GCOS Reference Upper-Air Network
ICM-13, Virtual, 2021
13th Implementation and Coordination Meeting, Virtual,
15 to 19 November 2021
Information about ICM-13
Location
Virtual
Date
15th November - 19th November 2021
Hosts
WMO Microsoft Teams account (log in details will be distributed by email)
Organizers
- Ruud Dirksen (GRUAN Lead Centre, DWD)
- Peter Thorne (WG Co-Chair, Maynooth University)
- David Smyth (Maynooth University)
- Caterina Tassone (GCOS)
- Tim Oakley (GCOS)
- Howard Diamond (NOAA GCOS office)
- June Wang (WG Co-Chair, SUNY)
- Marion Maturilli (AWI)
- Dale Hurst (NOAA ESRL)
- Stephanie Evan (LACy)
Documentation
Participants
Agenda of ICM-13
Monday 15 November
Session 1 - Radiosondes new data products, RS41
Chair: June Wang
Package of all presentations of ICM-13 session 1 (zip; 13 MiB; as at 2021-11-22)
Video recording of session 1: part 1 (1.4 GiB), part 2 (183 MiB)
| Times in UTC | ||
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Welcome to ICM-13 | Peter Thorne |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Status of all GDPs under development | Ruud Dirksen |
| 14:40 - 14:55 | Status update on RS41 GRUAN Data Product (RS41 GDP. 1) | Michael Sommer |
| 14:55 - 15:10 | QC/QA flagging ad hoc group progress report (HP3) | Tzvetan Simeonov |
| 15:10 - 15:20 | Comfort break | |
| 15:20 - 15:35 | Progress on standardisation of cloud observations and their reporting | Masatomo Fujiwara |
| 15:35 - 15:45 | Status of Radiosonde fundamental technical document (HP2) | Christoph von Rohden |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | M10 GD P correction s and results overview, and launching of the M20 GDP (B3) | J.-C. Dupont / Eilane Assy |
| 16:00 - 16:10 | Graw Data product status | Ruud Dirksen |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | (I) Progress in humidity time lag experiments/ (II) Use of ground check results in RS41 GDP (HP1, C5 b) | Christoph von Rohden |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | ECC ozone sonde data product in GRUAN (B4) | Holger Vömel |
| 16:45 - 17:05 | Wrap-up/Discussion | Session chair |
Tuesday 16 November
Session 2 - Ground-based & emerging technologies
Chair: Dale Hurst / Marion Maturilli
Package of all presentations of ICM-13 session 2 (zip; 22 MiB; as at 2021-11-22)
Video recording of session 2: intro (152 MiB), part 1 (1.4 GiB), part 2 (255 MiB)
Wednesday 17 November
Session 3 - WMO intercomparison, dual soundings, collocations, R23 replacement
Chair: Stephanie Evan
Package of all presentations of ICM-13 session 3 (zip; 71 MiB; as at 2021-11-22)
Video recording of session 3: part 1 (548 MiB), part 2 (1.5 GiB)
Thursday 18 November
Session 4 - Network management IP, Task Teams, silent sites
Chair: Ruud Dirksen
Package of all presentations of ICM-13 session 4 (zip; 11 MiB; as at 2021-11-22)
Video recording of session 4: part 1 (662 MiB), part 2 (516 MiB)
| Times in UTC | ||
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Proposal on policy for silent sites (C10) | Ruud Dirksen |
| 15:15 - 15:35 | Access to in situ Reference and Baseline Observations: status C3S2 311 2 | Fabio Madonna |
| 15:35 - 15:50 | Update on GRUAN website | Michael Sommer |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | GRUAN Implementation Plan | June Wang |
| 16:10 - 16:20 | Comfort break | |
| 16:20 - 16:30 | Site diary, site photos and further meta data (C1) | Michael Sommer |
| 16:30 - 16:40 | Update on work to improve monitoring of usage of GRUAN products | Dave Smyth |
| 16:40 - 16:50 | Data policy for different release phase versions (C3) | Ruud Dirksen |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Uncertainty assessment and reporting RS92 Temperature GDP Case Study (C4) | Tom Gardiner |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Wrap-up/Discussion | Session chair |
Friday 19 November
Session 5 - New science
Chair: Peter Thorne
Package of all presentations of ICM-13 session 5 (zip; 16 MiB; as at 2021-11-22)
Video recording of session 5: full (1.4 GiB)