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Programme Schedule

Important Note on Registration: For the convenience of participants already in on Sunday, the Registration & Information Desk is already open Sunday, Sept 15, from 17:00 to 20:00 hrs. In case you are in on Sunday, we thus encourage you to stroll by at the workshop location and register already during this time, avoiding a potentially more hectic time on Monday, 8:00-9:00 hrs.


Monday, September 16, 2002

08:00-09:00Registration(also Sunday evening registration possible; see note above)
(also poster mounting time)
09:00-09:40Welcome and
Opening Event		 
09:40-10:30Opening SessionOccultation Science: An Introduction and Review
(Chair: B. M. Herman)
09:40-10:00 OCCULTATIONS FOR PROBING ATMOSPHERE AND CLIMATE: SETTING THE SCENE [view abstract] [view presentation]
G. Kirchengast
10:00-10:30 OCCULTATION SCIENCE FROM THE SIXTIES TO PRESENT (invited) [view abstract]
T. Yunck and W. Melbourne
10:30-11:00Coffee Break(and poster mounting time)
11:00-12:40Morning Session Occultation Methodology: The Tropospheric Challenge
(Chair: G. Beyerle)
11:00-11:30 WAVE OPTICS ALGORITHMS FOR PROCESSING RADIO OCCULTATION DATA IN THE LOWER TROPOSPHERE: A REVIEW AND SYNTHESIS (invited) [view abstract]
M. E. Gorbunov
11:30-12:00 FUNDAMENTALS OF THE OPEN LOOP TRACKING OF RADIO OCCULTATION SIGNALS IN THE LOWER TROPOSPHERE (invited) [view abstract] [view presentation]
S. Sokolovskiy
12:00-12:20 UNFOLDING OF RADIO OCCULTATION MULTIPATH BEHAVIOR USING PHASE MODELS [view abstract] [view presentation]
K. B. Lauritsen and M. S. Lohmann
12:20-12:40 FOURIER ANALYSIS OF GPS-LEO RADIO OCCULTATION SIGNALS, RESOLUTION AND LIMITATIONS [view abstract]
A. S. Jensen, M. S. Lohmann, H.-H. Benzon, and A. S. Nielsen
12:40-14:20Lunch Break(and poster mounting time)
14:20-15:50Afternoon Session 1 Occultation Methodology: Advancing Accuracy and Resolution
(Chair: A. S. Gurvich)
14:20-14:50 THE RADIO-HOLOGRAPHY APPROACH IN GNSS OCCULTATION DATA ANALYSIS: REVIEW AND APPLICATION TO RESOLVING FINE STRUCTURES IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND IONOSPHERE (invited) [view abstract]
A. G. Pavelyev, Y. A. Liou, K. Igarashi, J. Wickert, K. Hocke, and C. Y. Huang
14:50-15:10 DETECTION AND ANALYSIS OF GPS RADIO OCCULTATION SIGNALS UNDER MULTIPATH CONDITIONS: RESULTS FROM SIMULATION STUDIES [view abstract] [view presentation]
G. Beyerle, M. E. Gorbunov, Ch. Reigber, T. Schmidt, and J. Wickert
15:10-15:30 DOES A PRIORI INFORMATION IMPROVE OCCULTATION MEASUREMENTS? [view abstract] [view presentation]
J. Tamminen, E. Kyrölä, and V. Sofieva
15:30-15:50 ABEL INTEGRAL INVERSION IN OCCULTATION MEASUREMENTS [view abstract] [view presentation]
V. F. Sofieva and E. Kyrölä
15:50-16:20Coffee Break 
16:20-17:30Afternoon Session 2 Occultations in Ionospheric Research and Space Weather Applications
(Chair: S. Syndergaard)
16:20-16:50 IONOSPHERIC RADIO OCCULTATION MEASUREMENTS AND SPACE WEATHER (invited) [view abstract]
N. Jakowski, S. Heise, A. Wehrenpfennig, and K. Tsybulya
16:50-17:10 THE IMPACT OF IONOSPHERIC OCCULTATION DATA ON THE GLOBAL ASSIMILATIVE IONOSPHERE MODEL (GAIM) [view abstract]
G. Hajj, B. Wilson, C. Wang, X. Pi, and G. Rosen
17:10-17:30 THE IONOSPHERIC OCCULTATION EXPERIMENT (IOX) ON PICOSAT: A GPS OCCULTATION MISSION WITH AN IONOSPHERIC FOCUS [view abstract]
P. R. Straus
18:30-21:30Get-Together Party(social event; Palais "Meerscheinschloessl")

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