data on Tropical Cyclone Prediction |
Bill Kuo - UCAR/COSMIC |
| 11:00-11:20 |
Impact of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Radio Occultation Data on Predictions of Typhoon and Mei-yu Fronts near Taiwan |
Ching Yuang Huang - National Central University |
| 11:20-11:40 |
Examination of 2008 and 2009 tropical cyclones with COSMIC data |
Christopher Hill - Mississippi State University |
| 11:40-12:00 |
Initialization of the Environment of Tropical Cyclogenesis by Assimilating Radio Occultation Refractivity with an Ensemble Filter |
Hui Liu - COSMIC/IMAGE/NCAR |
| 12:00-12:20 |
Diurnal and Seasonal variation of refractivity profiles |
Xiang Jie - UCAR/COSMIC |
| 12:20-13:40 |
Lunch
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| Session 6: 13:40-17:20 |
Ionosphere and Space Weather
(Chairs: Jann-Yenq Liu - NCU/ISS & NCAR/HAO and Kaiti Wang - Plasma and Space Science Center, National Cheng Kung University)
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| 13:40-14:00 |
COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 Observations of Ionospheric Structure and Variability |
Kenneth Dymond - NRL |
| 14:00-14:20 |
TIP observations of the low latitude ionosphere |
Clayton Coker - NRL |
| 14:20-14:40 |
Observation System Simulation Experiments Using JPL-USC GAIM with COSMIC and Ground-Based GPS Observations |
Xiaoqing Pi - JPL |
| 14:40-15:00 |
Break
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| 15:00-15:20 |
Can the Weddell Sea anomaly and related phenomena be explained by conjugate effects? |
Alan Burns - NCAR/HAO |
| 15:20-15:40 |
Mid -Latitude Summer Nighttime Anomaly of the Ionospheric Electron Density Observed by FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC |
Charles Lin - ISAPS, NCKU |
| 15:40-16:00 |
Ionospheric Plasma Depletion Bay Observed by FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC |
Jann-Yenq Liu - NCU/ISS & NCAR/HAO |
| 16:00-16:20 |
Break
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| 16:20-16:40 |
Radio Occultation Measurements of Ionospheric Scintillation |
Paul Straus - The Aerospace Corporation |
| 16:40-17:00 |
Global S4 index variations observed using FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC GPS RO technique during a solar minimum year |
Uma Gouthu - National Central University |
| 17:00-17:20 |
Observations of tri-band beacon signal scintillation from FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC TBB program |
Hsiao Tung Yuan - Hsing Wu College |
| 17:30 |
Bus to restaurant leaves from CG-1 front door.
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| 18:30 |
Workshop banquet for all workshop registered participants and speakers at Heaven Star Restaurant.
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| Day Three, Morning: Thursday, 29 October 2009 (Parallel Sessions) |
| Session 5: 8:30-10:10 |
Forecasting and Data Assimilation (Continued in CG-1, Room TBD)
(Chair: Michael Rennie - UK Met Office)
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| 8:30-8:50 |
Impact of assimilating COSMIC refractivity profiles on Polar WRF forecasts of synoptic-scale cyclones over West Antarctica |
David Bromwich - Ohio State University/Byrd Polar Research Center |
| 8:50-9:10 |
Preliminary impact study of GPS RO observations in the low resolution WRF-NMM in NCEP |
Yen-Chih Shen - Central Weather Bureau |
| 9:10-9:30 |
The Impact of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Data on Regional Weather Predictions |
Yong-Run Guo - NCAR/MMM |
| 9:30-9:50 |
Impact of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC GPS Radio Occultation and Dropwindsonde Data on Regional Model Predictions |
Fang-Ching Chien - National Taiwan Normal University |
| 9:50-10:10 |
Data Assimilation of Side-looking Radio Occultation by Observing System Simulation Experiment |
Hiromu Seko - Meteorological Research Institute |
| 10:10-10:40 |
Break
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| Day Three, Morning: Thursday, 29 October 2009 (Parallel Sessions) |
| Session 6: 8:30-10:10 |
Ionosphere and Space Weather (Continued in CG-1, Room TBD)
(Chair: Clayton Coker - NRL)
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| 8:30-8:50 |
Observing the Ionosphere using FORMOSAT3/COSMIC and the Remote Ionospheric and Atmospheric Detection System (RAIDS) |
Scott Budzien - NRL |
| 8:50-9:10 |
Analysis of ionospheric electron parameters in relation to the geomagnetic index Dst from RO data of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC |
Kaiti Wang - Plasma and Space Science Center, National Cheng Kung University |
| 9:10-9:30 |
Global Analysis of Sporadic E layer from COSMIC-GPS Radio Occultation |
Chien Ya Wang - Chinese Culture University |
| 9:30-9:50 |
Investigating COSMIC GPS Radio Occultation Observables as Diagnostics for Active Ionospheric Heating Experiments |
Cheng-Yung Huang - Institute for Scientific Research |
| 9:50-10:10 |
Three-dimensional and numerical ray tracing on a phenomenological ionospheric model |
Lung-Chih Tsai - CSRSR, National Central University |
| 10:10-10:40 |
Break
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| 10:40-12:00 |
Wrap-up Discussions
(Chairs: Christian Rocken - UCAR/COSMIC and Bill Schreiner - UCAR/COSMIC) |
| 12:00-12:20 |
Student Poster Competition Award Ceremony
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| 12:20-13:45 |
Lunch
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| 13:45-17:45 |
Future Missions
(Chairs: Michael Crison - NOAA and Nick Yen - National Space Organization) |
| 13:45-14:00 |
The Future of GNSS Remote Sensing |
John LaBrecque - NASA HQ |
| 14:00-14:15 |
COSMIC Future Plans |
Dave Ector - NOAA/NESDIS/OSD |
| 14:15-14:30 |
Radio occultation at GFZ Potsdam: current status and future prospects |
Torsten Schmidt - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences |
| 14:30-14:45 |
KOMPSAT-5 RO Mission Status |
Sungki Cho - KASI: Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute |
| 14:45-15:00 |
FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Follow-On Status at NSPO |
Nick Yen - National Space Organization |
| 15:00-15:15 |
CICERO - Continued RO Data, Efficiently, in Real-Time |
Christian Lenz - Broad Reach Engineering and GeoOptics LLC |
| 15:15-15:30 |
Break
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| 15:30-15:45 |
GPSRO Mission on Iridium NEXT |
Om Gupta - Iridium Communicaitons Inc. |
| 15:45-16:00 |
GNSS RO on CLARREO |
David Rosenbaum - NASA Langley Research Center. |
| 16:00-16:15 |
The TriG GNSS Science Instrument |
Tom Meehan - JPL |
| 16:15-16:30 |
Status report on the development and demonstration of a new global climate sensor: The Active Temperature, Ozone and Moisture Microwave Spectrometer (ATOMMS) |
Robert Kursinski - University of Arizona |
| 16:30-16:45 |
New Experiments with the GISMOS Airborne Radio Occultation System |
Jennifer Haase - Purdue University |
| 16:45-17:00 |
EUMETSAT's possible contributions to the future radio occultation constellation |
Axel Von Engeln - EUMETSAT |
| 17:00-17:15 |
The Italian ROSA project and its benefits from COSMIC Mission |
Francesco Vespe - ASI: Italian Space Agency |
| 17:15-17:45 |
Wrap-up Discussion
(Chairs: Dave Ector - NOAA/NESDIS/OSD and Bill Kuo - UCAR/COSMIC) |
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Workshop Closure
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