1. CMA NSMC, Beijing, China 5-8 March 2012
Welcome to 2012 Annual Meeting of GSICS Data and Research Working Groups
CMA NSMC, Beijing, China
5-8 March 2012

2. Welcome to 2012 Annual Meeting of GSICS Data and Research Working Groups
Please upload your presentations to the podium laptop
Name your presentation according to agenda:
as Dayn_session_hhmm_Name_Topic.PPT
where n=1 to 4
session=GSICS for joint session, or GRWG or GDWG
e.g. Day2_GRWG_0910_Hewison_Multiple_References.ppt
These will be uploaded to the GSICS Wiki
Unless you prefer for them not to be
Centra sessions
Tues pm GRWG – Deep Convective Cloud
Wed am GRWG – Lunar Calibration – with Tom Stone

3. Top Level Meeting Aims – for All #1
Web Meetings, Joint Working Group Meeting & Users' Workshops
Top Level Meeting Aims – for All #1
GSICS Products in General:
Central Product Catalogue
Documentation
Operational Support
Handling Versions
Handling Multiple References
Roadmap for Release of Operational Products
Procedure for Product Acceptance – way forward

4. Top Level Meeting Aims – for All #2
Web Meetings, Joint Working Group Meeting & Users' Workshops
Top Level Meeting Aims – for All #2
GSICS Data and Products Servers:
Requirements for Intermediate Datasets
Requirements for Archiving
GSICS Bias Monitoring:
Requirements for web plotting tool
Including radiance-Tb/reflectance conversion in netCDF
Instrument Event Logs:
Consolidated Approach from all GPRCs

5. Top Level Meeting Aims – for All #3
Web Meetings, Joint Working Group Meeting & Users' Workshops
Top Level Meeting Aims – for All #3
Improving interaction within GSICS
Removing barriers to communication
Interaction with other Activities:
GRUAN workshop
GPM XCAL – GPPA?
IVOS
CLARREO/TRUTHS
ROLO

6. Introductions
Round Table
Name
Affiliation
Interests

7. Top Level Aims – for GRWG #1
Web Meetings, Joint Working Group Meeting & Users' Workshops
Top Level Aims – for GRWG #1
Reflected-Solar Band:
Review of ATBDs
Roadmap to prototype GSICS Products – when/who…?
Reference – MODIS traceability & migration to VIIRS?
Strategy for LEO-LEO GSICS products
Statement on USGS setting up ROLO facility for GSICS
Re-Analysis Products:
Review of issues
General strategy – e.g. Reprocessing, versions

8. Top Level Aims – for GRWG #2
Web Meetings, Joint Working Group Meeting & Users' Workshops
Top Level Aims – for GRWG #2
Infrared:
Strategy for LEO-LEO GSICS Products
Delta Corrections for Multiple references:
Metop-A/IASI to Metop-B/IASI migration
Handling midnight calibration issue with AIRS+IASI
Using NWP as inter-calibration tool
Review of issues

9. Top Level Aims – for GDWG #1
Web Meetings, Joint Working Group Meeting & Users' Workshops
Top Level Aims – for GDWG #1
Define strategy for GSICS Products Catalog
Define configuration of THREDDS Servers
Create template for GEO-LEO netCDF files
Development plan for Instrument Event Logs
Discuss Automatic Distribution of GSICS Products
Agree Tracking Tool for GSICS Operations Plan actions

10. Day 1: Monday 5 March 2012 9:00 Registration and coffee 0:30 10:00
Tim/Aleksandar
Introduction & Welcome to new members
0:10
10:10
Naimeng Lu
Welcome from the leader of NSMC
0:05
10:15
Peng Zhang
The status and future plan of Yengyun(FY) meteorological Satelltes
0:15
10:30
CMA
Practicalities
10:40
Tim+Aleksandar
Agree Agenda & minute-taking
10:50
Jerome
Report of Exec Panel and WMO guidance
11:20
Tim
Report of GRWG: Review of Actions & Web meetings
11:50
Aleksandar
GDWG Report: Review of Actions and Achievements
12:05
Peter Miu
Status of the GSICS Data Servers
12:20
Fangfang
Report of GCC: Review of Actions & GCC website structure/content
12:35
Rob
Instrument Events logs
12:50
User interaction: Feedback from ISCPP & Users' Workshop
13:05
Lunch
1:00
14:05
CMA GPRC Report: GSICS activities and strategy plan in CMA
14:20
NOAA
NOAA GPRC Report
14:35
JMA
JMA GPRC Report
14:50
EUMETSAT
EUMETSAT GPRC Report
15:05
KMA
KMA GPRC Report
15:20
CNES
CNES GPRC Report + SADE online demo
15:35
TBD
NASA/IMD/ISRO/Roshydromet/ESA/JAXA/USGS/NIST Reports
16:35
Coffee break
0:20
16:55
GSICS Products: Catalogues, Inter-operability, Reprocessing, Versions
17:15
Scott
Product Acceptance Procedure: The Way Forward
17:35
Unified website for GSICS Bias Monitoring + Additional metadata requirements
0:40
18:15
Chairs
Brief for Working Groups
18:35
End
18:30
Departure for Ice-breaker and Welcome Reception
2:30

