SIXTEENTH INTERNATIONAL WINDS WORKSHOP 

SIXTEENTH INTERNATIONAL WINDS WORKSHOP Montréal, Québec hosted by ECCC, 8 - 12 May 2023

INTRODUCTION

Title	|	Presenter	|
Welcome address - ECCC		S. Laroche		No Presentation
CGMS Actions/Recommendations		J. Daniels		774 KB

WORKING GROUP REPORTS

Title	|	Chairperson	|
Working Group 1 Report: Methods		J. García-Pereda, M. Doutriaux-Boucher		2.1 MB
Working Group 2 Report: NWP		M. Forsythe, I. Genkova		434 KB

SESSION 1: STATUS OF OPERATIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MOTION VECTORS (AMVs)

Title	|	Authors	|
Status of Operational and Future Atmospheric Wind Products at EUMETSAT		R. Borde, K. Barbieux, M. Carranza, T. Flament, O. Hautecoeur, Y. Aoun		5.2 MB
Operational Wind Products at NOAA/NESDIS		H. Qi, J. Daniels, J. Key, P. Chang, A. Bailey		1.6 MB
Status of AMVs from Fengyun Satellites		X. Zhang, J. Xu, F. Lu		3.9 MB
Current Status and Plans of Operational Wind Products at JMA/MSC		K. Shimoji		2.8 MB
NWCSAF/High Resolution Winds; AMV Software for Geostationary and Polar Satellites – Status in 2023		J. García Pereda, N. Håkansson, S. Hörnquist		7.6 MB

SESSION 2: AMV DERIVATION AND QUALITY

Title	|	Authors	|
Status of Development of Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMV) Capabilities at NOAA		J. Daniels, W. Bresky, A. Bailey, A. Allegrino, J. Carr, H. Madani, S. Wanzong, C. Velden, D. Santek, R. Dworak, J. Apke		5 MB
Improving the reliability of AMV height assignments: a study using ABI cases of the IWWG intercomparison and OCA cloud properties retrievals		A. Bozzo, R. Borde, M. Carranza, J. Jackson, L. Spezzi, O. Hautecoeur		9.3 MB
Experimental VIIRS AMV Products: Expanding Beyond the use of a Single Satellite		R. Dworak, D. Santek, D. Stettner, J. Key		12 MB
Comparisons of the Traditional Feature Matching and Optical Flow Algorithms for Atmospheric Motion Vector Estimation		I. Yanovsky, D. Posselt, L. Wu. S. Hristova-Veleva		1 MB
Advances in Stereo Winds		J. Carr, J. Daniels, D. Wu, W. Bresky, H. Madani, M. Friberg, T. Summers		19 MB
A New Capability for Monitoring Multi-Level Tropospheric Winds		M. Kelly, J. Carr, D. Wu		2 MB
A New Paradigm for the Derivation of LEO AMVs Without Wind Guess		K. Barbieux, R. Borde		2.9 MB
Use of AMV Cross Correlation Matrices and the NWP guess to further explore accuracy of AMVs		G. Kelly, J. Cotton, M. Dahou, M. Forsythe		1.5 MB
Advances in Optical Flow Retrieval Methods for Inferring Atmospheric Winds and Motions		J. Apke, J. Daniels, K. Hilburn, I. Ebert-Uphoff, S. Miller, B. Line		3.7 MB
Diurnal Variations of 3D-Wind Cloud Height and Winds From Hurricanes and PBL		D. Wu, J. Carr, M. Friberg, T. Summers, Á. Horváth		15 MB

SESSION 2: PLENARY

Title	|	Authors	|
Fourth AMV Intercomparison Study		D. Santek, R. Dworak, S. Wanzong, K. Lukens, S. Reiner, J. García Pereda		4.9 MB

