Working Group Reports

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Report from Working Group 1 (WG1): Methods   Chairs: John Le Marshall, Dave Santek
    
 
Report from Working Group 2 (WG2): Data Assimilation   Chairs: Niels Bormann, James Cotton
  
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SESSION 1: Current Systems to Derive Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMVs). Chairs: Jeff Key and Olivier Hautecoeur

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Operational wind products at NOAA/NESDIS: a status update   Hongming Qi, Jaime Daniels, Jeff Key, Paul Chang, Nicholas Esposito, Andrew Bailey, Jeffrey Augenbaum
  
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Current status of EUMETSAT operational AMV Products   Régis Borde, Olivier Hautecoeur and Manuel Carranza
  
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Current Status of operational wind products in JMA/MSC   Kazuki Shimoji and Kenichi Nonaka
  
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Status of operational AMVs from Fengyun-2 satellites   Xiaohu Zhang, Jianmin Xu, Qisong Zhang
  
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Atmospheric motion vectors from INSAT-3D: ISRO status   Sanjib K Deb, D K Sankhala, and C M Kishtawal
  
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NWC SAF / high resolution winds AMV software version 2016   Javier García-Pereda
  
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Status of the operational satellite winds production at CPTEC/INPE and its usage in regional data assimilation over South America   Renato G. Negri, Luiz F. Sapucci, Lucas Avanço, Nelson Ferreira, Luiz G. G. Gonçalves
  
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SESSION 2: AMV Derivation. Chair: Steve Wanzong

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Derivation of wind vectors from Metop AVHRR at EUMETSAT   Olivier Hautecoeur, Régis Borde
  
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Polar winds from near-infrared band cloud tracking   Jeff Key, David Santek, Richard Dworak
  
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Use of GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) proxy data to assess the performance of the GOES-R winds   Jaime Daniels, Wayne Bresky, Andrew Bailey, Americo Allegrino, Steven Wanzong, Chris Velden
  
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Generation of Himawari-8 AMVs using the future MTG AMV processor   Manuel Carranza, Régis Borde, Masahiro Hayashi
  
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POSTER SESSION. Chair: Marie Doutriaux-Boucher

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P1: Using data from the advance Himawari-8 (AHI) as a proxy to assess the performance of the GOES-R derived motion winds algorithm   Wayne Bresky
    
 
P2: The status of development for AMV algorithm of Geo-KOMPSAT 2A   Tae-Myung Kim
    
 
P3: Assimilation of LEO-GEO atmospheric motion vectors in GRAPES   Xiaomin Wan
    
 
P4: Studying AMV errors with NWP SAF monitoring website   Francis Warrick
  
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P5: Comparison of AMV height assignment bias estimates from model best-fit pressures and lidar corrections   Kirsti Salonen, Kathrin Folger, Martin Weissmann, and Niels Bormann
  
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P6: AMV quality control method for the next generation geostationary satellite of Korea   Jae Hwan Kim
  
P7: AMV research activities and progress at ECMWF   Katie Lean, Kirsti Salonen and Niels Bormann
  
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P8: Assimilation and forecast impact of the Leo/Geo AMVs in the GDAS/GFS   Dave Santek
    
 
P9: Comparison and impact of newly available atmosssspheric motion vectors in NAVGEM   Rebecca Stone
    
 
P10: Update on ocean surface wind assimilation at the Met Office   James Cotton
    
 
P11: Comparative impact of ocean surface wind vectors and ocean surface wind speed for global NWP   Nancy Baker
    
 
P12: Extending the legacy of MISR cloud motion vectors to tandem spacecraft   Kevin Mueller (for David Diner)
    
 
P13: Aeolus QRT services for atmospheric dynamics   Ad Stoffelen
    
 
P14: Evaluation of dual-mode Metop AMVs   Régis Borde
    
 
P15: Status of 2 satellite winds missions under study in Japan: a Doppler lidar for tropospheric measurements and Smiles-2 for middle atmosphere   Philippe Baron
    
 
P:16 SSMIS wind speed neural network algorithm and general purpose OSWV validation tool box   Philip Shen
    
 

SESSION 3: AMV quality and impact. Chairs: Christophe Payan and Angeles Hernandez

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Evaluation of FY-2E reprocessed winds in GRAPES   Wei Han
    
 
Bias assessment of MODIS/MISR cloud motion windsg   Feng Lu
    
 
Forecast sensitivity and observation impact (FSOI) inter-comparison experiment   Rolf Langland
    
 
Report from ICWG   Dong Wu, Bryan Baum, Andrew Heidinger, Rob Roebeling
  
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Intercomparison of cloud heights for AMV generation   Steve Wanzong, Andrew Heidinger, Jaime Daniels, Régis Borde, Philip Watts, and Wayne Bresky
  
