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Monday Satellite data assimilation in the UK convective scale model 14:00 Roger Saunders, Met Office

Tuesday Update on satellite observation assimilation in mesoscale NWP 13:45 Vincent Guidard, Météo-France & CNRS/ CNRM - UMR3589 SESSION 1 Current and future satellite programmes and instruments

Wednesday Satellite observations in HARMONIE-AROME mesoscale models: 13:45 Current status and future plan SESSION New horizons for the Indian Ocean Roger Randriamampianina, met.no 2

Use of data from current and future satellites in very Thursday The role of satellite data in nowcasting and warning operations SESSION high-resolution NWP models 13:45 Hans-Joachim Koppert, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst 3

Atmospheric composition: recent advances Friday PANEL DISCUSSION SESSION in satellite products and applications 13:15 4 Moderator: Mark Higgins, EUMETSAT Speakers: Vincent Guidard, Météo-France & CNRS/ CNRM - UMR3589 Marine environment monitoring: recent advances Hans-Joachim Koppert, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst SESSION Roger Randriamampianina, met.no 5 in satellite products and applications Roger Saunders, Met Office

Satellite datea in support of operational hydrology and water SESSION 6 resources management

SESSION 7 Use of satellite data in climate monitoring

SESSION 8 Next generation geostationary satellites

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08:30 WELCOME COFFEE AND REGISTRATION S10 Plenary

09:00 Welcome Address, Alain Ratier, Director-General, EUMETSAT 09:15 Welcome Address, Silvio Cau - Col. G.A.r.n. / Il Capo Reparto f.f., ITAF-Air operational Command-Staff Dept. for Meteorology 09:30 Status of geostationary and low earth orbit development programmes in EUMETSAT, Clemens Kaiser, Director Programme Preparation & Development, EUMETSAT 10:00 NOAA’s next generation environmental satellite constellation, Steven Goodman, Chief Scientist GOES-R Program, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R Program Office 10:15 Status of Current and Future CMA meteorological satellite systems, Shihao Tang, Director of Satellite Application and Service Department, NSMC/CMA 10:30 Overview of current and future Himawari satellite programs, Hiroshi Kunimatsu, Senior Supervisor for Satellite Operations of Satellite Program Division, JMA 10:45 Update on the status of KMA space program, Kun-Il Jang, Director of Satellite Planning Division, NMSC/KMA 11:00 WMO Satellite Activities and Strategic Perspectives, Fernando Belda Esplugues, Director, WMO Observing and Information Systems Department 11:10 Conference Announcements

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CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITE PROGRAMMES AND INSTRUMENTS NEW HORIZONS FOR THE INDIAN OCEAN 11:45 11:45 1 S10 PLENARY 2 S10 AVANCORPO

MTG Programme Status First year of Meteosat-8 Indian Ocean Data Coverage Service and Operations 11:45 11:45 Alexander Schmid, EUMETSAT Flavio Murolo, EUMETSAT Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Progress of Space Segment and Performance Status Evaluation and forecast impacts of AMV datasets providing Indian Ocean coverage 12:00 12:00 Donny M. A. Aminou, ESA/ESTEC Katie Lean, ECMWF “Knowing what we breathe”: SENTINEL 4 – A geostationary imaging UVN spectrometer Operational vicarious calibration method for Meteosat instruments using deep 12:15 for air quality monitoring 12:15 convective clouds over the zero degree and IODC zones Gregory Bazalgette Courrèges-Lacoste, ESA/ESTEC Yves Govaerts, Rayference

EPS-SG Programme Status METEOSAT-8, an opportunity for NWC-SAF cloud products over Indian Ocean 12:30 12:30 Clemens Kaiser, EUMETSAT Gaelle Kerdraon, Météo-France MetOp Second Generation – Payload Overview The Nowcasting SAF GEO SW package for the IODC MSG satellite 12:45 12:45 Marc Loiselet, ESA/ESTEC Javier Garcia Pereda, AEMET Agencia Estatal De Meteorologia Chair: Hiroshi Kunimatsu Chair: Sean Burns (EUMETSAT) (JMA Japan Meteorological Agency) Chair: Ram Kumar Dhurmea (Mauritius Meteorological Services)

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11:15 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 11:15 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION: RECENT ADVANCES IN SATELLITE MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING: RECENT ADVANCES IN SATELLITE 11:45 PRODUCTS AND APPLICATIONS 11:45 PRODUCTS AND APPLICATIONS 4 BA ROOM 4 5 S10 ROOM 3

KEYNOTE ADDRESS Sentinel-3A Marine Products in Operational Copernicus Services 11:45 Measuring CO2 with GOSAT and OCO-2: Implications for Future Operational Space- Hilary Wilson, EUMETSAT Copernicus Programme Office 11:45 Based Greenhouse Gas Measurements S3-MPC implementation of OLCI CalVal plan David Crisp, California Institute of Technology 12:00 Christophe Lerebourg, ACRI-ST Progress on Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Satellite in China 12:15 OLCI's smile on remote sensing reflectances over water Xingying Zhang, NSMC/ CMA 12:15 Lena Katharina Kritten, Freie Universität Berlin IASI satellite observation of pollutants over China during 10 years 12:30 Investigation of Arctic Waters by use of the Chlorophyll-a Fluorescence Signal from Cathy Clerbaux, LATMOS/IPSL, Université Pierre et Marie Curie 12:30 MERIS Measurements Changing distributions of carbon monoxide (CO) from climate and land use Juergen Fischer, Freie Universtät Berlin 12:45 driven fire patterns Haze Detection and Removal in Sentinel 3 OLCI Level 1B Imagery Using a New Helen Worden, National Center For Atmospheric Research (NCAR) 12:45 Multispectral Data Dehazing Method Stephan Recher, SCISYS Deutschland GmbH Chair: Claude Camy-Peyret (IPSL (UPMC/UVSQ) Chair: Hayley Evers-King (Plymouth Marine Laboratory)

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14:00 PLENARY S10 PLENARY 14:00 PLENARY S10 PLENARY Roger Saunders, Met Office Roger Saunders, Met Office Satellite data assimilation in the UK convective scale model Satellite data assimilation in the UK convective scale model

CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITE PROGRAMMES AND INSTRUMENTS NEW HORIZONS FOR THE INDIAN OCEAN 14:45 14:45 1 S10 PLENARY 2 S10 AVANCORPO

Metop Second Generation – System Overview SatCORPS Cloud Properties from METEOSAT-8 over the Indian Ocean Region 14:45 14:45 Maurizio Betto, ESA/ESTEC Qing Trepte, SSAI Science Systems and Applications Inc. Sentinel-5, the new generation European operational atmospheric chemistry mission in TOA solar and thermal fluxes from GERB-2 processing over the Indian Ocean 15:00 15:00 polar orbit Alessandro Ipe, RMI Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium Didier Martin, ESA StormTrack algorithm validation over Indian Ocean using Meteosat 8 and the GPM - Sentinel-5 Precursor – Status of the first Copernicus Atmospheric Chemistry Mission 15:15 IMERG product 15:15 Claus Zehner, ESA Michele De Rosa, GEO-K s.r.l. The status of FY-3C and FY-4A in NWP and the preparation of FY-3D for NWP Scientific and application potential of stereoscopic imagery based on Meteosat 15:30 Qifeng Lu, China Meteorological Administration (CMA) 15:30 satellites. Ján Kaňák, SHMU Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute The sentinel-3 mission: Status and update on land & marine products 15:45 Susanne Mecklenburg, ESA Chair: Toshiyuki Kurino (WMO) Chair: Toshiyuki Chair: Sean Burns (EUMETSAT) Ram Kumar Dhurmea (Mauritius Meteorological Services)

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The Sentinel-6 Poseidon-4 L1 Ground Prototype Processor An autoregressive algorithm of solar irradiance forecasting in Reunion Island: First 16:30 Mònica Roca, isardSAT 16:30 benefits of Meteosat-8 over Indian Ocean Sylvain Cros, Reuniwatt Current state and prospects of Russian meteorological satellite constellation 16:45 Vasily Asmus, SRC Planeta Stereo vision using the new dual view Meteosat Second Generation capability. 16:45 Steven Dewitte, RMIB Jason-CS Programme Status 17:00 Clemens Kaiser, EUMETSAT SEVIRI over the Indian Ocean, exploiting the capabilities of Meteosat-8 for retrieval of 17:00 Geostationary operational environmental satellites-R series (GOES-R) program surface and aerosol properties in Africa 17:15 overview and status Simon Proud, University of Oxford Edward Grigsby, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Meteosat-8 radiance assimilation for solar irradiance forecasting using COSMO-KENDA The GOES-R Program Series: Development of one the World’s Most Innovative 17:15 over Reunion Island 17:30 Operational Weather Product Generation Systems Sylvain Cros, Reuniwatt Edward Grigsby, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Chair: Marc Loiselet (ESA/ESTEC) WMO WIGOS Vision/Space 2040 Chair: Sean Burns (EUMETSAT) 17:45 Johannes Schmetz, WMO Chair: Ram Kumar Dhurmea (Mauritius Meteorological Services)

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14:00 PLENARY S10 PLENARY 14:00 PLENARY S10 PLENARY Roger Saunders, Met Office Roger Saunders, Met Office Satellite data assimilation in the UK convective scale model Satellite data assimilation in the UK convective scale model

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION: RECENT ADVANCES IN SATELLITE MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING: RECENT ADVANCES IN SATELLITE 14:45 PRODUCTS AND APPLICATIONS 14:45 PRODUCTS AND APPLICATIONS 4 BA ROOM 4 5 S10 ROOM 3

Contribution of satellite infrared sounders to climate change studies over the Arctic Ocean and Sea Ice SAF plans in the 5 next years 14:45 14:45 Ocean during summer periods between 2010 and 2016 Cécile Hernandez, Météo-France Claude Camy-Peyret, IPSL (UPMC/UVSQ) Utilising observation error correlation information in the Operational Sea Surface CO and SO2: two IASI products operationally distributed by EUMETCAST 15:00 Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis system (OSTIA) 15:00 Maya George, LATMOS/IPSL, UPMC Sorbonne Universités, UVSQ, CNRS Rebecca Reid, Met Office Towards a strengthening of the coupling of Numerical Weather Prediction and Towards improved drifter SST: a collaboration between the satellite community and the Chemistry Transport Models to improve the retrieval of thermodynamic fields from 15:15 Data Buoy Co-operation Panel 15:15 infra-red passive sounders: The ozone case David Meldrum, DLM Olivier Coopmann, CNRM Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques Satellite SST Products at NOAA 15:30 Improved global methane distributions from IASI through joint pre-retrieval of Alexander Ignatov, NOAA temperature, humidity and surface spectral emissivity and other developments 15:30 Exploring spatial and temporal features in satellite imagery for improved SST Diane Knappett, RAL Rutherford Appleton Laboratory / NCEO National Centre for Earth 15:45 Products at NOAA Observation Irina Gladkova, City College of New York / NOAA Chair: Anne O’Carroll (EUMETSAT) Chair: Anne O’Carroll Chair: David Crisp (JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

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KEYNOTE ADDRESS Pre-Launch Calibration of SLSTR for Sentinel-3B 16:30 The use of atmospheric composition data from EUMETSAT in the CAMS data Dave Smith, STFC 16:30 assimilation system Ongoing comparison between Sentinel-3A SLSTR and IASI aboard Metop-A and –B Melanie Ades, ECMWF 16:45 Igor Tomazic, EUMETSAT Ensemble assimilation and diagnostics of tropospheric oxidants 17:00 Independent validation of Sentinel 3A SLSTR sea surface temperature products Benjamin Gaubert, NCAR National Center of Atmospheric Research 17:00 Gary Corlett, University of Leicester Assimilation of satellite observed ammonia to monitor the reactive nitrogen budget over Validation of SLSTR sea surface temperature with the ISAR sea surface reference data 17:15 Germany 17:15 Craig Donlon, University of Southampton Arjo Segers, TNO Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research SENTINEL-3A SLSTR SST VALIDATION at low and mid-latitudes Pierre et Marie Curie) Pierre O3 and NO2 OSSEs on a Regional/Urban Scale for the GEO-CAPE Mission 17:30 17:30 Anne Marsouin, Météo-France Vijay Natraj, JPL/ California Institute of Technology Chair: Anne O’Carroll (EUMETSAT) Chair: Anne O’Carroll Validation of SLSTR L2P WST product over European in CMEMS chains from January to Intercomparison study between observed tropospheric NO2 columns from MAXDOAS, 17:45 September 2017

