Bredbeck Workshop - Program 2005

Monday, 20. 6. 

10:00: Bus leaves from University of Bremen (in front of the NW1 building) 

12:30: Lunch

13:30: Welcome (Stefan Bühler)

14:00: Introduction of participants

Afternoon session: talks

14:30: Intercomparison of ECMWF stratospheric humidity with airbone microwe measurements by Dietrich Feist 

15:00: Problems with kernel matrices for a retrieval of H2O using Arts and Qpack by Stefan Müller

15:30: Comparison of AMSU-B brightness temperatures simulated by RTTOV-7 and ARTS by Nathalie Courcoux

16:00: Coffee break

16:30: Total water vapor retrieval in polar regions using AMSU-B by Christian Melsheimer

16:50: Presentation of the working group program

18:00: Dinner

Tuesday, 21. 6. 

8:30: Breakfast

The whole day is planned for working groups. Two working groups will take
place simultaneously for each of the sessions (9:30-11:00, 11:00-12:30,
14:00-16:00, 16:00-18:00), coffee breaks will take place between the sessions 
at 11:00 and 16:00. 


9:30-11:00:

    

  •  Scattering models

  •  ARTS users (ARTS + Qpack)

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11:00-12:30:

    

  •  Cloud ice microphysical assumptions

  •  ARTS Beamcat

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12:45: Lunch 

14:00-16:00:

    

  •  New ARTS development

  •  AMSU UTH and climatology

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16:00-18:00:

    

  •  New ARTS development

  •  ECMWF-AMSU comparison

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18:00: Dinner (probably barbecue depending on the weather)

Wednesday, 22. 6.

8:30: Breakfast

Morning session: reports and talks

9:30: Reports of working groups which took place on Tuesday 
(some more time for the working group reports is allocated on thursday morning)

10:00: Odin-SMR cloud ice retrieval by Patrick Eriksson

10:30: Coffee break

10:45: Aura-MLS cloud observations by Cory Davis

11:15: Generation of a cirrus retrieval test data base by Bengt Rydberg

11:45: Pseudophysical rt-modelling for emitting and scattering atmospheres by Jana Mendrok

12:15: Overview of inverting models using MCMC algorithms by Mathias Palm

12:45: Lunch

Afternoon session: working groups

The afternoon will be devoted to working groups. Two or three  working groups
will take place simultaneously for each of the sessions (14:00-16:00 and 
16:00-18:00), a coffee break will take place between the sessions 
at 16:00.
14:00-16:00: 

    

  •  Cloud retrieval (methods)

  •  RT model requirements for new missions/new instruments

  •  It is possible to add a ARTS users working group here if needed

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16:00-18:00: 

    

  •  Cloud retrieval (results)

  •  This session is free for now,ideas are welcome to fill it! 

  •  It is possible to add a ARTS users working group here if needed

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Thursday, 23. 6.

8:30: Breakfast

9:30: Reports of working groups

11:00: Feedback

11:30: Future plans

12:00: Close

12:30: Lunch

14:00: Bus leaves to Bremen

15:00: Arrival in Bremen