GSICS Annual Meeting 2026: Microwave Sub-Group Breakout Session II 2026-03-25

GSICS Annual Meeting 2026 Day 3: 25-Mar-26 Microwave Sub-Group Breakout Session II Session Chair: Shengli Wu/ Tim Hewison (Before/After Break) Time(EDT) Topic Presenter Item 08:00 Recap of Session I + Introduction to Session II Shengli Wu/Flavio Iturbide 4n In Person 08:10 Early on-board calibration and cross-calibration results of GOSAT-GW/AMSR3 Misako Kachi (JAXA) 4o Remote (Japan) […]

GSICS Annual Meeting 2026: Microwave Sub-Group Breakout Session I 2026-03-24

GSICS Annual Meeting 2026 Day 2: 24-Mar-26 Microwave Sub-Group Breakout Session I Session Chair: Shengli Wu/ Tim Hewison (Before/After Break) Time(EDT) Topic Presenter Item 08:00 Introduction to Microwave Session Shengli Wu/Flavio Iturbide 4a In Person 08:10 In-Orbit Performance and Calibration Stability Assessment of the L-band Aperture Synthesis Microwave Radiometer (LASMR) on HY-4A Xiaojiao Yang (XISRT) […]

GSICS Microwave Sub-Group/ Lunar Calibration Group meeting 2026-07-03

GSICS Microwave Sub-Group/ Lunar Calibration Focus Group meeting 2026-07-03 Presentation AWS Lunar Pointing Calculation, Hu (Tiger) Yang, NASA Attendees Niutao Liu (Fudan U.) Shengli Wu (CMA) Tiger Hu (UMD) Martin Burgdorf (U Hamburg) Yang Gou (CMA) Tim Hewison (EUMETSAT) Catalina Medina (U Bern) Summary This meeting focused on lunar calibration activities for the Arctic Weather […]

GSICS Microwave Sub-Group/ Plotting Tool Requirements Meeting 2026-05-21

GSICS Microwave Sub-Group/ Plotting Tool Requirements Meeting 2026-05-21 Agenda EUMETSAT MATRICS – Jagjeet Nain EUMETSAT New GSICS Plotter – Thomas Honig EUMETSAT Old Plotting Tool– Tim Hewison NOAA ICVS + iSensor-RCBA – Ninghai Sun & Banghua Yan CMA NSMC FY Cal/Val IPM Attendees EUMETSAT: Tim Hewison (Chair), Ali Mousivand, Thomas Honig, Jagjeet Nain NOAA: Ninghai […]

GSICS Microwave Sub-Group/ Lunar Calibration Focus Group meeting 2026-03-11

GSICS Microwave Sub-Group/ Lunar Calibration Focus Group meeting 2026-03-11 Agenda Martin Burgdorf (University of Hamburg) – The Annual Variation in the Moon’s Brightness Temperature Dezhang Li (Fudan University) – Initial analysis of Lunar Intrusion Events in AWS Deep-Space Views Tim Hewison (EUMETSAT) – AWS Lunar Intrusion Analysis Attendees Tim Hewison (Chair) TBD Quick Recap The […]

GSICS Microwave SNO / Vicarious Calibration Focus Group meeting 2025-11-13

GSICS Microwave SNO / Vicarious Calibration Focus Group meeting 2025-11-13 GSICS Microwave SNO/Vicarious Calibration Focus Group meeting Agenda Noemie Lalau (Magellium) – Contribution of microwave radiometer calibration to altimeter uncertainty budgets Jorge Gill (Deimos-Indra) – Spectral Band Adjustment Factors to account for SRF differences Joe Munchak (Tomorrow.io) – Inter-calibration of Tomorrow.io Microwave Sounder constellation Attendees […]

2025-10-31 Executive Meeting of MW Sub-Group

2025-10-31 Executive Meeting of MW Sub-Group Dear all, As confirmed in the Doodle poll, our next Executive Meeting will take place on 31 October at: 20:00 Beijing Time(BJT) 08:00 New York Time(EST) 13:00 Central Europe Time(CET)   Draft agenda 1.Focus-group roadmap 2.Action-item review 3.Annual-meeting planning 4.MetOp-SG briefing schedule 5.AOB – e.g., prospective new members Please […]

GSICS Microwave SNO/Vicarious Calibration Focus Group meeting 2025-06-24

GSICS Microwave SNO/Vicarious Calibration Focus Group meeting 2025-06-24 GSICS Microwave SNO/Vicarious Calibration Focus Group meeting Agenda Luka Muser (DWD): Analysis of inhomogeneities within satellite footprints Shannon Brown (NASA-JPL): Vicarious Calibration algorithms applied to Sentinel-6 AMR/HRMR Tim Hewison (EUMETSAT) – EPS-Sterna Inter-calibration Constellation Implementation Plan Attendees Guest Chair: ?? CMA: ?? CNES: ?? EUMETSAT: ?? IMD: […]

GRWG Web Meeting 2025-05-09

GRWG Web Meeting 2025-05-09 GSICS Microwave Radiometer Technology and Instrument Pre-Launch Testing and Post-Launch Characterization (TT) Focus Group Meeting Agenda Recommendation of SRF netCDF convention Ed Kim (NASA) – NEON/SMBA Draft Requirements Attendees Jon Mittaz (U Reading) Juyang Hu (CMA) Karsten Fennig (DWD) Shengli Wu (CMA) Tiger Yang (U Maryland, NASA) Tim Hewison (EUMETSAT) Dazhen […]

GSICS Annual Meeting 2025: Microwave Sub-Group Breakout Session II 2025-03-19

GSICS Annual Meeting 2025: 19-Mar-25 Microwave Sub-Group Breakout Session II Time Topic Presenter Agenda item 14:40 Highlights of ESA’s microwave activities Raffaele Crapolicchio, ESA 7j 15:00 Introduction to the EPS-Sterna inter-calibration study Tim Hewison 7k 15:20 Monitoring of FY-3 in-orbit microwave instruments’ performances using radiative transfer models and NWP Fangli Dou (CMA) 7l 15:40 Coffee […]