World Meteorological Organization

09:00

1. OPENING OF THE SESSION

09:00

1.1. Welcome from ET-SSU Chairs and WMO

09:15

1.2. Introduction of participants: ongoing key activities/issues in your organization related to satellite data (1-2 bullet points, without slides)

09:30

1.3. Organization of the session (WMO SEC)

09:35

1.4. Approval of the agenda

09:45

1.5. SC-ON perspectives and how ET-SSU fits in (Estelle Grueter, SC-ON Chair)

10:15

2. WMO Space Programme UPDATES RELEVANT TO ET-SSU

10:15

WMO Space Programme updates relevant to ET-SSU: CM-15, INFCOM-3, EC-78 (EW4ALL, G3W, core satellite data), CGMS/CEOS (Natalia Donoho, Head of SSU/I)

10:45

Coffee Break & photo

11:15

3. WMO Strategic initiatives

11:15

3.1 WMO Global Greenhouse Gas Watch (G3W) (Gianpaolo Balsamo, WMO Secretariat)

12:15

Lunch break

13:15

4. RFI/RFC discussion

13:15

4.1. Key outcomes of RFI2024 (Steve English, ECMWF, online)

14:00

4.2. Collaboration between ET-RFC and ET-SSU: discussion

14:45

5. DBNET-CG UPDATES

14:45

DBNet-CG: updates and collaboration with ET-SSU
(Mikael Rattenborg, WMO Space Programme)

15:15

Coffee Break

15:45

6. NWP Impact workshop

15:45

Key outcomes of NWP and Earth System Prediction Workshop
(Sid Boukabara, NASA, online)

16:30

7. TRAINING AND EDUCATION

16:30

VLab Updates (Bernie Connell, VLab Co-Chair, CIRA/NOAA, online)

17:00

End of Day 1

09:00

7. Regional engagement, incl. EW4ALL

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09:00

7.1. Introduction of the session (Zoya Andreeva, WMO Secretariat)

09:20

7.2. RA I Updates (Sarah Kimani, RAIDEG Chair)

09:40

7.3. RA II/V Updates (Dohyeong Kim, Chair of RA II ET-SOA, online & Agnes Lane, Chair of RA V ET-SAT)

10:00

7.4. RA III/IV Updates (Diego Souza/Marcial Garbanzo, SDR III/IV Co-Chairs)

10:20

7.5. RA VI Updates (Stephan Bojinski, EUMETSAT)

10:40

Coffee Break

11:10

7.6. Request-based high frequency regional observation: efforts made towards its integration (JMA-CMA-KMA)

A5.15: JMA, CMA, and KMA: to consider enhanced cooperation in terms of request-based high frequency regional observations implemented by each agency, for example, observation locations from three satellite operators to be visualized on the map in real-time and to report back at the next face-to-face ET-SSU meeting

11:30

7.6. Panel discussion

Guiding questions

12:30

Lunch break

13:30

8. Satellite application centre for EW4ALL

13:30

8.1 The concept of the Satellite application centre for EW4ALL as proposed at INFCOM-3 (Di Xian, CMA/NSMC)

Request to SC-ON/ET-SSU: To explore the feasibility of establishing satellite application centres that could help Members increase utilization of satellite data and products, develop its concept and update the Guidelines on Best Practices for Achieving User Readiness for New Meteorological Satellites (WMO-No. 1187) in the next intersessional period in collaboration with CGMS, as appropriate; [China, P/INFCOM]

14:00

8.2. Feedback from other space agencies/users: discussion

14:30

9. CORE SATELLITE DATA FOR NOWCASTING

14:30

Core Satellite Data for Nowcasting: next steps

15:30

Coffee Break

16:00

10. ENGAGEMENT ON HYDROLOGY

16:00

10.1 Updates from Secretariat on hydrology (Dominique Berod, WMO Secretariat)

16:30

10.2 ET-SSU involvement to TT-EHN (Lihang Zhou, NOAA/NESDIS)

17:00

10.3 Discussion

17:30

End of Day 2

09:00

11. WIGOS Vision 2040 update

09:00

WIGOS Vision 2040 update: implications and expectations for ET-SSU/ET-SWx members (Albert Fischer, Director of WIGOS Branch)

10:00

12. OSCAR/SPACE status update

10:00

12.1 OSCAR/Space development project in 2024 and future plans (Heikki Pohjola, WMO Space Programme)

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

12.2 Status of OSCAR/Space database (Roger Saunders, WMO Space Programme)

11:30

13. transition from GTS TO WIS 2.0

11:30

13.1 Transition from GTS to WIS 2.0: status update (Simon Elliott, EUMETSAT)

12:15

13.2 Discussion

13:00

Lunch break

14:00

Action review (WMO Secretariat)

15:00

Next meetings

15:15

Closure of the meeting

15:30

End of Day 3 and Adjourn