GCOS Reference Upper-Air Network
ICM-9 in Helsinki (FI), 2017
9th Implementation and Coordination Meeting in Helsinki (FI),
12 to 16 June 2017
Information about ICM-9
Location
FMI headquarters, Helsinki, Finland
Date
12th June - 16th June 2017
Hosts
- GRUAN Lead Centre
- GCOS Secretatiat
- FMI
- 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)
- Rigel Kivi (local organizer)
- Caterina Tassone (GCOS)
Theme
The main theme of the meeting concerns RS92 change management and instrument technical documentation.
Documentation
- Report of the Ninth GCOS Reference Upper Air Network Implementation and Coordination Meeting (GRUAN ICM-9) (GCOS-211)
- Action Item List 2016-2017 (2017-06-08)
- GRUAN ICM9 local information (2017-06-09)
- Map Kumpula Campus (2017-06-09)
Participants
Map
Agenda of ICM-9
Download agenda (pdf; 139 kiB; as at 2017-06-27)
Package of presentations of ICM-9:
- all presentations - Monday (zip; 20 MiB; as at 2017-06-26)
- all presentations - Tuesday part A (zip; 14.8 MiB; as at 2017-06-28)
- all presentations - Tuesday part B (zip; 11 MiB; as at 2017-06-28)
- all presentations - Wednesday part A (zip; 13.3 MiB; as at 2017-06-26)
- all presentations - Wednesday part B (zip; 13.6 MiB; as at 2017-06-26)
- all presentations - Thursday (zip; 9.2 MiB; as at 2017-07-21)
- all presentations - Friday (zip; 15.4 MiB; as at 2017-06-28)
Monday 12 June
Day chair: Peter Thorne
Session 1 - Opening session and keynotes
Rapporteur: Greg Bodeker
| 08:00 - 08:40 | Registration | |
| 08:40 - 08:50 | Welcome, local logistics, outline of events and Adoption of agenda | Local hosts & WG chairs |
| 08:50 - 08:55 | Introductory talk from FMI | Professor Yrjö Viisanen |
| 08:55 - 09:10 | FMI air quality and climate studies | Dr. Iolanda Ialongo |
| 09:10 - 09:25 | GRUAN Fundamentals | Ruud Dirksen |
| 09:25 - 09:40 | Remarks from GCOS | Caterina Tassone |
| 09:40 - 10:05 | Lead Centre progress report | Ruud Dirksen |
| 10:05 - 10:20 | In memory of Sasha Kats | Ruud Dirksen |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Coffee break |
Session 2 - ICM-8 action items review
Rapporteur: Greg Bodeker
| 10:40 - 11:05 | Assessment of progress against action items arising from ICM-8 | Peter Thorne |
Session 3 - Discussion of topics raised by Task Team reports
Rapporteur: Axel von Engeln
| 11:05 - 11:15 | Brief summary (2 slides) on discussion points arising from Radiosonde Task Team report | Masatomo Fujiwara |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Discussion of Radiosonde TT topics | To be led by day chair |
| 11:30 - 11:40 | Brief summary (2 slides) on discussion points arising from Sites Task Team report | Belay Demoz and Dale Hurst |
| 11:40 - 11:55 | Discussion of Sites TT topics | To be led by day chair |
| 11:55 - 12:05 | Brief summary (2 slides) on discussion points arising from Scheduling Task Team report | Tom Gardiner and Fabio Madonna |
| 12:05 - 12:20 | Discussion of Scheduling TT topics | To be led by day chair |
| 12:20 - 12:25 | Poster summary: Temperature-SASBE version 2 | Jordis Tradowsky |
| 12:25 - 12:30 | Poster summary: A multi-mission RO-GRUAN comparison | Johannes Nielsen |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
Session 3 (continued)
Rapporteur: Stephanie Evan
| 13:30 - 13:40 | Brief summary (2 slides) on discussion points arising from Ancillary Measurements Task Team report | Tony Reale and Thierry Leblanc |
| 13:40 - 13:55 | Discussion of Ancillary Measurements TT topics | To be led by day chair |
| 13:55 - 14:05 | Brief summary (2 slides) on discussion points arising from GNSS-PW TT report | Galina Dick |
| 14:05 - 14:20 | Discussion of GNSS-PW TT topics | To be led by day chair |
| 14:20 - 14:45 | Report from GRUAN science coordinators and subsequent discussion | Tom Gardiner and Richard Querel |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | General discussion of topics arising from task teams | To be led by day chair |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break |
Session 4 - Advances in the development of new GRUAN data products
Rapporteur: John Eyre
15 minute talks + 5 minutes discussion
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Meisei | Masami Iwabuchi |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Modem | Stephanie Evan |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | Ozonesonde | Richard Querel |
| 16:30 - 17:05 | The future of balloon-borne reference water vapor measurements in GRUAN:
| Dale Hurst to coordinate |
| 17:05 - 17:25 | Lidar | Thierry Leblanc |
| 17:25 - 18:00 | Discussion on progress on GRUAN product development | Day chair |
Session 4 (continued)
Rapporteur: Greg Bodeker
| 18:00 - done | Discussion and resolution on the size, composition, and terms of reference for the Working Group (Working Group Members only) | Greg Bodeker discussion lead |
Tuesday 13 June
Day chair: Greg Bodeker
Session 5 - Special session on the Arctic
