INTERNATIONAL ATOVS WORKING GROUP incorporating ATOVS, AIRS, IASI, IMG, NAST, GIFTS, ...
A Report on The Twelfth International TOVS Study Conference
Lorne, Australia 27 February - 5 March 2002
A report on The Twelfth International TOVS Study Conference
Lorne, Australia 27 February – 5 March 2002
Conference sponsored by NASA NESDIS EUMETSAT World Meteorological Organization Bureau of Meteorology, Australia Météo France ITT Aerospace / Communications Division Raytheon Company Environmental Systems & Services Pty Ltd
Report prepared by J.F. Le Marshall, D. Jasper and G. Rochard
Published and distributed by Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre GPO Box 1289K Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia
July 2002
FOREWORD
The International TOVS Working Group (ITWG) is convened as a sub-group of the International Radiation Commission (IRC) of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (IAMAP). ITWG continues to organise International TOVS Study Conferences (ITSCs) which have met every 18-24 months since 1983. Through this forum, operational and research users of TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS), Advanced TOVS (ATOVS) and other atmospheric sounding data have exchanged information on; data processing methods, derived products, and the impacts of radiances and inferred atmospheric temperature and moisture fields on numerical weather prediction (NWP) and climate studies. The Twelfth International TOVS Study Conference (ITSC-XII) was held at the Cumberland Lorne Conference and Leisure Resort Centre from 27 February to 5 March 2002. This conference report summarises the scientific exchanges and outcomes of the meeting. A companion document The Technical Proceedings of The Twelfth International TOVS Study Conference contains the complete text of ITSC-XII scientific presentations. The ITWG web site (http://www.bom.gov.au/bmrc/basic/tovs/ctsc.html ) holds electronic versions of the conference presentations. Together, these documents reflect the conduct of a highly successful meeting in Lorne. An active and mature community of TOVS and ATOVS data users now exists, and considerable progress and positive results were reported at ITSC-XII in a number of areas, including many related to the new ATOVS system and to the impending Advanced Sounders. ITSC-XII was sponsored by NASA, NESDIS, EUMETSAT, the World Meteorological Organization, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Météo-France ITT Industries, the Raytheon Company and Environmental Systems and Services. Their support is gratefully acknowledged. We wish to thank the local organising committee. We also thank the staff of the Cumberland for their assistance during the Conference. Finally, we acknowledge the contribution of Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre staff, particularly Agnes Apostolou, David Jasper, Terry Adair and Irene Mouzouri, who assisted with the preparation and publication of this report and the Satellite Section Staff who assisted ably in the running of the Conference at Lorne.
Dr John F. Le Marshall Dr Guy Rochard Co-chair ITWG Co-chair ITWG Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre Météo-France GPO Box 1289K CMS Melbourne BP 147 Victoria, 3001 22 302 - Lannion Cedex Australia France
THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL TOVS STUDY CONFERENCE (ITSC-XII) Lorne, Australia: 27 February – 5 March 2002
International TOVS Working Group (ITWG) co-chairs Dr J.F. Le Marshall (Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Australia) Dr Guy Rochard (Météo-France, Lannion, France)
Organising Committee for ITSC-XII Dr John F. Le Marshall (Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Australia) Dr Guy Rochard (Météo-France, Lannion, France) Mr David Jasper (Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Australia) Ms Margaret Hehir (Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Australia)
ITSC-XII participants Thomas H. Achtor CIMSS/SSEC Uni. of Wisc. Madison WI USA Myoung-Hwan Ahn METRI, Korea Met. Admin., Seoul Korea Raymond Armante LMD, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau France Agnes Apostolou Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne Australia Stella Aura Kenya Met. Dept., Nairobi Kenya Nancy Baker Naval Res. Lab., Monterey, CA USA John Bates NOAA Envir. Tech. Lab., Boulder, CO USA Ralf Bennartz Univ. Kansas, Lawrence, KS USA Hal J. Bloom NPOESS/IPO, Silver Spring, MD USA Denis Blumstein CNES, Toulouse France Eva Borbas CIMSS/SSEC, Univ. of Wisconsin USA Bill Bourke BMRC, Melbourne Australia Francois Bouttier CNRM, Météo-France, Toulouse France Pascal Brunel CMS Météo-France, Lannion France Stefan Buehler Univ. Bremen, Bremen Germany João Carlos Carvalho INPE, São José dos Campos Brazil Narinder Chauhan NPOESS//IPO, Silver Spring, MD USA