ICM-10 in Potsdam (DE), 2018

10^th Implementation and Coordination Meeting in Potsdam (DE),
23 to 27 April 2018

Information about ICM-10

Location

AWI, Campus Albert Einstein, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, Germany

Date

23^rd April - 27^th April 2018

Hosts

GRUAN Lead Centre
GCOS Secretatiat
AWI
U.S. GCOS Program Office at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) [financial support]
NOAA Office Global Programs [financial support]

Organizers

Greg Bodeker (Co-Chair, WG-GRUAN)
Peter Thorne (Co-Chair, WG-GRUAN)
Ruud Dirksen (Head of GRUAN Lead Centre)
Howard Diamond (NOAA)
Marion Maturilli (local organizer)
Tim Oakley (GCOS)

Theme

Change management and new data products

Documentation

Report of the Tenth GCOS Reference Upper Air Network Implementation and Coordination Meeting (GRUAN ICM-10) (GCOS-220)
GRUAN Implementation Plan 2017-2021 (GCOS-205)
Report of the GRUAN ICM-9 (GCOS-211)
News (2017-10-12)

Participants

Map

Agenda of ICM-10

Download agenda (pdf; 399 kiB; as at 2018-04-19)

Package of presentations of ICM-10:

all presentations - Monday (zip; 17MiB; as at 2018-05-07)
all presentations - Tuesday (zip; 22.4 MiB; as at 2018-05-07)
all presentations - Wednesday (zip; 33.1 MiB; as at 2018-05-07)
all presentations - Thursday (zip; 12.3 MiB; as at 2018-05-07)
all presentations - Friday (zip; 9.6 MiB; as at 2018-05-07)

Monday 23 April

Day chair: Peter Thorne

Session 1 - Official address ICM Anniversary

08:00 - 08:45	Registration

08:45 - 08:55	Official opening by Brandenburg's minister for Science, Research & Culture	Martina Münch
08:55 - 09:05	Welcome	Markus Rex (AWI)
09:05 - 09:15	Introductory talk from DWD	Paul Becker (vice-pres. DWD)
09:15 - 09:30	A brief history of GRUAN	Peter Thorne
09:30 - 09:45	GRUAN Fundamentals	Ruud Dirksen (LC)

09:45 - 10:15	Toast to GRUAN

Session 2 - Keynotes

10:15 - 10:45	Arctic Climate Change and the Role of Ozone	Markus Rex
10:45 - 11:15	Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: Tales of the Gulf Stream, the Jet Stream and the Polar Vortex.	Stefan Rahmstorf (PIK)
11:15 - 11:45	The German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ: From Solid Earth to Water Vapor and Sea Level	Jens Wickert (GFZ)

Session 3 - Review of progress

11:45 - 11:50	Welcome, local logistics, outline of events and Adoption of agenda	Local hosts & WG chair
11:50 - 12:05	GCOS Update for ICM10	Caterina Tassone
12:05 - 12:20	Lead Centre report for 2017-2018	Ruud Dirksen
12:20 - 13:05	ICM-9 Actions status	Peter Thorne

13:00 - 14:00	Lunch

Session 4 - Discussion of topics raised by Task Team reports

14:05 - 14:15	Task Team on Radiosonde - Progress Report for June 2017-April 2018 -	Masatomo Fujiwara and Christoph von Rohden
14:15 - 14:30	Discussion of Radiosonde TT topics	To be led by day chair
14:30 - 14:40	Task Team of Site Representatives (TT Sites) Progress Report for April 2018	Belay Demoz and Dale Hurst
14:40 - 14:55	Discussion of Sites TT topics	To be led by day chair
14:55 - 15:05	Measurement Scheduling and Combination Task Team Summary - Part A	Tom Gardiner
	TT Measurement Scheduling and Combination - Part B	Fabio Madonna
15:05 - 15:20	Discussion of Scheduling TT topics	To be led by day chair
15:20 - 15:30	GRUAN Task Team on Ancillary Measurements 2017-2018 activity report	Tony Reale and Thierry Leblanc
15:30 - 15:45	Discussion of Ancillary Measurements TT topics	To be led by day chair

