Sixth Session of the Expert Team on Satellite Utilization and Products (ET-SUP-6)

Commission for Basic Systems / OPAG on Integrated Observing Systems
Sixth Session of the Expert Team on Satellite Utilization and Products (ET-SUP-6)
Date: 12-16 December 2011
Venue: WMO HQ, Geneva
Directions and Hotel information

ALL DOCUMENTS (12 December 2011) (zip 7.7MB)

Agenda Item Related Working Documents and Background Information Responsible

1

1.1

1.2

 

1.3

ORGANIZATION OF THE SESSION

Opening of the session

Adoption of the agenda (Provisional Agenda, Rev.2)

Explanatory Memorandum (Rev.1)

Working arrangements for the session

 
2

ET-SUP CHAIRMAN's REPORT  

Machado
3 GUIDANCE FROM THE CHAIRPERSON OF OPAG-IOS Riishojgaard
4

OUTCOME OF WMO MEETINGS WITH RELEVANCE TO ET-SUP  including CBS, Consultative Meetings, and Congress
WMO Space Programme Description (endorsed by Cg-XVI)

Secretariat
5 STATUS OF ACTIONS FROM PREVIOUS ET-SUP MEETINGS  Secretariat

6

6.1
6.2

6.3

UPDATE ON THE SPACE-BASED GOS

New CGMS Baseline for the Space-based GOS
Mapping of satellite plans with the CGMS baseline
Dossier on the Space-based GOS : Satellites, Instruments and Products (Presentation)
Update on the Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System (GSICS) (Presentation)

 

Secretariat
Secretariat
Secretariat
Secretariat

7

7.1
7.2
7.3
7.4
7.5

SATELLITE DATA ACCESS: REGIONAL REQUIREMENTS

RA I Dissemination Expert Group
RA II Pilot Project
RA III/RA IV Satellite Data Requirements (Rev.1)
Procedure for Defining / Maintaining Regional Requirements for Satellite Data
NAEDEX-APSDEU Update

 

Wannop
Kunimatsu
Machado
Machado
Rea

8

8.1

UPDATE ON REGIONAL EVENTS

Outcome of the Second Asia/Oceania Meteorological Satellite Users Conference

 

Kunimatsu

9


9.1
9.2
9.3
9.4
9.5

9.6
9.7
9.8
9.9
9.10
9.11
9.12

 

SATELLITE DATA ACCESS: UPDATE ON NEW CAPABILITIES (INCLUDING SOFTWARE)

Evolution of Geonetcast America and Gempak
Meteor-M and Elektro-L data access (Presentation)
FY-3 data access (Presentation)
DMSP and future DWSS data access
NPP and GOES-R data access
NPP Pre-Processing Software (WMO-NOAA/NESDIS Exchange of Letters)
INSAT-Kalpana data access (Presentation)
MTSAT data access
COMS Meteorological Imager Operation and Data Service
EUMETCAST and METOP/HRPT (Presentation)
CMACAST (Presentation)
RARS
Evolution of Direct Broadcast

Inf 1 Initial List of Satellite Data Processing and Analysis Software (Rev. 1)

 


Machado/Mostek
Milekhin
P. Zhang
Mostek
Mostek
Secretariat
Singh
Kunimatsu
J.D. Jang
Gärtner/Wannop
P. Zhang
Rea/Gärtner/Secr. Secretariat

Secretariat

10

10.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8

SATELLITE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENTS

Precipitation: IPWG matters
Sounding: ITWG matters
Wind: IWWG matters
Radio-Occultation: IROWG matters
Ocean applications and JCOMM matters (Presentation)
Climate products including SCOPE-CM matters
Nowcasting products and SWFDP matters
Other product developments at CGMS-39

 

Gärtner
Rea
Kunimatsu
Secretariat
Fellous
Secretariat
Rea/P. Zhang
Gärtner

11

11.1
11.2
11.3

PROSPECTIVE

Vision for the Global Observing System in 2025
Vision for Satellite Utilization and Products in 2025
Implementation Plan for the Evolution of Global Observing Systems (Presentation)

 

Secretariat
Machado/Secretariat
Secretariat

12

12.1
12.2

QUESTIONNAIRE AND MONITORING ISSUES

Experience of the RA II Pilot Project online questionnaire
Lessons from the 2010 questionnaire and plans for future surveys

 

Kunimatsu/Secretariat
Secretariat

13

13.1
13.2

13.3

VIRTUAL LABORATORY FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Update on VLab
Training plans for new generation satellites:
FY-3, (Presentation) Meteor-M, NPP (Presentation), MTG/EPS-SG
Training plans in new application areas:
Land/ocean, Climate
Space Weather

 

Gärtner
P.Zhang, Milekhin, Mostek, Gärtner

Gärtner
Secretariat

14

14.1

14.2

WEB-BASED INFORMATION

Update on WMO Space Programme and related websites, and WMO Product Access Guide (Presentation)
Observing Requirements Database  http://wmo-sat.info/db (Presentation)

 

Secretariat/Wannop

Secretariat

15

15.1
15.2

PUBLICATIONS

New CIMO Guide Part IV
Updating of the Manual on the GOS / Chapter IV

 

Secretariat
Secretariat

16 ANY OTHER BUSINESS  
17 REVIEW AND ADOPTION OF THE DRAFT REPORT  
18 DATE, PLACE, AND AGENDA OF NEXT SESSION  
19 CLOSURE OF THE MEETING  
General Background Information
  ET-SUP Members  
  ET-SUP Terms of Reference and ET-SUP Work Programme   
  Report of the last meeting  ET-SUP-5  
  Status of the availability and use of satellite data and products by WMO Members in 2008-2009
WMO-TD No. 1567 SP-8