Frédéric Chevallier ECMWF, Reading, Berks UK Clément Chouinard Met. Service of Canada, Quebec Canada Andrew Collard Met Office, Bracknell, Berks UK Godelieve Deblonde Met. Service of Canada, Dorval, Quebec Canada John Derber EMC/NCEP/NOAA/NWS MD USA Izabela Dyras Inst. Met. & Water Management, Krakow Poland Stephen J. English Met Office, Bracknell, Berks. UK John R. Eyre Met Office, Bracknell, Berks. UK Nadia Fourrié Météo-France, Toulouse France Donald Frank NASA DAO, Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD USA Louis Garand Met. Service of Canada Dorval, Quebec Canada Albin Gasiewski NOAA Envir. Tech. Lab., Boulder, CO USA Elisabeth Gérard Météo-France, Toulouse France Mitch Goldberg NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD USA David Griersmith Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne Australia Songyan Gu Nat’l Sat. Met. Ctr, Beijing PRC
Brett A. Harris BMRC, Melbourne Australia Donald E. Hinsman World Met. Org., Geneva Switzerland Lee Hong Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne Australia David Howard Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne Australia Allen H.-L. Huang CIMSS/SSEC, Uni. Wis., Madison, WI USA Nicole Jacquinet LMD, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau France David Jasper BMRC, Melbourne Australia Viju Oommen John Inst. Envir. Physics, Univ. Bremen, Bremen Germany Steve Johnson ITT-Aerospace/Comms Div. Fort Wayne IN USA Joanna Joiner NASA DAO, Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, Md USA Sang-Won Joo Korea Met. Admin., Seoul Korea Anton Karl Kaifel Ctr for Solar En & Hydrogen Res, Stuttgart Germany Young-Hwa Kim Korea Met. Admin., Seoul Korea Dieter Klaes EUMETSAT, Darmstadt Germany Thomas J. Kleespies NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD USA Christina Köpken ECMWF, Reading, Berks. UK Tomas Landelius Swedish Met. Inst., Norrköping Sweden Lydie Lavanant CMS, Météo-France, Lannion France John F. Le Marshall BMRC, Melbourne Australia Jun Li CIMSS/SSEC, Univ. Wis., Madison, WI USA Merv Lynch Curtin Univ. of Technology, Perth, WA Australia Marco Matricardi ECMWF, Reading, Berks. UK Larry M. McMillin NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD USA W. Paul Menzel NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI USA Goulven Monnier CMS, Météo-France, Lannion France Denis O'Brien CSIRO Atmos. Res., Aspendale, Vic. Australia Kozo Okamoto Japan Met. Agency, Tokyo Japan Jaan Paevere BMRC, Melbourne Australia Thierry Phulpin CNES, Toulouse France Mulyono Prabowo BMG, Jakarta Indonesia V.S. Prasad NCMRWF, New Delhi India Fred Prata CSIRO Atmos. Res., Aspendale, Vic. Australia Joe Predina ITT-Aerospace/Comms Div. Ft Wayne IN USA Jeffery Puschell Raytheon St Barb. Rem. Sens., CA USA Florence Rabier CNRM, Météo-France, Toulouse France Roger Randriamampianina Hungarian Met. Service, Budapest Hungary Anthony Rea Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne Australia Tony L. Reale NOAA /NESDIS USA Gail Reichert NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD USA Guy Rochard CMS, Météo-France, Lannion France Filomena Romano IMAAA/CNR, Tito Scalo Italy Herve Roquet CMS, Météo-France, Lannion France Roger Saunders Met Office, Bracknell, Berks. UK Harald Schyberg Norwegian Met. Inst., Oslo Norway Nathaniel Servando PAGASA, Quezon City Philippines Vanessa Sherlock Met. & Rem. Sens, NIWA, Wellington NZ Elizabeth Silvestre Espinoza INPE-CPTEC, São Paulo Brazil Devendra Singh India Met. Dept, New Delhi India Sreerekha, T.R. Inst. Env. Phys, Uni. Bremen, Bremen Germany
Peter Steinle BMRC, Melbourne Australia Graeme Stephens Dept. Atmos. Sci, CO St. Uni., Ft Coll. CO USA Claudia Stubenrauch LMD, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau France Vince Tabor NOAA/NESDIS/IPD, Suitland, MD USA Jean-Noël Thépaut ECMWF, Reading, Berks. UK Chris Tingwell BMRC, Melbourne Australia Bernard Tournier NOVELTIS, Ramonville St Agne France Shawn Turner Met. Serv. of Canada, Downsview, ONT. Canada Michael J. Uddstrom NIWA, Wellington NZ Alexander B. Uspensky SRC Planeta Roshydromet , Moscow Russia Paul van Delst CIMSS-NOAA/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD USA Nicolas Wagneur Met. Service of Canada, Dorval, Quebec Canada Phil Watts ECMWF, Reading, Berks. UK Fuzhong Weng NOAA/ NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD USA Gary Weymouth Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne Australia Keith Whyte The MetOffice, Bracknell, Berks. UK Mike Willmott Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne Australia Jeff Wilson Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne Australia Walter W. Wolf NOAA/ NESDIS/ORA Camp Springs MD USA Wu Xuebao Nat. Sat. Met. Ctr, Beijing PRC Xue Jishan Chinese Acad. Met. Science, Beijing PRC Zhang Wenjian Nat. Sat. Met. Ctr, Beijing PRC