1. EUMETSAT Agency Report 2018
Tim Hewison, Peter Miu, Dorothée Coppens, Rose Munro, Sébastien Wagner, Rob Roebeling, Alessandro Burini…
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2. Personnel supporting GSICS
Executive Panel
Ken Holmlund
EUMETSAT representative
Data Working Group
Peter Miu
Co-chair + Data management expert
Simon Elliott
Formats Expert
Research Working Group
Tim Hewison
Vice-chair GRWG + chair IR sub-group
Sébastien Wagner
VIS/NIR + Lunar calibration
Rob Roebeling
Climate records + SCOPE-CM + Event logging
Rosemary Munro
Chair UV sub-group
Dorothée Coppens
Hyperspectral IR expert
Joerg Ackermann
Microwave Sub-group member
Supported by
Viju John
Infrared (Meteosat - HIRS) + MW
Frank Ruetrich
Visible (Meteosat)
Alessandro Burini
Sentinel-3 (SLSTR & OLCI)
Rüdiger Lang
UV/VIS Spectrometers
Point of Contact for Operational Matters
Harald Rothfuss

3. Update on EUMETSAT Actions 2016.1
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Action Id
Summary
Lead
Expected Completion
Actual Completion
Deliverable Usage
Status
GIR c.1  
Rob to consider including an analysis of GEO-ring bias monitoring statistics provided by ECMWF as part of IOGEO.  
EUM(Rob)  
2017-annual meeting 
Not possible in  
Pending  
GIR c.2  
EUMETSAT to coordinate input for GEO-ring test dataset from all geostationary satellite operators  
9/1/2016 
Ftp structure setup. Met-7 & -9 recal data available - can upload (incl link to GSICS corrections).
GIR p.3  
EUM + CNES (POC: Denis Jouglet (CNES) and Dorothee Coppens (EUM)) to work on the inter-comparison between CrIS and TANSO-FTS.  
EUM(Dorothee), CNES(Denis)  
EUM could compare IASI and TANSO-FTS
Pending
GIR  
Dorothee Coppens (EUMETSAT) to look at impact of CrIS responsivity changes related to apodisation.  
EUM(Dorothee)  
On-going. The outcome of this study could be circulated in summer 2018 
GVNIR h.2
NOAA and EUMETSAT to liaise for comparison with time series of MSG full disk Moon irradiance measurements over same time period. NOAA to report back in one year time.
NOAA, EUM
2017-annual meeting

4. Update on EUMETSAT Actions 2017.1
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Deliverable Usage
Status
A.GVNIR f.1
Seb to contact ICWG via Andy to evaluate re-calibrated MSG reflectance data.
EUM(Seb)  
Pending  
A.GVNIR ha.1
EUM(Seb) to arrange web meeting in April to finalise date and venue for lunar calibration workshop.  
Closed! 
A.GRWG c.1
Rose to investigate what tasks and tools are needed to pursue the work presented by Larry in the broader context of the UV Subgroup and in particular to identify resources needed with the aim of bringing this to the attention of the EP.
Rose Munro (EUMETSAT)
A.GWG i.1
EUMETSAT (P. Miu) to provide info to ISRO regarding the access to IASI data.
Peter Miu (EUMETSAT)
A.GWG i.2
EUMETSAT (P. Miu) to investigate hosting ISRO GSICS products on the EUMETSAT GSICS collaboration server.
A.GWG o.1
Rob (EUMETSAT) to report back at the next annual meeting on the investigation to do an homogenisation in the radiance space (instead of in the spectral space with the SRFs).
Rob Roebeling (EUMETSAT)
A.GWG k.1
EUM to provide the degradation model for GOME-2 to NASA (Dave Doelling).

