Eighth
International Winds Workshop

Beijing, China, 24 - 28 April 2006

EUMETSAT P.47

ISBN 92-9110-075-7
ISSN 1023-0416

INTRODUCTION

Title
|
 Author/Presenter
|
Welcome Address of CMA
   Xu, Xiaofeng  

15 KB
Welcome Address of EUMETSAT
   Johannes Schmetz on behalf of Lars Prahm  

16 KB
Summary of the Eighth International Winds Workshop
  Holmlund, Kenneth
de Smet, Arthur
Velden, Chris		  

18 KB
Workshop Programme
      

99 KB
List of Participants
      

54 KB

REPORTS OF THE SESSIONS

Title
|
 CHAIRPERSON
|
Report of the Chairperson of Session 1:
Operational Data Producer Status Reports		   Xu, Jianmin  

99 KB
Report of the Chairperson of Session 2:
Global NWP and Data Assimilation		   Riishojgaard, Lars Peter  

19 KB
Report of the Chairperson of Session 3:
AMV Characteristics (Quality Control, Height Assignment) and Validation 		  Borde, Régis
Velden, Chris		  

19 KB
Report of the Chairperson of Session 4:
Research Methods and Applications		   Holmlund, Kenneth
Daniels, Jaime		  

23 KB
Report of the Chairperson of Session 5:
Microwave / LIDAR Studies		   Nerushev, Alexander  

19 KB
Report of the Chairperson of Session 6:
Regional and Mesoscale Applications		   Bhatia, Ramesh  

14 KB
Report of the Chairperson of Session 7:
Polar Winds		   Bormann, Niels  

13 KB
Report of the Special Plenary Session on Height Assignment
   Forsythe, Mary
Velden, Chris		  

18 KB

REPORTS OF THE WORKING GROUPS

Title
|
 Author/CHAIRPERSON
|
Plenary Discussion: Recommendations from CGMS-33 and a fresh look at AMV research and development
  Schmetz, Johannes
Thépaut, Jean-Noel		  

33 KB
Working Group 1: AMV Extraction Methods
  Davies, Roger
Szantai, André 		 

29 KB
Working Group 2: AMV Data Assimilation
  Cress, Alexander  

24 KB
Working Group 3: AMV Characterization
   Wanzong, Steve
de Smet, Arthur 		 

19 KB

SESSION 1: OPERATIONAL DATA PRODUCER STATUS REPORTS

Title
|
 Author/Presenter
|
verbal presentations
Status of operational AMVs from FY2C
   Jianmin, Xu  

240 KB
Status of Atmospheric Motion Vectors in JMA
   Imai, Takahito  

72 KB
Current status of AMV system at KMA
   Sohn, Eun Ha  

182 KB
Status report on the operational derivation of Atmospheric Motion Vectors at EUMETSAT
   Holmlund, Kenneth  

581 KB
Operational satellite wind product processing at NOAA/NESDIS: a status report
   Daniels, Jaime  

640 KB
Use of Meteosat-5 derived winds for operational weather forecasting
   Bhatia, Ramesh  

260 KB

SESSION 2: GLOBAL NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION AND DATA ASSIMILATION

Title
|
 Author/Presenter
|
verbal presentations
Impact of Atmospheric Motion Vectors on global numerical weather prediction
   Thépaut, Jean-Noël  

1.2 MB
Status of Atmospheric Motion vectors at ECMWF
   Delsol, Claire  

309 KB
Challenges and plans for the assimilation of Atmospheric Motion Vectors at ECMWF
   Bormann, Niels  

999 KB
Assimilation of FY2C AMVs in grapes
   Han, Wei  

675 KB
Impact of Atmospheric Motion Vectors from Meteosat-8 on the analyses and forecasting system of DWD
   Cress, Alexander  

828 KB
Investigation of the AMV data derived from Meteosat-8 in the ALADIN/HU assimilation system
   Randriamampianina, Roger  

888 KB
Assimilation of Hourly MTSAT-1R AMV into JMA-MSM
   Yamashita, Koji  

2.0 MB
Atmospheric Motion Vectors at the Met Office: status, results and future plans
   Forsythe, Mary  

1.5 MB

SESSION 3: ATMOSPHERIC MOTION VECTOR CHARACTERISTICS (QUALITY CONTROL, HEIGHT ASSIGNMENT) AND VALIDATION

Title
|
 Author/Presenter
|
verbal presentations
Quality control of winds from Meteosat-8 at Meteo-France: Some results
   Payan, Christophe  

