2011 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference

05–09 September 2011, Oslo, Norway

5-9 September 2011, Oslo, Norway

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05 September 2011

EUMETSAT P.59

ISBN 978-92-9110-093-4
ISSN 1011-3932

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PROCEEDINGs


Title	File size
Impressum and disclaimer
Conference programme - oral presentations
Conference programme - poster presentations

SESSION 1: current and future satellites, instruments and their applications


Title	Authors including Presenter	File Size
Future Low Earth Observation satellite - Radio Occultation mission	Nick Yen, Chen-Joe Fong , Kendra L.B. Cook, Peter Wilczynski
Overview of the first satellite of the Global Change Observation Mission - Water (GCOM-W1)	Misako Kachi, Keiji Imaoka, Hideyuki Fujii, Daisaku Uesawa, Kazuhiro Naoki, Akira Shibata, Tamotsu Igarashi
Proof-of-concept demonstration of a millimetre wave imaging sounder for Geostationary Earth Orbit	Anders Carlström, Jacob Christensen, Anders Emrich, Johan Embretsén, Karl-Erik Kempe, Peter de Maagt
Future plan and recent activities for the Japanese follow-on geostationary meteorological satellite Himawari-8	Toshiyuki Kurino, Masahiro Hayashi
The Sentinel-3 mission	Craig Donlon, Bruno Berruti, Constantin Mavrocordatos, Johannes Frerick, Ulf Klein, Jens Nieke, Bernd Seitz, Helge Rebhan, Nicolas Picot, Robert Cullen, Phillipe Goryl, Pierre Femenias
Study on a radiometric and spectral requirements of an EPS-SG Visible/Infrared Imager	Anja Hünerbein, René Preusker, Jürgen Fischer, Pepe Philips, Peter Schlüssel
Performance assessment of future LEO and GEO satellite infrared instruments to monitor air quality	Pasquale Sellitto, Pierre Dauphin, Gaëlle Dufour, Maxim Eremenko, Adriana Coman, Gilles Forêt, Matthias Beekmann, Jean Marie Flaud, Benjamin Gaubert
The WMO Dossier on the Space-based Global Observing System	Bizzarro Bizzarri
AMV extraction scheme for MTG-FCI at EUMETSAT	Regis Borde
Radiometric calibration accuracy of GOES sounder infrared channels	Fangfang Yu, Xiangqian Wu
Analysis and characterization of the synergistic AIRS and MODIS cloud-cleared radiances	Hong Zhang, Allen Huang, Agnes Lim, Steve Dutcher, Liam Gumley
Meteosat Third Generation InfraRed Sounder (MTG-IRS) Level 2 prototype development and application to IASI data	Xavier Calbet, Stephen Tjemkes, Thomas August, Rolf Stuhlmann
MTG-IRS correlation interferometry for the retrieval of CO2 columnar amount: An error analysis study	Guido Masiello, Giuseppe Grieco, Carmine Serio, Xavier Calbet, Rolf Stuhlmann, Stephen Tjemkes
Composition measurements by solar occultation: SCISAT/ACE and beyond	Kaley Walker, C. Thomas McElroy, Peter Bernath
Monitoring air quality: the role of OSSEs in determining the future observing system	William Lahoz, Vincent-Henri Peuch, Jean-Luc Attie, Johannes Orphal, MAGEAQ Team
GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) true-color capability	Don Hillger, Steve Miller, Louie Grasso, Renate Brummer, Robert DeMaria
Multi-sensor analysis of cloud-top heights in Sc - Cu transition regions	Elke Ludewig, Ákos Horváth


Title	Authors including Presenter	File Size
The Sentinel-4/UVN instrument on-board MTG-S	Grégory Bazalgette Courrèges-Lacoste, Hendrik Stark, Berit Ahlers, Ben Veihelmann, Benedikt Guldimann, Alex Short
EUMETSAT Hydrological Satellite Application Facility precipitation suite at C.N.M.C.A.	Daniele Biron, Francesco Zauli, Davide Melfi
SEVIRI/MSG derived vegetation characteristics and their potential to monitor drought conditions in Slovenia	Bostjan Muri, Mateja Irsic Zibert, Gregor Gregoric
Validation of greenhouse gases retrieved from satellite-based and ground-based hyper-spectral measurements with aircraft observations	Youngmi Kim, Goo Tae-Young, Shin-Hoo Kang, Yeon-Jin Jung, Mi-Lim Ou, Sang-Boom Ryoo
Estimation and Its Application of Mesoscale Atmospheric Motion Vectors at NIMR/KMA	Somyoung Kim, Jeong-Hyun Park, Mi-Lim Ou
Validity of soil moisture retrievals from AMSR-E with SMOS observation	Youngmi Kim, Mi-Lim Ou, Sang-Boom Ryoo
Satellite and balloon borne measurements of water vapor in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere	Rigel Kivi, Jukka Kujanpää, Osmo Aulamo, Pauli Heikkinen, Xavier Calbet, Holger Vömel, Franz Immler
Topography correction of the CM-SAF surface albedo product SAL	Terhikki Manninen, Kaj Andersson, Aku Riihelä
A quasi-geostationary view of the Arctic and Environs: PCW/PHEMOS for Arctic weather, climate and air quality	John McConnell