POSTER SESSION

Title	|	Authors	|
The EUMETSAT AVHRR and SLSTR AMV Tropical Speed Biases Pattern Explained		K. Barbieux, R. Borde		1.8 MB
Comparing Effects of Quality Indicator Thresholds for Atmospheric Motion Vectors in NAVGEM		R. Stone		4.2 MB
A New Technique for Composite Maps of Ocean Winds		M. Bouali, G. Nagel, C. Cairo, D. Xavier, F. Nagel		No Poster
Status of Atmospheric Motion Vectors Production and use at CPTEC/INPE		R. Galante Negri, C. Rosana Aseff, E. Paulo Vendrasco, L. Fernando Sapucci		2.7 MB
Study of Technical Issues Arising in the Tracking Process of Rapid Scan AMV		K. Shimoji		1.2 MB
Status of AMV Assimilation in ECMWF’s IFS Model		F. Warrick		2.1 MB
Met Office AMV Processing in JEDI		J. Cotton, A. Martins, G. Kelly		1 MB
The Contribution of Aeolus Wind Observations to Global Sea Surface Wind Forecast		H. Zuo, A. Stoffelen, M. Rennie		7 MB
On the Potential Application to Wind Detection of with NASA’s Atmosphere Observing System AOS		J. Blanchet, Y. Blanchard, P. Gauthier, A. Bourassa, D. Deigenstein, Y. Huang, K. Walker		No Presentation
Microwave (118-GHz) Doppler techniques for mesospheric winds: MLS and EZIE		D. Wu		1.1 MB
Optimising the Exploitation of Aeolus Winds in Regional NWP		S. Hagelin, G. Marseille, R. Azad, M. Ridal, A. Stoffelen, H. Schyberg, I. Monteiro		703 KB

SESSION 3: USE OF SATELLITE DERIVED WINDS IN NWP

Title	|	Authors	|
Current State of Satellite-Derived Wind Assimilation in NCEP GSI		B. Hoover, I. Genkova, A. Collard, E. Liu		2.1 MB
Recent and Upcoming Changes in Satellite Wind Usage in U.S. Navy NWP		B. Blaylock		7 MB
Recent Work Using Satellite Winds at the German Weather Service		A. Cress		2.4 MB
Status of Satellite Winds Use in the Météo-France NWP System		C. Payan		7.9 MB
Upgrades of Polar AMVs Use In JMA’s Global NWP System		K. Nonaka		5 MB
Assessment of AMV Quality Using Cloud Information and Tracking Parameters		F. Warrick, P. Watts, A. Bozzo, M. Doutriaux Boucher, A. Lattanzio		5.1 MB
Estimation of AMV Height Assignment Errors Using Model Best-Fit Pressure and AEOLUS Height Data		S. Laroche		2.5 MB
Evaluation of Dual Geostationary Stereo Winds in NAVGEM		R. Stone		9.7 MB
Testing of GOES-18 Atmospheric Motion Vectors in NAVGEM		R. Stone		6.7 MB
Impact of Atmospheric Motion Vectors in an Operational Global NWP System : A Multi-Year Study		S. Kumar, S. Rani, J. George		No Presentation
The Locally Processed Atmospheric Motion Vector Data at MET Norway		R. Randriamampianina, P. Dahlgren, T. Aspenes		1.9 MB

SESSION 4: OCEAN SURFACE WINDS

Title	|	Authors	|
BF-1 GNSS-R Sea Surface Wind Speed Retrieval and Observing System Experiments		F. Lu, Y. Shou, X. Niu, H. Chen, J. Xue, Z. Bai, J. Yang		No Presentation
GNSS-R Data Assimilation Efforts at Spire Global: From Ocean Winds to DDM’s		K. Apodaca, S. Vetra-Carvalho, D. Županski, M. Rothstein		6 MB
Sea Surface Wind Speed Retrieval using NanYue (NY) GNSS Reflectometry		Y. Zhang, Z. Chen, J. Wang, X. Cai, L. Shi, Z. Hong		No Presentation
MIDAS – Mesoscale Improved Data Assimilation of Scatterometer Winds		I. Monteiro		11 MB