827 KB
New quality indicators for GOES derived winds and their potential effect on NWP data impact experiments
   Berger, Howard  

735 KB
MSG AMV processing - some views from EUMETSAT operations
  Gustafsson, Jörgen  

138 KB
CPTEC Atmospheric Motion Vectors: Validation, assimilation and characteristics
   Machado, Luiz  

486 KB
Introduction of the recursive filter function in MSG MPEF environment
   Dew, Greg  

770 KB
Characterization of tracer height assignment errors: A recurring theme for Atmospheric Motion Vectors
   Daniels, Jaime  

374 KB
AMV height assignment with Meteosat-8: current status and future developments
   de Smet, Arthur  

217 KB
AMV height assignment methods with Meteosat-8
   Borde, Régis  

302 KB
What can we learn from the NWP SAF AMV monitoring?
   Forsythe, Mary  

2.0 MB

SESSION 4: RESEARCH METHODS AND APPLICATIONS

Title
|
 Author/Presenter
|
verbal presentations
Attempts to improve GOES image navigation
   Lu, Feng  

1.8 MB
An automated, dynamic threshold cloud detection algorithm for FY-2C images
   Liu, Jian  

293 KB
An experiment to derive cloud motion vectors from satellite images with 2-D Fourier phase analysis technique
   Wang, Zhenhui  

304 KB
The feasibility of an optical flow algorithm for estimating atmospheric motion
   Daniels, Jaime  

233 KB
Studies of regions with intense turbulent motions based on MSG data
   Nerushev, Alexander  

514 KB
Wind vector calculations using simulated hyperspectral satellite retrievals
   Wanzong, Steve  

340 KB
Satellite wind vectors from GOES sounders moisture fields
   Genkova, Iliana  

905 KB
Report on the progress and status of cloud motion vector retrieval by MISR on the Terra satellite
   Davies, Roger  

60 KB
Upper tropospheric divergence in tropical convective systems from Meteosat-8
   Schmetz, Johannes  

35 KB
Comparison of atmospheric motion vectors and dense vector fields calculated from MSG images
   Szantai, André  

475 KB
International geostationary laboratory (IGEOLAB)
   Liu, Jian  

181 KB
An update of the Molniya orbit imager
   Riishojgaard, Lars Peter  

136 KB

SESSION 5: MICROWAVE / LIDAR STUDIES

Title
|
 Author/Presenter
|
verbal presentations
Status of the Doppler wind Lidar profiling mission ADM-Aeolus
   Straume, Anne Grete  

341 KB
SOSE: Sensitivity Observing System Experiment
   Stoffelen, Ad  

314 KB
EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility Scatterometer Activities
   Stoffelen, Ad  

7.2 MB
Remote sensing of extreme wind and ocean wave fields
   Koenig, Thomas  

1.5 MB

SESSION 6: REGIONAL AND MESOSCALE APPLICATIONS

Title
|
 Author/Presenter
|
verbal presentations
Characterization and use of MSG AMVs in the Italian weather service regional NWP system
   Bonavita, Massimo  

576 KB
Recent OSEs with Atmospheric Motion Vector wind data in the DMI-HIRLAM 3D-Var data analysis system
   Amstrup, Bjarne  

426 KB
Recent developments in CMVs derived from KALPANA-1 and INSAT-3A satellites and their impacts on NWP model
   Singh, Devendra  

1.1 MB
Description and validation results of the high resolution wind product from HRVIS MSG channel at the EUMETSAT Nowcasting SAF (SAFNWC)
   García-Pereda, Javier  

1.1 MB
Objective use of high resolution winds product from HRVIS MSG channel for nowcasting purposes
   García-Pereda, Javier  

822 KB
Impact of satellite data on limited area model analysis and forecast system in India Meteorological Department
   Rama Rao, Y.V.  

626 KB

SESSION 7: POLAR WINDS

Title
|
 Author/Presenter
|
verbal presentations
The impact on forecast skill of water vapor and window channel winds from MODIS
   Riishojgaard, Lars Peter  

266 KB
Satellite-derived winds at direct broadcast sites in the polar regions
   Key, Jeff  

669 KB
Satellite derived cloud-track polar winds from 1981-2004
   Dworak, Richard  

207 KB
A visualization of the impact of MODIS-derived polar winds on global forecasts
   Key, Jeff  

1.0 MB