5. Update on EUMETSAT Actions 2017.1
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Deliverable Usage
Status
A.GVNIR f.1
Seb to contact ICWG via Andy to evaluate re-calibrated MSG reflectance data.
EUM(Seb)  
Pending  
A.GVNIR ha.1
EUM(Seb) to arrange web meeting in April to finalise date and venue for lunar calibration workshop.  
Closed! 
A.GRWG c.1
Rose to investigate what tasks and tools are needed to pursue the work presented by Larry in the broader context of the UV Subgroup and in particular to identify resources needed with the aim of bringing this to the attention of the EP.
Rose Munro (EUMETSAT)
A.GWG i.1
EUMETSAT (P. Miu) to provide info to ISRO regarding the access to IASI data.
Peter Miu (EUMETSAT)
A.GWG i.2
EUMETSAT (P. Miu) to investigate hosting ISRO GSICS products on the EUMETSAT GSICS collaboration server.
A.GWG o.1
Rob (EUMETSAT) to report back at the next annual meeting on the investigation to do an homogenisation in the radiance space (instead of in the spectral space with the SRFs).
Rob Roebeling (EUMETSAT)
A.GWG k.1
EUM to provide the degradation model for GOME-2 to NASA (Dave Doelling).

6. Actions on IR Sub-Group 2017.2
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A.GIR
Tim Hewison to set up web meeting to discuss IASI-A/B double differences and migration at end 2017.
Tim Hewison (EUMETSAT)
Web meeting held
Closed
A.GIR
Tim Hewison (EUMETSAT) to consider inclusion of SLSTR results in IASI-A/B double difference analysis.
Considered, but will be reported separately.
A.GIR
Tim Hewison (EUMETSAT) to add CMA, JMA, NOAA and KMA contributors as authors to Traceability Report and export to ZoHo and circulate.
Discussed at 2018 meeting

7. Other EUMETSAT GSICS Achievements during 2017
GRWG+GDWG:
Drafted and circulated user requirements document for further development of GSICS Plotting Tool
GSICS IR:
Started generating GEO-LEO IR products for Meteosat-11/SEVIRI
GSICS VNIR:
Lunar calibration: GIRO benchmark + tested against ROLO  See # 7f
GSICS VNIR products generated for Meteosat-11/SEVIRI  automation planned by end Q1 2018
USC
Released 33 years of recalibrated MVIRI/SEVIRI IR and WV radiances
Reconstructed MVIRI spectral response in the framework of Fiduceo
Released pre-beta of 26 years of recalibrated MVIRI VIS radiances
In collaboration with JMA, recalibrated the IR and WV channels on GMS 1-5, GOES, and MTSAT 1a and 2
UV?

8. EUMETSAT GSICS Products
10/11/2018
EUMETSAT GSICS Products
Monitored Instrument
Product Type / Band
Reference Instrument
GSICS NRT Correction
GSICS Re-Analysis Correction
GSICS Bias Monitoring
Meteosat-8-11 SEVIRI
GEO-LEO IR
Metop-A/IASI Metop-B/IASI
Operational
Plots RAC
Meteosat-7 MVIRI
Demo
GEO-LEO IR Prime
IR Anchor
Need to plot Double Diffs
Meteosat-8/10/11 SEVIRI
GEO-LEO VIS
Aqua/MODIS
Need to plot RAC
GEO-LEO VIS/NIR
Aqua/MODIS SNPP/VIIRS
In development

9. Support to GDWG Activities
Collaboration Servers closer to realisation
For all collaboration servers, EUMETSAT has developed a tool to automate the generation of the configuration scripts and files to create GSICS product directories and configure THREDDS to detect and serve these products to the user community.
Support to the serving of KMA GEOLEOIR products from the EUMETSAT GSICS server.
Provided input to the distribution of the GIRO and GLOD to users.
Developing a software framework to simplify the generation of GSICS products; development has stalled due to lack of resources.

