1. Preparation for 2010 GSICS Users' Workshop GRWG/GDWG Web Meeting 2010-08-091.
Introduction 2.
AOB 3.
Review of 2009 Users' Workshop 4.
Practicalities
Registration
Chairing
Minute Taking
Presentations
Refreshments 5.
Poster Session 6.
Invited Attendees 7.
Draft Agenda for Workshop
GSICS Speakers
Invited Speakers
Impact of GSICS Products
Feedback from beta users 8.
Timeline for GSICS Plans

2. Review of 2009 Users' Workshop

3. Summary outcome of the 2009 GSICS Users’ Workshop
At EUMETSAT Conference, Bath, UK
Introduction to GSICS
Products, Servers, GCC, QA4EO
Feedback from (Potential) Users
Brief presentations on results and/or plans for, calibration, inter-calibration, and re-calibration
Reanalysis, climate trend detection, climate and seasonal forecast modelling, and NWP
Discussions
how to determine impacts of GSICS results
areas users would like to see GSICS emphasize

4. From Users’ Workshop:
Several users willing to evaluate impact of GSICS on various products:
Peter Francis (Met Office) is willing to apply the GSICS Correction to Meteosat-9 IR channels and to compare the resulting O-B biases with those from the uncorrected observations
Elisabeth Good (Met Office) reported that the EUMETSAT SAF on Land Surface Analysis (LSA SAF) would be interested in evaluating the impact of GSICS Correction for Meteosat-9 IR data on the diurnal cycle of Land Surface Temperatures.
Atsushi Higuchi (Chiba Univ.) reported positive impacts of GMS visible channel vicarious calibration on aerosols and other products.
Jörg Schulz (CM SAF, DWD) offered to compare operational radiance, GSICS Corrected radiance, and in-house corrected radiance using reference RAOB. He is also interested in evaluating the impact of GSICS corrected Meteosat-9 radiance on the Upper Tropospheric Humidity products of the EUMETSAT SAF on Climate Monitoring (CM SAF).

5. Users identified so far
CM-SAF
UK Met Office
ECMWF
LSA-SAF
ISCCP

6. Active beta-testers Pete Francis (UK Met Office) EUMETSAT
testing EUMETSAT’s GSICS Correction for SEVIRI IR channels (wrt IASI)
Impact on Bias monitoring & CTH products
EUMETSAT
Impact on CTH and GII products
Anke Kniffka (DWD)
Testing EUMETSAT’s GSICS Correction for SEVIRI IR channels (wrt IASI)
Impact on UTH & cloud products
Remy Roca (LMD)
Testing EUMETSAT’s GSICS Correction for SEVIRI & MVIRI IR channels (wrt IASI)
Impact on Free Tropospheric Humidity products.
Generated Re-Analysis Correction for Met-7 and -9 for June 2008 and supplied by .

7. Other Potential Beta Users
EUMETSAT Land Surface Analysis (LSA SAF)
interested in evaluating the impact of GSICS Correction for Meteosat-9 IR data on the diurnal cycle of Land Surface Temperatures
Chiba University
reported positive impacts of GMS visible channel vicarious calibration on aerosols and other products, using an algorithm jointly developed with JMA
ISCCP
Offered to compare theirs & GSICS Corrections for GEO IR
Update?

8. Requests for new products
CM-SAF interested in testing GSICS Correction for WV channel of Meteosat-7 MVIRI
Impact on Free Tropospheric Humidity product
Particularly archive data
Need to use heritage reference instrument - e.g. HIRS
Many attendees want products for the inter-calibration of microwave imagers and sounders
A lot of interest in calibration of GEO solar channels
Extending VIS & IR inter-calibrations to (A)ATSR & AVHRR
Extend to inter-calibrate different GEO imagers

9. Feedback Received from Beta Testers
“It's not clear to me how I'm going to be able to apply any corrections to the calibration of the L1.5 data we receive”
Need to make “Readme” guide more obvious with products
“Can we just have new calibration coefficients?”
For SEVIRI, yes
“Can you produce corrections for December 2008?”
Yes!
“Do we have to use the netCDF format?”
Err...
“Are you sure these values are correct?”

