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.
I AttachmentSorted ascending Action Size Date Who Comment
2015_01_13_GSICS_fennig.pdfpdf 2015_01_13_GSICS_fennig.pdf manage 96 K 12 Jan 2015 - 16:46 RalphFerraro  
150113_GSICS_MW_AMSR2.pdfpdf 150113_GSICS_MW_AMSR2.pdf manage 926 K 13 Jan 2015 - 11:33 RalphFerraro  
GSICS_AOMSUC_LEFlynn.pptxpptx GSICS_AOMSUC_LEFlynn.pptx manage 44 K 12 Jan 2015 - 16:59 RalphFerraro  
GSICS_MW_Subgroup_Meeting_Agenda_-_13Jan2015.pdfpdf GSICS_MW_Subgroup_Meeting_Agenda_-_13Jan2015.pdf manage 74 K 11 Jan 2015 - 23:24 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
MW-SubGroup-13Jan2015.pdfpdf MW-SubGroup-13Jan2015.pdf manage 255 K 11 Jan 2015 - 23:24 RalphFerraro  
Topic revision: r8 - 13 Jan 2015, RalphFerraro
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