Rapporteur: Marion Maturilli
| 08:30 - 08:45 | Research activities at the Sodankylä Site | Rigel Kivi |
| 08:45 - 09:10 | INTAROS, integration of the existing Arctic observing systems into a common data frame | Roberta Pirazzini |
| 09:10 - 09:40 | ARM, ASR, and UAF Activities at the NSA | Martin Stuefer and Douglas Sisterson |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Ny-Alesund: update & Atmosphere Flagship program | Marion Maturilli |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Arctic Council | Johanna Ekman |
| 10:20 - 10:45 | Coffee break |
Session 5 (continued)
Rapporteur: Rob Kursinski
| 10:45 - 11:05 | Satellite borne observations of GHGs in the Arctic | Hannakaisa Lindqvist |
| 11:05 - 11:25 | Atmospheric methane in the Arctic | Leif Backman |
| 11:25 - 11:45 | Arctic stratosphere dynamical response to global warming | Alexey Karpechko |
| 11:45 - 12:05 | The N-ICE campaign | Stephen Hudson |
| 12:05 - 12:30 | General Discussion | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
Session 6 - GRUAN management of the RS92-other sondes transition
Rapporteur: Jonathan Jones
| 13:30 - 14:00 | A summary of developments to date | Ruud Dirksen |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | The Met Office/British Antarctic Survey experience of managing a transition from RS92 to RS41 | Tim Oakley |
| 14:20 - 15:00 | Initial analysis results | Alessandro Fassò |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break |
Session 6 (continued)
Rapporteur: Dan Brewer
| 15:30 - 15:40 | Testing radiosondes in the EDDIE tunnel at INRiM | Andrea Merlone |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | RS92-RS41 transition at Cabauw | Arnoud Apituley |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Assessment of the radiation-induced temperature error for RS92-RS41 using NPROVS | Bomin Sun |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Global Correction of the radiosonde temperature biases in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere using GPS RO data | Ben Ho |
| 16:40 - 17:15 | Discussion and development of agreed way forward for GRUAN transition from RS92 to other radiosondes | Ruud Dirksen to coordinate |
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Poster viewing | |
| An improved Site Atmospheric State Best Estimate for the Temperature above Lauder, New Zealand | Jordis Tradowsky | |
| ROM SAF CDR v1 temperature profiles compared to GRUAN v2.0 | Johannes Nielsen |
Wednesday 14 June
Day chairs: Dale Hurst and Belay Demoz
Session 7 - GRUAN sites day
Rapporteur: Lori Borg
| 08:30 - 09:00 | GRUAN data flow | Michael Sommer |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Lauder Site Update | Richard Querel |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Developments at Singapore on the way to GRUAN implementation | Shwei Lin |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Updates from Tateno and introducing the new candidate sites | Masami Iwabuchi |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | GRUAN activities at La Reunion | Stephanie Evan |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break |
Session 7 (continued)
Rapporteur: Peggy Hoch
| 10:30 - 10:45 | ARM SGP CFH operations status | Martin Stuefer |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | ARM Sites report/instrument uncertainties update | Doug Sisterson |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | ARM Sites radiosonde operations status and upgrades | Doug Sisterson |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | CMA plans for the Xilinhot site | Zhao |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | The GRUAN Mid-Atlantic Consortium: Vision, Composition, Activities, Plans | GMAC Team |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Discussions of station reports | Lead Centre |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
Session 7 (continued)
Rapporteur: Xavier Calbert
| 13:30 - 13:50 | A novel automatic calibration system for water vapor Raman lidar | Giovanni Martucci |
| 13:50 - 14:15 | The 2019 WMO radiosonde intercomparison campaign, GRUAN’s scientific requests | Ruud Dirksen and Giovanni Martucci |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Aspects of GPS-RO Water vapor retrieval | Rob Kursinski |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Partnering with operational met sites: Lauder's new Invercargill-based datastream | Richard Querel |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | GNSS data processing | Galina Dick |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break |
Session 7 (continued)
Rapporteur: Marco Rosoldi
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Consistency between GRUAN sondes, LBLRTM and IASI | Xavier Calbert |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | GRAS Occultation Forecasting Prediction: A new EUMETSAT Product? | Axel von Engeln |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | The use of AIRCORE in GRUAN | Rigel Kivi |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | The status of the Fluorescence Lyman-a Stratospheric Hygrometer (FLASH-B) instrument | Aleksey Lykov |