15:45 - 16:10	Coffee

16:10 - 16:20	GRUAN GNSS Precipitable Water Task Team	June Wang and Kalev Rannat
16:20 - 16:35	Discussion of GNSS-PW TT topics	To be led by day chair
16:35 - 17:00	Uncertainty Discussion	Tom Gardiner
17:00 - 17:15	Discussion of topics arising from task teams	To be led by day chair

Tuesday 24 April

Day chair: Tom Gardiner

Session 5 - Advances in the development of new GRUAN data products

Presenters please explicitly assess progress against the criteria laid forth in GRUAN TN-4. i.e. A technical document commensurate with GRUAN-TN-2; peer reviewed paper; measurement system ready to be adopted at at least one GRUAN site; central processing facility identified; data stream run as a beta release; data stream reviewed for appropriateness.

09:00 - 09:25	Status of the RS41 data processing	Ruud Dirksen
09:25 - 09:50	Comparison of Meisei’s Gpssonde	Masami Iwabuchi
09:50 - 10:15	Status of GRUAN certification for French sites	Gaëlle Clain
10:15 - 10:40	Status of the GRUAN ozonesonde data product	Greg Bodeker
10:40 - 11:05	Advances in the development of new GRUAN data products: GNSS PW	Galina Dick

11:05 - 11:30	Coffee

11:30 - 11:55	Recent progress towards a GRUAN MWR product	Nico Cimini
11:55 - 12:20	GRUAN Lidar Data Stream ICM-10 Progress Status (2018)	Thierry Leblanc
12:20 - 13:00	Discussion on progress of GRUAN product development	Day chair

13:00 - 14:00	Lunch

Session 6 - Update on RS92-RS41 transition

14:00 - 14:20	Presentation Overview of the RS92-RS41 transition scientific dataset, and poster Snapshot of transition monitoring Vaisala radiosonde RS92 to RS41 at site Lindenberg	Michael Sommer (presentation), Peter Oelsner (poster)
14:20 - 14:40	Update on RS92 -> RS41 transition - Statistical analysis	Alessandro Fasso
14:40 - 15:00	Analysis of casing changes: styrofoam vs. plastic casing of the RS41	Daniel Brewer
15:00 - 15:20	Radiation experiments with radiosondes: Current status	Christoph von Rohden

15:20 - 15:45	Coffee

15:45 - 16:05	Intercomparison of Vaisala RS92 and RS41 sondes under controlled laboratory conditions	Marco Rosoldi, Graziano Coppa
16:05 - 16:25	Report of CoreTemp2017: Intercomparison of dual thermistor radiosonde (DTR) with RS41, RS92 and DFM09 radiosondes	Yong-Gyoo Kim
16:25 - 16:45	RIVAL Field Campaign at the ENA, NSA, & SGP ARM Sites	Lori Borg
16:45 - 17:05	On the accuracy of Vaisala RS41 versus RS92 upper air observations: Implications for satellite data cal/val	Bomin Sun
17:05 - 17:35	Discussion	Day chair

Wednesday 25 April

Day chairs: Dale Hurst and Belay Demoz

Session 7 - Sites day

08:30 - 09:00	Update on GRUAN data flow	Michael Sommer
09:00 - 09:30	Discussion of site reports	Peter Thorne

	Site updates
09:30 - 09:45	GMAC: Beltsville GRUAN Update, Site update, Current Activities, Plans	Belay Demoz
09:45 - 10:00	GMAC: Updates from NWS-Sterling Field Support Center	Daniel Brewer
10:00 - 10:15	ARM: update and changes	Nicki Hickmon
10:15 - 10:30	Update of Tateno, Minamitorishima and Syowa	Masami Iwabuchi
10:30 - 10:45	Observations at Sodankylä	Rigel Kivi

