Session 8A Research to Operations Progress in GNSS Radio Occultations for Numerical Weather Prediction and Ionospheric Studies: Part I

Wednesday, 9 January 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
North 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Submitters:
Changyong Cao, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/SMCD, College Park, DC; Richard Ullman, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis, Silver Spring, MD and Stephen A. Mango, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis, Silver Spring, MD
Cochairs:
Richard Ullman, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis, Silver Spring, MD and Changyong Cao, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/SMCD, College Park, DC

Papers:
8:30 AM
8A.1
NOAA Observing Architecture for GNSS Radio Occultation Observation
Richard E. Ullman, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and F. W. Gallagher III

9:00 AM
8A.2
Recent Advances in GNSS-RO Technology and Their Potential Impacts on Operational Weather Forecasting
Erin M. Lynch, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/Satellite Meteorology and Climatology Division, College Park, MD; and C. Cao
9:15 AM
8A.3
9:30 AM
8A.4
Advance GNSSRO Data Assimilation and Support Transition(s) to Operations at JCSDA
Hui Shao, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Vandenberghe, H. Zhang, S. Dutta, and J. G. Yoe
9:45 AM
8A.5
Spire Global Radio Occultation Data: Capabilities and First Results
Victoriya Forsythe, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK; and D. Hampton
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