Welcome to 2012 Annual Meeting of GSICS Data

Welcome to 2012 Annual Meeting of GSICS Data and Research Working Groups CMA NSMC, Beijing, China 5 -8 March 2012

Welcome to 2012 Annual Meeting of GSICS Data and Research Working Groups • Please upload your presentations to the podium laptop • Name your presentation according to agenda: – – as Dayn_session_hhmm_Name_Topic. PPT where n=1 to 4 session=GSICS for joint session, or GRWG or GDWG e. g. Day 2_GRWG_0910_Hewison_Multiple_References. ppt • These will be uploaded to the GSICS Wiki – Unless you prefer for them not to be • Centra sessions – Tues pm GRWG – Deep Convective Cloud – Wed am GRWG – Lunar Calibration – with Tom Stone Slide: 2

Web Meetings, Joint Working Group Meeting & Users' Workshops Top Level Meeting Aims – for All #1 • GSICS Products in General: – Central Product Catalogue – Documentation – Operational Support – Handling Versions – Handling Multiple References – Roadmap for Release of Operational Products – Procedure for Product Acceptance – way forward Slide: 3

Web Meetings, Joint Working Group Meeting & Users' Workshops Top Level Meeting Aims – for All #2 • GSICS Data and Products Servers: – Requirements for Intermediate Datasets – Requirements for Archiving • GSICS Bias Monitoring: – Requirements for web plotting tool – Including radiance-Tb/reflectance conversion in net. CDF • Instrument Event Logs: – Consolidated Approach from all GPRCs Slide: 4

Web Meetings, Joint Working Group Meeting & Users' Workshops Top Level Meeting Aims – for All #3 • Improving interaction within GSICS – Removing barriers to communication • Interaction with other Activities: – GRUAN workshop – GPM XCAL – GPPA? – IVOS – CLARREO/TRUTHS – ROLO Slide: 5

Introductions • Round Table – Name – Affiliation – Interests Slide: 6

Web Meetings, Joint Working Group Meeting & Users' Workshops Top Level Aims – for GRWG #1 • Reflected-Solar Band: – Review of ATBDs – Roadmap to prototype GSICS Products – when/who…? – Reference – MODIS traceability & migration to VIIRS? – Strategy for LEO-LEO GSICS products – Statement on USGS setting up ROLO facility for GSICS • Re-Analysis Products: – Review of issues – General strategy – e. g. Reprocessing, versions Slide: 7

Web Meetings, Joint Working Group Meeting & Users' Workshops Top Level Aims – for GRWG #2 • Infrared: – Strategy for LEO-LEO GSICS Products – Delta Corrections for Multiple references: • Metop-A/IASI to Metop-B/IASI migration • Handling midnight calibration issue with AIRS+IASI • Using NWP as inter-calibration tool – Review of issues Slide: 8

Web Meetings, Joint Working Group Meeting & Users' Workshops Top Level Aims – for GDWG #1 • • • Slide: 9 Define strategy for GSICS Products Catalog Define configuration of THREDDS Servers Create template for GEO-LEO net. CDF files Development plan for Instrument Event Logs Discuss Automatic Distribution of GSICS Products Agree Tracking Tool for GSICS Operations Plan actions

Day 1: Monday 5 March 2012 9: 00 10: 10 10: 15 10: 30 10: 40 10: 50 11: 20 11: 50 12: 05 12: 20 12: 35 12: 50 13: 05 14: 20 14: 35 14: 50 15: 05 15: 20 15: 35 16: 55 17: 15 17: 35 18: 15 18: 30 Slide: 10 Registration and coffee Tim/Aleksandar Introduction & Welcome to new members Naimeng Lu Welcome from the leader of NSMC Peng Zhang The status and future plan of Yengyun(FY) meteorological Satelltes CMA Practicalities Tim+Aleksandar Agree Agenda & minute-taking Jerome Report of Exec Panel and WMO guidance Tim Report of GRWG: Review of Actions & Web meetings Aleksandar GDWG Report: Review of Actions and Achievements Peter Miu Status of the GSICS Data Servers Fangfang Report of GCC: Review of Actions & GCC website structure/content Rob Instrument Events logs Fangfang User interaction: Feedback from ISCPP & Users' Workshop Lunch CMA GPRC Report: GSICS activities and strategy plan in CMA NOAA GPRC Report JMA GPRC Report EUMETSAT GPRC Report KMA GPRC Report CNES GPRC Report + SADE online demo TBD NASA/IMD/ISRO/Roshydromet/ESA/JAXA/USGS/NIST Reports Coffee break Tim GSICS Products: Catalogues, Inter-operability, Reprocessing, Versions Scott Product Acceptance Procedure: The Way Forward Peter Miu Unified website for GSICS Bias Monitoring + Additional metadata requirements Chairs Brief for Working Groups End CMA Departure for Ice-breaker and Welcome Reception 0: 30 0: 10 0: 05 0: 10 0: 30 0: 15 0: 15 0: 15 1: 00 0: 20 0: 40 0: 20 2: 30