10:45 - 11:00	Coffee

11:00 - 11:20	MeteoSwiss Radiosonde: current activities and future plans	Christian Felix
11:20 - 11:40	MeteoSwiss Raman LIDAR: activities and future plans	Giovanni Martucci
11:40 - 12:00	Observations at Xilinhot GRUAN site: work in progress and plan	Rongkang YANG

	UTLS Water Vapor Measurements
12:00 - 12:15	Development of the Peltier CFH	Teresa Jorge
12:15 - 12:30	New Peltier-based chilled-mirror hygrometer "SKYDEW"	Takuji Sugidachi
12:30 - 12:45	Fluorescence Lyman-Alfa Stratospheric Hygrometer for Balloon (FLASH-B)	Alexey Lykov
12:45 - 13:05	Video uplink Ny Alesund + balloonsounding	Marion Maturilli

13:05 - 14:35	Lunch and tour Telegrafenberg	2 groups alternate lunch, tour

14:35 - 14:50	Anomalously Strong and Rapid Drying of the Tropical Lower Stratosphere in 2016: Connections to Both the QBO and ENSO	Dale Hurst
14:50 - 15:05	IAGOS-RH/T Measurements: Update on QA Efforts	Herman Smit

	Science applications
15:05 - 15:20	Development of a Cloud Particle Sensor (CPS) for radiosonde sounding	Masatomo Fujiwara
15:20 - 15:35	Radiosonde uncertainty estimates	Bruce Ingleby
15:35 - 15:50	Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAIC)	Anja Sommerfeld
15:50 - 16:05	On the statistical significance of climatic trends estimated from GRUAN tropospheric time series	Fadwa Alshawaf

16:05 - 16:20	Coffee

16:20 - 16:35	Operational hyperspectral sounding Validation and monitoring	Thomas August
16:35 - 16:50	A Site Atmospheric State Best Estimate of Temperature for Lauder, New Zealand	Jordis Tradowsky
16:50 - 17:05	JOSIE 2017-SHADOZ at WCCOS: Jülich Ozone Sonde Intercomparison Experiment	Herman Smit
17:05 - 17:30	Discussion	Day Chair

GRUAN anniversary party

19:00	Party, Hotel Mercure - Restaurant El Puerto
20:30	Improv theatergroup, followed by GRUAN quiz

Thursday 26 April

Site Visit

08:00 - 09:30	Bus departs from Mercure hotel
09:30 - 09:45	Welcome, legacy and present role of Lindenberg Observatory	Franz Berger
09:45 - 10:10	Presentation Remote sensing group	Ulrich Görsdorf
10:10 - 10:35	ABL Measurements at MOL-RAO - Serving Numerical Weather Prediction	Frank Beyrich
10:35 - 11:00	MOL4 – Radiative Processes	Stefan Wacker
11:00 - 11:25	In-situ sounding (MOL3)	Ruud Dirksen

11:25 - 12:55	Lunch	Gasthof Simke

12:55 - 13:25	Radiosonde launch + group picture
13:25 - 15:25	Tour of observatory (split into separate groups)
15:25 - 16:35	Visit Weathermuseum Lindenberg
16:35 - 18:05	Bus returns to Potsdam
18:05 - 19:00	Group picture at Sanssouci + stroll through gardens

19:00 - 22:00	Conference Dinner (courtesy AWI)

Friday 27 April

Day chair: Michael Sommer

Session 8 - Use of GRUAN for satellite validation

09:00 - 09:25	GAIA-CLIM	Peter Thorne
09:25 - 09:40	Initial Demonstration of Polar Satellite Microwave Data Climate Monitoring Using GRUAN Radiosonde	Bomin Sun
09:40 - 10:05	Updates on the EUMETSAT Occultation Prediction Product and Introduction of a new reprocessed GRAS Data Set	Axel von Engeln
10:05 - 10:15	Discussion

