07, January 2021
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 Meeting.
Programme and reports
Thursday 4 June
| Time | Category | Title | Presenter/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13:30–14:00 | Welcome and agenda and review of ongoing actions | Co-chairs | |
| 14:00–14:30 | Instrument, breadboard and level-1 | Summary of Performances Non-Compliances | Daniel Lamarre |
| 14:30–15:00 | Instrument, breadboard and level-1 | MTG-IRS In-Field Straylight | Daniel Lamarre |
| 15:00–15:30 | Instrument, breadboard and level-1 | Optical Performances: impact on the level 1 products – presentation of the tool and first tests | Pierre Dussarrat |
| 15:45–16:00 | IRS Test data | Status on IRS test data available at EUMETSAT | EUMETSAT |
| 16:00–16:30 | IRS Test data | Presentation of proxy IRS data generation | Miguel Martinez |
| 16:30–17:00 | IRS Test data | IRS L1 Test dataset | Nadia Fourrie, Christina Koepken-Watts, Tony McNally |
| 17:00–17:15 | Update on the study at ECMWF | Tony McNally | |
| 17:15–17:30 | Preliminary results on NH3 retrievals using GIIRS | Pierre Coheur |
