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Programme Schedule

Tuesday, September 17, 2002

09:00-10:30Morning Session 1 Occultation Methodology: Data Exploitation and Performance Simulations
(Chair: C. Rocken)
09:00-09:30 ASSIMILATION OF OCCULTATION DATA INTO ATMOSPHERIC MODELS: FUNDAMENTALS, REQUIREMENTS, AND FUTURE KEY APPLICATIONS (invited) [view abstract]
L. Kornblueh
09:30-09:50 END-TO-END SIMULATION OF ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING BY OCCULTATION SENSORS - EGOPS4 AND BEYOND [view abstract] [view presentation]
G. Kirchengast
09:50-10:10 A STUDY OF THE REFRACTIVITY BIAS IN OCCULTATION RETRIEVALS USING END-TO-END SIMULATIONS [view abstract] [view presentation]
C. O. Ao, T. K. Meehan, G. A. Hajj, A. J. Mannucci, and G. Beyerle
10:10-10:30 AN INVERSION APPROACH FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTION INDEX PROFILES FROM GROUND-BASED GPS MEASUREMENTS [view abstract] [view presentation]
R. Notarpietro, M. Gabella, and G. Perona
10:30-11:00Coffee Break 
11:00-12:30Morning Session 2GNSS Occultation: Results from the Current Missions CHAMP and SAC-C
(Chair: T. Yunck)
11:00-11:30 THE CHAMP GPS OCCULTATION EXPERIMENT: RESULTS ACHIEVED AND FUTURE PROSPECTS (invited) [view abstract]
J. Wickert, G. Beyerle, L. Grunwaldt, R. Koenig, T. K. Meehan, Ch. Reigber, and T. Schmidt
11:30-11:50 CHAMP AND SAC-C ATMOSPHERIC OCCULTATION RESULTS AND INTERCOMPARISONS [view abstract]
G. A. Hajj, C. O. Ao, B. A. Iijima, D. Kuang, E. R. Kursinski, A. J. Mannucci, T. K. Meehan, L. J. Romans, M. de la Torre Juarez, and T. P. Yunck
11:50-12:10 VALIDATION OF CHAMP TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY OBSERVATIONS IN THE ARCTIC BY RADIOSONDE, LIDAR, AND REGIONAL MODEL [view abstract]
M. Gerding, H. Deckelmann, R. Neuber, and A. Weisheimer
12:10-12:30 VALIDATION OF THE NWP MODEL HRM WITH CHAMP AND SAC-C RADIO OCCULTATION DATA [view abstract]
K.-P. Johnsen and B. Rockel
12:30-14:00Lunch Break 
14:00-15:30Afternoon Session 1GNSS Occultation: The Upcoming Mission COSMIC and Retrieval Performance Studies
(Chair: L. Kornblueh)
14:00-14:30 THE COSMIC MISSION: OVERVIEW, DATA ANALYSIS CENTER, AND ON-GOING STUDIES (invited) [view abstract]
C. Rocken, Y.-H. Kuo, W. S. Schreiner, S. Sokolovskiy, D. Hunt, and D. Ector
14:30-14:50 SENSITIVITY OF GNSS OCCULTATION PROFILES TO HORIZONTAL VARIABILITY IN THE TROPOSPHERE [view abstract] [view presentation]
U. Foelsche and G. Kirchengast
14:50-15:10 DEVIATIONS FROM A HYDROSTATIC ATMOSPHERE IN RADIO OCCULTATION DATA [view abstract] [view presentation]
A. von Engeln, G. Nedoluha, G. Kirchengast, and S. Buehler
15:10-15:30 ADVANCEMENT OF GNSS RADIO OCCULTATION RETRIEVAL IN THE UPPER STRATOSPHERE [view abstract] [view presentation]
A. Gobiet and G. Kirchengast
15:30-16:00Coffee Break 
16:00-17:10Afternoon Session 2Solar/lunar Occultation: Review and First Results from the SAGE III & SCIAMACHY Sensors and Airborne Results
(Chair: E. Kyrola)
16:00-16:30 THE SOLAR OCCULTATION TECHNIQUE: A REVIEW AND FIRST RESULTS FROM METEOR/SAGE III (invited) [view abstract]
W. P. Chu, C. Trepte, L. Thomason, and J. Zawodny
16:30-16:50 SCIAMACHY SOLAR OCCULTATION OBSERVATIONS: RETRIEVAL METHODS AND FIRST RESULTS [view abstract]
A. C. Schlesier, J. Meyer, A. Rozanov, V. Rozanov, H. Bovensmann, and J. P. Burrows
16:50-17:10 THE CENTER TO LIMB DARKENING EFFECT FOR UV/VIS SOLAR OCCULTATION BALLOON-BORNE MEASUREMENTS [view abstract]
H. Boesch, C. Camy-Peyret, M. Dorf, U. Platt, F. Weidner, and K. Pfeilsticker
17:10-19:00Poster Session 1Occultation Methodology and Specific Occultation Methods
(Posters/SW Demo) (Chair: U. Foelsche)
17:10-17:30Oral IntroBrief (3 min) Oral Introduction by Poster/SW Presenters
17:30-19:00Viewing Time(complementary beverages & snacks available)
P1
(methodology)		 CANONICAL TRANSFORM METHODS FOR RADIO OCCULTATION DATA [view abstract] [view presentation]
M. E. Gorbunov and K. B. Lauritsen
P2
(methodology)		 COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES [view abstract]
A. S. Jensen, H.-H. Benzon, A. S. Nielsen, and M. S. Lohmann
P3
(radio occ)		 ENSEMBLE-BASED ANALYSIS OF ERRORS IN ATMOSPHERIC PROFILES RETRIEVED FROM GNSS OCCULTATION DATA [view abstract] [view presentation]
A. K Steiner and G. Kirchengast
P4
(radio occ)		 REFRACTIVITY PROFILE OBTAINED BY ABEL INVERSION FROM A DOWN LOOKING GPS RADIO OCCULTATION EXPERIMENT AT MT. FUJI: PRELIMINARY RESULTS AND FUTURE PLAN [view abstract]
Y. Shoji, H. Nakamura, A. Mousa, T. Tsuda, and Y. Aoyama
P5
(solar occ)		 MESOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE AND OZONE SOUNDING BY THE SMAS SOLAR OCCULTATION SENSOR [view abstract] [view presentation]
C. Rehrl and G. Kirchengast
SW Demo END-TO-END GNSS OCCULTATION SIMULATIONS LIVE - EGOPS4 SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATION [view abstract]
J. Ramsauer, J. M. Fritzer, and G. Kirchengast
19:00Tuesday Adjourn 

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