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AMV height retrievals from stereo and IR techniques   Dong Wu
    
 
Towards improved height assignment and quality control of AMVs in Met Office NWP   James Cotton, Mary Forsythe, Francis Warrick
  
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Update on AMV activities at the Met Office   Francis Warrick, James Cotton
  
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AMVs: past progress, future challenges   Mary Forsythe
    
 
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SESSION 4: Use of satellite-derived winds in NWP. Chairs: Nancy Baker and Koji Yamashita

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The use of satellite-derived winds in NAVGEM: overview   Patricia Pauley, Randal Pauley, Nancy Baker, and Rebecca Stone
  
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Improving the use of satellite winds at the German Weather Service   Alexander Cress
    
 
Assimilation of Himawari-8 atmospheric motion vectors into the NWP systems of JMA   Koji Yamashita
  
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Assessment of AMVs from Himawari-8 and VIIRS   Katie Lean, Kirsti Salonen and Niels Bormann
  
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Recent work on AMV and operational implementation of satellite wind products at the Meteorological Service of Canada   Stephane Laroche
    
 
The satellite winds in the operational NWP system at Meteo-France   Christophe Payan
  
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On improving the use of AMVs at NCEP GSI   Iliana Genkova
    
 
The impacts of four dimensional thinning on EUMETSAT and JMA AMVs   Xiujuan Su
    
 
Assimilation of GOES clear air water vapor atmospheric motion vectors in the NCEP global forecast system   Sharon Nebuda, James A. Jung, Jaime Daniels, John Le Marshall, Iliana Genkova
  
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Impacts of spatial observation error correlation in atmospheric motion vectors on data assimilation   Sihye Lee, Hyo-Jong Song
  
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Scatterometer wind activities at ECMWF   Niels Bormann (for Giovanna De Chiara)
    
 
Forecast impact of MISR CMV in GEOS-5   Kevin Mueller
    
 

SESSION 5: Use of satellite-derived winds for climate. Chair: Dong Wu

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Reprocessing of atmospheric motion vectors at EUMETSAT   Marie Doutriaux-Boucher, Alessio Lattanzio, Olivier Hautecoeur, Régis Borde, and Jörg Schulz
  
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SESSION 6: High-resolution satellite-derived winds. Chairs: Ad Stoffelen and Javier Garcia Pereda

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Mesoscale assimilation of scatterometer winds   Ad Stoffelen
    
 
Development and Optimization of Mesoscale Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMVs) using Novel GOES-R Processsing Algorithms on 1-5 min. SRSO Proxy Data, and Demonstration of Readiness for GOES-R Applications via Impact Studies in Mesoscale/Hurrican Data Assimilation and NWP Systems   Dave Stettneer
    
 
Assimilation experiments of Himawari-8 rapid scan atmospheric motion vectors   Michiko Otsuka, Masaru Kunii, Hiromu Seko, Kazuki Shimoji
  
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Estimation of the sea surface wind in the vicinity of typhoon using Himawari-8 low-level AMVs   Kenichi Nonaka, Kazuki Shimoji, and Koji Kato
  
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Himawari-8 derived motion winds - operational generation and assimilation   John Le Marshall, David Howard, Yi Xiao, Jamie Daniels, Steve Wanzong, Jim Jung, Wayne Bresky, Andrew Bailey, Tim Morrow, Chris Tingwell, Tan Le, and Denis Margetic
  
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Impact studies of higher resolution COMS AMV in the operational KMA NWP system   Jung-Rim Lee, Hyun-Cheol Shin, Sangwon Joo, Yoonjae Kim
  
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Atmospheric motion vectors from INSAT-3D: ISRO status   Roger Randriamampianina
    
 
Use of atmospheric motion vectors in the regional mesoscale model Harmonie in AEMET   Angeles Hernandez
  
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SESSION 7: Hyperspectral AMVs and future missions. Chairs: Feng Lu and Régis Borde

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ESA's ADM-Aeolus wind lidar mission - getting ready for launch   Anne Grete Straume-Lindner
    
 
The Athena-OAWL mission concept and the Green-OAWL (GROAWL) airborne demonstrator   Sara Tucker
    
 
Feature tracked 3D winds from satellite sounders: derivation and impact in global models   David Santek, Anne-Sophie Daloz, Samantha Tushaus, Marek Rogal, Will McCarty
  
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Extraction of 3D wind profiles for IASI level 2 products   Olivier Hautecoeur
    
 
MISTiC Winds, a micro-satellite constellation approach to high resoltuion observations of the atmosphere using infrard sounding and 3D wind measurements   K. R. Maschhoff, J. J. Polizotti, H. H. Aumann, and J. Susskind
  
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MISRlite - a convoy mission for Sentinel-3 for vertical updraft measurement of convective systems and preliminary results from AirMISRlite   Jan-Peter Muller