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

Meeting Documents

TUESDAY 29 October 2024 (Salle C2)

Documents

Chaired by Fiona Smith

09:00

1. OPENING OF THE SESSION

09:00

1.1. Welcome from ET-SSU Chairs, SC-ON Chair, 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

Doc 1.4

09:45

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

Doc 1.5

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, CGMS/CEOS (Natalia Donoho, Head of SSU/I)

Doc 2

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)

Doc 3.1

11:45

3.2 Cryosphere and polar space-based observations in support of WMO activities (Rodica Nitu, WMO Secretariat)

Doc 3.2

12:15

Lunch break

13:15

4. RFI/RFC discussion

13:15

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

Doc 4.1

13:45

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

Doc 4.2

14:30

5. DBNET-CG UPDATES

14:30

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

Doc 5

15:05

AMSR2 to AMSR3 transition (Niels Bormann, ECMWF)

 

15:20

Coffee Break

15:45

6. NWP and Earth System Prediction Impact workshop

15:45

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

Doc 6

16:30

7. TRAINING AND EDUCATION

16:30

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

Doc 7

 

 

 

17:00

End of Day 1

 

 

WEDNESDAY 30 October 2024 (Salle C2)

Documents

Chaired by Lihang Zhou

09:00

8. Regional engagement, incl. EW4ALL

Template

09:00

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

Doc 8.1

09:20

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

Doc 8.2

09:40

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

Doc 8.3

10:00

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

Doc 8.4

10:20

8.5. RA VI Updates (Stephan Bojinski, EUMETSAT)

Doc 8.5

10:40

Coffee Break

11:10

8.6. 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

Doc 8.6

11:30

8.7. Panel discussion

Doc 8.7

12:30

Lunch break

Chaired by Jack Kaye

13:30

9. Satellite application centre for EW4ALL

13:30

9.1 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]

 Doc 9.1

14:00

9.2. Feedback from other space agencies/users: discussion

14:30

10. CORE SATELLITE DATA FOR NOWCASTING

14:30

Core Satellite Data for Nowcasting: next steps (Jordan Gerth, NOAA, Heikki Pohjola, WMO Space Programme)

 Doc 10

15:30

Coffee Break

16:00

11. ENGAGEMENT ON HYDROLOGY

16:00

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

 Doc 11.1

16:30

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

 Doc 11.2

17:00

11.3 Discussion

 

 

 

17:30

End of Day 2

 

THURSDAY 31 October 2024

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Joint session with ET-SWx (Salle C1)

Chaired by Lihang Zhou & Kirsti Kauristie (ET-SWx Chair)

09:00

12. 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)

 Doc 12

10:00

13. OSCAR/SPACE status update

 

10:00

Status of OSCAR/Space database (Heikki Pohjola and Roger Saunders, WMO Space Programme)

Doc 13

11:00

Coffee Break

11:30

14. WIS 2.0 for satellite data

 

11:30

14.1 WIS 2.0 for satellite data: status update (Simon Elliott, EUMETSAT)

 Doc 14

12:15

14.2 Discussion

 

13:00

Lunch break

Chaired by Jack Kaye 

14:00

Action review (WMO Secretariat)

actions

15:00

Next meetings

 

15:15

Closure of the meeting

 

 

 

 

15:30

End of Day 3 and Adjourn