1. ES1206: Advanced GNSS tropospheric products for monitoring severe weather and climate (GNSS4SWEC)
3rd Action Workshop
Reykjavik, Iceland, 8-10th March 2016

2. 8th March - WG1 (Advanced GNSS Processing Techniques) Processing Techniques and New Product Assessment
Time
Session
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 10:30
Invited Speakers + WG1 Session
10:30 – 11:00
BREAK
11:00 – 12:30
WG1 Plenary Session
12:30 – 14:00
LUNCH (Mánasalur)
14:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:00
16:00 – 17:00
WG1 Summary + Poster presentations
17:00 – 18:00
Poster Session and Icebreaker
Dr Yoshinori Sojhi: Head of the 2nd laboratory of the Meteorological Satellite and Observation System Research Department, Meteorological Research Institute of Japan
He has expertise in local scale water vapour variation associated with deep convection, water vapour amount over the ocean using ship borne GNSS receivers and GNSS for snow depth and soil moisture. He is currently working on improving mesoscale weather prediction models for improving monitoring and forecasting of high-impact weather.
Dr Dinand Scheppers: After finishing his BSc and MSc from Delft University he has worked as a research intern at the SRON Institute for Space Research in the Netherlands and at Wuhan University GNSS Research Centre in China. He then went on to study for his PhD at SRON and is now working at ECMWF on the ERA-CLIM2 climate reanalysis project

3. 9th March - WG3 (Advanced GNSS Processing Techniques) Climate trends and variability of water vapour on regional and global scales
Date
Time
Session
9th
09:00 – 10:30
WG3 Session
10:30 – 11:00
BREAK
11:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 14:00
LUNCH (Mánasalur)
14:00 – 15:30
Splinter meetings
15:30 – 16:00
Bus to Bessastadir
16:00 – 18:00
Reception at Bessastadir, hosted by Mr. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of Iceland
18:
Dinner at ....

4. 10th March - WG2 (GNSS for Severe Weather) GNSS Nowcasting – Tools and Practices
Date
Time
Session
10th
09:00 – 10:30
WG2 Session
10:30 – 11:00
BREAK
11:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 14:00
LUNCH (Mánasalur)
14:00 – 15:30
MC Meeting
15:30 – 16:00
16:30 – 18:00
Poster Session and WG1 Summary

5. ES1206: Advanced GNSS tropospheric products for monitoring severe weather and climate (GNSS4SWEC)
MC Meeting – March 10th 2016
Reykjavik, Iceland

6. Agenda 13:30 Action Overview J. Jones and D. Karaca 13:50
National Reports
All
15:30
Break
15:50
16:30
Summary of WG1 activities
G. Dick
16:40
Summary of WG2 activities
S. De Haan
16:50
Summary of WG3 activities
O. Bock
17:00
AOB and close of meeting
J. Jones

7. Action Participation 32 approved members
Ireland, Israel and Romania joined in 2016
~180 participants in total
~20% Female, ~25% ESR

8. WG1 Work Programme YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3 YEAR 4
Support establishment of new GNSS ACs in Eastern Europe
Develop new multi-GNSS processing algorithms (GLONASS + Galileo ready)
Develop new GNSS tropospheric products (RT slants, gradients etc)
Develop tropospheric models using NWP data to improve real-time GNSS processing
Move new products to operations
1st Workshop (State-of-the-art review)
Kick-off Meeting
3rd Workshop (Processing Techniques and New Product Assessment)
2nd Workshop (Ultra-fast/real-time Processing and Multi-GNSS Products)
Final Workshop
YEAR 1
YEAR 2
YEAR 3
YEAR 4
Green = Guidelines/reviews, Blue = Developments, Purple = Databases

9. WG1 Deliverables Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
Support for establishment of new GNSS ACs, to cover gaps within Europe X
Develop new multi-GNSS processing algorithms (GPS+GLONASS+Galileo ready) in collaboration with the IGS and EUREF working groups
GNSS processing Workshop on 1) GPS and GLONASS processing and 2) assessment of new GNSS tropospheric products (gradients, slant delays, etc).
Develop tropospheric models based on NWP data for enhancing real-time GNSS processing in close collaboration with WG2
Develop new operational GNSS tropospheric products (gradients, slant delays, 3D water vapour and refractivity by tomographic reconstruction) in close coordination with WG2

10. WG2 Work Programme YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3 YEAR 4
DB of NWP data for positioning
DB of Sev. Weather case studies
Define user requirements
Evaluate quality of new GNSS processing algorithms (incl. GLONASS)
Evaluate new GNSS tropospheric products (gradients, slants etc)
Develop and test methods for init. of NWP models with the new products
Set up databank (obs.+products) for S.W. case studies
Test impact of new GNSS troposheric products for selected severe weather case studies
Develop operational tools for severe weather forecasting
Q.C. of new operational GNSS tropospheric products
Recommendations (Q.C. etc)
2nd Workshop (Strengths and Weakness of NWP models w.r.t. GNSS)
Kick-off Meeting
Final
Workshop
3rd Workshop (GNSS nowcasting - Tools and Practices)
1st Workshop (State-of-the-art review)
YEAR 1
YEAR 2
YEAR 3
YEAR 4

11. WG2 Deliverables Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
Establish database of obs. and products for severe weather case studies X
Evaluation of data quality of GNSS processing algorithms including GLONASS
Evaluation of new operational GNSS tropospheric products (gradients, slant delays, 3D tomography) based on selected test cases in collaboration with WG1
GNSS nowcasting workshop on tools and practices for monitoring and forecasting severe weather
QC of the operational GNSS tropospheric products delivered by the new ACs
Develop/fine tune and test methods for initialisation of NWP models with the new GNSS troposheric products
Test impact of new operational GNSS troposheric products for selected severe weather cases
Development of operational tools for severe weather forecasting, in collaboration with E-GVAP and EUCOS.