Chair: Cathy Clerbaux (LATMOS/IPSL, Uiversité Chair: Cathy Clerbaux (LATMOS/IPSL, 17:45 modelled and retrieved GOME-2 NO2 data Francoise Orain, Météo-France Andy Delcloo, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium

14 15 TUESDAY 3 OCT MORNING

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION: RECENT ADVANCES IN SATELLITE CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITE PROGRAMMES AND INSTRUMENTS 09:00 09:00 PRODUCTS AND APPLICATIONS 1 S10 PLENARY 4 BA ROOM 4

Status of NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) and CubeSat Infrared Performance assessment of recently released OMPS data products 09:00

09:00 Atmospheric Sounder (CIRAS) Projects Glen Jaross, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Thomas Pagano, NASA/JPL Joint Polar Satellite System Data Products and Applications 09:15 Design and study of a low cost GNSS radio occultation constellation yielding 10,000 Bonnie Reed, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS 09:15 soundings per day Improving the design of NUCAPS trace gas products within applications – The value of a Christine Fallet, CNES 09:30 user-developer partnership Microwat : A new Earth Explorer mission proposal to measure the Sea surface Nadia Smith, Science and Technology Corporation 09:30 Temperature and the Sea Ice Concentration JPSS Atmospheric Composition Products in support of FIREX and Future Field Catherine Prigent, Observatoire de Paris 09:45 Campaigns A new radiometer instrument for coastal altimetry Murty Divakarla, IM Systems Group, Inc. 09:45 Rolv Midthassel, ESA-ESTEC Operational Near-Real-Time total ozone retrieval algorithm for for TROPOMI/S5P and FORUM: a mission to characterise the far-infrared spectrum of the Earth 10:00 Sentinel 4 10:00 Luca Palchetti, INO-CNR National Institute of Optics Klaus-Peter Heue, DLR-IMF Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt

Chair: Anthony Ilingworth (University of Reading) Assessing impacts of CubeSats and Geostationary satellites Microwave Sounders on The Sentinel-4 and Sentinel-5 Missions and their atmospheric composition products 10:15 10:15 Global NWP through OSSE Physics and Climatology of the Academy Athens) Ben Veihelmann, ESA/ESTEC Narges Shahroudi, Riverside Technology Inc / NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Chair: Christos Zerefos (Research Center for Atmospheric

10:30 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING 10:30 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

Earth Observing SmallSats - Initial Successes and Future Promises New products and future evolution of the Atmospheric Composition Monitoring SAF 11:15 11:15 Philip Ardanuy, Chief Science Officer, Innovim Seppo Hassinen, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute Quick regional OSSEs on CubeSat based IR/MW sounders on local severe storm forecasts Operational trace gas column observations from GOME-2 on Metop 11:30 11:30 Allen Huang, CIMSS Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies Pieter Valks, DLR-IMF WIVERN – A Proposed Satellite to Observe Global Winds and Precipitation. Understanding Differences in Satellite Records of Tropospheric Ozone Over the Past Decade 11:45 11:45 Anthony Ilingworth, University of Reading Jessica Neu, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institue of Technology Weather forecast for next generation very-high-resolution Earth imaging french satellite The production of 20+ year height-resolved ozone data from GOME-class instruments 12:00 Sorel Matthieu, Météo-France for ESA-CCI and C3S 12:00 Barry Latter, RAL Space, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory / NCEO (National Centre for Enterprise Approaches to Satellite Products and Systems in the Age of GEOSS 12:15 Earth Observation) Sid Boukabara, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR The use of QBO, ENSO, NAO perturbations in the evaluation of GOME-2A total ozone FY-4 image navigation and registration On-orbit Performance 12:30 Thomas P Kurosu measurements Lei Yang, CMA/NSMC National Satellite Meteorological Cente 12:15 Christos Zerefos, Research Center for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology of the Academy Chair: Jack Xiong (NASA) Chair: of Athens Tropospheric ozone columns in relation to El Niño and fires 12:30 Klaus-Peter Heue, Dlr-imf Deutsches Zentrum Für Luft- Und Raumfahrt/ Institut Für Methodik Der Fernerkundung (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology)

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16 17 TUESDAY 3 OCT MORNING

MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING: RECENT ADVANCES IN SATELLITE USE OF SATELLITE DATA IN CLIMATE MONITORING PRODUCTS AND APPLICATIONS 09:00 09:00 S10 AVANCORPO 5 S10 ROOM 3 7

The altimeter product suite for the Sentinel-6/Jason-CS mission KEYNOTE ADDRESS 09:00 Cristina Martin-Puig, EUMETSAT 09:00 Exploiting satellite data for climate research and services Roger Saunders, Met Office Sentinel-3A NRT Wind and Wave Products: Monitoring, Assessment and Assimilation 09:15 Saleh Abdalla, ECMWF KEYNOTE ADDRESS 09:30 Rescuing early geostationary weather satellite data: science, art, and serendipity! Value added Sentinel-3A sea level products by the Marine Altimetry L2P-L3 Jerrold Robaidek, SSEC Space Science and Engineering Center 09:30 Service now available Michael Ablain, CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites Climate Monitoring SAF: Status and Plans for CDOP-3 10:00 Martin Stengel, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst Sentinel-3A Topography Mission: Error Budget Assessment 09:45 Sylvie Labroue, CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites Advancing operational space-based monitoring of weather and climate extremes 10:15 DUACS: Toward High Resolution Sea Level Products Toshiyuki Kurino, World Meteorological Organization 10:00 Yannice Faugere, CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites Chair: Jorg Schulz, EUMETSAT Enhancements of storm surge hindcasting through Earth observation data Chair: Helene Brogniez (LATMOS-IPSL) Chair: Cristina Martin-Puig (EUMETSAT) Chair: Cristina Martin-Puig (EUMETSAT) 10:15 Francesco De Biasio, National Council of Researches, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate

10:30 COFFEE BREAK 10:30 COFFEE BREAK

Measuring Winds and Currents with DopplerScatt KEYNOTE ADDRESS 11:15 Ernesto Rodriguez, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/CalTech 11:15 Fundamental climate data records as measurement science Christopher Merchant, NCEO / University of Reading Statistical characterization of small-scale wind variability in response to heavy rain 11:30 events near oceanic Mesoscale Convective Systems A novel method for vicarious re-characterisation of the MVIRI VIS spectral response to Marcos Portabella, Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) 11:45 facilitate climate monitoring Ralf Quast, FastOpt GmbH Mesoscale features in ultra-high resolution ASCAT wind fields 11:45 Jur Vogelzang, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institut Impact of reverse engineered MVIRI visible channel SSRs on reflectance FCDR 12:00 Frank Ruethrich, EUMETSAT Ocean Surface Salinity and Wind Speed from the SMAP L-Band Radiometer 12:00 Thomas Meissner, Remote Sensing Systems Generation of aerosol and surface reflectance Climate Data Record from MVIRI/VIS observation: impact of the reverse engineered sensor spectral response on Level-2 Iberian low-level coastal jet temporal and spatial variability assessed from 12:15 product retrieval 12:15 scatterometers Yves Govaerts, Rayference Isabel Monteiro, IPMA - Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera A Fundamental Climate Data Record for the AVHRR: Taking a Metrological Approach Towards a new ASCAT wind product for assimilation in global NWP 12:30 12:30 Jonathan Mittaz, University of Reading / National Physical Laboratory Marcos Portabella, Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) Chair: Isabel Monteiro (IPMA) Chair: Jorg Schulz (EUMETSAT)

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18 19 TUESDAY 3 OCT AFTERNOON

13:45 PLENARY DISCUSSION S10 PLENARY 13:45 PLENARY DISCUSSION S10 PLENARY

Vincent Guidard, Météo-France & CNRS / CNRM - UMR3589 Vincent Guidard, Météo-France & CNRS / CNRM - UMR3589 Update on satellite observation assimilation in mesoscale NWP Update on satellite observation assimilation in mesoscale NWP

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION: RECENT ADVANCES IN SATELLITE CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITE PROGRAMMES AND INSTRUMENTS 14:30 14:30 PRODUCTS AND APPLICATIONS 1 S10 PLENARY 4 BA ROOM 4

Ground validation assessments of GPM core observatory science requirements Towards new constraints on the global tropospheric ozone budget: Satellite 14:30 Erich Stocker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 14:30 observations of peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) Vivienne Payne, JPL/Caltech Effects of JPSS-1 ATMS Spectral Response Function and Antenna Pattern on Brightness 14:45 Temperature Simulations Sun-induced vegetation fluorescence retrieval development using GOME-2 data 14:45 Lin Lin, ESSIC/UMD / NOAA/STAR M. L. Kooreman, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute JPSS VIIRS Pre-launch Calibration and Performance Assessment Satellite and Aircraft Observations of Cross-Tropopause Transport of Water Substance 15:00 Jack Xiong, NASA GSFC 15:00 by Thunderstorms Pao K. Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison / Academia Sinica The new scatterometer onboard the EPS-SG platforms 15:15 Francesca Ticconi, EUMETSAT A new scientific product of water vapor derived from GOME, SCHIAMACHY and GOME-2 15:15 based on Advanced AMF Algorithm Statuts of IASI FM3R instrument and performance assessment after Metop-C thermal Yang Wang, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry 15:30 vacuum tests Elsa Jacquette, CNES Validation of the GOME-2 GDP 4.8 OClO product 15:30 Gaia Pinardi, ISAB-BIRA Royal Belgium Institute for Space Aeronomy A consistent calibration strategy applied over the historical ISCCP B1U geostationary Satellite Observations of Tropospheric BrO over Salt Lakes and Northern High Latitudes Chair: Thomas Pagano (NASA/JPL) 15:45 visible imager record. 15:45 David Doellling, NASA Langley Research Center Thomas P Kurosu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology Random Projection Approach to the Global Scale Retrieval of Atmospheric Profiles of Greenhouse Gases and Pollutants from IASI with Improved Horizontal Spatial Resolution 16:00 and Precision

Chair: Antonia Gambacorta (Science and Technology Corporation (STC) Chair: Antonia Gambacorta (Science and Technology Guido Masiello, University of Basilicata

16:00 -18:00 POSTER SESSION BASILICA AEMILIA 16:00 -18:00 POSTER SESSION BASILICA AEMILIA COCKTAIL COCKTAIL

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13:45 PLENARY DISCUSSION S10 PLENARY 13:45 PLENARY DISCUSSION S10 PLENARY

Vincent Guidard, Météo-France & CNRS / CNRM - UMR3589 Vincent Guidard, Météo-France & CNRS / CNRM - UMR3589 Update on satellite observation assimilation in mesoscale NWP Update on satellite observation assimilation in mesoscale NWP

MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING: RECENT ADVANCES IN SATELLITE USE OF SATELLITE DATA IN CLIMATE MONITORING 14:30 PRODUCTS AND APPLICATIONS 14:30 5 S10 ROOM 3 7 S10 AVANCORPO

Transport efficiency of an Agulhas ring from combined satellite altimetry and Argo A High-Quality TRMM/GPM Brightness Temperature Reference Dataset for Climate 14:30 profiles 14:30 Applications Graham Quartly, Plymouth Marine Laboratory Wesley Berg, Colorado State University Comparisons of the first year of Sentinel-3 SLSTR sea surface temperatures with near- GSICS Infrared Reference Sensor Traceability and Uncertainty 14:45 14:45 surface ARGO measurements Tim Hewison, EUMETSAT Andrew Harris, University of Maryland Extending the Recalibration of the HIRS Longwave Infrared Channels to Support The diurnal cycle of sea-surface temperature and estimation of the heat budget of the 15:00 Longterm Time Series Studies 15:00 Mediterranean Sea Bin Zhang, University of Maryland Salvatore Marullo, ENEA, Centro Ricerche Frascati The AVHRR MITRAM visible calibration strategy designed for the NOAA degrading orbit 15:15 SEVIRI Level 2 Processor for Surface Parameters: An application to Mediterranean Sea David Doelling, NASA Langley Research Center 15:15 Guido Masiello, Università degli Studi della Basilicata / CINFAI Historical AVHRR data archived at ESA – a prerequisite for climate monitoring 15:30 Observed ice surface temperatures and the potential integration into a coupled ocean Stefan Wunderle, University of Bern 15:30 and sea ice model Till Andreas Soya Rasmussen, DMI Danish Meteorological Institute A multi-surface performance assessment of the Sentinel-3A Surface Topography Mission 15:45 Microwave Radiometer

