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Programme Schedule

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

09:00-10:20 Morning Session 1 Recent Occultation Missions: Formosat-3/COSMIC
(Chair: A. von Engeln)
09:00-09:40 The Formosat-3/COSMIC Radio Occultation Mission - Results and Challenges (invited keynote) [view abstract] [view presentation]
C. Rocken, S. Sokolovskiy, B. Schreiner, D. Hunt, S. Syndergaard, and Y.-H. Kuo
09:40-10:00 Local Time Sampling with Formosat-3/COSMIC [view abstract] [view presentation]
B. Pirscher, U. Foelsche, and G. Kirchengast
10:00-10:20 Comparison of Lidar and COSMIC Radio Occultation Temperature Profiles at High Latitudes [view abstract] [view presentation]
M. Petitta, L. Di Liberto, and A. Di Sarra
10:20-10:50Coffee Break 
10:50-12:30 Morning Session 2 Recent Occultation Missions: GRAS on MetOp
(Chair: C. Rocken)
10:50-11:30 GRAS on MetOp: The First Operational Radio Occultation Instrument (invited keynote) [view abstract] [view presentation]
A. von Engeln, C. Marquardt, E. O Clerigh, Y. Andres, J.-P. Luntama, and K. B. Lauritsen
11:30-11:50 MetOp GRAS Measurements - the Instrument Perspective [view abstract] [view presentation]
J. Christensen, M. Bonnedal, M. Sust, and M. Loiselet
11:50-12:10 Operational Processing of GRAS Radio Occultation Data at EUMETSAT [view abstract] [view presentation]
C. Marquardt, A. von Engeln, E. O. Clerigh, and Y. Andres
12:10-12:30 The GRAS Radio Occultation Intercomparison (ROPIC) Project [view abstract] [view presentation]
A. Löscher, K. B. Lauritsen, and M. Soerensen
12:30-14:10 Lunch Break  
14:10-15:40 Afternoon Session 1 Occultations for NWP and Global Wave Analysis
(Chair: J.-P. Luntama)
14:10-14:50 Latest Results on the Assimilation of GPSRO Data at the Met Office and ECMWF (invited keynote) [view abstract] [view presentation]
M. P. Rennie and S. B. Healy
14:50-15:10 Assimilation of Radio Occultation Data at the German Weather Service [view abstract] [view presentation]
D. Pingel and A. Rhodin
15:10-15:40 Recent Advances in Global Wave Activity Analysis from Long-Term GPS RO Data (invited) [view abstract] [view presentation]
A. de la Torre, P. Alexander, P. Llamedo, T. Schmidt, and J. Wickert
15:40-16:10 Coffee Break  
16:10-17:10 Afternoon Session 2 Occultations for Stratospheric Chemistry and Dynamics
(Chair: D. E. Flittner)
16:10-16:40 Recent Results from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) (invited) [view abstract] [view presentation]
C. D. Boone, K. A. Walker, G. Dufour, R. Nassar, C. P. Rinsland, D. Fu, and P. F. Bernath
16:40-17:10 Global and Regional Scale Studies of Atmospheric Gravity Wave Energy using CHAMP and COSMIC (invited) [view abstract] [view presentation]
T. Tsuda, and S. P. Alexander
17:10-19:00 Poster Session Radio, Stellar, Solar Occultation and Climate Applications
(Posters/SW Demo) (Chair: U. Foelsche)
17:10-17:40 Oral Intro Brief (3 min) Oral Introduction by Poster/SW Presenters
17:40-19:00 Viewing Time (complementary beverages & snacks available)
GPS Radio Occultation with CHAMP, GRACE-A, TerraSAR-X and COSMIC: Results from GFZ [view abstract] [view presentation]
J. Wickert, G. Beyerle, S. Heise, R. Koenig, G. Michalak, M. Rothacher, T. Schmidt, C. Viehweg, and D. Pingel
The GRAS SAF Project: First Results from MetOp [view abstract] [view presentation]
K. B. Lauristen, H. Gleisner, M. E. Gorbunov, F. Rubek, and M. B. Sorensen
Climate Data and GRAS/MetOp Results [view abstract] [view presentation]
H. Gleisner, M. E. Gorbunov, K. B. Lauritsen, F. Rubek, and M. B. Sorensen
The Impact of Large Scale Ionospheric Structure on Climate Benchmark Atmospheric Soundings Using GNSS Radio Occultation Data [view abstract] [view presentation]
A. J. Mannucci, C. O. Ao, B. A. Iijima, and X. Pi
Validation of High-Resolution Temperature Profiles (HRTP) Retrieved from Bi-chromatic Scintillation Measurements by GOMOS [view abstract] [view presentation]
V. Sofieva, J. Vira, F. Dalaudier, C. Retscher, M. Guirlet, and G. Barrot
SCIAMACHY Solar Occultation: Ozone and NO2 Profiles 2002-2006 [view abstract] [view presentation]
K. Bramstedt, L. Amekudzi, A. Bracher, A. Rozanov, H. Bovensmann, and J. P. Burrows
Retrieval of O, O2, O3 and N2 Mesospheric and Thermospheric Distributions from PROBA2-LYRA Occultation Data [view abstract] [view presentation]
M. Dominique, D. Gillotay, D. Fussen, F. Vanhellemont, and J.-F. Hochedez
SimVis: An Interactive Visual Field Exploration Tool applied to Climate Research [view abstract] [view presentation]
F. Ladstädter, A. K. Steiner, B. C. Lackner, G. Kirchengast, P. Muigg, J. Kehrer, and H. Doleisch
The Use of Remote Sensing Data for Assessment and Monitoring of Drought-related Surface Water Stress in Uganda [view abstract]
Khalid Y. Muwembe
19:00 Tuesday Adjourn  

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