First meeting: Agenda and presentations

Session 1: 20 November 9-10:30: Introduction

  • ISSI welcome 
  • Basic introductions, we can make sure we all know each other)  
  • Review goals of team to, confirm a common understand, adjust where needed (S. English to give a very short overview presentation, followed by round table discussion). 

10:30 Break

Session 2: 20 November 11-17:30 and 21 November 9-12:15: Team member presentations (25 minutes per presentation, including discussion time)

Overview of models: theoretical aspects (20th: 11-12:15) 

  1. Catherine Prigent: Geometric optics models 
  2. Simon Yueh: Two scale models
  3. Maggie Anguelova: Foam models

Overview of models: practical aspects (20 November 14-15:40) 

  1. Jacqueline Boutin: The LOCEAN model 
  2. Thomas Meissner: The RSS model
  3. Stephen English: The Fastem model
  4. Ad Stoffelen: GMFs for active observations

15:40 Break

Evaluation of models (20 November 16:10-17.10 and 21 November 9-10:15) 

  1. Lise Kilic: Evaluation of LOCEAN, RSS and Fastem models 
  2. Masahiro Kazumori: Evaluation and improvements of the microwave ocean surface emissivity model FASTEM
  3. Alexandre Supply: Consistency of various microwave SST products with SMOS measurements in the Arctic Ocean
  4. Mike Bettenhausen: Evaluation of ocean emissivity models for polarimetric microwave radiometers
  5. Emmanel Dinnat: Comparison of models for sea water dielectric constant and wind (surface roughness and foam) at low microwave frequencies.

10:15 Break

Use of models (21 November 10:45-11:45) 

  1. Ben Johnson: CRTM ocean emissivity model application 
  2. Fuzhong Weng: ARMS ocean emissivitity model application
  3. Stu Newman: RTTOV ocean emissivity model application
  4. Christophe Accadia: Emission model requirements for next generation satellite instruments

Discussion or organisation of discussion sessions (21 November 11:45-12.00)

Session 3 21 November 14-17:30 and 22 November 9-12:30: Science Discussion

Given what we want to create (from session 1) and information on what team members can bring to the activity (from session 2), we identify where are there gaps, what needs to be developed, how we address this.  

  • Permittivity models (session chair: Thomas Meissner) (~2 hours)
  • Roughness models (session chair: Simon Yueh) (~2 hours)
  • Foam (session chair: Maggie Anguelova) (~2 hours)

Session 4: 22 November 14-15:30: Planning  

Given aspiration from Session 3 what is feasible given resources we have, what can team members commit to for this, what additional resources should we actively try to seek to allow this to happen, how will we do this. 

Reporting. How will we reporting outcome of this meeting . 

  • It was decided to write a report, with plan, actions and summary of science. A summary of this will be submitted to BAMS meeting reports.

Next meeting schedule. 

  • It was decided to meet again in November 2020, and have a telecall in Spring 2020.

Draft report will be linked here when agreed (Full version, BAMS version).