Session 2: monitoring climate and understanding climate processes based on satellite data


Title	Authors including Presenter	File Size
A satellite-based global ocean surface turbulent fluxes dataset and the impact of the associated SSM/I brightness temperature	Chung-lin Shie, Kyle Hilburn
Towards a climatology of surface incoming solar radiation over the Benelux by merging long time-series of Meteosat-derived estimations and ground-based measurements	Michel Journée, Richard Müller, Cédric Bertrand
A reprocessing for climate of sea surface temperature from the Along-Track Scanning Radiometers	Owen Embury, Chris Merchant, David Berry, Elizabeth Kent
10-years satellite-based snow cover climatology of Switzerland	Gabriela Seiz, Nando Foppa, Oliver Meister
Optical properties of thin cirrus derived from the infrared channels of SEVIRI	Stephan Kox, Andreas Ostler, Margarita Vazquez-Navarro, Luca Bugliaro, Hermann Mannstein
Probability of Cloud-Free-Line-of-Sight (PCFLOS) derived from CloudSat and CALIPSO cloud observations	Donald Reinke, Thomas Vonder Haar


Title	Authors including Presenter	File Size
Reviewing past extreme climatic events using satellite analysed daily wind and sea surface temperature data	Ndui Aikayo
EUMETSAT LSA-SAF evapotranspiration: Comparisons of operational products to observations and models at hydrological basins scale	Alirio Arboleda, Nicolas Ghilain, F. Gellens-Meulenberghs
VIS and IR characterization of a permanent LST validation site	Annika Bork-Unkelbach, Frank Göttsche, Folke Olesen
Aerosol absorption in cloudy scenes using passive satellite instruments	Martin de Graaf, Lieuwe G. Tilstra, Piet Stammes
Satellite and ground-based sensors for the Urban Heat Island analysis in the city of Madrid	Roberto Fabrizi, Angela De Santis, Antonio Gomez
Validation of operational Land Surface Temperature products with three years of continuous in-situ measurements	Frank Göttsche, Folke Olesen, Annika Bork-Unkelbach
GSICS SEVIRI-IASI inter-calibration uncertainty evaluation	Tim Hewison
Regional trend analysis of pan evaporation in Nigeria (1970-2000)	Emmanuel Ogolo
Assesment of satellite based rainfall in urban areas during Kiremt season in Ethiopia	Almaz Tadesse Jifar

Session 3: nowcasting


Title	Authors including Presenter	File Size
Correlating the locations of the overshooting tops with the occurrence of severe weather	Natasa Strelec Mahovic, Petra Mikus
Characterisation of storm severity by use of selected convective cell parameters derived from satellite data	Piotr Struzik
Extremely strong convection in Lithuania on 8th of August, 2010	Viktorija Grusaite
Study of a mesoscale convective complex over the eastern Mediterranean basin with Meteosat data	Haralambos Feidas, Apostolos Giannakos
Severe Thunderstorm Nowcasting in the Alpine region and the COALITION approach	Luca Nisi, Igor Giunta, Paolo Ambrosetti
Enhancing objective short-range forecasts of the pre-convective environment using SEVIRI data	Ralph Petersen, Robert Aune, Thomas Rink
Application of automated CB/TCU detection based on radar and satellite data	Paul De Valk, Rudolf Van Westrhenen
Observations of increased IR3.9 reflectivity at thunderstorm cloud tops	Maria Putsay, Andre Simon, Ildikó Szenyán
Detection of rainy clouds based on their spectral and textural features on Meteosat multispectral infrared data	Apostolos Giannakos, Haralambos Feidas


Title	Authors including Presenter	File Size
Satellite uses for purpose of Nowcasting	Mohammed Kedir
Status of NWCSAF/MSG PGE13 physical retrival product	Miguel A. Martinez, Ramiro Romero, Jun Li
Mapping of snow cover using METOP/AVHRR data	Niilo Siljamo, Markku Suomalainen, Otto Hyvärinen