| 16:50 - 17:05 | Links between GRUAN and the global radiosonde network | Bruce Ingleby |
| 17:05 - 17:25 | Update on where we are at with bringing new sites into GRUAN. | Greg Bodeker lead |
| 17:25 - 18:00 | An open discussion for sites | Dale Hurst and Belay Demoz to moderate |
Thursday 15 June
Day Chair: Greg Bodeker
Session 8 - Optional sessions
Option 1
Visit to Vaisala
| 08:30 - 12:30 | Vaisala - Observations for a Better World | Matti Lehmuskero |
Option 2
Breakout session on GAIA-CLIM outreach
| 08:30 - 10:00 | Discussion of GAIA-CLIM gap analysis and prioritisation activity | Peter Thorne |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 - 12:30 | Hands on session on the GAIA-CLIM Virtual Observatory | Fabio Madonna and Peter Thorne |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
Option 3
Review of GRUAN web pages
| 08:30 - 10:00 | A team review of the GRUAN web pages - this would involve the group sitting down and together working through the web pages and making notes on suggested changes | Greg Bodeker and whoever else is interested. |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 - 12:30 | Continuation of web review | Greg Bodeker |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
MeteoMet Training Course (optional)
This will be back at FMI
| 13:30 - 13:50 | Metrology for GRUAN: MeteoMet activities of interest | Andrea Merlone |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Towards SI traceable humidity measurements with radiosondes | Martti Heinonen |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Basic metrology, terminology, procedures | Tom Gardiner |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | MeteoMet training course Q&A | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break |
Session 9 - GRUAN Operations
Rapporteur: Hiram Escabi
| 15:30 - 15:40 | Status of the GRUAN radiosonde generic technical document omnibus | Christoph von Rohden |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Analysis of radiation temperature experiments | Christoph von Rohden |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Discussion of radiation temperature results | Lead by day chair |
| GRUAN dinner | Information to come here |
Friday 16 June
Day chair: Ruud Dirksen
Session 10 - Underpinning science for GRUAN
Rapporteur: Jennifer Fowler
| 08:30 - 08:50 | Geophysical profile data from GRUAN radiosonde data products to a TOA radiance and uncertainty | Fabien Carminati |
| 08:50 - 09:10 | Integration and Assessment of GRUAN v2 uncertainties using NPROVS+ | Tony Reale |
| 09:10 - 09:30 | Manual vs. autosonde launches | Rigel Kivi |
| 09:30 - 09:50 | GRUAN and RO intercomparison as done in the ROM SAF VS31 project | Jordis Tradowsky |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Frost Point Hygrometers and Satellite Sensors for Stratospheric Water Vapor | Dale Hurst |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Coffee break |
Session 11 - GRUAN connection to partner communities and activities
Rapporteur: Howard Diamond
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Reporting from the IROWG meeting in Austria | Jordis Tradowsky |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Discussion of results from GAIA-CLIM maturity assessment for GRUAN and what we can learn from this. | Peter Thorne |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | The new AOPC task team on GUAN | Tim Oakley |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | The new C3S BARON activity | Fabio Madonna |
| 11:50 - 12:20 | GAIA-CLIM gap analysis and prioritisation activity | Peter Thorne |
| 12:20 - 12:30 | General discussion | Day chair |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
Session 11 (continued)
Rapporteur: Hannu Jauhiainen
| 13:30 - 13:50 | Discussion of the GRUAN Science Coordinator role | Greg Bodeker chair |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Update of the IAGOS-H2O ongoing aircraft measurements and QA-efforts | Herman Smit |
| 14:10 - 14:40 | GRUAN web page and other tools to coordinate Working Group communication | Michael Sommer |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Ozonesondes in GAW and future collaboration between GAW-WCCOS and GRUAN on ozonesonde QA | Herman Smit |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break | |
Session 12 - Wrap-up
Rapporteur: Greg Bodeker
| 15:30 - 16:30 | The GRUAN work plan for 2017/2018 | Peter Thorne |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Close | Local hosts and co-chairs |
Saturday and Sunday 17 and 18 June: Optional visit to Sodankylä (attendees to pay their own way)
Documents of ICM-9
Package of all documents of GRUAN ICM-9 (zip; 8.1 MiB; as at 2017-06-28)