SESSION 4: PLENARY

Title	|	Authors	|
Progress in Ocean Surface Vector Winds		A. Stoffelen		3 MB

SESSION 5: AEOLUS, 3D AMVs AND FUTURE MISSIONS

Title	|	Authors	|
Impact of Aeolus Horizontal Line-Of-Sight Wind Observations on Typhoon Forecasting in a Global NWP System		I. Okabe		8.5 MB
How Well Do the Aeolus Winds Represent the Indian Summer Monsoon and North Indian Ocean Cyclone Features?		I. Rani, M. Bushair, B. Jangid, G. George, S. Kumar		5.8 MB
CMA Geostationary Infrared Observation Dataset for 3D AMV Studies		F. Lu, L. Li, H. Zhao, Q. Han		No Presentation
A Consolidated Assessment of the Impact of Aeolus Winds in Numerical Weather Prediction at ECMWF		M. Rennie		12 MB
EPS-Aeolus, Status of the European Doppler Wind Lidar Programme at EUMETSAT		T. Flament, R. Borde, R. Chalex, L. Fiedler, R. Munro, S. Joro, B. Bojkov		2.1 MB
Assimilating Aeolus Wind Profiles – Assessing the Benefit of Using Variational Quality Control During Tropical Cyclones		I. Genkova, K. Apodaca, L. Cucurull, J. Purser, X. Su		5.4 MB
Lidar Compass: A Comparative Assessment Study of Doppler Wind Lidar Technologies		S. Tucker		12 MB
Current Status of the IASI 3D Winds Product at EUMETSAT		M. Carranza, O. Hautecoeur, R. Borde, P. Héas		2.8 MB
The Research and Operational Value of the Midwave Infrared Sounding of Temperature and Humidity in a Constellation for Winds (MISTiC Winds) Mission Concept		S. Rafkin, K. Maschhoff, D. Santek, A. Soto		2.4 MB
Synergies Obtained from Combined Observations of MISTiC Winds, CMIS, and NGRx in a Micro-Satellite Constellation		K. Maschhoff, M. Kelly, C. Ruf, S. Rafkin, D. Santek, A. Soto		1.3 MB
Retrieval of 3D Distribution of Horizontal Wind Vector by Combining Lidar with Passive Water Vapor Sounders		X. Zeng		5 MB
Global Three-Dimensional Water Vapor Feature-Tracking For Horizontal Winds Using Hyper-Spectral Infrared Sounder Data From Overlapped Tracks of Two Satellites		A. Ouyed, N. Smith		5.2 MB
Learning to Generate 3D Atmospheric Winds from Geostationary Imagery with Deep Optical Flow		T. Vandal		11 MB
ESA Earth Explorer 10 Harmony		A. Stoffelen		9.1 MB
Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) with 3D Winds From Space		L. Cucurull		4.3 MB
Impact of WIVERN Horizontal Line-Of-Sight Wind Profiles on the Global NWP model of Météo-France Using an Ensemble Data Assimilation Method		N. Sasso, M. Borderies		9.1 MB

SESSION 6: REPROCESSING AND CLIMATE APPLICATIONS

Title	|	Authors	|
The EUMETSAT Sustainable Production of Atmospheric Motion Vectors Climate Data Records		M. Doutriaux-Boucher, A. Lattanzio, R. Huckle, O. Sus. M. Grant, R. Border, J. Schulz		7.5 MB
A New Climate Data Record of the Ocean Surface Winds, Stress and Their Dynamically-Significant Derivatives – Vorticity and Divergence: Supporting Studies of Trends and Variability in the Large-Scale Circulation		S. Hristova-Veleva, M. Bourassa, A. Fore, D. Moroni, L. O'Neil, B. Stiles, D. Vandemark, A. Wineteer, E. Wright, F. Polverari, M Emond		6 MB
System for Analysis of Wind Collocations (SAWC): A Novel Archive and Collocation Application for the Intercomparison of Winds from Multiple Observing Platforms Provide for Aeolus Evaluation		K. Lukens, K. Garrett, D. Santek, B. Hoover, R. Hoffman, H. Lui		4 MB