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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 5, from 17:00 to 20:00 hrs. In case you are in earlier, we thus encourage you to stroll by at the workshop location and register already during this time, avoiding a potentially more hectic time in the morning.


Monday, September 06, 2010

08:00-09:15 Registration (also Sunday evening registration possible; see note above)
(also poster mounting time)
09:15-09:45 Welcome and Opening Event
09:15-09:45 Words of welcome Welcome and Opening Remarks
U. Foelsche (Moderator & for the OPAC 2010 Chairs)

Welcome Addresses
Prof. Irmtraud Fischer
(Vice President — Research of the University of Graz)

Mr. Harald Posch
(Head, Austrian Aeronautics and Space Agency FFG-ALR, Vienna)

Prof. Friedrich Zimmermann
(Chair of the Board, Faculty of Environmental & Regional Sciences and Education/University of Graz)

Prof. Gottfried Kirchengast
(Director of the Wegener Center/University of Graz)

Welcome and Remarks by the Organizers
Dr. Andrea Steiner (OPAC 2010 — OPAC-4)
Dr. Kent Lauritsen (OPAC 2010 — GRAS-SAF Climate)
Dr. Axel von Engeln (OPAC 2010 — IROWG-1)
09:45-10:30 Opening Talk (Moderator: U. Foelsche)
09:50-10:30 Exploring the atmosphere with radio occultation--contributions to weather, climate, and space weather science and forecasting (invited keynote) [view abstract] [view presentation]
R. Anthes
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break (and poster mounting time)
11:00-12:30 Morning Session Occultation Methodology: Processing from Phase to Atmospheric Parameters
Chair: K. B. Lauritsen
11:00-11:30 GPS RO processing from raw phase and amplitude to bending angle (invited) [view abstract] [view presentation]
B. Schreiner
11:30-12:00 Generic Processing of GPS RO and Microwave Occultations (invited) [view abstract] [view presentation]
S. Syndergaard
12:00-12:30 Linear and nonlinear representations of wave fields and their application to processing of radio occultations (invited) [view abstract] [view presentation]
M. E. Gorbunov, K. B. Lauritsen, S. S. Leroy, and A. V. Shmakov
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break (and poster mounting time)
14:00-15:45 Afternoon Session 1 Occultation Methodology: Processing and Quality of Metop/GRAS data
Chair: B. Schreiner
14:00-14:30 GRAS on MetOp: Instrument Characteristics and Performance Evaluation (invited) [view abstract] [view presentation]
M. Bonnedal, A. Carlström, J. Christensen, T. Lindgren
14:30-15:00 Overview on GRAS - raw sampling and data quality aspects (invited) [view abstract] [view presentation]
C. Marquardt and the GRAS Raw Sampling Study Team
15:00-15:15 Processing of GRAS Raw Sampling Data [view abstract] [view presentation]
K. B. Lauritsen, M. E. Gorbunov, C. Marquardt, M. Bonnedal, H.-H. Benzon, G. B. Larsen, S. Syndergaard, M. B. Sørensen, and the GRAS raw sampling study team
15:15-15:30 Comparison of GRAS data processing results obtained at EUMETSAT and at UCAR [view abstract] [view presentation]
Christian Rocken, Bill Schreiner, Doug Hunt, Sergey Sokolovskiy, Axel v. Engeln, Christian Marquardt
15:30-15:45 Processing of METOP/GRAS open loop radio occultation data at CDAAC [view abstract] [view presentation]
D. Hunt, S. Sololovskiy, W. Schreiner, C. Rocken
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-17:45 Afternoon Session 2 Specific Occultation Methods: Solar, Lunar, Stellar
Chair: G. Kirchengast
16:15-16:45 Solar Occultation: present status and future prospects (invited) [view abstract] [view presentation]
Peter Bernath
16:45-17:15 Overview on stellar occultation with highlights from GOMOS and beyond (invited) [view abstract] [view presentation]
E. Kyrölä
17:15-17:45 SCIAMACHY on Envisat: Trace Gas Profil Retrieval from Solar and Lunar Occultation (invited) [view abstract] [view presentation]
Klaus Bramstedt, Faiza Azam, Stefan Noel, Alexej Rozanov, Heinrich Bovensmann, John P. Burrows
18:30-22:00 Get-Together Pary social event; Meerscheinschlössl