A Report on the Fourteenth International TOVS Study Conference Beijing, China
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Sharing ideas, plans and techniques to study the earth’s weather using space-based observations A Report on the Fourteenth International TOVS Study Conference Beijing, China 25-31 May 2005 Photo by Dongfeng Luo A Report on The Fourteenth International TOVS Study Conference Beijing, China 25-31 May 2005 Conference sponsored by: NSMC Met Office (U.K.) Univ. of Wisconsin / SSEC NOAA NESDIS EUMETSAT World Meteorological Organization Kongsberg Spacetec AS CNES Raytheon Company and VCS Report prepared by: Thomas Achtor and Roger Saunders ITWG Co-Chairs Leanne Avila Editor Published and Distributed by: University of Wisconsin-Madison 1225 W. Dayton St. Madison, WI 53706 USA ITWG Web Site: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/itwg/ September 2005 FOREWORD The International TOVS Working Group (ITWG) is convened as a sub group of the International Radiation Commission (IRC) of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (IAMAP). The ITWG continues to organise International TOVS Study Conferences (ITSCs) which have met approximately every 18 months since 1983. Through this forum, operational and research users of TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS), Advanced TOVS (ATOVS) and other atmospheric sounding data have exchanged information on data processing methods, derived products, and the impacts of radiances and inferred atmospheric temperature and moisture fields on numerical weather prediction (NWP) and climate studies. The Fourteenth International TOVS Study Conference (ITSC-XIV) was hosted by the National Satellite Meteorological Center (NSMC) in Beijing, China from 25 to 31 May 2005. This conference report summarises the scientific exchanges and outcomes of the meeting. A companion document The Technical Proceedings of The Fourteenth International TOVS Study Conference contains the complete text of ITSC-XIV scientific presentations. The ITWG web site contains electronic versions of the conference presentations and publications (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/itwg/). Together, these documents and web pages reflect the conduct of a highly successful meeting in Beijing. An active and mature community of TOVS and ATOVS data users now exists, and considerable progress and positive results were reported at ITSC-XIV in a number of areas, including many related to the ATOVS system and to the current and impending advanced sounding instruments. ITSC-XIV was sponsored by industry, government agencies and research centers, including, VCS, CNES, Kongsberg Spacetec AS, the Raytheon Company, the Met Office (U.K.), the University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center, the World Meteorological Organization, EUMETSAT, and NOAA NESDIS. The support of these groups is gratefully acknowledged. We wish to thank the local organising committee from NSMC, particularly Director General Yang Jun, his international affairs leader, Dongfeng Luo, and Mr. Luo’s excellent staff. Roger Saunders Co-Chair ITWG Met Office (U.K.) Thomas Achtor Co-Chair ITWG University of Wisconsin-Madison ITSC-XIV Poster THE FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL TOVS STUDY CONFERENCE (ITSC-XIV) Beijing, China: 25-31 May 2005 International TOVS Working Group (ITWG) Co-Chairs Thomas Achtor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Roger Saunders, Met Office, UK Organising Committee for ITSC-XIV Thomas Achtor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Roger Saunders, Met Office, UK Dongfeng Luo, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China Shizhong Zhang, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China Yu Jianrui, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China Leanne Avila, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Maria Vasys, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA ITSC-XIV Participants Thomas Achtor Steven A. Ackerman Bjarne Amstrup David Anselmo Nigel Atkinson Thomas Auligne Nancy Baker John Bates Ralf Bennartz Hal Bloom Denis Blumstein Eva Borbas Niels Bormann Pascal Brunel James Cameron Brett Candy Zhaohui Cheng Ping Cheung Chien-Ben Chou Donald Chu Domenico Cimini Andrew Collard David Crain Per Dahlgren Chaohua Dong Peiming Dong Steve Dutcher Adam Dybbroe Izabela Dyras Simon Elliott Stephen English John Eyre Louis Garand John George Mitchell D. 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China USA France Hungary Australia USA Italy France Italy USA UK Germany Germany Austria Vanessa Sherlock Chunxiang Shi Lei Shi Devendra Singh Bill Smith B. J. Sohn Rodrigo Souza Martin Stengel Claudia Stubenrauch Matthew Szyndel Vince Tabor Peter Thorne Vibeke Thyness Christopher Tingwell David Shawn Turner Kung-Hwa (Peter) Wang Fuzhong Weng Peter Wilczynski Hal Woolf Yoshihiro Yamasaki Thwong-Zong Yang Zhigang Yao Fengying Zhang Hong Zhang Hua Zhang Lei Zhang Licheng Zhao Dan Zhou Lihang Zhou National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research National Satellite Meteorological Center NOAA/NCDC India Meteorological Department Hampton University Seoul National University INPE Freie Universität Berlin LMD ECMWF NOAA/NESDIS Hadley Centre, Met. 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China USA USA ITSC-XIV Group Photo Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 Actions and Recommendations 5 Working Group Reports 17 Radiative Transfer and Surface Property Modeling 17 TOVS/ATOVS Data in Climate 25 Use of TOVS/ATOVS in Data Assimilation/Numerical Weather Prediction 34 Advanced Sounders 43 International Issues and Future Systems 49 Satellite Sounder Science and Products 53 Reports of Technical Sub-Groups ATOVS and AVHRR Processing Package International ATOVS Processing Package International MODIS/AIRS Processing Package Fast Radiative Transfer Model, RTTOV Frequency Management Activities of the Atmospheric Radiation Analysis Group at LMD 57 57 58 59 60 62 63 ITSC-XIV Agenda 65 Abstracts of ITSC-XIV Presentations 73 Appendix A: ITSC-XIV Attendee Mailing List A1 - A9
