GSICS EP-21 Preparatory Meeting.

Chair Mitch Goldberg, NOAA

This year the Final GSICS EP-21 meeting would be a virtual meeting held on 18-19 May 2020.To support this meeting a Preparatory meeting has been called to discuss the topics that need to put up at the final webmeeting.

A draft agenda of the GSICS EP sent out by Ken Holmlund is here

Template for Subgroup Presentation click here

Template for Agency Presentation click here

Attendees:

Arata Okuyama (JMA)

Misako Kachi (JAXA)

Dave Doelling, Jim Butler (NASA)

Werner Balogh, Heikki Pohjola , Guaxin He (WMO)

Kamaljit Ray and Ashim Mitra ( IMD)

K. Yamada (JMA)

Peng Zhang, Scott Hu (CMA)

Ken Holmlund and Tim Hewison (EUMETSAT)

PRadeep Thapliyal and Raj Kumar (ISRO)

Mitch Goldberg, Lawrence E Flynn, Likun Wang, Manik Bali, Robbie Iacovazzi, Mark Lu (NOAA)

Phillippe Goryl (ESA)

Dohy Kim, Minju Gu (KMA)

Main Conclusions

Logistics

• The EP-21 meeting would be a webmeeting 18-19 May 2021
• Meeting Website has been setup by WMO at https://community.wmo.int/meetings/gsics-ep-21
• Members need to register on the WMO website https://eventregistration.eumetsat.int/events/21st-gsics-ep-meeting/ . Last date is 11 May however late registrations are acceptable. Only registrants would receive Webex link
• Webmeeting to have Slido in parallel raise questions

Presentation Submission

• Please send your presentations and cc them to Werner Balogh, Mitch Goldberg and Ken Holmlund

Expected attendees:

• EP Members (GRWG and GDWG Chairs, GCC)
• Subgroup Chairs (GIR, GMW, GUV, GNIR) are expected to participage in the meeting and present summaries of their subgroup activities
• Report on State of Observing system be presented.

On State of Observing System Report

• Agency report templates are available on WMO website ://community.wmo.int/meetings/gsics-ep-21
• Contributors to the State of Observing Report can take the last years report as a template and update. The report from last year is herefor
• IMD to reformat their contribution to include L1 intercomparisions to the State of Observing System report.
• ISRO to provide their inputs ( intercomparision with IASI and CrIS)

A.GCC.20200508.1: GCC to work on putting together the State of Observing System Report.

Additional topics for EP-21 Meeting

1. Integration with WIGOS

Outcomes of the GSICS Users Workshop

a) Reaching out to the Small Sat community

Best practices for GSICS Support to Small Sat, Collaborations , Discussions on Small Sat the CGMS plenary

b) Reaching out to Users

Sharing Lunar data, Engaging with users ISCCP/ICWG, Climate Users (Peng Zhang and Ken would discuss offline and summarize at EP)