Day 2: Tuesday 6 March 2012 - am GDWG Breakout GRWG Session 8: 30 GRWG session 0: 10 8: 30 Tim intro Data and Products Servers - Requirements for 0: 10 archiving 8: 40 GRWG session 0: 30 8: 40 Tim intro Unified Bias Monitoring - Additional metadata requirements 0: 10 9: 10 Tim Hewison Using Multiple References: Documenting + Bertrand differences between Metop-A/IASI and Fougnie Metop-B/IASI 0: 20 Fangfang Using Multiple References: Diurnal Cycle using AIRS+IASI 0: 20 All Towards Operational GEO-LEO IR Products 0: 30 0: 20 9: 10 Aleksandar Opening Remarks 9: 20 Aleksandar Review of the GCC and GPRC Web Sites 0: 55 9: 30 10: 15 9: 50 0: 30 10: 15 Coffee break 0: 20 10: 20 Coffee break 10: 35 Peter GSICS Product Plotting Software 0: 50 10: 40 Jack Xiong MODIS level 1 B calibration updates and data 0: 20 product collections 11: 25 Peter GSICS Data and Product server directory structure and THREDDS configuration 0: 50 11: 00 Jack Xiong Lessons from MODIS calibration and characterization + Traceability Statement for 0: 20 MODIS 12: 15 Na Xu, Min, 0: 30 11: 20 Fangfang GSICS Data Management and Sharing Yuan Li 11: 30 All Inter-calibration of IR sounders 0: 20 Discussion 0: 40 12: 45 Lunch 1: 15 Slide: 11 Lunch 1: 15 12: 45

Day 2: Tuesday 6 March 2012 - pm 12: 45 GDWG Breakout Lunch 14: 00 Peter GSICS Documentation Storage GRWG Session 1: 15 12: 45 Lunch 1: 15 Bias analysis and correction of 0: 30 14: 00 Tiejun Chang Met. Op/AVHRR IR channel using AVHRR-IASI 0: 20 inter-comparison Additions and Modifications to the 0: 30 14: 20 Yong zhang vicarious calibration of IR bands in CMA net. CDF and File Naming Conventions Guidelines for Creating GSICS net. CDF Bertrand Peter 0: 30 14: 40 IASI cross-cal with AIRS, IASI-B, and CRIS Files Fougnie 15: 00 All GSICS Strategy for IR LEO/LEO Coffee break 0: 20 15: 30 Coffee break Automated Distribution of GSICS Fangfang/Fre Peter 0: 20 15: 50 NOAA's implementation of DCC Products to Users d Sebastien 16: 10 EUMETSAT DCC implementation Wagner DCC method implementation in FYAll (with GRWG) 0: 20 16: 30 Lin Chen DCC method implementation in FY-3/MERSI Arata 16: 50 JMA's solar calibration approach Okuyama Bertrand 17: 10 Rayleigh scattering improvements Fougnie Roadmap for GSICS Products for GEO-LEO All (with GRWG) 0: 40 17: 20 Dave Doelling LEO Solar Channels End 18: 00 End 14: 30 Aleksandar 0: 20 15: 00 0: 20 15: 30 15: 50 16: 10 16: 30 17: 20 18: 00 Slide: 12 0: 30 0: 20 0: 20 0: 10 0: 40