10. Lessons Learnt We need to make “Readme” guide obvious with products
We must notify registered users when we issue changes
We need a mechanism to do this
We should test products written in the supplied format !
We should evaluate corrections over range of radiances!
We should provide access to searchable satellite/ instrument logs recording significant operational changes

11. Practicalities

12. Practicalities Registration Chairing Minute Taking Presentations
In Advance to and
Chairing
Minute Taking
Presentations
Uploading
Storing
Sharing
Refreshments
13:15-14:00 Buffet Lunch if sponsored (attendees only)
16:15-17:00 Coffee Break (with all conference attendees)

13. 2nd GSICS Users’ Workshop Logistics
EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference
Cordoba, Spain
Tuesday 21 September 2010
13:30-18:30
Room: Salón de Actos (plenary)
Workshop attendees need not register for conference,
but must register in advance to gain admission
The workshop will be in parallel to
Session 1: Current and future satellites and applications
Session 2: Satellite-based observations of the oceans
Poster session from 17:00-19:00
incl. GSICS posters
Palacio de Congresos, Córdoba, Spain

14. Poster Session

15. GSICS-related Posters
Dohyeong Kim et al.:
Inter-Calibration of MTSAT-1R Infrared and visible channels from 2007 to 2009
Tim Hewison et al.
Three-way inter-calibration of SEVIRI on Meteosat-8 and -9 with IASI
David Doelling et al.
The calibration of geostationary visible instruments using MODIS as a reference to provide consistent clouds and fluxes for CERES
Validation of geostationary derived clouds and fluxes to estimate the diurnal averaged TOA and surface fluxes for CERES
The predicted CLARREO satellite sampling error based on CERES TOA fluxes
Fuzhong Weng et al.
Assimilation of MSG-2 SEVIRI IR radiances in NCEP Global Forecast System
Fangfang Yu et al.
Evaluation of GOES imager and sounder infrared channels calibration accuracy using GSICS
Initial validation of GOES-14 imager and sounder radiance during post launch test
Likun Wang et al.:
Recalibrating stratospheric sounding unit data towards climate data records

16. GSICS-related Presentations
Roger Saunders et al.:
A consistent monitoring of satellite radiance biases for GSICS
Tim Hewison et al.:
A Strategy for the inter-calibration of solar channels within GSICS
Fuzhong Weng et al.:
Developments of Climate Data Records from Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I): Preliminary results
Yves Govaerts et al.:
Improved desert surface reflectance for the operational vicarious calibration of MFG/MVIRI and MSG/SEVIRI solar channels
Cheng-Zhi Zou et al.:
MSU/AMSU/SSU climate data records for climate monitoring and reanalyses
Jean-Claude Thelen et al.:
A Comparison between SEVIRI and the Met Office Unified Model SW Radiances
Pete Miu et al.:
The GSICS Collaboration Servers, a vehicle for international collaboration
Karsten Fennig et al.:
Release of CM-SAF HOAPS v3.2 products based on improved data record of SSM/I radiances
Richard Bantges et al.:
An intercomparison study of data from the GERB-1 and -2 instruments

17. Invited Attendees

18. Invited Attendees
WMO: Barbara Ryan, Stephan Bojinski, Carolin Richter, Ghassem Asrar
University of Edinburgh (UK): Chris Merchant
DWD: Karsten Fennig, Marc Schröder, Nathalie Courcoux (CM SAF)
ECMWF: Paul Poli, Tony McNally
LMD: Remi Roca
NOAA: Cheng-Zhi Zou, Lars Riishojgaard, Sid Boukabara, John Bates (for SCOPE-CM)
UKMO: Roger Saunders (NWP SAF), Graeme Kelly
MeteoFrance: Pierre LeBorgne (Ocean SAF)
University of Miami: Brian Soden (for GHRSST)
University of Wisconsin: Steve Ackerman
ESA: Pascal Lecomte
EUMETSAT: Yves Govaerts (LSA SAF)
NASA: Michele Rienecker
Anyone else?