10. Support to GRWG Activities
GSICS IR:
Chairing IR Sub-Group
Started generating GEO-LEO IR products for Meteosat-11/SEVIRI
GSICS VNIR:
Lunar Calibration Workshop  See # 7a
Definition of a benchmark for the GIRO to support verification/validation against the ROLO + comparisons with alternative models/other implementations (see # 8i)
Hosted two visiting scientists to work on lunar inter-calibration
GIRO and GLOD: JMA, USGS, KMA, JAXA, CNES, ESA signed the agreement (to date)  distribution of the GIRO started. GLOD needs to be consolidated but will follow…
USC
coordinate knowledge exchanges between GSICS and Fiduceo
towards a common calibration event logging infrastructure UV
Chairing UV Sub-Group
White paper on Ground-based Characterisation of UV-Vis-NIR-SWIR spectrometers in preparation

11. EUMETSAT Satellite Status 20 March 2018 & Planned launches
Orbit
Status
Meteosat-7
GEO 57°E
End of Life – Summer 2017 – incl Decontamination
Meteosat-8
GEO 41.5°E
Operational full disc IODC
Meteosat-9
GEO 3.4°W
Backup
Meteosat-10
GEO 9.5°E
RSS service
Meteosat-11
GEO 0.0°E
Prime 0°E service
Metop-A
SSLEO 09:3x
Started Orbit drift as part of End Of Life
Metop-B
SSLEO 09:30
Operational
Metop-C
Launch scheduled
Jason-2
NSLEO
Jason-3
Launched – Operational
Sentinel-3A
SSLEO 10:00
Sentinel-3B
Launch scheduled – Tandem Phase 30s from S-3A for 4M

12. Metop-B is in the same orbital plane as Metop-A
Morning Orbit
Equator crossing time: 09:30 LST
Orbit phasing: min.
Metop-B
Metop-C in 2018
Metop-A
Metop-A

13. There will be three Metops in orbit 2018 – 2021
Metop-A in drifting orbit; last OOP manoeuvre in August 2016 (EOL end 2021/early 2022)
Metop-B prime satellite LTDN 9:30 LST
Metop-C launch
planned for late 2018
LTDN 09:30 LST
Metop-A
Metop-B
Metop-C

14. Agency’s GSICS activities to be discussed in this joint meeting.
Plenary:
How to Blend References (+Fiduceo Feedback) ( See # 3l, 4q)
IOGEO GEO-ring ( See # 3o)
Fiduceo ( See # 3p, 3q)
GSICS IR:
Development of Sentinel-3/SLSTR inter-calibration monitoring ( See # 4j)
IR REFerence Uncertainty TraceABiLty rEport ( See # 4p) – Slow
Roll-out of IASI processing changes ( See # 4n)
GSICS VNIR:
Lunar Calibration Workshop – covered by Tom Stone ( See # 7a)
Rayleigh scattering and inter-calibration ( See # 7t)

15. EUMETSAT future programmes overview – Thank you!
YEAR... 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
METEOSAT FIRST GENERATION
METEOSAT-7
METEOSAT SECOND GENERATION
METEOSAT-8
…Extended lifetime
METEOSAT-9
…Extended lifetime
METEOSAT-10
…Extended lifetime ...
MSG-4/METEOSAT ……………..
METEOSAT THIRD GENERATION
Mandatory Programmes
MTG-I-1 : IMAGERY
MTG-S-1: SOUNDING
MTG-I-2: IMAGERY
MTG-I-3: IMAGERY
EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEM (EPS)
MTG-S-2: SOUNDING
METOP-A
…Extended lifetime
MTG-I-4: IMAGERY
METOP-B
…Extended lifetime
METOP-C
…Extended lifetime
METOP SECOND GENERATION
METOP-SG-A1
METOP-SG-B1
METOP-SG-A2
METOP-SG-B2
Operational Development
METOP-SG-A3
METOP-SG-B3
JASON
JASON-2
JASON-3
JASON CONTINUITY OF SERVICE (JASON-CS)
Optional and Third Party
Programmes
COPERNICUS
SENTINEL-3a/Sentinel-3b (Q2/2018)
SENTINEL-3a
SENTINEL-4 ON MTG-S
SENTINEL-5 ON EPS-SG
YEAR... 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

16. Thank you for your attention
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