Programme for the COST 716 Workshop:
Towards Operational GPS Meteorology
Last update: 16 June 2000
Monday, 10 July 2000
09:00 - 09:30 Opening and Introduction
09:30 - 12:30 Assimilation of GPS into NWP models and its impact
Chairs: Sylvia Barlag and Jennifer Haase
09:30 - 10:00 Higgins, M.:
Progress in 3D variational assimilation of total zenith
delay at The Met. Office
10:00 - 10:30 MacDonald, A., Yuanfu Xie, and Ware, R.:
Determination of Water Vapor Field Structure using GPS
Slant Observations
10:30 - 10:45 1 sheet plenary presentations for posters:
Faccani, C., Ferretti, R., Ferraro, C., Nardi, A., Pacione, R.,
Sciarretta, C., and Vespe F.:
GPS PW ASSIMILATION INTO MM5 WITH THE NUDGING TECHNIQUE
Lange, A.:
Statistical Calibration of IWV observations from the GPS signal delay
measurements
Navascues, B., Garcia-Moya, J. A., Cucurull, L., Rius, A.:
Real time comparison of GPS and HIRLAM estimates of Zenith Total
Delays in the Iberian Peninsula
Vedel, H., Mogensen, K. S., and Xiang-Yu Huang:
Assimilation of MAGIC ztd's using HIRLAM 3DVar.
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 12:30 Panel discussion
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30 Design of ground-based GPS networks for meteorology in Europe
Chairs: Hans van der Marel and Hans-Peter Plag
14:00 - 14:30 Pesec, P.:
Final Report COST-716 WG-1 "State of the Art and Project Requirement"
14:30 - 15:00 Jerrett, D.:
15:00 - 15:10 1 sheet plenary presentations for posters:
Brockmann, E., Calais, E., Pesec, P., Vespe, F., and Weber, G.:
An Alpine GPS-monitoring network for WG-2 demonstration
Davila, J. M., Garate, J. and Berrocoso, M.:
The San Fernando Observatory permanent GPS network covering South Spain -
North Africa region
Dick, G., Gendt, G., and Reigber, C.:
Near Real-Time Water Vapor Estimation in a German GPS Network - First Results
from the Ground Program of the HGF GASP Project
Haase, J. and 18 others:
The Contributions of the MAGIC Project (Meteorological Applications of GPS
Integrated Column Water Vapor Measurements in the Western Mediterranean ) to the
COST 716 objectives of assessing the operational potential of ground-based GPS
meteorology on an international scale
Gutman, S. I., and 5 others
Status of Ground-Based GPS Meteorology at NOAA's Forecast Systems
Laboratory
15:10 - 15:30 Panel discussion
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 18:30 Joint meeting of WG1 and WG2 and meeting of WG3
20:00 COST Workshop Dinner
Tuesday, 11 July 2000
09:00 - 10:30 Meteorology as input to GPS data processing and analysis
Chairs: Gunnar Elgered and Jennifer Haase
09:00 - 09:30 Bock, O., and Doerflinger, E.:
Atmospheric processing methods for high accuracy
positioning with the GPS
09:30 - 10:30 Niell, A. E.:
Atmospheric mapping functions derived from numerical weather models
10:00 - 10:10 1 sheet plenary presentations for posters:
Brockmann, E., Schlatter, A., Schneider, D., Signer, T.,
and Wiget, A.:
LEVELLING USING GPS IN THE SWISS ALPS: THE IMPACT OF
METEOROLOGY
Pany, T., Pesec, P., Stangl, G.:
Elimination of Tropospheric Path Delays in GPS Observations with the ECMWF
Numerical Weather Model
10:10 - 10:45 Coffee break with poster viewing
10:45 - 11:30 Panel discussion
11:30 - 12:30 Synergies and de-correlations or understanding signals and
error sources
Chairs: Peter Pesec and Hans van der Marel
11:30 - 12:00 Davis, J. L.:
Synergisms and Decorrelations, or Understanding Signals and Error Sources
12:00 - 12:30 Flores, A., Rius, A., Vila, J., Escudero, A.:
Troposphere 4D tomography using a ground network of GPS receivers
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30 Synergies and de-correlations or understanding signals and
error sources (continued)
Chairs: Peter Pesec and Hans van der Marel
14:00 - 14:30 1 sheet plenary presentations for posters:
Jerret, D.:
Comparison of GPS Water Vapour Estimates with Frequent Radiosonde Ascents and
Wind Profiler Radar
Emardson, R., Bar-Sever, Y., and Liljegren, J.:
Measuring Line-of-Sight Precipitable Water using GPS
Gendt, G., Dick, G., and Rius, A.:
COMPARISON OF SOFTWARE AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR WATER VAPOR
ESTIMATIONS USING GERMAN NRT GPS DATA
Gradinarsky, L., Johansson, J., Elgered, G., and Jarlemark, P.:
GPS site testing at Chajnantor in Chile
Johnsen, K.-P., and Rockel, B.:
Comparisons of GPS-data with a NWP model and with SSM/T2
Haase, J., Vedel, H., Ge, M., Calais, E.:
Radiosonde and GPS Zenith Tropospheric Delay (ZTD) Variability in the
Mediterranean
Hartig, S., Calais, E., Haase, J., Duquenne, F., and Llubes, M.:
Ocean loading and Zenith Tropospheric Delay estimates: preliminary results from an
experiment in Brittany, France
Jarlemark, P., Stoew, B., Elgered, G., Gradinarsky, L., and Johansson, J.:
Spatial error correlation of GPS water vapour as determined from simulations
Kleijer, F.:
Error sources in GPS-meteorology
Walpersdorf, A., Calais, E., Haase, J., Eymard, L., and Desbois, M.:
Atmospheric gradients estimated by GPS compared to a high resolution numerical
weather prediction (NWP) model
Vedel, H., Mogensen, K. S., and Xiang-Yu Huang:
Calculation of delays from meteorological data, comparison of nwp model and
observed delays
14:30 - 15:30 Panel discussion
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30 Climate research and climate monitoring
Chairs: Sylvia Barlag and Gunnar Elgered
16:00 - 16:30 Jacob, D.:
The role of water vapour in the atmosphere
16:30 - 16:40 1 sheet plenary presentations for posters:
Bouma, H., and Stoew, B.:
GPS observations of daily variations in the integrated water vapor content
Desbois, M., and Roca, R.:
Integrated water content and climate change
Gueldner, J.:
Possibilities of a continuous long-term validation of integrated water
vapour using independent measurements
14:00 - 17:30 Panel discussion
17:30 - 18:00 Break
18:00 - 19:00 WG meetings
Wednesday, 12 July 2000
09:00 - 09:30 Opening, IGS Network Workshop
09:30 - 12:30 GPS network requirements for near real-time applications
and Real-time Analysis Center Issues, Now and Future
Chairs: G. Gendt and J. Zumberge
09:30 - 10:30 Presentations:
Elgered, G.:
An Overview of COST Action 716: Exploitation of Ground-Based GPS for
Climate and Numerical Weather Prediction Analysis.
Gendt, G., Zumberge, J.:
Position paper
VanderMarel, H.:
COST 716 and the IGS
10:30 - 10:40 Coffee break
10:40 - 12:00 Presentations
Ware, R.:
SUOMINET
Muellerschoen, R.:
JPL real-time analysis software
Springer, T.:
Ultrarapid products -- quality dependence on network performance
Wickert, J.:
Occultation requirements
12:00 - 12:30 Panel discussion
Posters:
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Dousa, J.:
The Impact of Ultra-Rapid Orbits on Precipitable Water Vapor Estimation Using
Ground GPS Network
Ge, M., Calais, E., Haase, J.:
GPS Data Processing in the MAGIC Project: Impact of orbit estimation and ZTD
quality assessment for near real-time applications
Stoew, B., Johansson, J., and Elgered, G.:
Near Real Time Processing of GPS Data Delivered by SWEPOS
+ several more to be scheduled from the list
given here
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 17:30 Network Requirements and Quality assurance,
integrity monitoring, documentation
Chairs: M. Caissy and W. Gurtner
14:00 - 15:30 Presentations:
Caissy, M. and Gurtner, W.:
Position paper
Moore, A.:
Data Formats
Schmidt, M.:
PGC Network operations
15:30 - 15:50 Coffee break
15:50 - 17:00 Presentations:
Jackson, M., Meertens, C., and Rocken, C.:
Real-time Data Streaming from GPS Networks
Stowers, D.:
JPL and UNAVCO Network operations in light of LEO ops
Hanssen, R. I.:
Multipurpose GNSS network operations
Posters:
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+ several more to be scheduled from the list
given here
17:00 - 17:30 Panel discussion
17:30 - 18:30 COST WGs summary of COST workshop
Thursday, 13 July 2000
09:00 - 17:00 COST 716 Management Committee meeting