11th meeting of the Expert Team on Space Systems and Utilization (29-31 October 2024)
Date & Time
29-31 October 2024 09:00 - 17:00 CET
Logistics
Venue: WMO headquarters, Room Salle C2 (P1 floor)
Provisional agenda
TUESDAY 29 October 2024 (Salle C1) |
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09:00 |
1. OPENING OF THE SESSION |
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09:00 |
1.1. Welcome from ET-SSU Chairs and WMO |
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09:15 |
1.2. Introduction of participants: ongoing key activities/issues in your organization related to satellite data (1-2 bullet points, without slides) |
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09:30 |
1.3. Organization of the session (WMO SEC) |
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09:35 |
1.4. Approval of the agenda |
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09:45 |
1.5. SC-ON perspectives and how ET-SSU fits in (Estelle Grueter, SC-ON Chair) |
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10:15 |
2. WMO Space Programme UPDATES RELEVANT TO ET-SSU |
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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) |
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10:45 |
Coffee Break & photo |
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11:15 |
3. WMO Strategic initiatives |
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11:15 |
3.1 WMO Global Greenhouse Gas Watch (G3W) (Gianpaolo Balsamo, WMO Secretariat)
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11:45 | 3.2 Cryosphere and polar activities, including the proposed 2025 Satellite Symposium (Rodica Nitu, WMO Secretariat) | |
12:15 |
Lunch break |
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13:15 |
4. RFI/RFC discussion |
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13:15 |
4.1. Key outcomes of RFI2024 (Steve English, ECMWF, online) |
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14:00 |
4.2. Collaboration between ET-RFC and ET-SSU: discussion |
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14:45 |
5. DBNET-CG UPDATES |
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14:45 |
DBNet-CG: updates and collaboration with ET-SSU |
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15:15 |
Coffee Break |
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15:45 |
6. NWP Impact workshop |
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15:45 |
Key outcomes of NWP and Earth System Prediction Workshop |
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16:30 |
7. TRAINING AND EDUCATION |
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16:30 |
VLab Updates (Bernie Connell, VLab Co-Chair, CIRA/NOAA, online) |
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17:00 |
End of Day 1 |
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WEDNESDAY 30 October 2024 (Salle C2) |
Documents |
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09:00 |
7. Regional engagement, incl. EW4ALL |
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09:00 |
7.1. Introduction of the session (Zoya Andreeva, WMO Secretariat) |
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09:20 |
7.2. RA I Updates (Sarah Kimani, RAIDEG Chair) |
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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) |
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10:00 |
7.4. RA III/IV Updates (Diego Souza/Marcial Garbanzo, SDR III/IV Co-Chairs) |
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10:20 |
7.5. RA VI Updates (Stephan Bojinski, EUMETSAT) |
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10:40 |
Coffee Break |
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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 |
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11:30 |
7.6. Panel discussion |
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12:30 |
Lunch break |
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13:30 |
8. Satellite application centre for EW4ALL |
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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] |
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14:00 |
8.2. Feedback from other space agencies/users: discussion |
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14:30 |
9. CORE SATELLITE DATA FOR NOWCASTING |
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14:30 |
Core Satellite Data for Nowcasting: next steps |
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15:30 |
Coffee Break |
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16:00 |
10. ENGAGEMENT ON HYDROLOGY |
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16:00 |
10.1 Updates from Secretariat on hydrology (Dominique Berod, WMO Secretariat) |
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16:30 |
10.2 ET-SSU involvement to TT-EHN (Lihang Zhou, NOAA/NESDIS) |
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17:00 |
10.3 Discussion |
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17:30 |
End of Day 2 |
THURSDAY 31 October 2024 |
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Joint session with ET-SWx (Salle C1) |
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09:00 |
11. WIGOS Vision 2040 update |
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09:00 |
WIGOS Vision 2040 update: implications and expectations for ET-SSU/ET-SWx members (Albert Fischer, Director of WIGOS Branch) |
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10:00 |
12. OSCAR/SPACE status update |
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10:00 |
12.1 OSCAR/Space development project in 2024 and future plans (Heikki Pohjola, WMO Space Programme) |
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10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00 |
12.2 Status of OSCAR/Space database (Roger Saunders, WMO Space Programme) |
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11:30 |
13. transition from GTS TO WIS 2.0 |
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11:30 |
13.1 Transition from GTS to WIS 2.0: status update (Simon Elliott, EUMETSAT) |
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12:15 |
13.2 Discussion |
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13:00 |
Lunch break |
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14:00 |
Action review (WMO Secretariat) |
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15:00 |
Next meetings |
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15:15 |
Closure of the meeting |
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15:30 |
End of Day 3 and Adjourn |
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