Chair : Hayley Evers King (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) Bruno Picard, CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites Chair: Helene Brogniez (LATMOS-IPSL Institut Pierre Simon Laplace) Institut Pierre Chair: Helene Brogniez (LATMOS-IPSL

16:00 -18:00 POSTER SESSION BASILICA AEMILIA 16:00 -18:00 POSTER SESSION BASILICA AEMILIA COCKTAIL COCKTAIL

22 23 WEDNESDAY 4 OCT MORNING

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION: RECENT ADVANCES IN SATELLITE CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITE PROGRAMMES AND INSTRUMENTS 09:00 09:00 PRODUCTS AND APPLICATIONS 1 S10 PLENARY 4 BA ROOM 4

Joint Polar Satellite System: the United States New Generation Civilian Polar Orbiting Near-Real Time Atmosphere Products from Copernicus Sentinel-3 09:00 09:00 Environmental Satellite System Rosemary Munro, EUMETSAT Barbara Grofic, NASA/JPSS A New Top-Down Approach for Directly Estimating Biomass Burning Emissions and J1 Readiness from a Cal/Val Perspective 09:15 Fuel Consumption from Geostationary Satellite Fire Radiative Power (FRP) 09:15 Jeffrey Weinrich,Science and Technology Corporation Martin Wooster, King's College London NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System’s Proving Ground and Risk Reduction (PGRR) How to use SEVIRI Fire Radiative Power in the Copernicus Atmosphere Program – Critical Capabilities Continue to Benefit NOAA Line Offices as Suomi NPP 09:30 Monitoring Service 09:30 Transitions to JPSS-1 Johannes W. Kaiser, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Bill Sjoberg, NOAA JPSS Overview of GRASP algorithm developments and their potential for enhanced aerosol An Analysis of Potential Polarization Induced Calibration Errors for the Cross-track 09:45 retrieval from 3MI/MetOp-SG, OLCI and SLSTR/Sentinel-3 and Sentinel-4 observations 09:45 Infrared Sounder (CrIS) Sensor Oleg Dubovik, Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, CNRS / Université Lille -1 Joe Taylor, Space Science and Engineering Center An advanced initiative for tracking operationally aerosol events over the last decade Double-Take: Possibilities for Improved Nocturnal Environment using VIIRS Day/Night 10:00 based on MSG/SEVIRI satellite observations Chair: Lothar Schüller (EUMETSAT)

Band sensors on Suomi NPP and JPSS-1 Chair: Christian Retscher (EUMETSAT) Dominique Carrer, UMR3589-CNRM 10:00 William Straka III, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison Analysis of DCC Reflected Lunar Radiance Measured by the Suomi NPP VIIRS Day/Night Band 10:15 Changyong Cao, NOAA

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KEYNOTE ADDRESS PMAp: Aerosol Optical Properties operational retrieval at global scale 11:15 11:15 EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility Network: Staring a new phase Alessandra Cacciari, EUMETSAT Lothar Schüller, EUMETSAT Three-­dimensional distribution of desert dust outbreaks derived from IASI satellite The Satellite Applications Facility on Land Surface Analysis: Evolution towards the Next observations 11:30 11:45 Generation of EUMETSAT Satellites Gaëlle Dufour, LISA Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Amosphériques - CNRS/ Isabel Trigo, IPMA (Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere) UPEC/UPD ROM SAF plans and radio occultation product evolution towards EPS-SG Use of satellite data for source detection and monitoring of dust aerosol 12:00 11:45 Kent Lauritsen, Danish Meteorological Institute Sophie Vandenbussche, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy The Nowcasting SAF (NWC SAF), current status and future plans Hourly retrieval of aerosol properties over sea and land from MSG/SEVIRI observations 12:15 Xavier Calbet, AEMET Agencia Estatal De Meteorologia 12:00 in the framework of the aerosol_cci project Marta Luffarelli, Rayference NWCSAF v2018 delivery: improvement of CI product 12:30 Jean-Marc Moisselin, Météo-France Spaceborne lidar datasets: operational use 12:15 Franco Marenco, Met Office Multisensor synergistic approach for volcano monitoring based on SEVIRI observations Chair: Rosemary Munro (EUMETSAT) 12:30 Chair: Christophe Accadia (EUMETSAT) Luca Merucci, INGV Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia First Look Dust and Smoke Imagery from GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) 12:45 Shobha Kondragunta, NOOA

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24 25 WEDNESDAY 4 OCT MORNING

USE OF SATELLITE DATA IN CLIMATE MONITORING NEXT GENERATION GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES 09:00 09:00 7 S10 AVANCORPO 8 S10 ROOM 3

Coordinated CDR Production Through a Network of Producers: SCOPE-CM’s Evolution An Overview of the Design and Development of the Geostationary Operational 09:00 Jeffrey Privette,NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information 09:00 Environmental Satellite R-Series (GOES-R) Space Segment Pam Sullivan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center A SCOPE-CM Project for the retrieval of Land Surface Albedo using imagery acquired by 09:15 geostationary satellites. An Early Look at the Imagery from the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on GOES-16 09:15 Alessio Lattanzio, EUMETSAT Daniel Lindsey, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Multisensor albedo retrieval from polar-orbiting satellites GOES-16 ABI ON-ORBIT Performance 09:30 09:30 Aku Riihelä, Finnish Meteorological Institute Robert Iacovazzi, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Global climate monitoring with GPS Radio Occultation data GOES-R/16 Radiometric Traceability through Field Campaign and Comparisons with 09:45 Hans Gleisner, Danish Meteorological Institute 09:45 SNPP/MetOp Radiometers Changyong Cao, NOAA Sustained generation of upper tropospheric humidity datasets 10:00 Lei Shi, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI Meteosat Third Generation (MTG): FCI End-to-End Performance 10:00 Chair: Toshiyuki Kurino (WMO) Chair: Toshiyuki Yannig Durand, ESA Re-calibration of Infrared and Water-Vapor channels of imagers on JMA’s historical 10:15 geostationary meteorological satellites using HIRS data Chair: Steven Goodman (NOAA NESDIS) Tasuku Tabata, MSC/JMA

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COSMO-SkyMed mission: contribution to climate change monitoring Automated Volcanic Cloud Identification, Tracking, and Characterization Using Next 11:15 Maria Libera Battagliere, Italian Space Agency 11:15 Generation Meteorological Satellites John Cintineo, SSEC / CMSS KEYNOTE ADDRESS The GEWEX water vapor assessment (G-VAP) – results from inter-comparisons and Next generation geostationary satellite observations in a multi-sensor severe weather 11:30 stability analysis. 11:30 nowcasting tool Marc Schröder, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst John Cintineo, SSEC / CMSS Closing the loop: A virtual observatory for climate data quality earth observations Rapidly Developing Cumulus Area (RDCA) detection using Himawari-8/9 12:00 11:45 Joerg Schulz, EUMETSAT Hiroshi Suzue, MSC/JMA CIS-Troll-Match – a versatile tool for inter-comparison and validation of satellite Where East Meets West: How Himawari-8 AHI Enables True Color Capabilities for 12:15 measurements and more 12:00 GOES-R ABI Mikhail Itkin, Norwegian Meteorological Institute Daniel Lindsey, MSC/JMA/NESDIS/STAR, Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch Multispectral Imagery Applications for the New Generation Weather Satellites 12:15 Curtis Seaman, CIRA Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere MTG-IRS: Introduction to Instrument Concept and Calibration Principles 12:30 Eline Conijn, OHB System AG Chair: Joachim Saalmueller (EUMETSAT) Chair: Stephan Bojinski (World Meteorological Organization)

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26 27 WEDNESDAY 4 OCT AFTERNOON

13:45 PLENARY DISCUSSION S10 PLENARY 13:45 PLENARY DISCUSSION S10 PLENARY Roger Randriamampianina, met.no Roger Randriamampianina, met.no Satellite observations in HARMONIE-AROME mesoscale models: Satellite observations in HARMONIE-AROME mesoscale models: Current status and future plan Current status and future plan

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION: RECENT ADVANCES IN SATELLITE CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITE PROGRAMMES AND INSTRUMENTS 14:30 14:30 PRODUCTS AND APPLICATIONS 1 S10 PLENARY 4 BA ROOM 4

GPM V05 Gridded Text Products The characterisation of upper-tropospheric--lower-stratospheric secondary sulfate 14:30 Erich Stocker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 14:30 aerosols from thermal infrared satellite instruments in low Earth and geostationary orbit Pasquale Sellitto, LMD-ENS A novel active and passive microwave package for the investigation of Arctic 14:45 mixed-phase clouds 14:45 OMI observations of bromine monoxide emissions from volcanoes Mario Mech, Universität zu Köln Raid Suleiman, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics In-Flight Characterization of Microwave Sounders With the Moon 15:00 10 years of GOME-2 SO2 data: Volcanic eruptions and anthropogenic emissions Martin Burgdorf, Universität Hamburg 15:00 Pascal Hedelt, DLR-IMF Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt/ Institut für Methodik Approaches to Enhanced Temporal Sampling from NASA Earth Satellite Missions der Fernerkundung 15:15 Jack Kaye, NASA Earth Science Division Aviation meteorology: An icing detection product based on EUMETSAT data Noise performance of microwave humidity sounders over their life time 15:15 Alessandra Lucia Zollo, Meteorological laboratory (METE), Italian Aerospace Research 15:30 Imke Hans, Universität Hamburg Center (CIRA) Chair: Piet Stammes Multilayer Cloud Retrieval for CERES Using Multispectral Satellite Data With an Artificial Chair: Changyong Cao (NOAA) 15:30 Neural Network Patrick Minnis, NASA Langley Research Center

(KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute) NWC-SAF convective rainfall rate algorithm development for Himawari8 AHI over the 15:45 Australian continent Mark Broomhall, Australian Bureau of Meteorology

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The EPS-SG Microwave Imager and Ice Cloud Imager: ground processing and Operational cloud products from GOME-2 and perspectives for Sentinel-5P and 16:15 development of Calibration/Validation activities Sentinel-4 16:15 Christophe Accadia, EUMETSAT Ronny Lutz, DLR-IMF Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt/ Institut für Methodik der Fernerkundung Calibration and Validation activities for the EUMETSAT Polar System - Second 16:30 Generation (EPS-SG) Visible/Infrared Imager (METimage) Comparison between O2 A-band and O2-O2 band derived cloud properties from GOME-2 16:30 Christophe Accadia, EUMETSAT Piet Stammes, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute In-Orbit References for Microwave Instruments A fast cloud retrieval algorithm from the oxygen B band for GOME-2 measurements 16:45 16:45 Manik Bali, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Marine Desmons, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute Building new uncertainty concepts into current and future missions New Global Estimates of Cloud Water Content and Path from Satellite Imager Data 17:00 17:00 Christopher Merchant, NCEO / University of Reading William Smith, NASA Langley Research Center Flux estimation for the Broad-Band Radiometer (BBR) on EarthCARE Retrieval of liquid cloud properties from POLDER3/PARASOL instruement: A global vision 17:15 17:15 Almudena Velazquez Blazquez, RMI Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium Laurent C.-Labonnote, University of Lille, LOA Chair: Mario Mech (Universität Köln) Parametric models of the angular dependence of satellite retrieved LST at global scale and using land surface classification

17:30 Chair: Patrick Minnis (NASA Langley Research Center) Isabel Trigo, Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), University of Lisbon / IPMA - Instituto Potuguês do Mar e da Atmosfera

