The Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) series of future European geostationary meteorological missions consists of two satellites: the imaging satellites (MTG-I) and the sounding satellites (MTG-S). The Infrared Sounder (IRS) is one of the two instruments hosted on board the MTG-S satellites.
The scope of the IRS mission is to provide the user community with information on time evolution of humidity and temperature distribution, as function of latitude, longitude and altitude. In this context, EUMETSAT has established the IRS mission advisory group (IRS-MAG) with the mandate of providing independent advice on the scientific concepts, cal/val approaches, and data usability of the IRS mission.
Objectives and outcomes
The proceedings and outcomes of the meeting can be found in the minutes of the meeting.
Programme and reports
21 October 2022
| Title | Presenter/s |
|---|---|
| MTG program | Alexander Schmid |
| Review of actions | All |
| Instrument status + Drop anomaly | Daniel Lamarre |
| Impact of the drop anomaly | Stefan Stapelberg |
| Instrument Non-Conformity on spectral accuracy | Stefano Gigli |
| ISARD/INCA/ACROSS: a suite of tools for IRS test data generation and analysis | Pierre Dussarrat/Guillaume Deschamps |
| L2 processing facility status | Olivier Samain |
| MonaLisa: IASI L2 monitoring as a prototype for IRS | Stefan Stapelberg |
| L2 commissioning plan | Cedric Goukenleuque, presented by Marc Crapeau |
| IRS OSSE experiments in AROME | Nadia Fourrie |
| Reconstructed radiances | Tony McNally |
| The new IASI PC hybrid release (status/schedule) | Tim Hultberg |
| Potential pitfalls of apodization and channel selection | Dave Tobin |
| IASI-A end-of-life tests: supersampled mode | Pierre Coheur |
| IASI-A end-of-life tests: limb views | Claude Camy-Peyret |
Next meeting tentative date: TBC
Participants
The IRS-MAG members
- Nigel Atkinson (Met Office – UK)
- Claude Camy-Peyret (IPSL – France)
- Dorothee Coppens (EUMETSAT) – co-chair
- Pierre-François Coheur (ULB – Belgium)
- Nadia Fourrie (Météo-France - France)
- Flavio Iturbide (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR – USA)
- Christina Köpkens-Watts (DWD – Germany)
- Miguel A. Martinez (AEMET – Spain)
- Tony McNally (ECMWF)
- Johannes Orphal (KIT – Germany)
- Herve Roquet (Météo-France – France) – co-chair
- Dave Tobin (CIMSS – USA)
ESA
- Daniel Lamarre
- Tobias Guggenmoser
EUMETSAT
- Marc Crapeau
- Guillaume Deschamps
- Pierre Dussarrat
- Cedric Goukenleuque
- Jochen Grandell
- Tim Hultberg
- Domenico Schiavulli
- Bertrand Theodore
IRS-MAG secretary
Bertrand Theodore
Remote Sensing and Products Division (RSP)
EUMETSAT
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