Ninth Annual Winds Workshop

Registration

Governor Calvert House Atrium

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Governor Calvert House Atrium

Welcome and Workshop Opening

Christopher Velden and Kenneth Holmlund

Introducing recommendations from CGMS 35 to the 9th International Winds Workshop

Johannes Schmetz

SESSION I : Operational Data Producer Status Reports

Chair: Jaime Daniels

Operational satellite wind product processing at NOAA/NESDIS: A status report

Antonio Irving, Qi Hongming, W. Pennyoer, R. Potash, R. Rollins

Status report on the operational derivation of Atmospheric Motion Vectors at EUMETSAT

Kenneth Holmlund

Break

Status of and future plans for JMA's Atmospheric Motion Vectors

Ryo Oyama and K. Shimoji

The contribution of locally generated MTSAT-1R AMVs to operational meteorology in the Australian region

John Le Marshall, R. Seecamp, J. Jung, M. Dunn, C. Velden, J. Daniels and A.Rea

Lunch

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SESSION II : Polar Winds

Chair: Mary Forsythe

The polar wind product suite

Jeffrey Key, D. Santek, C. Velden, J. Daniels, R. Dworak

The impact of MODIS-derived polar winds on global forecasts

David Santek

Observing System Experiments for MODIS winds in the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation

Lars Peter Riishojgaard, I. Appel, C. Redder

AVHRR polar winds derivation at EUMETSAT: Current status and future developments

Greg Dew

Assessing the quality of historical AVHRR polar wind height assignments

Richard Dworak, J. Key

Break

SESSION III : AMV Height Assignment

Chair: Chris Velden

Identifying the uncertainty in determining satellite-derived AMV height assignments

Christopher Velden and Kris Bedka

AMV height assignment with Meteosat-9: Current status and future developments

Arthur de Smet

A direct link between feature tracking and height assignment of operational AMVs

Regis Borde, R. Oyama

Development of AMV height assignment directly linked to feature tracking at JMA

Ryo Oyama, R. Borde, J. Schmetz, T. Kurino

A Comparison of AMV cloud top pressure derived from MSG with space-based Lidar observations

Geneviève Sèze, S. Marchand, J. Pelon, R. Borde

Icebreaker

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Continental Breakfast

Governor Calvert House Atrium

SESSION IV : AMV Methods/QC

Chair: Kenneth Holmlund

A swarm intelligence method for feature tracking

A. Hernandez-Carrascal, S. Nasuto

Improved extraction of low-level AMVs over West Africa from MSG images

Andre Szantai, G. Seze

The impact of window size on AMV

Eunha Sohn

Assessing the "Expected Error" as a potential new quality indicator for AMVs

Howard Berger, C. Velden, S. Wanzong, J. Daniels

Break

Global Atmospheric Motion Vector inter-comparison study(and following discussion)

Iliana Genkova, R. Borde, J. Schmetz, J. Daniels, C. Velden, K. Holmlund

Lunch

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SESSION V : Data Assimilation and NWP applications

Chair: Peter Bauer and Claire Delsol

AMV monitoring: results from the 3rd NWP SAF analysis

Mary Forsythe, R. Saunders

AMV errors: a new approach in NWP

Mary Forsythe, R. Saunders

Upgraded usage of AMVs from all geostationary satellites in the operational global and meso-scale 4D-VAR assimilation system at JMA

Koji Yamashita

Recent satellite wind impact studies at the German Weather Service

Alexander Cress, C. Köpken, H.W. Bitzer

Break

AMV research using simulated datasets

Steve Wanzong, I. Genkova, C. Velden, D. Santek

Evaluation of AMVs derived from ECMWF model simulations

Lüder von Bremen, N. Bormann, S. Wanzong, M. Hortal, D. Salmond, J.-N. Thépaut, Peter Bauer

Operational use of AMVs at ECMWF

Claire Delsol, N. Bormann, G. Kelly, L. von Bremen, J.-N. Thépaut, Peter Bauer

Use of reprocessed AMVs in the ECMWF interim reanalysis

Claire Delsol, D. Dee, S. Uppala, N. Bormann, J.-N. Thépaut, P. Bauer

Impact of 4D variational data assimilation of AMVs on tropical cyclone track forecasts

Dongliang Wang

Workshop Dinner at Phillips Annapolis Harbor Restaurant

Sponsored by EUMETSAT

Continental Breakfast

Governor Calvert House Atrium

SESSION VI : Science Applications

Chair: Pramod Mahajan

Saharan dust motion extraction from MSG-SEVIRI imagery

Iliana Genkova, C. Velden

Development, validation, and application of a mesoscale AMV product at UW-CIMSS

Kristopher Bedka, C. Velden, W. Feltz, R. Petersen

Evolution of High Resolution Winds product (HRW), at the Satellite Application Facility in support to Nowcasting and very short range forecasting (SAFNWC)

Javier García-Pereda

Impact of INSAT-observed Kelvin wave type disturbances during summer Monsoon

Pramod Mahajan, S.G.Narkhedkar, A. Prabhu

Break

SESSION VII : Microwave Studies

Chair: Paul Ingmann

Advancements in Scatterometer wind processing

Ad Stoffelen

Status on the use of Scatterometer data at METEO-FRANCE

Christophe Payan

A two-season impact study of the Navy's WINDSAT surface wind retrievals in the NCEP Global Data Assimilation System

Li Bi, J. Jung, J. Le Marshall

Cloud Motion Vectors from MISR: Update and comparison with QuikSCAT

Roger Davies, M. Garay

Lunch

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Group Excursion (Optional): Walking Tour of Annapolis and the US Naval Academy

Continental Breakfast

Governor Calvert House Atrium

SESSION VIII : Future Satellites

Chair: Roger Davies

ADM-AEOLUS - Progressing towards mission exploitation

Paul Ingmann, A. G. Straume

Scientific preparations for Aeolus and Aeolus follow-on

Ad Stoffelen, J. de Kloe, G.-J. Marseille, K. Houchi

ADM-Aeolus wind retrieval algorithms for Numerical Weather Prediction

David Tan, et al.

Expected characteristics of global wind profile measurements with a scanning, hybrid, Doppler Lidar system

Michael Kavaya

Algorithm and software development of Atmospheric Motion Vector products for the future GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI)

Jaime Daniels, C. Velden, W. Bresky, I. Genkova, S. Wanzong

Break

SESSION IX : Open Forum/Discussion

Chair: Johannes Schmetz

Open plenary discussion on topics of interest

Ad Stoffelen

Review of recommendations from CGMS-33

Johannes Schmetz

Charge to working group breakout sessions

Kenneth Holmlund / Chris Velden

Lunch

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Working Group (WG) Sessions

WG 1: AMV Extraction/QC Methods (Chairs: de Smet/Le Marshall)

WG 2: AMV Data Assimilation (Chairs: Cress/Riishojgaard)

WG 3: AMV Height Assignment (Chairs: Borde/Genkova)

Continental Breakfast

Governor Calvert House Atrium

Working Group Reports (Respective Chairs)

WG 1: AMV Extraction/QC Methods

WG 2: AMV Data Assimilation

WG 3: AMV Height Assignment

Plenary Discussion

Closing Comments - WORKSHOP ENDS

Lunch

On your own

Program Committee Meeting