The Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) series of future European geostationary meteorological missions consists of two satellites: the imaging satellites (MTG-I) and the sounding satellites (MTG-S). The Infrared Sounder (IRS) is one of the two instruments hosted on board the MTG-S satellites.
The scope of the IRS mission is to provide the user community with information on time evolution of humidity and temperature distribution, as function of latitude, longitude and altitude. In this context, EUMETSAT has established the IRS mission advisory group (IRS-MAG) with the mandate of providing independent advice on the scientific concepts, cal/val approaches, and data usability of the IRS mission.
Objectives and outcomes
The proceedings and outcomes of the meeting can be found in the minutes of the meeting.
Programme and reports
24 January
Title | Presenter/s |
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Review of actions | All |
Instrument status, testing results, data availability. Plus discussion | ESA/All |
Calibration ringing and its correction. Plus discussion | Pierre Dussarrat/All |
Progress on straylight analysis and correction. Plus discussion | Pierre Dussarrat/All |
Status of the IDPF-S. Plus discussion | Domenico Schiavulli/All |
Test data. Plus discussion | Thomas August/All |
IASI-A end-of-life testing | Bertrand Theodore |
L2 Assimilation/Reconstructed radiances/GIIRS assimilation/HSIR data for ocean studies | Tony McNally |
Update on the use of reconstructed radiances | Pierre-François Coheur |
Use of reconstructed radiance in ICON | Christina Köpkens-Watts |
Assimilation of IRS in NWP | Nadia Fourrie |
Next meeting tentative date: week 41/42 2022
Participants
The IRS-MAG members
- Nigel Atkinson (Met Office – UK)
- Claude Camy-Peyret (IPSL – France)
- Dorothee Coppens (EUMETSAT) – co-chair
- Pierre-François Coheur (ULB – Belgium)
- Nadia Fourrie (Météo-France - France)
- Flavio Iturbide (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR – USA)
- Christina Köpkens-Watts (DWD – Germany)
- Miguel A. Martinez (AEMET – Spain)
- Tony McNally (ECMWF)
- Johannes Orphal (KIT – Germany)
- Herve Roquet (Météo-France – France) – co-chair
- Dave Tobin (CIMSS – USA)
ESA
- Daniel Lamarre
- Tobias Guggenmoser
EUMETSAT
- Thomas August
- Guillaume Deschamps
- Pierre Dussarrat
- Cedric Goukenleuque
- Jochen Grandell
- Tim Hultberg
- Domenico Schiavulli
- Bertrand Theodore
IRS-MAG secretary
Bertrand Theodore
Remote Sensing and Products Division (RSP)
EUMETSAT
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