Meeting Location:
NOAA Science Center
1301 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(Next to SSMC4 or Building 4)
Information & Welcome Package
NOAA is hosting a workshop focused on the generation and application
of community consensus climate data records (CDRs) from MSU, AMSU, SSU,
SSMI, and SSMIS observations. The CDRs include both the radiance sensor
data records and atmospheric temperature thematic data records. The
workshop is sponsored by the NOAA Scientific Data
Stewardship (SDS) program and also supports the WMO GSICS (Global
Space-based Inter-Calibration System) program. The workshop will cover
topics on different versions of the MSU/AMSU/SSU atmospheric temperature
datasets derived by different research groups such as UAH, RSS, and
STAR; new satellite calibration/intercalibration approaches; instrument
characteristics; inter-comparisons between satellite data, homogenized
radiosonde observations, reanalyses, and climate model simulations; bias
correction analysis from new reanalysis systems such as those from NCEP,
ECMWF, and NASA; comparisons of MSU/AMSU/SSU temperatures with other
satellite observations such as GPSRO, etc.
The workshop will begin with a half day plenary session describing
community CDR requirements and national/international programs on CDR
development. It is followed by a session focusing on calibration, bias
correction and different versions of the MSU/AMSU/SSU CDRs. The second
day programs focus on SSMI/SSMIS calibration as well as satellite
microwave dataset applications. Product leads from NOAA and the
national/international community will be arranging presentations in each
session in a cross-cutting way. Each speaker will discuss recent progress,
remaining issues, and recommended solutions. On the third day attendees
will help to summarize issues and the recommended solutions, actions and
agreed upon next steps.
The deadline for submitting abstracts has passed. If you are
interested in attending the workshop, please contact to the workshop
organizers before the workshop starts.