Seminar on application of GNSS, SAR and NWP models for atmosphere studies

October 11-13, 2016 Politecnico di Milano – Como Campus – Palazzo Natta

Tuesday 11  

Review of the state-of-the-art (1) 

10:00-11:00 Current status of GNSS meteorology in Japan (Y. Shoji)

11:00-12:00 Overview of numerical weather prediction (NWP) and data assimilation (T. Kawabata)

12:00-14:00 Lunch 

14:00-15:00 Overview of GNSS processing strategies for meteorological applications (G. Venuti, A. Fermi)

15:00-16:00 Overview of GNSS processing software and implementation of tropospheric delay estimation in goGPS (E. Realini)

16:00-16:15 Coffee break 

16:15-17:15 Densification of the German GPS network with single frequency GPS receivers (Z. Deng)

Wednesday 12

  On-going projects and experiments

9:15-9:45 Ship-board GNSS-PWV measurement (Y. Shoji)

9:45-10:15 Assimilation of slant total delay into a NWP model (T. Kawabata)

10:15-10:45 2D PWV monitoring on a orographically complex area with a low dense GNSS network (I. Ferrando, B. Federici, D. Sguerso)

10:45-11:00 Coffee break 

11:00-11:30 Real-time PWV monitoring with a hyper dense GNSS network (T. Tsuda, N. Ito)

11:30-12:00 GNSS meteorology researches in Rome area (A. Mascitelli)

12:00-14:00 Lunch 

Review of the state-of-the-art (2) 

14:00-15:00 GNSS-RO for weather and climate applications (R. Biondi)

15:00-16:00 The ROM SAF GNSS Processing and Archiving Center (GPAC): Status of Near Real-Time Data Generation and Reprocessing Efforts (S. Syndergaard)

16:00-16:15 Coffee break 

16:15-17:15 GNSS-RO for atmosphere dynamics (T. Tsuda)

Thursday 13

Prospective projects 

10:00-10:45 SAR and GNSS experiments in the SYNERGY project (A. Monti Guarnieri)

10:45-11:30 Hyper-dense GNSS network in Tokyo (Y. Shoji)

11:30-12:00 BRIGAID project: experiments with dense networks in the Netherlands and Italy (E. Realini)

12:00-15:00 Walk to Como city center and lunch 

15:00-… Informal talks and networking while sightseeing Como city center

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