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3rd Meeting of GSICS Data Working Group (GDWG-III) and
4th Meeting of GSICS Research Working Group (GRWG-IV)

28 - 30 January 2009, JMA
JMA Headquarters, Tokyo, Japan

GDWG-III and GRWG-IV Final Report

Day 1, Wednesday 28 January 2009 / Joint Session
Time Presentations Speakers
10:00 - 10:15 Opening Remarks Y. Kozawa / JMA
10:15 - 10:45 GSICS Executive Panel Meeting Five and Action Review, (PDF, 709KB) J. Lafeuille
10:45 - 11:00 GRWG Chair Report & Action Review, (PDF, 154KB) X. Wu
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break / continued discussion
11:15 - 11:30 GDWG Chair Report & Action Review, (PDF, 220KB) V. Gärtner
11:30 - 11:45 GCC Director Report & Action Review, (PDF, 625KB) R. Iacovazzi for F. Weng
11:45 - 12:15 Verbal Progress Reports Towards GSICS Goals GPRC Representatives
12:15 - 12:30 EUMETSAT Report of Actions Towards GSICS Goals, (PDF, 148KB) T. Hewison
12:30 - 12:45 Feasibility of Hierarchical ATBD, (PDF, 862KB) T. Hewison
12:45 - 14:15 Lunch / Discussion on Chairs and Director Reports
14:15 - 14:45 Documentation of ATBD in Twiki (Web Presentation) A. Jelenak
14:45 - 15:00 GSICS Product Roster, (PDF, 384KB) R. Iacovazzi
15:00 - 15:15 GSICS Procedure for Product Acceptance, (PDF, 166KB) R. Iacovazzi
15:15 - 15:45

    Summary of GSICS Web Sites and Servers

V. Gärtner, R. Iacovazzi, A. Jelenak, P. Miu, Y. Tahara
15:15 - 15:25

Implementation at JMA

Y. Tahara
15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break / continued discussion
16:00 - 16:30 Presentation and Harmonization of GSICS Products M. König
16:30 - 17:00 Sample Data Sets, Plots, and Tables All
17:00 - 17:30 Gather Discussion Items on Above for GDWG-III All
Evening: Social Event


Day 2: Thursday 29 January 2009
Time Presentations Speakers
9:00 - 9:45 CLARREO, (PDF, 11.9MB) D. Tobin
09:45 - 10:00 Update on Access to SADE Database, (PDF, 795KB) D. Blumstein
10:00 - 10:45 Guidance to the two Working Groups X. Wu
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break / Continued Discussion All
11:00 - 12:30 GRWG-III Breakout Session
or
GDWG-II breakout session
GRWG-IV / GDWG-III groups
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch / Discussion on Action Items GRWG-IV / GDWG-III groups
13:30 - 15:30 GRWG-III Breakout Session
or
GDWG-II breakout session
GRWG-IV / GDWG-III groups
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee Break / Continued Discussion GRWG-IV / GDWG-III groups
15:45 - 18:30 GRWG-III Breakout Session
or
GDWG-II breakout session
GRWG-IV / GDWG-III groups
18:30 Adjourn


Day 3: Friday 30 January 2009
Time Presentations Speakers
09:00 - 09:15 GSICS Users Workshop All
09:15 - 09:30 Communication within GSICS & WG Membership (PDF, 112KB) X. Wu
09:30 - 10:30 Drafting Working Group Reports GRWG and GDWG Members
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break / Continued Discussion
10:45 - 11:30 Drafting Working Group Reports GRWG and GDWG Members
11:30 - 12:15 Summary of the GDWG-III Outcomes (PDF, 54KB) V. Gärtner
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch / Discussion on Action Items GRWG-IV / GDWG-III groups
13:45 - 14:30 Summary of the GRWG-IV Outcomes (PDF, 68KB) X. Wu
14:30 - 15:15 Review and Consolidate Action Plans
Recommendations to GSICS Executive Panel
All
15:15 - 15:30 Coffee Break / Continued Discussion
15:30 - 15:45 Short Demo on Centra Features (PDF, 675KB) M. König
15:45 - 16:15 Any Other Business All
16:15 - 16:30 Closing Remarks V. Gärtner
12:45 Meeting Adjourns


GRWG-IV Breakout Session
Time Presentations Speakers
11:00 - 11:15 FY-2C/2D GSICS Status Report from CMA's GPRC (PDF, 653KB) X. Hu
11:15 - 11:30 Vicarious Calibration of FY-Series VNIR Channel Using Earth Sites (PDF, 492KB) Y. Li
11:30 - 11:35 Exploring Algorithms for Meteosat-HIRS Inter-Calibration. (PDF, 1.1MB) T. Hewison
11:35 - 11:45 Impact of Spatial and Temporal Atmospheric Variability on GSICS Inter-Calibration Algorithms. (PDF, 322KB) T. Hewison
11:45 - 12:00 IASI Radiance Monitoring at EUMETSAT During the Recovery from an Incident in December 2008 (PDF, 1.8MB) M. König
12:00 - 12:15 IR Intercalibration Algorithm at JMA (PDF, 346KB) Y. Tahara
12:15 - 12:30 Recent JMA Visible Calibration Activities (PDF, 864KB) A. Okuyama
13:30 - 13:45 MTSAT IR intercalibration at KMA (PDF, 2.7MB) D. Kim
13:45 - 14:00 VI Vicarious Calibration Activities at KMA (PDF, 2.3MB) B. J. Sohn
14:00 - 14:30 GSICS GEO-LEO Inter-Calibration Activities at NOAA (PDF, 2.3MB) X. Wu
14:30 - 14:45 MTSAT Visible Calibration Activities at NASA/Langley (PDF, 5.3MB) D. Doelling
14:45 - 15:00 Roadmap for Visible Inter-Calibration (PDF, 3.4MB) P. Minnis
15:00 - 15:30 WGCV Quality Framework Review D. Doelling
15:45 - 16:15 Summary of 2008 Progresses and 2009 Plan (PDF, 82KB) X. Wu
15:45 - 16:15 Future Direction for GRWG GPRC perspective Meteosat-HIRS inter-calibration P. Zhang
16:15 - 18:30 Discussion and Action Review All
18:30 Meeting Adjourns


GDWG-III Breakout Session
Time Presentations Speakers
11:00 - 11:15 EUMETSAT GSICS Data Management (PDF, 148KB) P. Miu
11:15 - 11:30 Metadata Standards A. Jelenak
11:30 - 11:45 Update on JMA Activities (PDF, 178KB) K. Kato
11:45 - 12:30 Storage locations for data and information All
13:30 - 14:00 File and parameter naming conventions All
14:00 - 14:30 Content of sample data sets All
14:30 - 14:45 Creation of GSICS portal All
14:45 - 15:30 Hierarchical Structures for GSICS ATBD All
15:45 - 16:15 Homogenizing presentation of GSICS output All
16:15 - 16:30 Current status of gsics.wmo.int (PDF, 24KB) J. Lafeuille
16:30 - 17:30 Priority list GSICS web site and server developments All