1. 6 June 2011: GSICS Exec Panel Meeting WMO Geneva, Marianne König, Tim Hewison, Peter Miu EUMETSAT GPRC Report

2. 6 June 2011: GSICS Exec Panel Meeting WMO Geneva, What have we done at EUMETSAT for GSICS in 2010? SEVIRI-IASI NRTC & RAC in Demonstration Mode Also acted as beta tester GSICS pages of EUMETSAT website – updated GSICS Data And Products Server NWP Bias Monitoring Statistics SEVIRI Solar Channel Calibration Lunar Calibration Support 2010 GSICS Users Workshop Meteosat Reprocessing –Used SEVIRI-IASI inter-calibration to validate reprocessing of MSG archive using new radiance definition

3. 6 June 2011: GSICS Exec Panel Meeting WMO Geneva, From 2010 Operations Plan Action #Task NameLeadDescriptionDeliverable GDWG04_02 User feedback regarding NetCDF versionsEUMETSAT Solicit users preferences on NetCDF versions and report at Users WorkshopReport GIP 2.10GSICS Web Sites GCC, All GPRCs Provide information, reports, results and links to MembersGSICS web site GDWG04_10R Results disclaimers on GSICS web sitesAll GPRCs Place a disclaimer on all GSICS-related web sites where analysis or results are shown that are not GSICS products. Product disclaimer placed on web sites GDWG04_07 Evaluation of WMO GSICS Web SiteEUMETSAT Look into the improvements needed to address the observations on the current WMOs site structure - e.g., legibility of the GSICS logo (coordinate with all the GPRCs on how this can be done). Briefing of recommended site updates to EP and then to WMO for upload GDWG04_08 Discuss information content on GPRC home pagesEUMETSAT Discuss with the GDWG on what common information shall be shown on the GPRC home pages.Meeting GDWG04_10R Updates of GPRC Web SitesAll GPRC's Each GPRC shall provide a home page describing what they do. They shall ensure the page is easily identified as a GSICS Web page, e.g. apply GSICS standard logo, and look and feel. Compose common text informing the reader about the information on the GPRC (Contribution to GSICS as a GPRC, regularly providing comparable data sets etc.Web site updates GDWG04_11GSICS Action Tracking NOAA and EUMETSAT NOAA and EUMETSAT to create an evaluation matrix for documentation and action tracking tools and report back at the next GSICS joint meeting.Excel tracking tool

4. 6 June 2011: GSICS Exec Panel Meeting WMO Geneva, From 2010 Operations Plan (cont) Action #Task NameLeadDescriptionDeliverable GRWG05_15 Product Acceptance Procedure evaluationAll GPRC's Review NOAA's proposed work flow and documentation needed to migrate GSICS products between Demo, Pre- Operational and Operation statusWeb conference EP07_04 Product Acceptance Procedure implementation EP, GCC, GDWG, GPRCs, and GRWG Introduce potential GSICS Products into the GSICS Procedure for Product Acceptance Potential products in Demo and/or Pre- operational Modes GDWG04_06 GSICS Collaboration Server directory structureEUMETSAT Update the directory structure document to take into account the new requirements. GDWG04_13 GRWG05_15 Gathering Instrument InformationAll GPRCs Find out what instrument information is available for instruments and make this available to the GDWG and GRWG.Report ? GRWG05_08 Investigation into adding GEO data to SADE databaseAll GPRC's Investigate the possibility to supply GEO data over desert sites to the SADE databaseReport by e-mail GRWG05_04- 05 Assessment of calibration error propagation methodAll GPRCs Review error propagation example and consider how it could apply to their solar channel calibration method.Web meeting(s)/Report GRWG05_10SEVIRI data transferEUMETSAT Send SEVIRI pristine sea surface data to CNES for analysis. SEVIRI data transferred to CNES GRWG05_15 Product Acceptance Procedure evaluationAll GPRC's Review NOAA's proposed work flow and documentation needed to migrate GSICS products between Demo, Pre- Operational and Operation statusWeb conference

5. 6 June 2011: GSICS Exec Panel Meeting WMO Geneva, From 2011 Operations Plan Action #Task NameLeadDescriptionDeliverable GDWG04_07 Evaluation of WMO GSICS Web SiteEUMETSAT Look into the improvements needed to address the observations on the current WMOs site structure - e.g., legibility of the GSICS logo (coordinate with all the GPRCs on how this can be done). Briefing of recommended site updates to EP and then to WMO for upload GDWG04_08 Discuss information content on GPRC home pagesEUMETSAT Discuss with the GDWG on what common information shall be shown on the GPRC home pages.Meeting GDWG04_10R Updates of GPRC Web SitesAll GPRC's Each GPRC shall provide a home page describing what they do. They shall ensure the page is easily identified as a GSICS Web page, e.g. apply GSICS standard logo, and look and feel. Compose common text informing the reader about the information on the GPRC (Contribution to GSICS as a GPRC, regularly providing comparable data sets etc.Web site updates GDWG04_02 User feedback regarding NetCDF versionsEUMETSAT Solicit users preferences on NetCDF versions and report at Users WorkshopReport EP09_05 Discuss adapting EUMETSAT/GSICS fact sheet to create a GSICS fact sheet" WMO+ EUMETSAT WMO to discuss with EUMETSAT the possibility of adapting the EUMETSAT/GSICS fact sheet to create a GSICS fact sheet, taking due account of EUMETSAT copyright.Brief and debrief ? GDWG04_11GSICS Action Tracking NOAA and EUMETSAT NOAA and EUMETSAT to create an evaluation matrix for documentation and action tracking tools and report back at the next GSICS joint meeting.Excel tracking tool ? GDWG04_06 GSICS Collaboration Server directory structureEUMETSAT Update the directory structure document to take into account the new requirements. GRWG05_10SEVIRI data transferEUMETSAT Send SEVIRI pristine sea surface data to CNES for analysis. SEVIRI data transferred to CNES

