Annual GRWG+GDWG Meeting at Daejeon, South Korea

Minutes

The final minutes of the meeting are published on the WMO website, here:

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Agenda

Agenda for GSICS Meeting in Daejeon
Version: 2011-03-15
Day 1: Tuesday 22 March 2011
		Joint Session
9:00		Registration and coffee
10:00	Jerome	Introduction & Welcome to new members
10:10	KMA	Welcome
10:25	KMA	Practicalities
10:35	Jerome	Agree Agenda & minute-taking
10:45	Jerome	Report of Exec Panel
11:15	Tim	Report of GRWG: Review of Actions & Web meetings
11:45		No Coffee break!
11:45	Aleksandar	GDWG Report: Review of Actions and Achievements
12:00	Peter Miu	Status of the GSICS Data Servers
12:15	Bob	Report of GCC: Review of Actions & GCC website structure/content
12:30	Bob	User interaction: Feedback from beta testers & Users' Workshop
12:45		Lunch
13:45	KMA	KMA GPRC Report
14:00	NOAA	NOAA GPRC Report
14:15	Hiromi	JMA GPRC Report
14:30	Tim	EUMETSAT GPRC Report
14:45	CMA	CMA GPRC Report
15:00	CNES	CNES GPRC Report - not presented
15:15	TBD	IMD/ISRO/Roshydromet/ESA/JAXA/USGS/NIST Reports - not presented
16:15		Coffee break
16:35	Tim	GSICS Products: Common Reference Channels, Reprocessing, Versions
16:55	Bob	Product Acceptance Procedure: Migration to operational status
17:15	Marc	DIMITRI (Database for Imaging Multi-spectral Instruments and Tools for Radiometric Intercomparison)
17:55	Chairs	Brief for Working Group

Day 2: Wednesday 23 March 2011
GDWG Breakout			GRWG Session
8:30	Aleksandar	Introduction	8:30	Tim intro	Review Analyses of Solar methods applied to GEO
8:40	Aleksandar	Outcome of the 2010 Action Items	8:40	Andy [1]	Sun Glint
9:10	All	Review of the GCC and GPRC web sites	9:10	Dave	Deep Convective Clouds
9:40	All	Collecting and Organizing Instrument Information	9:40	BJ + Arata	Liquid Water Clouds
9:55	Aleksandar	Readiness to Change to netCDF-4 File Format	10:25
10:10		Coffee break	10:25		Coffee break
10:30	Aleksandar	Review of the GSICS netCDF File Content	10:45	Ling Patrice	Deserts New Desert Sites & Simulation of Deserts Reflectance
11:30	All	Improving netCDF Content Description: Standard Variable Names, New Metadata Conventions	11:15	Fred	Moon & Stars & Combining Methods
			11:45	Patrice	Rayleigh Scattering - not presented
			12:15	Dave	Ray-matching
12:45		Lunch	12:45		Lunch
14:00	Peter Miu	Future Developments of the GSICS Data Servers	14:00	Jack Xiong	MODIS as reference
15:00	Aleksandar	Additions and Modifications to the netCDF and File Naming Conventions	14:30	Seb	Uncertainty Evaluation of SSCC
16:00			15:00	All	Discussion: Selecting methods
16:00			15:30	Seung-Hee	Discussion: Combining methods
16:00		Coffee break	16:00		Coffee break
16:20		Development of templates for GSICS netCDF Files	16:20	All	Discussion: Calibration or validation
			16:50	All	Discussion: Error propagation
17:20	All (with GRWG)	Work plan: Develop prototype products [2]	17:20	All	Work plan: Develop prototype products [3] - continued on Day 3
17:50		End	17:50		End

[1] Remote Presentation
[2] Jointly with GRWG to allow discussion on Day 3
[3] Invite GDWG to join for this part

Day 3: Thursday 24 March 2011
GDWG Breakout			GRWG Session
8:30	Combined with GRWG	Instrument Event Logs Requirements	8:30	Bob	Instrument Event Logs Requirements
9:10	Hiromi/Peter	GSICS Bias Monitoring Web Page Template Based on the JMA's Prototype	9:10	Tim intro	References and Traceability - including briefs for all other Day 3 topics
10:30			9:50	Tim	Common Reference Channels
10:30			10:30	All	Handling multiple references
10:30		Coffee break	10:30		Coffee break
10:50	Aleksandar/All	Development of the Metadata for GSICS Products Based on the WMO Core Metadata Profile	10:50	All	Strategy for migrating to MetopB/IASI & NPOES/CrIS
12:20	Aleksandar	System Requirements for GSICS Data User Registration	11:35	All	Strategy for CLARREO/TRUTHS
12:50	Aleksandar	Tools for Effective Communication with Registered GSICS Data Users	12:20	All	Strategy for LEO-LEO inter-calibration
13:05			13:05
13:05		Lunch	13:05		Lunch
14:35	Peter/All	Helpdesk Functionality and PAP Automation Requirements	14:35	All	Strategy for Re-Analysis products
16:05			15:05	Tim	NWP Bias Monitoring Double-Differencing as inter-calibration technique
16:05			15:35	TBD	Microwave Sub-group? O-Bs? - not discussed
16:05			16:05
16:05		Break

Day 4: Friday 25 March 2011
GDWG Session		GRWG Session
8:30		8:30	Tim intro
8:40	Gyanesh Chander (USGS)	8:40	Gyanesh Chander (USGS)	Cross-calibration of Landsat7 ETM+ and Terra MODIS
9:20		9:20		Contingency for over-running discussions Work plan: Develop prototype products [3] - continued from Day 2
9:20		10:00
10:00		Coffee break
10:20	All	Representing GSICS in other fora: CEOS WGCV & X-CAL
11:00	Tim	2011 GSICS Users' Workshop
11:20	All	Topics and Chairing of next web meetings
11:50
11:50		Lunch
12:50	Aleksandar	Review outcomes of GDWG
13:30	Tim	Review outcomes of GRWG
14:10
14:10
14:10		Coffee break
14:30	Jerome	Agree actions
16:00	All	Date and Place of Next meeting
16:30
16:30		End

[1] Jointly with GRWG