1st Workshop on Surface Properties> Program

Advance Program

1st Workshop on Remote Sensing and Modeling of Surface Properties

9:00 June 20

Welcome
Claude Zeippen, vice-président de l'Observatoire de Paris

Introduction to Workshop and Opening Statements

Catherine Prigent, LERMA/CNRS, Observatiore de Paris, France
Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, Maryland, USA

Session I: Assimilation of surface sensitive observations in Numerical Weather Prediction systems (Chairs: Godelieve Deblonde and Niels Bormann)

I-1: An overview of current surface assimilation in NWP centers
Benjamin Ruston, NRL, Monterey, CA, USA
Sid-Ahmed Boukabara, IMSG Inc., NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Springs, USA
I-2 US Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA): Surface Emissivity Modeling and Impacts on NWP
Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD, USA
I-3 US NOAA/NCEP: The NOAA/NCEP GLobal Land Data Assimilation System
Jesse Meng, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD, USA
I-4 ECMWF: Status and plans for assimilation of infrared and microwave radiances over land at ECMWF
Niels Bormann, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK
10:40 June 20
+ 20 mn break
11:00 June 20
I-5 UK Met Office: A discussion of issues for near surface radiance data assimilation
Stephen English, UK Met Office, UK

I-6 Canada: Assimilation of surface-sensitive infrared radiances at MSC

Louis Garand, MSC, Dorval, Canada

I-7 UK Met Office: Status of ocean surface emissivity modelling for operational NWP
Stephen English, UK Met Office, UK
I-8 Météo-France: Microwave land emissivity and skin temperature for AMSU-A and AMSU-B assimilation over land
Fatima Karbou, Météo-France, Toulouse, France

I-9 Météo-France: Impact of improved microwave land surface emissivities in the 4DVar assimilation system at Météo-France

Elisabeth Gérard, Météo-France, Toulouse, France

I-10 Norwegian Met Institute: Assimilating AMSU-A over sea ice in HIRLAM 3D-Var
Harald Schyberg, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
13:00 June 20
+ 1hr lunch
14:00 June 20
Discussion

Session II: Emissivity Modeling (Chairs: Norman Grody and Stephen English)

II-1: Correcting green vegetation fraction for calibration and spectral effects in AVHRR and VIIRS
Dan Tarpley, Center for Satellite Applications and Research, NESDIS/NOAA, Camp Springs, MD, USA
II-2: Adaptation of the leaf optical property model PROSPECT to thermal infrared
Albert Olioso, INRA/CSE, Domaine Saint Paul, Agroparc, Avignon, France
15:40 June 20
+ 20mn break
16:00 June 20
II-3: Test of the SAIL-Thermique radiative transfer model for simulating thermal infrared emissivity and emissivity spectra of plant canopies
Albert Olioso, INRA/CSE, Domaine Saint Paul, Agroparc, Avignon, France
II-4: Analysis of thermal infrared directional anisotropy over different surface types
Jean-Pierre Lagouarde, INRA, Villenave d'Ornon, France
II-5: Sea ice microwave emission modelling
Rasmus Tonboe, Center for Ocean & Ice, Copenhagen, Denmark
II-6: Recent advances in estimating the L-band microwave signature of natural land surface covers
J-P Wigneron, INRA, EPHYSE, Villenave d'Ornon, France

17:40 June 20

9:00 June 21

II-7: Comparisons of modeled microwave and indexed infrared emissivities to satellite retrieval
Benjamin Ruston, NRL, Monterey, CA, USA

II-8: Dependence of brightness temperature on bistatic scattering with applications to Antarctica
Christian Mätzler, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland

Session III: Emissivity retrieved from observations (Chairs: Dan Tarpley and Christian Mätzler)

III-1: A global infrared land surface emissivity database
Eva E. Borbas, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
III-2: Continental surface emissivity spectra retrieved from AIRS observations
E. Péquignot, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
III-3: Land surface emissivity retrieval from satellite data and ground-based measurements
J. A. Sobrino, Global Change Unit. Dpt. of Earth Physics and Thermodynamics, University of Valencia, Spain

10:40 June 21
+ 20mn break
11:00 June 21
III-4: Mapping land surface emissivity with multispectral thermal infrared data from space
Thomas Schmugge, New Mexico State University, New Mexico, US
III-5: Producing realistic emissivity maps from SEVIRI/MSG
Isabel Trigo, Centro Geofísico da Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Meteorologia, Lisboa, Portugal
III-6: Microwave land surface emissivities over the globe for a decade
Catherine Prigent, LERMA/CNRS, Observatiore de Paris, France
III-7: Error sources and their minimization in AMSR-E and SSM/I land surface microwave emissivity retrievals
Pan Liang, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., Lexington, MA, USA
III-8: Microwave emissivity retrieval over ocean in clear, cloudy, and precipitating conditions. Validation using satellite sensors and airborne GPS-dropsondes
Sid-Ahmed Boukabara, IMSG Inc., NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Springs, USA
III-9: Review of surface emissivities measured at 4.9, 10.4, 21, 35, and 94 GHz for different surface conditions
Christian Mätzler, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland

13:00 June 21
+ 1hr lunch
14:00 June 21
III-10: Land surface emissivities calculated from TMI, SSM/I, and AMSU observations: parameterization of the frequency, angular, and polarization dependences and comparison with model results
Catherine Prigent, LERMA/CNRS, Observatiore de Paris, France

III-11: Anomalious Surface Characters

Norman Grody, IMSG@NOAA, Camp Spring, MD, USA

Discussion about emissivity modeling and retrievals from satellite
16:00 June 21
+ 20mn break
16:20 June 21

Session IV: Satellite retrievals of atmospheric and surface parameters over continental surfaces (Chairs: Thomas Schmugge and José Sobrino)

IV-1: Retrieval of Land Surface Temperatures from Infrared High Spectral Resolution Satellite Observations: AIRS, IASI, and CrIS
Robert O. Knuteson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
IV-2: Ozone column retrieval using the 9.7 micron band satellite observations
F. Karcher, Météo-France CNRM, Toulouse
17:20 June 21 - Everyone is invited to a breif réception in the salle Cassini

9:00 June 22

IV-3: Comparison of land surface skin temperature derived from operational NWP modeling and data assimilation systems, LDAS, satellite retrieval, and ground observations
Jesse Meng, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD, USA
IV-4: Regression of Surface Emissivity from AIRS
Lihang Zhou, QSS Group at NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD, USA

IV-5: Extending retrieval of total water vapour over the Arctic from AMSU-B data using surface emissivity information
Christian Melsheimer, Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Germany
IV-6: Surface emissivity and temperature profile retrieval from AMSU in polar regions
Nizy Mathew, Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Germany
IV-7: Effective temperature for L-band radiometry
P. de Rosnay, CESBIO, Toulouse, France

10:40 June 22
+ 20mn break
11:00 June 22
IV-8: An emissivity-temperature separation algorithm for the 19 and 37 GHz SSM/I brightness temperatures over Northern land surface without snow
Alain Royer, Centre d'applications et de recherches en télédétection, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Discussion
13:00 June 22

1st Workshop on Surface Properties> Program

Advance Program 1st Workshop on Remote Sensing and Modeling of Surface Properties

Advance Program

1st Workshop on Remote Sensing and Modeling of Surface Properties