10:15 - 10:40	Coffee

Session 9 - Site perspectives

10:40 - 10:55	New Sites: Where are we headed?	ALL: Greg to lead
10:55 - 11:40	Thoughts of sites on future of GRUAN	ALL: Dale to lead

Session 10 - Governance issues

11:40 - 11:55	Update on status of WG-GRUAN	Peter Thorne
11:55 - 12:20	GCOS Surface Reference Network (GSRN) Task Team Report to the AOPC-23 Meeting	Peter Thorne
12:20 - 12:45	Report on the progress of the task team on the future of GUAN	Tim Oakley
12:45 - 13:00	Discussion

13:00 - 13:50	Lunch

13:50 - 14:30	Actions/items to be raised with other programmes/bodies (WMO, WIGOS, GCOS/AOPC)	All
14:30 - 16:00	Proposed ICM-10 Actions	All
16:00 - 16:10	ICM-11 location announcement	Peter Thorne, Ruud Dirksen

Documents of ICM-10

Package of all documents of GRUAN ICM-10 (zip; 9.9 MiB; as at 2018-05-09)

Session	Title of Document	Submitted by	Doc. No.	Date
0	Agenda		0.01	2018-04-19
	Local Logistics	Local hosts	0.02	2018-04-09
3	Lead Centre progress report for April 2018	GRUAN Lead Centre	3.01	2018-04-17
	ICM-9 proposed actions	Peter Thorne	3.02	2017-06-16
4	Task Team progress report for April 2018 – Radiosonde	Masatomo Fujiwara and Christoph von Rohden	4.01	2018-04-17
	Task Team progress report for April 2018 – Site Representatives	Dale Hurst and Belay Demoz	4.02	2018-04-16
	Task Team progress report for April 2018 – Scheduling	Tom Gardiner and Fabio Madonna	4.03	2018-05-09
	Task Team progress report for April 2018 – Ancillary Measurements	Tony Reale and Thierry Leblanc	4.04	2018-04-20
	Task Team progress report for April 2018 – GNSS-PW	June Wang and Kalev Rannat	4.05	2018-04-16
5	Guidelines on requirements for the initial developmentof a GRUAN data product	Peter Thorne	5.01 (GRUAN-TN-4)	2016-04-21
7	GRUAN Station Report for Alice Springs	Matt Tully	7.01	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for Barrow (ARM NSA)	Douglas Sisterson	7.02	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for Beltsville	Ricardo Sakai	7.03	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for Boulder	Dale Hurst	7.04	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for Cabauw	Ankie Piters	7.05	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for Darwin	Matt Tully	7.06	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for Davis	Matt Tully	7.07	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for Dolgoprudny	Nadezhda Krestyanikova	7.08
	GRUAN Station Report for Graciosa (ARM ENA)	Douglas Sisterson	7.09	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for Lauder	Richard Querel	7.10	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for Lindenberg	Ruud Dirksen	7.11	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for Macquerie Island	Matt Tully	7.12	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for Melbourne	Matt Tully	7.13	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for Ny-Ålesund	Marion Maturilli	7.14	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for Payerne	Dominique Ruffieux	7.15	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for Potenza	Fabio Madonna	7.16	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for La Reunion	Stephanie Evan	7.17	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for Lamont (ARM SGP)	Douglas Sisterson	7.18	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for Paris (SIRTA)	Martial Haeffelin	7.19
	GRUAN Station Report for Singapore	Wong Shwei Lin	7.20	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for Sodankylä	Rigel Kivi	7.21	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for Japanese Sites (Tateno, Minamitorishima, Syowa)	Kenji Suzuki	7.22	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for Tenerife	Miguel Hernandez	7.23	2018-04-13
	GRUAN Station Report for Xilinhot	Yang RongKang	7.24