12. WG3 Work Programme YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3 YEAR 4
Define user requirements
Establish database of reprocessed GNSS tropospheric products
Standardize method for ZTD to IWV conversion
Detect and mitigate discontinuities in the ZTD and IWV time series
Dev., eval., and standardize ZTD to IWV conversion
Develop diagnostic tools for quantifying climate trends and variability
Assess impact of reprocessed GNSS trop. products in NWP reanalysis products and climate models
Issue Guidelines
1st Workshop (State-of-the-art review)
Kick-off Meeting
2nd Workshop (Assessment of reprocessed GNSS tropospheric products)
3rd Workshop (Climate trends and variability of water vapour on regional and global scales)
Final Workshop
YEAR 1
YEAR 2
YEAR 3
YEAR 4

13. WG3 Deliverables Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
Detect and mitigate discontinuities in the ZTD and IWV time series. X
GNSS climate Workshop on climate trends and variability of water vapour on regional and global scales.
Exploit reprocessed GNSS tropospheric products for evaluation of NWP reanalysis products, in collaboration with WG2 (e.g. ERA-Interim, MERRA, CFSR) and climate models simulations (e.g. IPCC-AR5, CORDEX) in collaboration with climate community.
Development of relevant diagnostics and indexes for quantifying climate trends and variability.

14. Year 3 STSMs Name From To Title Rita Nogherotto Italy La Reunion
(WG2) Tropical cyclone intensification, water vapour distribution and GNSS measurements
Michal Kacmarik
Czech republic
GFZ, Germany
(WG1) Validation of GNSS Slant Delays
Thomasz Hadas
Poland
Luxembourg
(WG1) Optimization of real-time GNSS troposphere delay estimation algorithms
Katarzyna Stepniak
France
(WG3) Improved methods for reprocessing of GNSS data for climate monitoring over Poland
Anna Klos
Luxenbourg
(WG3) Analysis of ZTD timeseries from reprocessed GPS solutions
Jan Dousa
Czech Republic
Iceland
(WG1) Installing new GNSS analysis centre for troposphere monitoring in Iceland ?

15. Workshops, Summer Schools, STSMs and Reports
1st Workshops (WG1+WG2+WG3)
State-of-the-art review
3rd Workshops (WG1+WG2+WG3)
Processing Techniques and New Product Assessment
GNSS nowcasting - Tools and Practices
Climate trends and variability of water vapour on regional and global scales
2nd Workshops (WG1+WG2+WG3)
Ultra-fast/real-time Processing and Products
Strengths and Weakness of NWP models w.r.t. GNSS
Assessment of reprocessed GNSS tropospheric products)
Summer School 2
Kickoff Meeting
Regular progress reports following workshops
Early Stage Researcher training at Summer Schools and STSMs (to develop the next generation of scientists)
Summer School 1
Final Workshop
YEAR 1
YEAR 2
YEAR 3
YEAR 4
WG+DC Reports
WG+DC Reports
WG+DC Reports
WG+DC+Final Reports

16. Action Finances Year 1 Budget: 183k Euro Spent: 152k Euro Year 2
Forecast ~148k Euro
Year 4
Budget: 141k Euro

17. Year 3 Finances Forecasts Estimations Claims Payments Meetings
EUR
EUR
EUR
EUR
Training Schools
EUR 0.00
Short Term Scientific Missions
EUR
EUR
EUR
Dissemination
Other Expenses Related To Scientific Activities
TOTAL EXPENDITURE
EUR
EUR
EUR
EUR

18. Year 4 Proposed WBP Euro A (COST Networking Tools)
Dissemination meeting
MC Chair to AOGS Conference
3,000
WG and MC Meeting
60 700Eur each
42,000
Training School
30 700Eur each
21,000
5 700Eur each
3,500
Core Team Meeting
8 700Eur each
5,600
Final Workshop
STSMs
6 2000Eur each
12,000
Dissemination
Paper publications
2,000
B (Total Science Expenditure)
131,100
SFAC (max 15% of B)
9,900
Total Expenditure (B+C)
141,000

19. Sub-WG3 Homogenisation
Main Yr4 Activities
Date
Activity
Location
26th + 27th April 2016
Sub-WG3 Homogenisation
Brussels
29th Aug - 1st Sept 2016
Training School
GFZ, Potsdam
1st + 2nd Sept 2016
WG+MC Meetings
March 2017
Final Workshop
ESTEC, Netherlands
May 2017
Action Finish

20. National Reports Austria Hungary Romania Belgium Iceland Serbia
Bulgaria
Ireland
Slovakia
Croatia
Israel
Spain
Cyprus
Italy
Sweden
Czech Republic
Lithuania
Switzerland
Denmark
Luxembourg
Turkey
Estonia
Malta
United Kingdom
Finland
Netherlands
Tunisia
France
Norway
Germany
Poland
Greece
Portugal