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A Report on the Sixteenth International TOVS Study Conference A Report on The Sixteenth International TOVS Study Conference Angra dos Reis, Brazil 7-13 May 2008 Conference sponsored by: INPE/CPTEC Met Office (U.K.) University of Wisconsin-Madison / SSEC CMS / NSMC CNES EUMETSAT NOAA / NESDIS NASA NPOESS ABB Bomem Ball Aerospace ITT Industries Kongsberg Spacetec Petrobras SBMET SeaSpace VCS Report prepared by: Stephen English and Allen Huang ITWG Co-Chairs Leanne Avila Maria Vasys Editors Published and Distributed by: University of Wisconsin-Madison 1225 West Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706 USA ITWG Web Site: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/itwg/ March 2009 International TOVS Study Conference-XVI Working Group Report FOREWORD The International TOVS Working Group (ITWG) is convened as a sub-group of the International Radiation Commission (IRC) of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (IAMAP). The ITWG continues to organise International TOVS Study Conferences (ITSCs) which have met approximately every 18 months since 1983. Through this forum, operational and research users of TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS), Advanced TOVS (ATOVS) and other atmospheric sounding data have exchanged information on data processing methods, derived products, and the impacts of radiances and inferred atmospheric temperature, moisture, and cloud fields on numerical weather prediction (NWP) and climate studies. The Sixteenth International TOVS Study Conference (ITSC-XVI) was held at the Hotel do Frade near Angra dos Reis from 7-13 May 2008. With about 130 participants representing 18 countries and 3 international organizations, this conference report summarises the scientific exchanges and outcomes of the meeting. A companion document, The Technical Proceedings of The Sixteenth International TOVS Study Conference, contains the complete text of ITSC-XVI scientific presentations. The ITWG Web site (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/itwg/) contains electronic versions of the conference presentations and publications. Together, these documents and Web pages reflect the conduct of a highly successful meeting in Angra. An active and mature community of TOVS and ATOVS data users exists, and considerable progress and positive results were reported at ITSC-XVI in a number of areas, including many related to the ATOVS system, use of IASI measurements, and to the other current and impending advanced sounders. ITSC-XVI was sponsored by industry, government agencies and a university, including, VCS Engineering, CNES, Kongsberg Spacetec AS, ABB, ITT Industries, Ball Aerospace, the Met Office, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center, EUMETSAT, NOAA/NESDIS, CPTEC, SeaSpace, NASA, NPOESS and the NSMC. The support of these groups is gratefully acknowledged. We wish to thank the local organising committee from the Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos, National Institute of Space Research (INPE/CPTEC), located in Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil, especially to Dr. Dirceu Herdies, Dr. Rodrigo Souza and Dr. Simone da Costa for their exceptional effort and talent in leading the local organization, and to Carine Previatti and Marcelo Acquaviva of Acquaviva Produções e Promoções for their enthusiastic support to the CPTEC team. Finally, appreciation is given to the local sponsors, including Petrobras and SBMET. Stephen English Allen Huang Co-Chair ITWG Co-Chair ITWG Met Office (U.K.) University of Wisconsin-Madison International TOVS Study Conference-XVI Working Group Report ITSC-16 Sponsors Hosts Local Sponsors Corporate Sponsors Organization Sponsors International TOVS Study Conference-XVI Working Group Report TOVS STUDY CONFERENCE (ITSC-XVI) Angra dos Reis, Brazil: 7-13 May 2008 International TOVS Working Group (ITWG) Co-Chairs Stephen English, Met Office, UK Hung-Lung Allen Huang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Organising Committee for ITSC-XV Stephen English, Met Office, UK Hung-Lung Allen Huang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Dirceu Herdies, CPTEC/INPE, Brazil Simone da Costa, CPTEC/INPE, Brazil Rodrigo Souza, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Brazil Marcelo Acquaviva, Acquaviva Produções e Promoções, Brazil Carine Prevatti, Acquaviva Produções e Promoções, Brazil Leanne Avila, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Bill Bellon, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Maria Vasys, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA ITSC-XV Participants Thomas Achtor University of Wisconsin-Madison USA Filipe Aires LMD/IPSL/CNRS France Rita Valeria Andreoli INPE/CPTEC Brazil Paolo Antonelli University of Wisconsin-Madison USA José Antonio Aravéquia CPTEC/INPE Brazil Raymond Armante LMD/CNRS/IPSL France Arlindo Arriaga EUMETSAT Germany Nigel Atkinson Met Office UK Thomas Auligne NCAR USA Hartmut Aumann Jet Propulsion