Day 3: Wed 7 March 2012 am 8: 30 9: 20 GDWG Breakout Combined with Requirements for Recording the GRWG Instrument Anomalies/Events to 0: 40 8: 30 session Support GSICS Product Validation Making GSICS products more Jerome visible: A GSICS Product Access 1: 00 9: 10 Guide 9: 30 9: 50 10: 00 10: 10 10: 20 10: 30 10: 50 Jerome 10: 50 Peter 11: 30 Aleksandar 12: 00 10: 20 Coffee break Registering GSICS products in the WMO Information system (WIS) Using ISO 19115 -2 Metadata Standard to Interface With External Data Discovery Systems More Functional Alternative to GSICS Wiki? 12: 00 12: 45 Slide: 13 0: 20 10: 30 0: 20 10: 50 0: 40 11: 10 0: 30 11: 40 11: 50 12: 10 Lunch 1: 30 12: 45 GRWG Session Rob Instrument Event Logs Requirements 0: 40 Jack Xiong Using the Moon for sensor calibration intercomparisons 0: 20 A New Cross-calibration Approach for Different Thermal Emissive Bands in FY-2 Satellite with 0: 20 On-orbit Lunar Observations Brief report of GMS-5 lunar calibration by Arata Okuyama 0: 10 ROLO model Tim/Seb Application of ROLO model to Meteosat/SEVIRI 0: 10 Characterization of calibration sites using Bertrand Fougnie 0: 10 Pleiades Images, with a specific focus on Moon Statement of Requirements for Lunar Model All 0: 10 Interface Functionality Coffee break 0: 20 Ling sun, Jingjing CRCS sites and Global sites calibration 0: 20 Liu, Yuan Li Inter-comparison methodologies and Jack Xiong 0: 30 applications to AVHRR, ETM+, MODIS, and VIIRS SCIAMACHY/GOME 2 as inter-calibration Rob Roebeling 0: 10 reference Dave Doelling SCIAMACHY-Aqua/MODIS+GEOs 0: 20 Strategy for LEO-LEO solar-band inter. All 0: 35 calibration Lunch 1: 15 Qiang Guo

Day 3: Wed 7 March 2012 pm 12: 45 GDWG Breakout Lunch 1: 30 12: 45 14: 15 14: 00 14: 15 14: 30 14: 15 15: 45 17: 15 19: 15 20: 45 14: 45 Slide: 14 Departure to Beijing Ground Receiving Station Visit to Beijing Ground Receiving Station Travel back to hotel End GRWG Session Lunch EUMETSAT Re-calibration of Rob Roebeling Meteosat archive using HIRS for infrared calibration approach of Arata Okuyama historical data by using HIRS All Strategy for Re-Analysis products 1: 15 0: 30 0: 15 0: 50 1: 30 2: 00 1: 30

Day 4: Thurs 8 March 2012 GDWG Breakout GRWG Session 0: 30 8: 30 Xing. Ming Liang Using Double Differences in MICROS for 0: 30 Cross-sensor Consistency Check Radiance-dependence in NWP results 0: 40 9: 00 Tim Radiance-dependence in NWP results 0: 10 0: 00 9: 10 Xing. Ming Liang Extending MICROS methodology into reflectance bands 0: 10 9: 20 All GSICS Strategy for NWP Bias Monitoring 0: 30 as inter-calibration tool 9: 50 Songyan Gu 8: 30 9: 00 Tim 9: 40 0: 20 10: 10 Coffee break 10: 30 Jerome+Dave CLARREO 11: 10 11: 50 12: 20 12: 50 13: 50 14: 20 14: 50 15: 20 15: 40 16: 10 16: 40 17: 00 Slide: 15 All Rob/anyone Tim Aleksandar Tim Jerome All Calibration summary for FY-3 Microwave 0: 20 sensors 0: 20 0: 40 GSICS Calibration Support Segments - Interaction with other groups: GRUAN, ROLO, IVOS, XCAL Instrument Event Logs Update on Microwave Products Lunch 2012 GSICS Users' Workshop Review outcomes of GDWG Review outcomes of GRWG & Agree Principles Coffee break Topics and Chairing of next web meetings Agree actions Date and Place of Next meeting End 0: 40 0: 30 1: 00 0: 30 0: 20 0: 30 0: 20