28 29 WEDNESDAY 4 OCT AFTERNOON

13:45 PLENARY DISCUSSION S10 PLENARY 13:45 PLENARY DISCUSSION S10 PLENARY Roger Randriamampianina, met.no Roger Randriamampianina, met.no Satellite observations in HARMONIE-AROME mesoscale models: Satellite observations in HARMONIE-AROME mesoscale models: Current status and future plan Current status and future plan

USE OF SATELLITE DATA IN CLIMATE MONITORING NEXT GENERATION GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES 14:30 14:30 7 S10 AVANCORPO 8 S10 ROOM 3

KEYNOTE ADDRESS Galvanizing Excitement and Awareness Around the GOES-R Satellite Series with Two heavy rain types over the humid East Asian summer environment observed from 14:30 Science Teachers, Science Centers and TV Broadcasters 14:30 TRMM PR reflectivity Margaret Mooney, CIMSS Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies B.J. Sohn, Seoul National University Light up the Sky for NOAA's Geostationary Lightning Mapper 14:45 DAPAGLOCO - A global daily precipitation dataset from satellite and rain-gauge Steven Goodman, NOAA NESDIS GOES-R Program Office 15:00 measurements A First Look at GOES-16 Operational Geostationary Lightning Mapper Observations Marc Schröder, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst 15:00 Geoffrey Stano,NASA SPoRT / ENSCO Inc. Sea surface temperature climate data records from the ESA Climate Change Initiative 15:15 Operational Lightning Products Improve Forecasting Capabilities in OPC and TAFB Christopher Merchant, NCEO / University of Reading 15:15 Offshore Zones The HOAPS Climatology V4: updates and results from comparisons to various satellite, Steven Goodman, GOES-R Program Office Chair: Daniele Biron 15:30 buoy and ship data records. Use of MTG-IRS proxy data for early detection of convective systems 15:30 Karsten Fennig, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst Antonio Vocino, COMet - Centro Operativo per la Meteorologia Ready to Serve from an Operational Assignment in the GOES Constellation: GOES-16 (COMet - Centro Operativo per la Meteorologia) 15:45 Data and Services Chair: Marc Schröder (DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst) Matthew Seybold, NOAA/NESDIS/OSPO/SPSD

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USE OF SATELLITE DATA IN CLIMATE MONITORING NEXT GENERATION GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES 16:15 16:15 7 S10 AVANCORPO 8 S10 ROOM 3

Polar air temperature estimated from satellite ice surface measurements KEYNOTE ADDRESS 16:15 Pia Nielsen-Englyst, Danish Meteorological Institute 16:15 Operational Use of GOES-16 Imagery by the U.S. National Weather Service Daniel Lindsey, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/RAMMB Observations of global variation of water vapor by using different observational 16:30 Platforms and its impact on climate change Resolving “hidden gravity waves” with Himawari-8 imagery and its application to Venkata Subba Reddy, GITAM University, Dept. of Physics 16:45 aircraft-scale turbulence Anthony Wimmers, University of Wisconsin - CIMSS Influence of tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic Ocean on total column ozone 16:45 Humberto Barbosa, Laboratory for Analyzing and Processing Satellite Images (LAPIS), Future plans for JMA's atmospheric motion vectors 17:00 Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) Kenichi Nonaka, JMA Smoke over Clouds - Radiative Effect Assessed with MSG Geostationary satellites remote sensing for the energy management system 17:00 17:15 Hartwig Deneke, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research Takashi Nakajima, Tokai University WMO SCOPE-Nowcasting using new-generation satellite data: Progress and Perspectives Chair: Jochen Grandell (EUMETSAT) 17:30

Chair: B.J. Sohn (Seoul National University) Stephan Bojinski, World Meteorological Organization

30 31 THURSDAY 5 OCT MORNING

USE OF DATA FROM CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITES IN VERY HIGH-RESOLUTION CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITE PROGRAMMES AND INSTRUMENTS 09:00 09:00 NWP MODELS 1 S10 PLENARY 3 BA ROOM 4

Suomi-NPP VIIRS Sensor Data Record (SDR) Reprocessing Improvements KEYNOTE ADDRESS 09:00 Taeyoung Choi, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR / Earth Resources Tech. NWP (Numerical Weather Prediction) SAF (Satellite Application Facilities): plans and 09:00 future developments for CDOP-3 Combination of VIIRS with CrIS for Improving Data Quality and Utilization 09:15 Roger Saunders, Met Office Likun Wang, University of Maryland Optimizing Space to Ground Optical Communications through Satellite Radiance The EUMETSAT Total Precipitable Water product algorithm for the Polar System - 09:30 Assimilation into a Numerical Cloud Forecasting Model 09:30 Second Generation (EPS-SG) Visible/Infrared Imager (METimage) Randall Alliss, Northrop Grumman Loredana Spezzi, EUMETSAT Deep-learning techniques for accurate global horizontal irradiance forecasting Land Surface Albedo from MSG and METOP Satellites: Method for retrieval, validation, 09:45 Giorgio Licciardi, Sol Invictus 09:45 and evolution Dominique Carrer, UMR3589-CNRM Comparison results of two clear channel selection methods used for cloudy sky data

Chair: Adam Dybbroe 10:00 assimilation Generation of the new sensor image data from lower-resolution images – Ahreum Lee, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University 10:00 a MTG case study Chair: Regis Borde (EUMETSAT) Janja Avbelj, EUMETSAT Assimilation of Reconstructed Radiances from Principal Component compressed 10:15 Hyperspectral Sounder IASI data in the ICON EnVar Silke May, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst (SMHI Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute)

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The EPS-SG 3MI co-registered level-1C and surface reflectance level-2 product Asynchronous Assimilation of High Temporal/Spatial Geosynchronous Infrared Imaging 11:15 Rosemary Munro, EUMETSAT 11:15 Data – A Wind Field Analysis Demonstration Allen Huang, SSEC/CIMSS UW-Madison Calibration of hurricane-force wind observations from satellites 11:30 Thomas Meissner, Remote Sensing Systems Impact study on outer-loop iteration for all-sky microwave imager radiance assimilation 11:30 at JMA’s global NWP system Ensuring high quality fire products from NOAA’s JPSS and GOES-R missions 11:45 Masahiro Kazumori, JMA Japan Meteorological Agency Shobha Kondragunta, NOAA Dual-Scale Neighboring Ensemble Variational Assimilation of Satellite Microwave Rapid Acquisition, Processing, and Delivery of Advanced Infrared and Microwave 11:45 Imager Brightness Temperatures for Typhoon ETAU Sounder Data from Polar Orbiting Satellites for Numerical Weather Prediction and other 12:00 Kazumasa Aonashi, Meteorological Research Institute JMA Time-Sensitive Applications Liam Gumley, University of Wisconsin-Madison Assimilation of cloud-affected radiances in deep convection - a case study 12:00

Josef Schröttle, Herz, Data Assimilation Branch, Ludwig-maximilans-universität Munich 3D wind fields extracted from EUMETSAT IASI Level2 products 12:15 Olivier Hautecoeur, METIS/EUMETSAT Assimilation of AMSU-A in the presence of cloud and precipitation 12:15 Peter Weston, ECMWF A Bayesian framework for the all-sky assimilation of SAPHIR/Megha-Tropiques 12:30 observations within the Meteo-France global model ARPEGE Chair: Loredana Spezzi (EUMETSAT) Philippe Chambon, CNRM Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques Chair: Roger Randriamampianina (Norwegian Meteorological Institute)

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32 33 THURSDAY 5 OCT MORNING

SATELLITE DATA IN SUPPORT OF OPERATIONAL HYDROLOGY USE OF SATELLITE DATA IN CLIMATE MONITORING 09:00 AND WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 09:00 6 S10 ROOM 3 7 S10 AVANCORPO

KEYNOTE ADDRESS KEYNOTE ADDRESS Advanced visualization of global total precipitable water with morphological 09:00 Coupling of Surface and Cloud Properties 09:00 compositing: A demonstration of 'MIMIC-TPW2' Steve Ackerman, University of Wisconsin-Madison Anthony Wimmers, University of Wisconsin - CIMSS Quantifying the cloud radiative effect based on 35 years of AVHRR observations 09:30 How can we improve satellite products and make them more useful Martin Stengel, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst 09:30 in hydrological applications? A Meteosat Bayesian Cloud Fractional Cover Climate Data Record: evaluation, Michal Kasina, IMGW-PIB Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Management homogeneity assessment and intercomparison with existing climate data records 09:45 The H-SAF Consortium on the CDOP-3 : the challenge continues Jedrzej Bojanowski, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss / Remote 09:45 Francesco Zauli, Italian Air Force National Operational Centre for Meteorology Sensing Centre, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography Hydrological modelling using HSAF products in Bulgaria ITCZ trend analysis via Geodesic P-spline smoothing of the AIRWAVE TCWV and Cloud 10:00 Georgy Koshinchanov, National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology 10:00 datasets Elisa Castelli, CNR-ISAC Chair: Lothar Schüller (EUMETSAT) Consistency analysis of the water cycle from recently derived satellite products 10:15 Ernesto Hugo Berbery, ESSIC/CICS, University of Maryland Recent trends in cloudiness over the Arctic: Insights from CLARA-A2, PATMOS-x and 10:15 ESA Cloud CCI long-term datasets Chair: Chris Kidd (University of Maryland and NASA)

Chair: Ralf Bennartz (University of Wisconsin - Madison) Chair: Ralf Bennartz (University of Wisconsin Karl-Göran Karlsson, SMHI Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

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The use of high resolution SAR images from Sentinel-1 to detect avalanche KEYNOTE ADDRESS 11:15 debris in the French alpine regions Changes in Boundary Layer Clouds and Estimation of Feedback Sensitivity Using the 11:15 Fatima Karbou, CNRM / METEO-FRANCE & CNRS Multi-Decadal PATMOS-x AVHRR Cloud Satellite Climatology Michael Foster, University of Wisconsin - Madison Examining Severe Weather Damage and Flood Impacts through Synthetic 11:30 Aperture Radar and Optical Imagery from the ESA Sentinel Missions Regional and global estimates of droplet number concentration of boundary layer Lori Schultz, University of Alabama in Huntsville/NASA MSFC SPoRT 11:45 clouds from visible/near-infrared observations Ralf Bennartz, University of Wisconsin - Madison / Vanderbilt University Using remote sensing and meteorological data for crop evapotranspiration 11:45 estimation in Romania Evaluation and comparison of MSG SEVIRI retrievals of liquid water path with ship Argentina Teodora Nertan, National Meteorological Administration of Romania 12:00 observations Hartwig Deneke, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research The CMSAF CLARA-A2 satellite dataset simulator 12:15 Salomon Eliasson, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute Evaluating NASA S-NPP continuity cloud products for climate research using CALIPSO, 12:30 CATS and Level-3 analysis Steve Ackerman, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chair: Francesco Zauli (Italian Air Force Met Service) Chair: Francesco Chair: Steve Ackerman (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Chair: Anthony Wimmers (University of Wisconsin - CIMSS) (University of Wisconsin Chair: Anthony Wimmers

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13:45 PLENARY DISCUSSION S10 PLENARY 13:45 PLENARY DISCUSSION S10 PLENARY Hans-Joachim Koppert, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst Hans-Joachim Koppert, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst The role of satellite data in nowcasting and warning operations The role of satellite data in nowcasting and warning operations

CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITE PROGRAMMES AND INSTRUMENTS USE OF DATA FROM CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITES IN VERY HIGH-RESOLUTION NWP MODELS 14:30 S10 PLENARY 14:30 1 3 BA ROOM 4

Forecasting surface solar irradiance by combining MSG-SEVIRI observations with a KEYNOTE ADDRESS 14:30 weather model 14:30 Experimental assimilation of all-sky infrared radiances of Himawari-8 Jan Fokke Meirink, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute Kozo Okamoto, MRI / JMA / AICS / RIKEN