19. Registered Attendees As at 2010-08-09 09:00
WMO: Barbara Ryan, Stephan Bojinski, Carolin Richter, Ghassem Asrar
University of Edinburgh (UK): Chris Merchant
DWD: Karsten Fennig, Marc Schröder, Nathalie Courcoux (CM SAF)
ECMWF: Paul Poli, Tony McNally
LMD: Remi Roca
NOAA: Cheng-Zhi Zou, Lars Riishojgaard, Sid Boukabara, John Bates (for SCOPE-CM)
UKMO: Roger Saunders (NWP SAF), Graeme Kelly
MeteoFrance: Pierre LeBorgne (Ocean SAF)
University of Miami: Brian Soden (for GHRSST)
University of Wisconsin: Steve Ackerman
ESA: Pascal Lecomte
EUMETSAT: Yves Govaerts (LSA SAF)
NASA: Michele Rienecker

20. Registered Attendees As at 2010-08-09 09:00
No.
Name
First name
Institute 1
Goldberg
Mitch
NOAA 2
Gärtner
Volker
EUMETSAT 3
Hewison
Tim 4
Merchant
Chris
University of Edinburgh 5
Ryan
Barbara
WMO 6
Lafeuille
Jerome 7
Bojinski S. 8 Wu
Xiangqian 9
Saunders
Roger
Met Office 10
Courcoux
Nathalie
DWD 11
Iacovazzi, Jr.
Bob

21. Draft Agenda

22. 2nd GSICS Users’ Workshop Agenda
Introduction to GSICS
Showcase demonstration GSICS products
Feedback from beta testers
GSICS product development plan
User Interaction
Requests for future products
Future beta testing

23. GSICS Speakers Introduction to GSICS
Organisation, Membership and Scope
Relationship to SCOPE-CM & GPM X-Cal
Showcase demonstration GSICS products
Highlight improvements and developments
Acceptance stages for GSICS products
Access to data
Registration to access GSICS Corrections
GSICS product development plan:
Solar Channels of GEO imagers
Microwave instruments
Processing of archive GEO IR data

24. NOAA Presentations NOAA would like to discuss three topics:
Inter-calibration of AIRS with GEOs from Jan 2003 to Dec 2006
Impact of GSICS on ISCCP
Use of GSICS to improve operational calibration Status report on #1 & #2, since works not complete by Sept. Use a few examples for #3 to illustrate another utility of GSICS

25. Invited Speakers Feedback from beta testers Practical/Technical issues
Impact of GSICS products
Practical/Technical issues
netCDF file formats/contents
Requests for future products
Future beta testing

26. Timeline for GSICS Plans

27. Timeline for GSICS Plans
Requested by SCOPE-CM
Ideally integrated with Action Tracker tool
Used to track the review cycle through the GSICS Procedure for Product Acceptance
Useful for GSICS developers
As well as managing users' expectations
But only if regularly updated
Started Wiki page:

28. Draft Time Line of GSICS Plans
Expected
Date
Product
Monitored Instruments
Product Date Range
Status
GEO-LEO IR Channels
Meteosat/SEVIRI-IASI
MTSAT1R/Imager-IASI/AIRS
2008-present
First GSICS Corrections enter Demonstration phase
Meteosat/MVIRI-IASI
LEO-LEO VIS PATMOS-x
AVHRR
First 3rd party products enter Demonstration phase
2010 Users' Workshop
Meteosat/SEVIRI
MTSAT1R/Imager
First unified GSICS Monitoring expected to be submitted for Demonstration phase
201?-??
All GEO imagers
1970-present
Reprocessed archive data from all GEO imagers
2011-??
LEO-LEO Microwave Sounder
First NOAA products expected
to be submitted for Demonstration phase
LEO-LEO Microwave Imager
GEO-LEO Solar
Development milestone:
Error Budget and Qualitative Assessments
First prototype GSICS Monitoring integrated product
expected to become available
First GPM X-Cal products expected
First GSICS Monitoring and Correction integrated products
expected to be submitted for Demonstration phase