CMA NSMC, Beijing, China 5-8 March 2012 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. Day2_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

Top Level Meeting Aims – for All #1 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

Top Level Meeting Aims – for All #2 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 netCDF Instrument Event Logs: Consolidated Approach from all GPRCs

Top Level Meeting Aims – for All #3 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

Introductions Round Table Name Affiliation Interests

Top Level Aims – for GRWG #1 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

Top Level Aims – for GRWG #2 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

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

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

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

Day 3: Wed 7 March 2012 am GDWG Breakout GRWG Session 8:30 Combined with the GRWG session Requirements for Recording Instrument Anomalies/Events to Support GSICS Product Validation 0:40 Rob Instrument Event Logs Requirements 9:20 Jerome Making GSICS products more visible: A GSICS Product Access Guide 1:00 9:10 Jack Xiong Using the Moon for sensor calibration inter-comparisons 0:20 9:30 Qiang Guo A New Cross-calibration Approach for Different Thermal Emissive Bands in FY-2 Satellite with On-orbit Lunar Observations 9:50 Arata Okuyama Brief report of GMS-5 lunar calibration by ROLO model 0:10 10:00 Tim/Seb Application of ROLO model to Meteosat/SEVIRI 10:10 Bertrand Fougnie Characterization of calibration sites using Pleiades Images, with a specific focus on Moon 10:20 All Statement of Requirements for Lunar Model Interface Functionality 10:30 Coffee break 10:50 Registering GSICS products in the WMO Information system (WIS) Ling sun, Jingjing Liu, Yuan Li CRCS sites and Global sites calibration Peter Using ISO 19115-2 Metadata Standard to Interface With External Data Discovery Systems 11:10 Inter-comparison methodologies and applications to AVHRR, ETM+, MODIS, and VIIRS 0:30 11:30 Aleksandar More Functional Alternative to GSICS Wiki? 11:40 Rob Roebeling SCIAMACHY/GOME2 as inter-calibration reference 12:00 11:50 Dave Doelling SCIAMACHY-Aqua/MODIS+GEOs 12:10 Strategy for LEO-LEO solar-band inter-calibration 0:35 12:45 Lunch 1:30 1:15

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

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