Visualizing GOES-R and JPSS Satellite Data and Products with McIDAS Towards the improvement of the assimilation of cloudy IASI observations in numerical 14:45 William Straka III, SSEC Space Science And Engineering Center 14:45 weather prediction Imane Farouk, CNRM 15:00 The next version of the NWCSAF/PPS processing package 15:00 Adam Dybbroe, SMHI Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute Investigation of cloud information assimilation from visible and infrared SEVIRI 15:00 radiances in the KENDA ensemble data assimilation at DWD SLSTR TCWV retrieval using the AIRWAVE approach 15:15 Christina Köpken-Watts, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst Elisa Castelli, CNR/ISAC Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima Development of km-scale Hybrid-4DVar System for Satellite Data Assimilation 15:15 Yasutaka Ikuta, JMA Japan Meteorological Agency Chair: Roger Randriamampianina (Norwegian Meteorological Institute) Chair: Rosemary Munro (EUMETSAT) Recent improvements in simulated satellite imagery to verify high resolution NWP model 15:30 analyses and forecasts. Thomas Blackmore, Met Office

16:00 -18:00 POSTER SESSION BASILICA AEMILIA 16:00 -18:00 POSTER SESSION BASILICA AEMILIA COCKTAIL COCKTAIL

36 37 THURSDAY 5 OCT AFTERNOON

13:45 PLENARY DISCUSSION S10 PLENARY 13:45 PLENARY DISCUSSION S10 PLENARY Hans-Joachim Koppert, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst Hans-Joachim Koppert, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst The role of satellite data in nowcasting and warning operations The role of satellite data in nowcasting and warning operations

SATELLITE DATA IN SUPPORT OF OPERATIONAL HYDROLOGY USE OF SATELLITE DATA IN CLIMATE MONITORING 14:30 AND WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 14:30 6 S10 ROOM 3 7 S10 AVANCORPO

Metop ASCAT soil moisture: Challenges, products and applications Neural network cloud top pressure, temperature and height algorithm of PPS v2018 14:30 14:30 Sebastian Hahn, TU Wien Nina Håkansson, SMHI Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute 5-year of operational validation of satellite soil moisture products under H SAF project: Analyzing long-term dust storms in the Middle East by Modis AOD product 14:45 14:45 insights and open issues Neamat Karimi, Water Research Institute (WRI) Luca Brocca, National Research Council, Italy Toward a MSG/SEVIRI Climate Data Record of aerosol optical depth in the Climate 1km Soil Moisture from Sentinel-1 and ASCAT: Evolutions Activities within the 15:00 Monitoring SAF 15:00 Copernicus Global Land Services. Nicolas Clerbaux, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium Bernhard Bauer-Marschallinger, Technische Universität Wien An assessment of OLCI cloud property retrievals and their sensitivity to cloud vertical Comparing ASCAT and Sentinel 1 derived soil moisture products in a data assimilation framework 15:15 profiles using A-train measurements. 15:15 Luca Cenci, CIMA Research Foundation Sören Testorp, Freie Universität Berlin

Assimilation of satellite soil moisture observations in hydrological modelling: An Hydrological Institute) Changing cloud vertical profiles: towards a better understanding of their impact onto 15:30 intercomparison study between different sensors in Europe 15:30 Earth's radiation budget Christian Massari, CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Florian Tornow, Institute for Space Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin

Francesco Zauli (Italian Air Force Met Service) Francesco Hydrological modeling with soil moisture accounting for a snow dominated basin 15:45 Aynur Sensoy, Anadolu University, Department of Civil Engineering Chair: Salomon Eliasson (Swedish Meteorological and Chair: Anthony Wimmers (University of Wisconsin - CIMSS) (University of Wisconsin Chair: Anthony Wimmers

16:00 -18:00 POSTER SESSION BASILICA AEMILIA 16:00 -18:00 POSTER SESSION BASILICA AEMILIA COCKTAIL COCKTAIL

38 39 FRIDAY 6 OCT MORNING

CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITE PROGRAMMES AND INSTRUMENTS USE OF DATA FROM CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITES IN VERY HIGH-RESOLUTION NWP MODELS 09:00 S10 PLENARY 09:00 1 3 BA ROOM 4

Measurements of the atmospheric conditions and composition by instruments onboard KEYNOTE ADDRESS 09:00 The value of polar satellite direct broadcast data for nowcasting and short range “Meteor-M N2” 09:00 Alexander Polyakov, Saint-Petersburg State University weather forecasting Mitchell Goldberg, NOAA/JPSS Improve Convective Weather Nowcasts by coupling GOES-R Legacy Sounding NearCasts 09:15 to Convective Initiation Products Assimilation of Himawari AHI and GOES-R ABI Data in the Advanced Research Weather Ralph Petersen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, SSEC/CIMSS 09:30 Research and Forecast Model with High Resolutions Xiaolei Zou, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland Integrating GRUAN Uncertainty In Atmospheric Sounding Profile Assessment 09:30 Bomin Sun, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR & IMSG Integrated thunderstorm nowcast exploiting satellite, radar and very high-resolution 09:45 NWP data Dedicated Radiosondes and Value in Satellite Atmospheric Sounding Product Assessment 09:45 Ulrich Hamann, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss Bomin Sun, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR & IMSG The impact of SEVIRI radiances and AMV’s on the Met Office's new hourly 4DVAR high- 3D Visualization WEB-portal for exploration of near real time MRT-IRS demonstration 10:00

Chair: Christina Köpken-Watts resolution Nowcasting system. (DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst) Chair: Antonia Gambacorta 10:00 data: Case studies Graeme Kelly, MetOffice Michal Koutek, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

(Science and Technology Corporation (STC) (Science and Technology The assimilation experiments of Himawari-8 Clear Sky Radiance (CSR) data in Japan Intercomparison of IASI impact assessment at global NWP centres 10:15 10:15 Meteorological Agency (JMA) NWP systems Vincent Guidard, CNRM Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques Izumi Okabe, JMA Japan Meteorological Agency

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A hybrid precipitation retrieval approach from VIIRS and ATMS on Suomi NPP. Assessing the impact of ASCAT winds in a coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean 11:15 Andi Walther, University of Wisconsin-Madison 11:15 assimilation system , ECMWF Development of Applications Enabled by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Giovanna De Chiara 11:30 Bjorn Lambrigtsen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Scatterometer Assimilation Experiments with HARMONIE Mesoscale Model over south- Exploring the Effect of Vertical Wind Shear on Deep Convection Cloud-Top Flow Estimation 11:30 western Europe 11:45 with Next Generation Geostationary Satellite Super Rapid Scan Atmospheric Motion Vectors Isabel Monteiro, IPMA - Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera Jason Apke, University of Alabama-Huntsville Use of satellite soil moisture information for Nowcasting-Short Range NWP forecasts 11:45 Status of the NPP and J1 NOAA Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System Parride Ferrante, EUMETSAT/COMET (NUCAPS) for atmospheric thermal sounding: Recent algorithm enhancements and near A Dynamic Infrared Land Surface Emissivity Atlas based on IASI Retrievals 12:00 12:00 real time users applications. Rory Gray, Met Office Antonia Gambacorta, Science and Technology Corporation (STC) Towards a better use of microwave radiances over land for NWP at DWD 12:15 Validation of Atmospheric Profile Retrievals from the SNPP and JPSS NOAA-Unique Ana Fernandez Del Rio, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst 12:15 CrIS/ATMS Processing System (NUCAPS) Application of aerosol data products from polar and geostationary satellites in data

Nicholas Nalli, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR / IMSG, Inc. Chair: Allen Huang (SSEC/CIMSS UW-Madison) Chair: Bomin Sun (NOOA/NESDIS/STAR & IMSG) Chair: Bomin Sun (NOOA/NESDIS/STAR 12:30 assimilation for medium-range visibility and air quality forecasting CSPP LEO Software: Supporting global direct broadcast polar orbiter satellite applications 12:30 Edward J. Hyer, NRL 7544 Scott Mindock, CIMSS/SSEC 13:00 PANEL DISCUSSION S10 PLENARY 13:00 PANEL DISCUSSION S10 PLENARY Moderator: Mark Higgins, EUMETSAT Moderator: Mark Higgins, EUMETSAT Speakers: Vincent Guidard, Météo-France & CNRS/ CNRM - UMR3589 Speakers: Vincent Guidard, Météo-France & CNRS/ CNRM - UMR3589 Hans-Joachim Koppert DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst Roger Hans-Joachim Koppert DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst Roger Randriamampianina, met.no Randriamampianina, met.no Roger Saunders, Met Office Roger Saunders, Met Office 13:30 CLOSING CEREMONY 13:30 CLOSING CEREMONY

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SATELLITE DATA IN SUPPORT OF OPERATIONAL HYDROLOGY USE OF SATELLITE DATA IN CLIMATE MONITORING 09:00 AND WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 09:00 6 S10 ROOM 3 7 S10 AVANCORPO

Advancing precipitation science with the Global Precipitation Measurement mission Remote Sensing of Forest Coverage Based on Histogram and Pixel Decomposition Model 09:00 09:00 Erich Stocker, NASA GSFC Lixin Dong, China Meteorological Administration (CMA) Upgrading IMERG from Version 03 to 04 to 05 The CAMS Radiation Service – radiative data products for the solar power community 09:15 09:15 George Huffman,NASA / University of Alabama in Huntsville Niels Killius, DLR-DFD Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt/ Deutsches NASA SPoRT Assessment and Application of GPM Rain Rates in Operational Hydrology An assessment of evapotranspiration trends within warm season in Ukraine 09:30 09:30 George Huffman,NASA / University of Alabama in Huntsville Inna Semenova, Odessa State Environmental University Passive Microwave Precipitation products in H-SAF: recent developments and related A Climate Data Redord (CDR) of SEVIRI/MSG Vegetation parameters 09:45 09:45 activities within the collaboration with GPM Francisco Javier García-Haro, Universitat de Valencia Giulia Panegrossi, CNR-ISAC Performances analysis of H SAF precipitation products through the combined use of 10:00 radar and rain gauge European networks Silvia Puca, Italian Civil Protection Department Brocca (CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) Chair: Arda Sorman (Anadolu University)Chair: Luca

10:30 COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING

Inter-comparison of precipitation products over Western Europe from the EUMETSAT 11:15 H-SAF and NASA PPS Chris Kidd, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center / University of Maryland Chair: Yves Govaerts (Rayference) How reliable are satellite precipitation estimates for driving hydrological models: 11:30 a verification study over the Mediterranean area Stefania Camici, National Research Council, Italy Surface observation based validation of Metop/AVHRR and MSG/SEVIRI snow extent 11:45 products 2015-2017 Niilo Siljamo, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute Contributions of SAR observations from Sentinel-1 to study snowpack physical 12:00 properties in Alpine regions

Chair: Lothar Schüller (EUMETSAT) Gaëlle Veyssière, Météo-France - CNRS, CNRM UMR 3589, CEN, Grenoble, France Use of different satellite snow products in short term hydrological forecasting 12:15 Arda Sorman, Anadolu University, Department of Civil Engineering

13:00 PANEL DISCUSSION S10 PLENARY 13:00 PANEL DISCUSSION S10 PLENARY Moderator: Mark Higgins, EUMETSAT Moderator: Mark Higgins, EUMETSAT Speakers: Vincent Guidard, Météo-France & CNRS/ CNRM - UMR3589 Speakers: Vincent Guidard, Météo-France & CNRS/ CNRM - UMR3589 Hans-Joachim Koppert DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst Roger Hans-Joachim Koppert DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst Roger Randriamampianina, met.no Randriamampianina, met.no Roger Saunders, Met Office Roger Saunders, Met Office 13:30 CLOSING CEREMONY 13:30 CLOSING CEREMONY

42 43 POSTER SESSION 1

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1 CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITE PROGRAMMES AND INSTRUMENTS 1 CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITE PROGRAMMES AND INSTRUMENTS