Laboratory USA Nancy Baker Naval Research Laboratory USA Carlos Bastarz INPE/CPTEC Brazil William Bell Met Office UK Bill Bellon University of Wisconsin-Madison USA William Blackwell MIT Lincoln Laboratory USA Hal Bloom NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R USA Denis Blumstein CNES France Eva Borbas University of Wisconsin-Madison USA Niels Bormann ECMWF UK Aurélie Bouchard Meteo-France France Sid Boukabara NOAA/NESDIS USA Pascal Brunel Meteo-France France James Cameron Met Office UK Brett Candy Met Office UK Laure Chaumat NOVELTIS France Zhaohui Cheng NOAA/NESDIS/STAR USA Andrew Collard ECMWF UK International TOVS Study Conference-XVI Working Group Report Chantal Cote Environment Canada Canada Simone Sievert da Costa DSA -CPTEC -INPE Brazil David Crain ITT USA Cyril Crevoisier LMD/CNRS/IPSL France Godelieve Deblonde Environment Canada Canada John Derber DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC USA Peiming Dong Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences China Fanny Duffourg Meteo-France/CNRM/GMME/MICADO France Simon Elliot EUMETSAT Germany Stephen English Met Office UK John Eyre Met Office UK Lars Fiedler EUMETSAT Germany Louis Garand Environment Canada Canada Jairo Gomes Jr INPE/CPTEC Brazil Norman Grant EADS-Astrium UK David Griersmith Australian Bureau of Meteorology Australia Liam Gumley University of Wisconsin-Madison USA Yong Han NOAA/NESDIS/STAR USA Brett Harris Bureau of Meteorology Australia Dirceu Herdies INPE/CPTEC Brazil Reinhold Hess Deutscher Wetterdienst Germany Fiona Hilton Met Office UK Kenneth Holmlund EUMETSAT Germany Allen Huang University of Wisconsin-Madison USA Nicole Jacquinet-Husson Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique France Viju John Met Office UK Anton Kaifel Center for Solar Energy & Hydrogen Research Germany Richard Kelley NOAA/NESDIS/CSC USA Min-Jeong Kim NOAA/NESDIS/STAR USA Dieter Klaes EUMETSAT Germany Thomas Kleespies NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/JCSDA USA Blazej Krzeminski ECMWF UK Jerome LaFeuille World Meteorological Organization Switzerland Bozena Lapeta Institute of Meteorology & Water Management Poland Allen Larar NASA Langley Research Center USA Lydie Lavanant Meteo-France France John Le Marshall CAWCR Australia Xiaoqing Li NSMC/CMA China Jun Li University of Wisconsin-Madison USA Alan Lipton AER USA Huichun Liu NASA GSFC USA Xu Liu NASA-LARC USA Qifeng Lu NSMC/CMA China Gang Ma NSMC China Luiz Augusto Toledo Machado INPE/CPTEC Brazil Stephen MacPherson Environment Canada Canada Stephen Mango NPOESS Integrated Program Office USA Marco Matricardi ECMWF UK Yann Michel Meteo-France France Thibaut Montmerle Meteo-France/CNRM France Remi Montroty Meteo-France France Lotte Kroer Myrvoll Kongsberg Spacetec Norway Sanjiv Nair Government of India India Stuart Newman Met Office UK Kozo Okamoto Japan Meteorological Agency Japan International TOVS Study Conference-XVI Working Group Report John Overton NPOESS IPO (Aerospace) USA Frank Øynes Kongsberg Spacetec Norway Gene Pache ITT Corporation, Space Systems Division USA Thomas Pangaud Meteo-France France Eric Pequignot CNES France Thierry Phulpin CNES France Clemence Pierangelo CNES France Jean Pla CNES France Nikita Pougatchev Space Dynamics Laboratory USA Gloria Cristina Pujol National Meteorological Service Argentina Yanni Qu ITT Industries USA Roger Randriamampianina Norwegian Meteorological Institute Norway Tony Reale NOAA NESDIS STAR USA Filomena Romano IMAA/CNR Italy Benjamin Ruston Naval Research Lab USA Karen St. Germain NOAA NESDIS NPOESS IPO USA Luiz Sapucci INPE Brazil Roger Saunders Met Office UK Marc Schröder Deutscher Wetterdienst Germany Jörg Schulz Deutscher Wetterdienst Germany Marc Schwärz Deutscher Wetterdienst Germany Nathalie Selbach Deutscher Wetterdienst Germany Awdhesh Sharma NOAA/NESDIS USA Lei Shi NOAA/NCDC USA Devendra Singh Department of Science and Technology India Ramesh Singh Center for Earth Observing and Space Research USA William Smith Hampton University and University of Wisconsin USA Rodrigo Augusto de Ferreira de Souza EST/UEA Brazil Martin Stengel Meteorological and Hydrological Institute Sweden Kathleen Strabala University of Wisconsin-Madison USA Haibing Sun Perot System USA Jonathan Taylor Met Office UK Peter Thorne Met Office Hadley Centre UK Stephen Tjemkes EUMETSAT Germany David Tobin University of Wisconsin-Madison USA Ricardo Todling NASA GSFC/SAIC USA Michael Uddstrom National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research New Zealand Alexander Uspenskiy SRC Planeta Russian Federation Paul van Delst NOAA/NCEP/EMC-SAIC USA Maria Vasys University of Wisconsin-Madison USA Kung Hwa Wang Central Weather Bureau Taiwan (R.O.C.) Fuzhong Weng NOAA/NESDIS USA Gary Weymouth Australian Bureau of Meteorology Australia Peter Wilczynski NOAA-NPOESS Program Executive Office USA Banghua Yan NOAA JCSDA USA Jie Zhang Institute of Arid Meteorology, CMA China Limin Zhao NOAA/NESDIS USA Daniel Zhou
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