6. 6 June 2011: GSICS Exec Panel Meeting WMO Geneva, GSICS Pages of EUMETSAT Website

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8. Inter-Cal Products GSICS Products Background Table of Links to products and docs Explanation File formats Server Information http://www.eumetsat.int/Home /Main/DataProducts/Calibration /Inter-calibration/

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10. Current Status of EUMETSATs GSICS Products SEVIRI-IASI Inter-Calibration GSICS Corrections: NRTC & RAC for Meteosat-9: Demonstration – regular production NRTC & RAC for Meteosat-8: Prototype – regular production NRTC & RAC for Meteosat-7: Prototype – regular production SEVIRI-IASI Inter-Calibration GSICS Bias Monitoring: NRTC & RAC for Meteosat-9: Prototype – regular production NRTC & RAC for Meteosat-8: Prototype – regular production NRTC & RAC for Meteosat-7: Prototype – regular production Pre-Operational Checklist for NRTC & RAC for Meteosat-9: Complete ATBD Uncertainty Analysis Traceability Statement

11. 6 June 2011: GSICS Exec Panel Meeting WMO Geneva, GSICS -Testing by EUMETSAT -testing was done by EUMETSAT as part of the GSICS Product Acceptance Procedure (GSICS Product External Review Form) Colleague at EUMETSAT who is not at all familiar with GSICS was tasked with this. Main findings: Documentation and actual data extraction from the GSICS Server were straightforward and could be done without any problems Slight problem encountered with the data export functionality of ncbrowse (NASA was informed about that) Accept Terms and Conditions button or Copyright information is missing Link to version of MSG Level 1.5 data is mission (reprocessing will produce newer versions) Impact on product: see next slide

12. 6 June 2011: GSICS Exec Panel Meeting WMO Geneva, GSICS -Testing: Total Precipitable Water Product Without correction With correction: Observed (small) differences mostly due to bias in IR13.4 channel Better coverage, i.e. less failed retrievals Horizontally smoother fields, probably more realistic

13. 6 June 2011: GSICS Exec Panel Meeting WMO Geneva, GSICS -Testing by UK Met Office -testing was done by UK Met Office as part of the GSICS Product Acceptance Procedure (GSICS Product External Review Form) Main findings: Documentation clear and logical (with some typos!) I believe the method fulfills its intended purpose fully Relevant files were easy to find. File names awkward to use on Linux Suggested we add links to netCDF readers Time stamp in files difficult to use Reliability of servers and products was good. Tested impact of IR13.4 bias correction to Cloud Top Height retrievals…

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15. Developing new Meteosat-HIRS inter-calibration Using ATBD for GEO-LEO hyperspectral IR as basis for new Meteosat-HIRS product Code used for collocation and analysis of inter-calibration data for GSICS Planned to use NCDC homogenised HIRS data record as reference [Shi & Bates, 2011][Shi & Bates, 2011] But limited to the water vapour channel in clear sky conditions so we need to analyse the impact of these limitations for applications other than UTH

16. 6 June 2011: GSICS Exec Panel Meeting WMO Geneva, June update on NWP Bias Monitoring Study Analysis of NWP Bias Monitoring statistics and future strategy Difficult to obtain exact agreement between the double differencing statistics from NWP bias monitoring and the direct comparison of collocated radiances. Because model biases do not exactly cancel out when comparing non-identical channels. So developed an approach to calibrate out the model bias differences by comparing the statistics from the NWP double-differences with those from direct comparisons in the same geographic/geometric/radiance bins. Developed method of combining multiple channels of reference instrument (IASI), based on weighted average of results within radiance bins (WF differences) But most channels show radiance-dependent bias, which may be due to residual cloud. Under investigation by UKMO before further quantitative analysis possible.

17. 6 June 2011: GSICS Exec Panel Meeting WMO Geneva, June update on progress to Operational status Migrate Meteosat-IASI products to pre-operational status Combined ATBD for all Meteosats for ease of maintainance Wrote up uncertainty analysis for Meteosat8- and Meteosat7- IASI inter-calibration. Implementing AIRS as optional reference as backup to IASI for inter-calibration of Meteosat Implemented GSICS code to download and read AIRS data

18. 6 June 2011: GSICS Exec Panel Meeting WMO Geneva, Pre-Operational Checklist for NRTC & RAC for Met-9 II.1.Brief Product Description II.2.What is the product scope within GSICS? II.3.What are the general product function and performance specifications? III.1.A.1.GSICS file naming conventions III.1.A.2.GSICS file format conventions III.1.BAlgorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD) III.1.CPlan to Establish Measurement Traceability to Reference Standards III.2.AHarnessing Radiative Transfer ModelsN/A III.2.BMaking Measurements to Support Cal/ValN/A III.2.CEstablishing Analysis SoftwareUnderway III.2.D.1Documents Version Control Plan (Implicit in ATBD) III.2.D.2.Software Version Control PlanUnderway III.2.D.3.Models Version Control PlanN/A III.3.AProduct Quality Documents (Uncertainty Analysis) III.3.BOperations/Distributions Plan? III.3.CData Users Guide (ReadMe)