(#447) EUMeTrain latest developments (#85) The diurnal and seasonal variation of COMS Infrared channels inter-calibration 1.1 1.16 Carla Barroso, IPMA (Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere) Kun-Il Jang, KMA Korea Meteorological Administration (#76) Comparison of the MSG and MTG AMV algorithms using MSG data (#302) Current and Future Status of the JAXA’s Missions and Earth Observation Priority 1.2 Regis Borde, EUMETSAT 1.17 Researches Misako Kachi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (#401) LAI, FAPAR and FVC global products from EUMETSAT Polar System 1.3 Manuel Campos-Taberner, Universitat de Valencia (#186) Weather simulator on a flash flood case 1.18 Zsofia Kocsis,OMSZ Hungarian Meteorological Service (#404) Water stress correction of daily gross primary estimates for Europe and Africa 1.4 using SEVIRI/MSG data (#197) The enhancements and improvements of the GNOS instrument on-board Manuel Campos-Taberner, Universitat de Valencia 1.19 FengYun 3 series meteorology satellites Congliang Liu, NSSC(National space science center, Chinese academy of sciences) (#56) MetOp/AVHRR infrared calibration using the VIIRS algorithm: exploring the 1.5 radiometric traceability from prelaunch to on-orbit (#484) Development of Microwave Imager Instrument for MetOp Second Generation 1.20 Changyong Cao, NOAA Tito Lupi, OHB Italia Spa (#511) The Validation of ASCAT Soil Moisture Data with In-Situ Measurements (#279) Clustering and Filtering Techniques for the Reduction of Noise in Geostationary 1.6 Robert-Valentin Chiritescu, National Meteorological Administration of Romania 1.21 Lightning Mapper Data Douglas Mach, Universities Space Research Association (#143) Cloud top pressure retrieval from O2 A-band with multi-layer cloud flagging 1.7 Mathieu Compiègne, HYGEOS (#648) CSPP Geo Software for Processing GOES-R/16 Direct Broadcast Data 1.22 Graeme Martin, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison (#574) Perspectives and use of the Fire Risk Map product of the LSA SAF 1.8 Carlos DaCamara, Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa (#251) ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission – From science to operations 1.23 Susanne Mecklenburg, European Space Agency (#578) Validation over Portugal of the Burned Area product of the LSA SAF 1.9 Carlos DaCamara, Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa (#445) Verification of LSA SAF Solar Radiation Product over Slovenia for Advanced 1.24 End-Users (#394) The next version of the NWCSAF/PPS processing package 1.10 Bostjan Muri, Slovenian Environment Agency Adam Dybbroe, SMHI Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (#142) SIMBA and feasibility of absolute radiometers aboard cubesats (#614) Intersatellite calibration of microwave radiometers for cubesats: Where are we 1.25 Stijn Nevens, RMIB 1.11 going? Spencer Farrar, The Aerospace Corporation (#126) Performance of MSG/PPS CT product in fog classification 1.26 Oana Nicola, National Meteorological Administration of Romania (#470) A Simplified High and Near-Constant Contrast Approach for the Display VIIRS 1.12 Day/Night Band Imagery (#477) Optimal Non-linear Principal Component Analysis applied to IASI L1 Data 1.27 Kim Hui Gaune, EUMETSAT Matteo Picchiani, Tor Vergata University - DICII (#283) Community Satellite Processing Package for LEO Satellites: Recent Progress (#629) ERS-1 scatterometer data (1991-1996): new ESA-ASPS reprocessing data 1.13 and Support for JPSS-1 1.28 monitoring Liam Gumley, University of Wisconsin-Madison Sabrina Pinori, SERCO SpA (#151) Polar2Grid - Reprojecting Satellite Data Made Easy (#547) On the Dependence of Satellite Soundings on Instrument Field-of-View Size 1.14 1.29 David Hoese, University of Wisconsin Simon Proud, University of Oxford (#40) Nowcasting SAF products at the ESSL Testbed 2017 1.15 Alois M. Holzer, ESSL, European Severe Storms Laboratory

44 45 POSTER POSTER SESSION 1 SESSION 2

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1 CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITE PROGRAMMES AND INSTRUMENTS 2 NEW HORIZONS FOR THE INDIAN OCEAN

(#636) NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System’s (JPSS) Proving Ground and Risk (#369) Development of an operational tool for early detection of fire in the South West Reduction (PGRR) Program – Successful PGRR Program Moves into the Future with the 2.1 of Indian Ocean from Meteosat Second Generation satellite data 1.30 Launch of JPSS-1 Sylvain Cros, Reuniwatt Jerrold Robaidek, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison (#28) NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System’s (JPSS) Proving Ground and Risk Reduction (PGRR) Program – Successful PGRR Program Moves into the Future with the Launch of 1.31 JPSS-1 POSTER SESSION IN BASILICA AEMILIA Bill Sjoberg, NOAA JPSS (#312) On the Dependence of Satellite Soundings on Instrument Field-of-View Size 1.32 William Smith, University of Wisconsin, Hampton University (#271) Routine Validation of the GOES-R Multi-Satellite Processing System Framework 1.33 POSTER William C Straka III, SSEC/CIMSS SESSION 3 (#489) EUMETSAT Marine Centre Latest Ocean Colour Cal/Val Results for the Sentinel-3 1.35 Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI) Malcolm Taberner, EUMETSAT USE OF DATA FROM CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITES IN VERY HIGH-RESOLUTION NWP MODELS (#548) JPSS-1 CrIS Radiometric Calibration and Post-Launch Cal/Val Activities 3 1.35 David Tobin, SSEC/CIMSS (#501) CrIS Raw Data Record Generator Simulation Tool (#257) Tracking and forecasting Interaction between Tropical and Extra-Tropical 1.36 Denis Tremblay, NOAA 3.1 Phenomenon: Contribution of Satellite Imageries Abdou Adam Abdoul-Aziz Abébé, ASECNA (#681) Introducing CALIPSO’s Version 4 Level 2 Lidar Data Products 1.37 Chip Trepte, NASA (#260) Monitoring and forecasting dust haze over West Africa by combining satellites 3.2 imageries and numerical weather prediction models (#241) Hyperspectral IR cloudy radiance and jacobian simulations : comparison Abdou Adam Abdoul-Aziz Abébé, ASECNA 1.38 between RTTOV and VLIDORT Jerome Vidot, CMS / Météo-France (#479) Evaluation of selected Numerical Weather Prediction models for a case of 3.3 widespread rainfall over Central and Southern Nigeria (#465) Assessment of GOES-16 ABI cloud products during post launch validation 1.39 Chibuzo Agogbuo, Nigerian Meteorological Agency Steve Wanzong, University of Wisconsin-Madison, SSEC/CIMSS (#589) Evaluation of cloud discrimination schemes for Satellite data assimilation in the (#508) Stability Monitoring of the Advanced Microwave Radiometer onboard Jason-3 1.40 3.4 KMA numerical weather prediction system Bin Zhang, University of Maryland Jieun Cha, KAM (#507) VIIRS SDR data volume reduction and processing efficiency improvements 1.41 (#206) Automated CB/TCU METAR using on radar and extrapolated satellite Bin Zhang, University of Maryland 3.5 observations (#504) Orbital and Equator Crossing Time Variation for Suomi-NPP, MetOp and JPSS-1 Paul De Valk, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute 1.42 Sun-synchronous Satellites (#60) NWP and Validation of Satellite data In Ethiopia 3.6 Bin Zhang, University of Maryland Kassa Fekadu, National Meteorological Agency of Ethiopia (#521) Fast and accurate hyperspectral radiative transfer simulations using Machine 3.7 Learning techniques Stephan Havemann, Met Office

46 47 POSTER POSTER SESSION 3 SESSION 4

POSTER SESSION IN BASILICA AEMILIA POSTERPOSTER SESSION SESSION IN IN BASILICA BASILICA AEMILIA AEMILIA

USE OF DATA FROM CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITES IN VERY HIGH-RESOLUTION ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION: RECENT ADVANCES IN SATELLITE PRODUCTS AND 3 NWP MODELS 4 APPLICATIONS

(#196) Use of satellite data for NWP at the Italian Air Force Meteorological Centre (#258) Public and aeronautical forecasting in West Africa: Contribution of satellite 3.8 Francesca Marcucci, COMet - Centro Operativo per la Meteorologia 4.1 imageries Abdou Adam Abdoul-Aziz Abébé, ASECNA (#171) A new Hyperspectral InfraRed Land Emissivity Database for use in NWP Data 3.9 Assimilation (#340) Multi-Species Analysis of Anthropogenic Pollution Using IASI Data 4.2 Ester Nikolla, CIMSS Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies Ave Arellano, University of Arizona (#159) An Application of Upper Tropospheric Atmospheric Motion Vectors Derived from (#212) Exploiting the IASI spectrum for ash products from different volcanic eruptions. 4.3 3.10 Himawari-8 Super Rapid Scans to Tropical Cyclone Nowcasting Maria Athanassiadou, Met Office Ryo Oyama, Meteorological Research Institute / JMA Japan Meteorological Agency (#86) COSMO-MUSCAT and RTTOV simulations of the sensitivity of SEVIRI Desert Dust (#290) Improving polar low forecasting using satellite microwave data 4.4 RGB imagery to assumed dust optical properties 3.11 Antonina Polezhayeva, Russian State Hydrometeorological University Jamie Banks, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (#298) Performance of UM heavy rain forecasts over the Korean peninsula depending (#373) Observation of the lowermost tropospheric ozone with a coupling approach to 3.12 on rain types 4.5 three spectral bands UV+VIS+TIR measured by IASI and GOME-2 Jihoon Ryu, SNU Yohann Chailleux, LISA-CNRS (#449) An efficient method to generate synthetic satellite images in the visible spectrum (#208) Partial tropospheric columns versus vertical profiles: what is the most 3.13 Josef Schröttle, Herz valuable information for an assimilation system used to analyze the European ozone 4.6 distribution? (#608) Satellite-based discrimination between fog and stratus clouds 3.14 Adriana Coman, LISA,UMR7583,CNRS/UPEC/UPD Natasa Strelec Mahovic, DMHZ Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia (#516) Using SEVIRI cloud time-series to assess the orbits number of LEO optical (#433) A new RTTOV 12 profile dataset for visible to infrared atmospheric transmittance 3.15 4.7 satellites for land mapping without cloud contamination Jerome Vidot, CMS / Météo-France Sylvain Cros, Reuniwatt (#478) Preparing the assimilation of IASI-NG in NWP models: a first channel selection 3.16 (#623) Tropospheric HCHO retrieved from OMI, GOME(-2), and SCIAMACHY within the Francesca Vittorioso, CNRM - Umr3589 - Météo-france & CNRS 4.8 Quality Assurance For Essential Climate Variables (QA4ECV) project. (#227) Impacts of MHS data assimilation on the summer precipitation forecasts over the Isabelle De Smedt, BIRA-IASB 3.17 Northwestern China (#412) Validation of GOME-2A and gome-2B ozon profiles and tropospheric ozon Xiaojing Yu, Insititute of Desert Meteorology,CMA 4.9 column products in an operational context, using balloon sounding data Andy Delcloo, RMI Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (#425) Validation of the absorbing aerosol height (AAH) products from GOME-2 4.10 instruments on-board MetOp-A and MetOp-B within the framework of the AC SAF Andy Delcloo, RMI Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (#61) An OSSE estimation of the capacity of FCI to improve aerosols forecast, by assimilating observations of aerosols optical thickness in MOCAGE CTM: Preliminary 4.11 results Maxence Descheemaecker, Météo-France (#531) JPSS Atmospheric Composition Products in support of Environmental 4.12 Monitoring and Operational Applications Murty Divakarla, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

48 49 POSTER SESSION 4

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ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION: RECENT ADVANCES IN SATELLITE PRODUCTS AND ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION: RECENT ADVANCES IN SATELLITE PRODUCTS AND 4 APPLICATIONS 4 APPLICATIONS

