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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 16, 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 17, 2007

08:00-09:00Registration (also Sunday evening registration possible; see note above)
(also poster mounting time)
09:00-09:40Welcome and
Opening Event
 
09:40-10:40 Opening Talk (Moderator: G. Kirchengast)
09:40-10:40 A Scenic Tour of Atmospheric Radio Occultation: Past, Present, Future (invited keynote) [view abstract] [view presentation]
T. Yunck
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break (and poster mounting time)
11:10-12:30 Morning Session Occultation Methodology: Advanced Processing in the Troposphere
(Chair: K. B. Lauritsen)
11:10-11:40 Post-processing of COSMIC Open-loop Radio Occultation Signals at CDAAC (invited) [view abstract] [view presentation]
S. Sokolovskiy, C. Rocken, W. Schreiner, D. Hunt, and J. Johnson
11:40-12:10 Open-Loop Tracking and Water Vapor Retrieval Accuracy for GPS Radio Occultations (invited) [view abstract] [view presentation]
C. O. Ao, B. A. Iijima, D. Kuang, A. J. Mannucci, T. K. Meehan, and M. K. Pestana
12:10-12:30 Phase Transform Algorithm for Radio Occultation Processing [view abstract] [view presentation]
J. J. W. Wilson and J.-P. Luntama
12:30-14:10 Lunch Break (and poster mounting time)
14:10-15:30 Afternoon Session 1 Occultation Analysis: Addressing Gradients, Waves, and Turbulence
(Chair: S. Sokolovskiy)
14:10-14:40 Error Estimate of Bending Angles in the Presence of Strong Horizontal Gradients (invited) [view abstract] [view presentation]
M. E. Gorbunov and K. B. Lauritsen
14:40-15:10 Quantifying Gravity Waves and Turbulence in the Stratosphere using Stellar Scintillation Measurements (invited) [view abstract] [view presentation]
V. Sofieva, A. S. Gurvich, F. Dalaudier, and the GOMOS Team
15:10-15:30 The Use of GNSS-Aircraft Links to Detect/Diagnose Atmospheric Turbulence [view abstract] [view presentation]
L. Cornman, A. Weekly, K. Goodrich, and R. Frehlich
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break  
16:00-17:20 Afternoon Session 2 Occultations for Middle Atmosphere, Ionosphere and Space Weather
(Chair: C. D. Boone)
16:00-16:30 The Meteor3M/Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III-3M), a bridge to the future for long-term records of ozone and aerosol (invited) [view abstract] [view presentation]
D. E. Flittner
16:30-16:50 Retrieval of Trace Gas Concentrations from Lunar Occultation Measurements with SCIAMACHY on ENVISAT [view abstract] [view presentation]
L. K. Amekudzi, K. Bramstedt, A. Rozanov, H. Bovensmann, and J. P Burrows
16:50-17:20 Radio Occultation Soundings in Ionosphere and Space Weather Applications: Achievements and Prospects (invited) [view abstract] [view presentation]
J.-P. Luntama
17:20 Sessions Adjourn  

18:30-22:00 Get-Together Party (social event; Wegener Center Garden)