GRWG Microwave Sub-Group Web Meeting 2015-01-13

GSICS Web Meeting of Microwave Sub-Group

Agenda

  1. Update from the GSICS Users Workshop/Session in Shanghai - Tim and Larry
  2. Update from the 7th IPWG - Ralph
  3. Update on AMSR-2 for JAXA - Keiji
  4. Update on GPM X-Cal - AMSR-2, GMI, etc. - Rachel
  5. Moving ahead on future endeavors - ALL
    i. Preparation/Plans for GRWG+GDWG Meeting - March, India
  6. ii. Linkages to CEOS MW subgroup - Cheng-Zhi
    iii. GDWG MW standards - Tim, Manik
    iv. SMMR sub group - Karsten
  7. Next Meeting and Wrap Up
Attendees

Chair: Ralph Ferraro

CMA: Lin Chen

CNES: None

EUMETSAT: Karsten Fennig, Tim Hewison, Viju John

IMD: None

ISRO: None

JAXA: Keiji Imaoka

JMA: Masaya Takahashi

KMA: Jun Park

NASA: Rachel Kroodsma

NIST: None

NOAA: Manik Bali, Larry Flynn, Likun Wang, Wenze Yang, Cheng-Zhi Zou

ROSHYDROMET: None

USGS: None

WMO: None

Summary

We had 14 participants (noted above) at the meeting and followed the above agenda. A few relevant points of the meeting include:
  • A GSICS "session" was held as part of the 2014 AOMSUC and for the most part, was well received. In the future, a longer session would allow for more direct interactions with users. It was felt that through this meeting, a three year rotation between a US (AMS Satellite Conference or at NOAA), Europe (EUMETSAT meeting or even IGARSS) and Asia (AOMSUC) could be arranged.
  • It was noted that the next Users Workshop would be held at the 2015 EUMETSAT Satellite Conference (Toulouse, France, 21-24 Sept which incidently coincides with SPIE meeting)
  • At IPWG-7 (Tsukuba, Japan, 17-21 Nov. 2014), the most relevant action to this group would be the request to CGMS members for specific plans regarding the reprocessing of L1 satellite radiances from MW imagers and sounders
  • The AMSR-2 calibration is nearing a new version (March 2015) from JAXA, although there are still some residual differences, mainly at the lower frequencies with TMI and GMI
  • The GMI is performing quite well and will likely become the NASA GPM X-Cal standard in the future. Some recent upgrades include a magnetic anomaly and an across scan bias. X-Cal meets again during January 24-25 in Orlando, FL, USA
  • The SCOPE-CM project for SSM/I is expanding to include SSMIS (March 2015) and SMMR (mid-2016?); its been difficult to track down the original L1 SMMR data so the Pathfinder data set will be used initially
  • It appears that only Tim and Masaaya from the MW SubGroup will be able to attend the GRWG+GDWG meeting in India in March; Tim will explore remote communications buts its likely that we won't have any participation this time
  • Headway is being made with the CEOS MW subgroup so a future joint meeting is being considered
  • Initial thoughts were expressed regarding a MW standard data set, although there were differing opinions and we sort of ran out of time to discuss too deeply.
  • Next meeting in the April timeframe

Outcome

Action:
  • ALL - Edit and finalize meeting minutes/actions
  • Ralph - Contact NASA Ice group about SMMR L1 archive
  • Tim - Explore possibility of remote session in India
  • Cheng-Zhi - Develop a joint list of topics with CEOS MW sub group and also potential meeting dates and location
  • Larry, Manik, Ralph, Tim, Masaaya - Develop user requirements, what our group can do to meet these, and how these can fit within existing GSICS conventions and systems.
ISorted ascending Attachment Action Size Date Who Comment
150113_GSICS_MW_AMSR2.pdfpdf 150113_GSICS_MW_AMSR2.pdf manage 926 K 13 Jan 2015 - 11:33 RalphFerraro  
2015_01_13_GSICS_fennig.pdfpdf 2015_01_13_GSICS_fennig.pdf manage 96 K 12 Jan 2015 - 16:46 RalphFerraro  
GSICS_MW_Subgroup_Meeting_Agenda_-_13Jan2015.pdfpdf GSICS_MW_Subgroup_Meeting_Agenda_-_13Jan2015.pdf manage 74 K 11 Jan 2015 - 23:24 RalphFerraro  
MW-SubGroup-13Jan2015.pdfpdf MW-SubGroup-13Jan2015.pdf manage 255 K 11 Jan 2015 - 23:24 RalphFerraro  
GSICS_AOMSUC_LEFlynn.pptxpptx GSICS_AOMSUC_LEFlynn.pptx manage 44 K 12 Jan 2015 - 16:59 RalphFerraro  
Kroodsma_GSICS_presentation_20150113.pptxpptx Kroodsma_GSICS_presentation_20150113.pptx manage 225 K 12 Jan 2015 - 19:53 RalphFerraro  
microwave_v1.pptxpptx microwave_v1.pptx manage 457 K 12 Jan 2015 - 20:24 RalphFerraro MW Metadata Standards
Topic revision: r8 - 13 Jan 2015, RalphFerraro
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