(#573) Ozone pollution outbreaks across East Asia: daily evolution and photochemical (#110) Retrieval of Atmospheric Motion Vector Using Kalman Filter for the 4.13 production analyzed by innovative multispectral satellite observations 4.27 GeoKompsat-2A Gaëlle Dufour, LISA,UMR7583,CNRS/UPEC/UPD Yurim Oh, Pusan National University (#291) Quantifying Wildfire Emissions and associated Aerosol Species using (#610) Global Geostationary Satellite-based SATCORPS Cloud and Surface Temperature 4.14 Assimilation of Satellite Carbon Monoxide Retrievals 4.28 Data for Climate Research and Nowcasting Applications David Edwards, NCAR National Center of Atmospheric Research Rabindra Palikonda, SSAI/NASA Langley Research Center (#44) INMENSE: IASI for Surveying Methane and Nitrous Oxide in the Troposphere (#495) Ash detection and tracking by means of Meteosat second generation and Neural 4.15 Omaira Garcia, Meteorological State Agency (AEMET) 4.29 Network Matteo Picchiani, Tor Vergata University - DICII (#659) The new MERLIN mission for atmospheric methane: Quality and Performance 4.16 monitoring (#454) Impact of the discontinuities of Radiometric Gain Calibration on the MIPAS Mourad Hamidouche, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Earth Observation Center (EOC) 4.30 retrieved species in Band-A and Band-B Alessandro Piro, SERCO Spa (#357) Inverse learning machines: concept and examples of usage for SO2 plume height 4.17 retrieval (#551) Development of cloud detection algorithm for GK-2A/AMI 4.31 Pascal Hedelt, DLR-IMF Rene Preusker, Freie Universität Berlin (#461) Validation of reprocessed GOME-2 and pre-operational IASI upper stratospheric (#441) Carbon tetrachloride in the UTLS: distribution, trend and lifetime estimation 4.18 ozone profiles 4.32 using MIPAS ESA v7 data Michael Hess, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst Piera Raspollini, IFAC-CNR (#361) A refractive index model for HIMAWARI-8 volcanic ash retrieval algorithm (#460) Improvements in MIPAS ESA V7 and V8 products and trends 4.33 4.19 derived from satellite infrared sounder measurements Piera Raspollini, IFAC-CNR Hiroshi Ishimoto, Meteorological Research Institute / Japan Meteorological Agency (#90) EUMETSAT/IASI L2 vs FORLI/IASI O3 products comparison at globally distributed (#685) Estimation of the gas flaring emissions using Sentinel-3A’s SLSTR 4.34 NDACC FTS sites 4.20 Johannes Kaiser, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Eliezer Sepulveda, University of Valladolid (#351) 9-year surface UV data record from GOME-2/Metop (#74) Development of cloud detection algorithm for GK-2A/AMI 4.21 4.35 Niilo Kalakoski, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute Eunha Sohn, KMA Korea Meteorological Administration (#336) IASI atmospheric composition products and comparisons with the ground based (#365) UTLS water vapor changes caused by convective storms 4.36 4.22 measurements Jindrich Stastka, Czech Hydrometeorological Institute Rigel Kivi, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute (#626) Development of a tunable Fabry-Perot interferometer UV camera for monitoring (#518) Extended Global Biomass Burning Emissions Product (GBBEPx) 4.37 sulfur dioxide emissions 4.23 Shobha Kondragunta, NOAA Johanna Tamminen, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute (#572) Improvements in NO2 Column and Ozone Profile Algorithms for the Airborne (#348) Surface reflectivity climatologies derived from GOME-2 observations 4.38 4.24 GeoTASO Sensor Lieuwe Gijsbert Tilstra, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute Thomas P. Kurosu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (#632) A novel approach to synergistic exploitation of Ozone data from multiple sources (#392) Can we detect the vegetation brownness or greenness of forests using satellite 4.39 onboard MTG and MetOp-SG: first outcomes of the AURORA project 4.25 derived surface albedo products ? A case study over the Congo rainforest Cecilia Tirelli, CNR/IFAC Istituto di Fisica Applicata ‘Nello Carrara’ Naga Moparthy, Meteo-France (#350) Estimation of the gas flaring emissions using Sentinel-3A’s SLSTR 4.26 Jan Musial, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography

50 51 POSTER POSTER SESSION 4 SESSION 5

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ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION: RECENT ADVANCES IN SATELLITE PRODUCTS AND MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING: RECENT ADVANCES IN SATELLITE PRODUCTS 4 APPLICATIONS 5 AND APPLICATIONS

(#125) Reprocessed MetOp/GOME-2 vertical ozone profiles (#331) Improved sea ice products: concentration, drift and type 4.40 5.3 Olaf Tuinder, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute Steinar Eastwood, Norwegian Meteorological Institute (#156) Improvements of the FRESCO cloud retrieval algorithm for GOME-2 (#192) Validation of High Latitude SLSTR SST 4.41 5.4 Ping Wang, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute Steinar Eastwood, Norwegian Meteorological Institute (#399) O3 variability/trend in the troposphere and the stratosphere from IASI (#229) Improvement of the dynamic atmospheric correction for delayed-time and 4.42 observations in 2008-2017 5.5 operational applications of altimetry Catherine Wespes, Université Libre de Bruxelles Yannice Faugere, CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites (#172) Data Analytics from Hyper-spectral Infrared Sounders in support of Government (#176) Preliminary result of cross calibration of Himawari-8 IR data using Terra/MODIS 4.43 and commercial users and research field campaigns 5.6 SST Ashley Wheeler, Science and Technology Corporation (STC) Yukio Kurihara, JMA Japan Meteorological Agency (#91) New Satellite Based Measurements Of Lower-Tropospheric Methane: Validation, (#384) Monitoring marine environment by means of the Robust Satellite Techniques 4.44 Sensitivity To Emissions, And Initial Trend Results 5.7 approach John Worden, JPL/Caltech Teodosio Lacava, CNR-IMAA (#334) Inter-annual variations of nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde over Greek urban (#472) Jason 3 performance assessment in the frame of CMEMMS sea level service 5.8 4.45 sites detected from space Olivier Lauret, CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites Irene Zyrichidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (#245) Sea-ice cloud screening for Copernicus Sentinel-3 Sea and Land Surface 5.9 Temperature Radiometer Gian Luigi Liberti, ISAC-CNR POSTER SESSION IN BASILICA AEMILIA (#275) Examining the impact of long waves on high-resolution SAR mode 5.10 measurements using simulation and real data Sylvie Labroue, CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites (#422) A generic collaborative cal/val framework based on opensource software 5.11 POSTER Sylvie Labroue, CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites SESSION 5 (#381) Validation of sea and land Ice Surface Temperature from Metop Infrared 5.12 Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer Pia Nielsen-Englyst, DMI Danish Meteorological Institute MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING: RECENT ADVANCES IN SATELLITE PRODUCTS AND APPLICATIONS (#355) Assessment of Sentinel-3 SLSTR Sea Surface Temperature using improved 5 5.13 drifting buoy measurements Anne O’Carroll, EUMETSAT (#643) Characteristics of the Altimeter, Scatterometer and Model Surface Wind Speeds (#500) Analyses of SST in EUMETSAT Monitoring and Evaluation of Thematic 5.1 Errors 5.14 Information from Space (METIS) online framework Saleh Abdalla, ECMWF Anne O’Carroll, EUMETSAT (#175) Towards convergent solutions for retracking conventional and delay doppler (#529) A wet tropospheric correction retrieval dedicated to oceanic eddies and currents. 5.15 5.2 altimeter echoes Bruno Picard, CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites Joel Dorandeu, CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites

52 53 POSTER POSTER SESSION 5 SESSION 6

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MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING: RECENT ADVANCES IN SATELLITE PRODUCTS SATELLITE DATA IN SUPPORT OF OPERATIONAL HYDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES 5 AND APPLICATIONS 6 MANAGEMENT

(#339) LSA-SAF evapotranspiration and surface heat fluxes products 2.0 (#440) Wet tropospheric correction retrieval on coastal regions: assessing the 6.1 performances of a one-dimensional variational approach applied to high frequency Alirio Arboleda, RMI Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium 5.16 observation channels (#409) EUMETSAT H-SAF Precipitation Products Generation System at COMet 6.2 Bruno Picard, CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites Daniele Biron, COMet - Centro Operativo per la Meteorologia (#424) A generic collaborative cal/val framework based on opensource software 5.17 (#240) Study on Disaster Monitoring by using Feng-Yun Microwave Remote Sensing of Jean-françois Piollé, IFREMER Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer 6.3 China (#386) Wave Orbital Velocity Effect on Doppler Radar Altimetry for off-Nadir Beams Hao Chen, Jiangsu Meteorogical Observatory 5.18 Eugenio Pugliese Carratelli, CUGRI (#239) Merging NWC SAF RDT product with weather radar based storm tracking and (#234) Sentinel-3 Altimetry Assessment over Multiple Surfaces 6.4 classification over Po valley, Italy 5.19 Graham Quartly, Plymouth Marine Laboratory Roberto Cremonini, Arpa Piemonte (#462) Spatio-temporal variability of the diurnal cycle of sea surface temperature. (#54) Soil moisture downscaling meets big data processing 5.20 6.5 Stéphane Saux Picart, Météo-France Stefano Elefante, Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Technology (#236) Lake Ice Phenology Derived from VIIRS Data (#101) H-SAF root zone soil wetness products based on scatterometer observations 5.21 6.6 Melanie Sütterlin, Universität Bern David Fairbairn, ECMWF (#490) Overview of Sentinel-3 SLSTR L1 and marine L2 products (#620) The study on the H-SAF satellite liquid precipitation products behavior in 5.22 Igor Tomazic, EUMETSAT 6.7 reference to a limited scale rainfall event Rafal Iwanski, IMGW-PIB Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (#432) Ground-based and satellite measurements of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) in the central Mediterranean (#129) Satellite monitoring of humic substances in Kyiv Reservoir (Ukraine) 5.23 6.8 Pamela Trisolino, Tuscia University and ENEA, Laboratory for Observations and Analyses of Oleksandr Kryvoshein, UHMI Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Research Institute Earth and Climate (#367) Exploiting long-term series of AMSU data for implementing the Soil Wetness (#321) ScatSat 1 winds from the OSI SAF 6.9 Variation Index 5.24 Anton Verhoef, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute Teodosio Lacava, CNR-IMAA (#342) Improvements in variational ambiguity removal of scatterometer winds (#583) Ground validation of GPM DPR/GMI products using ground-based radar and gage 5.25 Jur Vogelzang, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute 6.10 networks over Korean peninsula Gyuwon Lee, Kyungpook National University (#391) Sensitivity Analysis to Simulated Power Waveform of GNSS-R From Low Earth Orbit (#200) The use of SEVIRI channel at 8.7 micron for change detection analysis and land 5.26 Yingqiang Wang, Institute of Meteorology and Oceanography, PLA University of Science and 6.12 cover classification over arid and semiarid environments Technology Guido Masiello, Università degli Studi della Basilicata (#360) Degradation of the scatterometer wind data due to the presence of ships (#415) The EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility in Support to Operational Hydrology 5.27 Stefano Zecchetto, National Research Council of Italy 6.13 and Water Management (H-SAF) – Status of the project Davide Melfi,Italian Air Force Met Service (#256) Satellite Sounder Observations of Contrasting Tropospheric Moisture Transport 6.14 Regimes: Saharan Air Layers, Hadley Cells, and Atmospheric Rivers Nicholas Nalli, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR (#55) Calibration of the Land Surface Model (CLM) through satellite observed soil 6.15 moisture (ESA SM) in Bulgaria Olga Nitcheva, Institute of Mechanics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

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SATELLITE DATA IN SUPPORT OF OPERATIONAL HYDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES USE OF SATELLITE DATA IN CLIMATE MONITORING 6 MANAGEMENT 7