Session 4: assimilation of satellite data into global and regional NWP models


Title	Authors including Presenter	File Size
Impacts of radiance assimilation in the JMA operational meso-scale analyses and forecasts	Masahiro Kazumori
Assimilation of ATOVS radiances at ECMWF	Enza Di Tomaso, Niels Bormann
The assimilation of short-wave radiance data from AIRS and IASI at ECMWF	Anthony McNally, marco matricardi, Reima Eresmaa
Preparations for the assessment and assimilation of NPP data at ECMWF and the Met Office	Bill Bell, Niels Bormann, Tony McNally, Steve English, Carole Peubey, Qifeng Lu, Anna Booton, Nigel Atkinson
Investigation and development of a mode based variational bias correction scheme for window channels on microwave and infrared sounders	Dingmin Li, Anthony McNally, Alan Geer
The direct assimilation in the ECMWF 4D-Var system of principal component scores derived from IASI radiance spectra in the shortwave	Marco Matricardi, Tony McNally
Cloud detection output statistics for advanced infrared sounders in the ECMWF data assimilation system	Reima Eresmaa
All-sky assimilation of radiances from microwave sounders at ECMWF	Alan Geer, Peter Bauer
Remote sounding of temperature and humidity in the presence of clouds	Cristina Prates, Stefano Migliorini, Stephen English, Ed Pavelin
Assimilation experiments with the cloud-affected geostationary observations at ECMWF	Cristina Lupu, Tony McNally
Land Surface Temperature to improve the assimilation of SEVIRI radiances over land	Stephanie Guedj, Fatima Karbou, Florence Rabier
Accounting for the characteristics of AMV observation errors in data assimilation	Kirsti Salonen, Niels Bormann
ADM-AEOLUS - ESA's wind lidar mission and its contribution to Numerical Weather Prediction	Anne Grete Straume-Lindner, Paul Ingmann, Anders Elfving
OSSE-based assessment of the NWP impact of space-based wind lidars	Lars Peter Riishojgaard, Zaizhong Ma, Michiko Masutani, John S. Woollen, Dave Emmitt, Sid Wood, Steve Greco

POSTER presentations
Title	Authors including Presenter	File Size
Observing system experiments on ATOVS orbit constellations	Enza Di Tomaso, Niels Bormann

Session 5: satellite-based observations of the oceans, with emphasis on the arctic regionsnowcasting


Title	Authors including Presenter	File Size
The EUMETSAT Ocean & Sea Ice SAF towards the CDOP-2 phase	Guenole Guevel
GHRSST research concerning high latitude SST	Andrea Kaiser-Weiss, Peter Minnett, Helen Beggs, Jacob Hoyer, LeBorgne Pierre, Steinar Eastwood, Chris Merchant, Craig Donlon
Errors and correction of Metop/AVHRR derived SST in Arctic conditions	Pierre Le Borgne, Sonia Péré, Hervé Roquet
New OSI SAF geostationary SST chain validation results	Anne Marsouin, Pierre Le Borgne, Gérard Legendre, Sonia Péré
ASCAT full resolution backscatter product	Craig Anderson, Julia Figa-Saldana, Hans Bonekamp, Julian Wilson, Colin Duff, Mirko Santuari
OCEANSAT-2 scatterometer winds and sea ice	Ad Stoffelen, Anton Verhoef


Title	Authors including Presenter	File Size
ASCAT backscatter, validation and current developments	Julia Figa Saldaña, Craig Anderson, Hans Bonekamp, Julian Wilson, Colin Duff
Improving regional AVHRR SST measurements using AATSR SST data	Igor Tomazic, Milivoj Kuzmic

Session 6: facilitating data access and utilisation


Title	Authors including Presenter	File Size
Spatial data service operations for MetOp/GOME-2 atmospheric composition products	Stephan Kiemle, Torsten Heinen, Daniele Dietrich, Henry Rotzoll, Diego Loyola
EO PORTAL - WMS services of the EUMETSAT realtime image gallery	Michael Schick
HDF5 for NPP sensor and environmental data records	Michael Denning, Richard Ullman
An object-oriented software system to handle BUFR	Vesa Karhila, Angeles Hernandez-Carrascal

Session 7: atmospheric composition


Title	Authors including Presenter	File Size
Monitoring the spatial distribution and the evolution of tropospheric ozone with IASI in Europe and Eastern Asia: New possibilities for chemical and transport model evaluation	Gaëlle Dufour, Maxim Eremenko, Juan Cuesta, Irina Galkina, Gilles Forêt, Adriana Coman , Benjamin Gaubert, Matthias Beekmann, Jean-Marie Flaud, Andrea Pozzer
CO total columns retrieved from three IR space-based sounders over 2010 Russian wild fires: Comparison with two ground-based spectrometers and surface monitors	Leonid Yurganov, Thomas August, Anatoly Dzhola, Evgeny Grechko, Vadim Rakitin, Ekaterina Fokeeva, Roman Shumsky, Larrabee Strow, Scott Hannon
Studying trends in aerosol presence using the Absorbing Aerosol Index (AAI) of GOME-1, SCIAMACHY, and GOME-2	Lieuwe Tilstra, Martin De Graaf, Olaf Tuinder, Ronald Van der A, Piet Stammes


Title	Authors including Presenter	File Size
Validation of GOME-2 ozone profiles using balloon sounding data	Andy Delcloo, Olaf Tuinder
Validation of IASI ozone profiles using balloon sounding data	Andy Delcloo, Daniel Hurtmans, P-F Coheur, C Clerbaux
Study of the possible benefits of cloud products of EUMETSAT in solar energy	Zhipeng Qu, Lucien Wald, Philippe Blanc, Mireille Lefèvre