Agenda, IOMASA Progress Meeting 1
                                24/25 April, 2003
                          DMI, Copenhagen, Denmark


Start: Apr 24: 9.30 a.m.
       Apr 25: 9.30 a.m.
Expected End: Apr 25, 15.00 p.m.

1. Introductory items:
    · Welcome addresses by coordinating Partner and EU
    · Tour-the-table for presentation of attendees
    · Short reminder of the origin of the initiative

2. User Advisory Group (UAG)
  Rationale for the formation of the UAG
    · purpose: dialogue with end users in the below-mentioned fields
    · introduction of UAG members and their specific fields

3. Project Overview for the UAG members:
    · Summary and Innovation
    · Project logic graphic
    · Project Structure: 5 Parts and 4 Phases
    · Work breakdown and Deliverables, see table, 1/WP

4. Presentation of the five Project Parts for the UAG by steering committee
  members, each presentation covering:
    - state of the art and partner's experience relevant to IOMASA
    - partner's aspiration with regard to IOMASA
    - short description of the project part,

    · Part 1 (IUP):
      Remote sensing of atmospheric parameters:
       - Total Water Vapour (TWV)
       - Cloud Liquid Water (CLW)
       - Surface emissivity at T-sounder frequencies

    · Part 2 (met.no, SMHI):
      Improving numerical weather prediction models
       - TWV assimilation
       - Temperature Sounding
       - Surface Flux

    · Part 3 (DTU-DCRS):
      Empirical models for emissivity and backscatter of sea ice:
       - Forward model
       - Snow
       - AMSR (together with IUP)

    · Part 4 (DMI + met.no):
      Sea ice concentration retrieval

    · Part 5 (DTU-DCRS + DMI):
      Demonstration of real time processing and user interface.

5. Review of Phase 1: Results of Phase 1 of each Partner:

    · Part 1 (IUP): WP 1.1: Sensor data and day 0 algorithms
       - sensor data of agreed periods of investigation
       - radiosonde data
       - day 0 algorithms for
          - total water vapor,
          - cloud liquid water path, and
          - literature study on sea ice emissivity at temperature sounding
            frequencies and incidence angles.
          - validation of total water vapor with GPS (J. Miao)

    · Part 2 (met.no,SMHI): WP 2.1: Prepare NWP activities
       - report on setup of operational data stream
       - setup to provide 2 years of NWP fields: wind, TWV, LWP, Ts.

    · Part 3 (DTU): WP 3.1: Prepare sea ice modeling activities
      Presentation of
       - day 0 model of emissivity of sea ice
       - 20 years of daily SMMR and SSM/I data
       - 2 years of swath data
       - datasets from airborne field campaigns
       - snow data of NSIDC
       - setup to collect Arctic precipitation and temperature data from
         HIRLAM model
 
   · Part 4 (DMI): WP 4.1: Prepare sea ice concentration retrieval
       - SSM/I and Quikscat data for 2 years from archives of DMI
       - SAR data and ice analyses from archives of DMI
       - additional SAR data
       - day 0 algorithms and models:
          - microwave radiative transfer
          - Ku-band wind model
          - ice concentration from SSM/I
          - ice type from Quikscat
          - synergistic SSM/I-Quikscat ice concentration algorithm

     · Part 5 (DTU-DCRS): WP 5.1: Preparation of Real time processing and
        user interface:
         - define software interfaces and schedules for real time production of
           atmospheric and sea ice parameters
         - define data formats for atmospheric and sea ice parameters

 6. Review of Phase 1: Are we ready to start Phase 2?

 7. Feedback from UAG members

 8. Action items for PM1:
      - Name and discuss results (deliverables, output) for TIP
      - Input for Management Progress Report due end of May

 9. Project management:
     · Report duties, table of reports
     · Next meetings: Fix places and dates

10. Additional topics:
     · IOMASA brochure
     · AMSR

11. Any other business

12. End of formal part, optional scientific discussions





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