(#178) Darkening of boreal forest zone seasonal snow in Finland using CLARA-A2 SAL (#228) Verification study of microwave-based gridded daily precipitation estimates: 7.1 6.16 perspectives for the future development of H-SAF H23 product Kati Anttila, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute Giulia Panegrossi, CNR-ISAC (#683) Four Decades of Meteosat First Generation Imaging Quality 7.2 (#322) 10 minutes convective cloud discrimination using RDT module of NWCSAF/ Janja Avbelj, EUMETSAT 6.17 EUMETSAT (#154) Study of ground-reflected radiation and its contribution to diffuse solar radiation Ki-Hong Park, NMSC-KMA 7.3 on inclined surfaces in Nigeria (#639) Evaluation of different GMI products over Italy using H-SAF validation Adeyemi Babatunde, THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 6.18 methodology (#155) Variation of Radio Refractivity in the Nigeria Tropospheric Space Using CM-SAF Marco Petracca, DPC - Italian Department of Civil Protection 7.4 Data (#233) Validation of EUMETSAT HSAF snow products over Italy and Aosta Valley Adeyemi Babatunde, THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 6.19 Gaia Piazzi, CIMA Research Foundation (#582) An update of Neto, Barbosa and Beneti (2016) as an index to deep convection 7.5 (#625) Trace gases validation and quality assessment within the AC SAF Humberto Barbosa, Laboratory for Analyzing and Processing Satellite Images (LAPIS) 6.20 Gaia Pinardi, IASB-BIRA Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (#327) Evaluation of the Radiative Effects of Clouds in High-Resolution Model based on (#613) Selected case studies presenting diagnostic study and relation between 7.6 Synergies Between Ground- and Space-based Instruments stratospheric dry intrusion and damaging surface winds in the satellite water vapor Vasileios Barlakas, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research 6.21 images on the territory of Serbia (#224) Detection of cloud property changes over Southeast Asia based on the Maja Rabrenovic, Republic Hydrometeorological Service of Serbia 7.7 CLARA-A2 satellite data record (#509) Analysis of Catania Flash Flood Case Study by Using Microwave and Infrared Nikos Benas, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute 6.22 Technique (#333) Correcting cloud fractional cover climatology by geostatistical merging of Elisabetta Ricciardelli, CNR/IMAA Istituto di Metodologie per l’Analisi Ambientale 7.8 satellite and synoptic data (#546) Investigation on cloud convective properties and lightning formation using MSG Jedrzej S. Bojanowski, Remote Sensing Centre, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography 6.23 Rapid Scan Service and dual-polarization radar observations (#230) Cloud detection for the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer 7.9 Nicoletta Roberto, CNR/ISACCNR/ Istituto di Scienze dell’Atmosfera e del Clima Caroline Cox, RAL Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (#247) The Passive Microwave Neural Network Precipitation Retrieval (PNPR) for the (#413) Heavy rain in Central part of Latvia in 5 - 6.08.2016 Conical Scanning GMI Radiometer: description and application to case studies 7.10 6.24 Martins Dimants, Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre Paolo Sanò, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate - National Research Council (#137) Characterization of squall lines when passing over Dakar using ATOVS data. (ISAC-CNR) 7.11 Bouya Diop, University (#231) The new Bayesian algorithms for AMSR2 and GMI for operational applications in the EUMETSAT H-SAF (#106) Can MODIS detect the trend of aerosol optical depth over land? 6.25 7.12 Paolo Sanò, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate - National Research Council Xuehua Fan, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISAC-CNR) (#114) Climate Data Records and user service of the EUMETSAT Satellite Application (#166) Alteration zone mapping of iron using ASTER data and fuzzy logic method in 7.13 Facility on Climate Monitoring 6.26 Bastam, Iran Karsten Fennig, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst Farahnaz Taghavi, University of Tehran (#345) Cloud occurrence and humidity flux over West Sahara in summer and associated 7.14 anomalies in regional and large scale circulation Seze Genevieve, Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique/IPSL/CNRS/UPMC

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(#450) A novel framework to harmonise satellite data series for climate applications (#510) Drought monitoring based on spatial data mining, using temporal NDVI and 7.15 Ralf Giering, FastOpt GmbH 7.28 rainfall relationship Argentina Teodora Nertan, National Meteorological Administration of Romania (#606) GIS and remote sensing techniques in monitoring wildfire and land cover change 7.16 in Miombo forest in Tanzania (#273) Spectral signatures of Earth’s climate variability over 5 years from CrIS, AIRS, Government Kabalimu, University of Dar Es Salaam 7.29 and IASI Ester Nikolla, CIMSS Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (#527) NOAA series satellites clock drift error estimation and correction in SCOPE-CM 7.17 AVHRR FCDR Project (#23) Characterization of the Surface Radiation Budget using NASA and CM SAF Data Karl-Göran Karlsson, SMHI Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute 7.30 over West African Climate Olusola Ojo, Federal University of Technology, Akure (#219) Impact of using V4.10 Caliop level 2 cloud products when evaluating the CMSAF 7.18 clara-a2 and other cloud data records (#469) Fast Cloud Detection over Landmarks in MSG/SEVIRI Image Time Series 7.31 Karl-Göran Karlsson, SMHI Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute Adrian Perez-Suay, Image Processing Laboratory - Universitat de València (#135) Optimal training of CM SAF and NWC SAF cloud detection algorithms using (#647) Representation of the tropical free tropospheric humidity and its variability in 7.19 Calipso-Caliop cloud information 7.32 large scale models Karl-Göran Karlsson, SMHI Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute Laurence Picon, LMD/University Pierre et Marie Curie (#42) Importance of Calibrated Satellite Data for Weather and Climate Monitoring and (#464) Investigation of Januarys Polar Low genesis conditions over the North Atlantic 7.20 Forecasting 7.33 using satellite, reanalysis and model data for the period between 2003 and 2011 Goitom Kelem, National Meteorological Agency of Ethiopia Ana Radovan, Universität Köln (#467) Statistical Retrieval of Temperature and Moisture Atmospheric Profiles Benefits (#117) Algorithm for calculating the number of cloudy days using satellite data to 7.21 from Spatial-Spectral Image Compression 7.34 estimate the distribution of solar power potential Valero Laparra, Image Processing Laboratory - Universitat de València Lyudmila Shagarova, Ahmedsafin Institute of Hydrogeology and Environmental Geoscience (#474) Nonlinear statistical retrieval of land surface emissivity from infrared sounding (#438) Temperature and humidity retrieval algorithm development based on long-term 7.22 data 7.35 HIRS observations Valero Laparra, Image Processing Laboratory - Universitat de València Lei Shi, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI (#473) Temperature Retrieval with Spatial Noise-aware dimensionality reduction (#565) Analyzing the global distribution and variability of high clouds based on 35 years 7.23 Valero Laparra, Image Processing Laboratory - Universitat de València 7.36 of HIRS observations Martin Stengel, DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst (#73) Comparing three kinds of cloud data in Tibetan Platea 7.24 Jian Liu, Satellite Meteorological Center (#407) In field validation and climatological impact assessment of RST-FIRES vs other 7.37 MSG-SEVIRI based algorithms for forest fire detection (#103) Meteosat Second Generation cloud retrievals evaluated with airborne Valerio Tramutoli, University of Basilicata 7.25 measurements during Fennec Franco Marenco, Met Office (#252) 17+ years of clear-sky 250-m composites from MODIS over Circumpolar Arctic 7.38 region: Development and applications for climate change studies (#149) A new Fundamental Climate Data Record (FCDR) for almost 40 years of Alexander Trishchenko, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing measurements from the High resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) based on a 7.26 metrologically traceable uncertainty analysis. (#319 Long term climatological data records from scatterometer winds 7.39 Jonathan Mittaz, University of Reading Anton Verhoef, KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (#341) 1-km AVHRR cloud climatology over Central Europe derived by the Vectorized (#555) Can we find robust definitions of Weather States to detect climate trends in a 7.27 Earth Observation Retrieval (VEOR) and PyLAC software 7.40 long-term Cloud Satellite Climatology data set Jan Musial, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography Andi Walther, CIMSS Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies

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(#388) The MPIC/DLR “climate” water vapour product: A consistent time-series of H2O (#459) MTG-FCI in-house Level-1 Reference Processor development 8.7 7.41 columns from GOME/SCIAMACHY/GOME-2 Mounir Lekouara, EUMETSAT Yang Wang, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (#480) GOES-R Pre-Launch System Testing: Lessons Learned (#202) Low cloudiness climatology based on CM-SAF data 8.8 7.42 Wayne Mackenzie, NOAA/NESDIS Michal Zak, Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (#514) GOES-16 Post-Launch Testing Status (#144) MetOp-A IASI Decadal Observation and Monitoring of Global Surface Parameters 8.9 7.43 Wayne Mackenzie, NOAA/NESDIS Daniel Zhou, NASA Langley Research Center (#485) GOES-R Series ABI Mode and Mesoscale Domain Sector Request Process 8.10 Wayne Mackenzie, NOAA/NESDIS (#536) The applicability of MTG Lightning Imager in Scandinavia POSTER SESSION IN BASILICA AEMILIA 8.11 Antti Mäkelä, FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute (#541) Coupled Satellite-based Methods to Nowcast Severe Storms 1–2 hours in the 8.12 Future John Mecikalski, University of Alabama in Huntsville POSTER 8 (#332) The Status and strategies on development of the processing system for the SESSION 8.13 meteorological products from Geo-KOMPSAT-2A measurements Minseok Nam, NMSC-KMA (#611) GOES-16 Cloud Properties from the NASA LaRC SatCORPS: Initial results and 8 NEXT GENERATION GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES 8.14 comparisons with other data Rabindra Palikonda, SSAI/NASA Langley Research Center (#640) Space Mission FTIR Level 1 Processor Lessons Learned and New Challenges (#410) Meteosat Third Generation Lightning Imager, the development of future 8.15 8.1 operational user oriented applications Gaetan Perron, ABB Inc. Measurement & Analytics Daniele Biron, COMet - Centro Operativo per la Meteorologia (#566) Connecting with Operational Forecasters in the GOES-16 Era via the NOAA (#492) Applying Himawari and JPSS Satellite Products for Forecasting Rapid 8.16 Satellite Proving Ground Program 8.2 Cyclogenesis and Hurricane-force Wind Events Curtis Seaman, CIRA Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere Steven Goodman, University of Maryland/ESSIC/CICS (#522) GOES-R Series ABI Mode and Mesoscale Domain Sector Request Process 8.17 (#296) GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) On-Orbit Performance Matthew Seybold, NOAA/NESDIS 8.3 Paul Griffith,Harris Corporation (#617) Total Lightning Training for the Operational Application of GLM 8.18 (#301) The Rayleigh scattering calibration method applied to goes-16 ABI Geoffrey Stano,NASA SPoRT 8.4 Robert Iacovazzi, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR (#150) Impact of assimilating multispectral radiances from new generation (#277) From photons to pixels: Processing raw data from the advanced baseline imager 8.19 geostationary satellites on global forecasts 8.5 Satya Kalluri, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Judy St-James, Meteorological Service of Canada (#556) Next Generation Geostationary Satellite Ground System Management – From 8.6 Development to Operations Heather Keller, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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SUNDAY 1 OCT

WELCOME DRINK Cinecittà, conference venue 18:00 - 19:30 Early registration will take place on Sunday 1 October as from 16:00 at the conference venue Cinecittà in Studio 10 and is followed by a Welcome Drink from 18:00 -19:30 Entrance via: Via Tuscolana 1055, 00173 Rome

MONDAY 2 OCT

ICEBREAKER Cinecittà, conference venue, Ancient Rome Set 18:00 - 20:30 Entrance via: Via Tuscolana 1055, 00173 Rome With the contribution of: Thales Alenia Space

TUESDAY 3 OCT

GUIDED TOUR

Guided tour of Cinecittà Film Studios 18:30 - 20:00 The tours have to be booked in advance, please contact the registration desk Entrance via: Via Tuscolana 1055, 00173 Rome

WEDNESDAY 4 OCT

CONFERENCE DINNER a LEONARDO and THALES company a Thales / Leonardo company Villa Miani 18:00 - 23:00 Via Trionfale 151, 00136 Rome, Italy Buses will depart Cinecittà Studios at 18:00 pm and take participants directly to the dinner venue. The return transfer will be made at 23:00 from Villa Miani to Rome Termini Ralway Station from where participants can take a taxi to their hotels. You can also make your own transport arrangements but please note that Rome metro generally stops operating at 23:30. With the contribution of: Airbus SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBERS

• Régis Borde, EUMETSAT • Hiroshi Kunimatsu, JMA • Hélène Brogniez, Latmos • Rasmus Lindstrot, EUMETSAT • Sean Burns, EUMETSAT • Roger Randriamampianina, met.no • Kumar Ram Dhurmea, • Christian Retscher, EUMETSAT Mauritius Meteorological Service • Peter Schluessel, EUMETSAT • Hayley Evers-King, PML • Lothar Schueller, EUMETSAT • Antonia Gambacorta, NOAA/STAR • Joerg Schulz, EUMETSAT • Steven J. Goodman, NOAA • Anne O’Carroll, EUMETSAT • Jochen Grandell, EUMETSAT • T. COL. Francsco Zauli, Comet