Eighth Session of the Expert Team on Satellite Utilization and Products (ET-SUP-8)

Commission for Basic Systems / OPAG on Integrated Observing Systems
Eighth Session of the Expert Team on Satellite Utilization and Products (ET-SUP-8)
Date:	14-17 April 2014 (Start of the meeting: 9:00 on 14 April, Registration as of 8:30; End of the meeting: 15:00 on 17 April)
Venue:	WMO HQ, Geneva, Room "7 LAKE" (7th floor)
Venue:	Directions and Hotel information Recommended hotel (pre-booking at negotiated rate) Reservation form
Final Report:	(as soon as available)
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Agenda Item	Related Working Documents and Background Information
1	ORGANIZATION OF THE SESSION Opening Provisional Agenda (Rev2) and Explanatory Memorandum ET-SUP Terms of Reference and ET-SUP Work Plan
2	CHAIRMAN'S REPORT (incl status of Actions and Recommendations from ET-SUP-7) (PPT)
3	GUIDANCE FROM THE CHAIRPERSON OF OPAG IOS
4	OUTCOME OF RELEVANT MEETINGS
5	DATA EXCHANGE: GLOBAL AND REGIONAL ASPECTS 5.1 Regional mechanisms 5.1.1 RA I 5.1.2 RA II (PPT) 5.1.3 RA III/IV (PPT) 5.1.4 RA V 5.2 NAEDEX-APSDEU 5.3 Specific Issues
6	DATA DISSEMINATION AND ACCESS 6.1 Updated IGDDS Strategy 6.2 Satellite data in the WMO Information System 6.3 RARS 6.3.1 General update, Coding issues (PPT) 6.3.2 EUMETSAT Plans for RARS Extention in Africa 6.4 GEONETCast components 6.4.1 EUMETCast 6.4.2 GEONETCast-Americas and RapidCast 6.4.3 CMACast (PPT) 6.5 Himawari-8/9 data distribution / dissemination plan (PPT) 6.6 Product Access Guide and other WMO Online Resources (PPT)
7	DATA FORMATS AND VISUALIZATION 7.1 Data Format Task Group 7.2 Use of visualization tools: Example cases 7.2.1 RA I - KMD 7.2.2 RA II - IMD (PPT) 7.2.3 RA V
8	SCOPE MECHANISMS 8.1 Nowcasting 8.1.1 Nowcasting Pilot Project 2 - Volcanic ash retrieval intercomparison 8.1.2 Nowcasting Pilot Project 2 - JMA testbed activities 8.2 Climate Monitoring (Doc, PPT)
9	SATELLITE APPLICATIONS 9.1 Data impact assessments for NWP and climate 9.1.1 ECMWF 9.1.2 UKMO (PPT) 9.2 Ocean applications and JCOMM matters (PPT) 9.3 Disaster response: the International Charter Space and Major Disasters 9.4 Atmospheric composition: update of observation requirements 9.5 Use of satellites in forecasting storm Phailin in Indian Ocean (PPT) 9.6 Applications of satellite data in Kenya
10	PREPARING USERS TO NEW SATELLITES 10.1 Preparation for Himawari-8 (PPT) 10.2 GOES-R Proving Ground 10.3 Preparation for FY-4A (PPT) 10.4 Preparation for MTG 10.5 First data from INSAT-3D (PPT) 10.6 Other upcoming satellites 2014-2015 10.7 Satellite User Readiness Navigator online portal (SATURN) (PPT)
11	INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC WORKING GROUPS (UPDATE) 11.1 Radio Occultation (IROWG) (PPT) 11.2 Sounding (ITWG)
12	ARCHITECTURE FOR CLIMATE MONITORING FROM SPACE: USER CASE STUDIES 12.1 GFCS User Case Studies (PPT) 12.2 CGMS Tiger Team on Socio-Economic Benefits of Satellites
13	TRAINING AND EDUCATION 13.1 VLab Status and Plans (PPT) 13.2 Training on FY-3 product suite (PPT) 13.3 Training on Meteor-M product suite 13.4 COMET Update 13.5 COSPAR 13.6 ECMWF Course on Satellite Data Assimilation
14	NEXT WMO SATELLITE USER SURVEY
15	ET-SUP COMMUNICATION PLAN
16	UPDATE ON FORTHCOMING EVENTS 16.1 NOAA GOES-R User Readiness Conference 16.2 5th Asia-Oceania Meteorological Satellites Users Conference 16.3 2014 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference 16.4 Climate Research and Earth Observation from Space Symposium 2014 16.5 CGMS-42

General Background Information
	List of ET-SUP Members
	Report of ET-SUP-7
	Inf. 01: WMO Space Programme description(as adopted by Cg-XVI)
	Inf. 02: Status of ET-SUP Actions

Eighth Session of the Expert Team on Satellite Utilization and Products (ET-SUP-8)

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