11. Day 2: Tuesday 6 March 2012 - am GDWG Breakout GRWG Session 8:30
0:10
Tim intro
Data and Products Servers - Requirements for archiving
8:40
0:30
Unified Bias Monitoring - Additional metadata requirements
9:10
Aleksandar
Opening Remarks
Tim Hewison + Bertrand Fougnie
Using Multiple References: Documenting differences between Metop-A/IASI and Metop-B/IASI
0:20
9:20
Review of the GCC and GPRC Web Sites
0:55
9:30
Fangfang
Using Multiple References: Diurnal Cycle using AIRS+IASI
10:15
9:50
All
Towards Operational GEO-LEO IR Products
Coffee break
10:20
10:35
Peter
GSICS Product Plotting Software
0:50
10:40
Jack Xiong
MODIS level 1B calibration updates and data product collections
11:25
GSICS Data and Product server directory structure and THREDDS configuration
11:00
Lessons from MODIS calibration and characterization + Traceability Statement for MODIS
12:15
Na Xu, Min Min, Yuan Li
GSICS Data Management and Sharing
11:20
Inter-calibration of IR sounders
11:30
Discussion
0:40
12:45
Lunch
1:15

12. Day 2: Tuesday 6 March 2012 - pm GDWG Breakout GRWG Session 12:45
Lunch
1:15
14:00
Peter
GSICS Documentation Storage
0:30
Tiejun Chang
Bias analysis and correction of MetOp/AVHRR IR channel using AVHRR-IASI inter-comparison
0:20
14:30
Aleksandar
Additions and Modifications to the netCDF and File Naming Conventions
14:20
Yong zhang
vicarious calibration of IR bands in CMA
15:00
Guidelines for Creating GSICS netCDF Files
14:40
Bertrand Fougnie
IASI cross-cal with AIRS, IASI-B, and CRIS
15:30
All
GSICS Strategy for IR LEO/LEO
Coffee break
15:50
Automated Distribution of GSICS Products to Users
Fangfang/Fred
NOAA's implementation of DCC
16:10
Sebastien Wagner
EUMETSAT DCC implementation
16:30
All (with GRWG)
DCC method implementation in FY-3/MERSI
Lin Chen
16:50
Arata Okuyama
JMA's solar calibration approach
17:10
Rayleigh scattering improvements
0:10
17:20
Roadmap for GSICS Products for GEO-LEO Solar Channels
0:40
Dave Doelling
18:00
End

13. Day 3: Wed 7 March 2012 am GDWG Breakout GRWG Session 8:30
Combined with the GRWG session
Requirements for Recording Instrument Anomalies/Events to Support GSICS Product Validation
0:40
Rob
Instrument Event Logs Requirements
9:20
Jerome
Making GSICS products more visible: A GSICS Product Access Guide
1:00
9:10
Jack Xiong
Using the Moon for sensor calibration inter-comparisons
0:20
9:30
Qiang Guo
A New Cross-calibration Approach for Different Thermal Emissive Bands in FY-2 Satellite with On-orbit Lunar Observations
9:50
Arata Okuyama
Brief report of GMS-5 lunar calibration by ROLO model
0:10
10:00
Tim/Seb
Application of ROLO model to Meteosat/SEVIRI
10:10
Bertrand Fougnie
Characterization of calibration sites using Pleiades Images, with a specific focus on Moon
10:20
All
Statement of Requirements for Lunar Model Interface Functionality
10:30
Coffee break
10:50
Registering GSICS products in the WMO Information system (WIS)
Ling sun, Jingjing Liu, Yuan Li
CRCS sites and Global sites calibration
Peter
Using ISO Metadata Standard to Interface With External Data Discovery Systems
11:10
Inter-comparison methodologies and applications to AVHRR, ETM+, MODIS, and VIIRS
0:30
11:30
Aleksandar
More Functional Alternative to GSICS Wiki?
11:40
Rob Roebeling
SCIAMACHY/GOME2 as inter-calibration reference
12:00
11:50
Dave Doelling
SCIAMACHY-Aqua/MODIS+GEOs
12:10
Strategy for LEO-LEO solar-band inter-calibration
0:35
12:45
Lunch
1:30
1:15

14. Day 3: Wed 7 March 2012 pm GDWG Breakout GRWG Session 12:45 Lunch 1:30
1:15
14:15
14:00
Rob Roebeling
EUMETSAT Re-calibration of Meteosat archive using HIRS
0:30
14:30
Arata Okuyama
for infrared calibration approach of historical data by using HIRS
0:15
14:45
All
Strategy for Re-Analysis products
0:50
15:45
Departure to Beijing Ground Receiving Station
17:15
Visit to Beijing Ground Receiving Station
2:00
19:15
Travel back to hotel
20:45
End

15. Day 4: Thurs 8 March 2012 GDWG Breakout GRWG Session 8:30 0:30
XingMing Liang
Using Double Differences in MICROS for Cross-sensor Consistency Check
9:00
Tim
Radiance-dependence in NWP results
0:40
0:10
9:40
0:00
9:10
Extending MICROS methodology into reflectance bands
9:20
All
GSICS Strategy for NWP Bias Monitoring as inter-calibration tool
0:20
9:50
Songyan Gu
Calibration summary for FY-3 Microwave sensors
10:10
Coffee break
10:30
Jerome+Dave
CLARREO
11:10
GSICS Calibration Support Segments - Interaction with other groups: GRUAN, ROLO, IVOS, XCAL
11:50
Rob/anyone
Instrument Event Logs
12:20
Tim/anyone
Update on Microwave Products
12:50
Lunch
1:00
13:50
2012 GSICS Users' Workshop
14:20
Aleksandar
Review outcomes of GDWG
14:50
Review outcomes of GRWG & Agree Principles
15:20
15:40
Jerome
Topics and Chairing of next web meetings
16:10
Agree actions
16:40
Date and Place of Next meeting
17:00
End