Announcements

Dear IROWG, The Polarimetric Radio Occultation (PRO) Workshop will be held next week, November 10–12, in Darmstadt, Germany with remote access. The workshop agenda is now available online . If you still would like to participate in this workshop remotely, please register through the website.  The remote access information will be sent to you. In case you have ...

Dear all, The “3rd GNSS Polarimetric Radio Occultations Workshop” will take place 10-12 November 2025, at the EUMETSAT headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany. Registration is now available at the workshop main page. Deadline is 25 Oct 2025.  This third workshop follows on to the “2nd GNSS Polarimetric Radio Occultation workshop” from 2023. It represents a forum for addressing multiple ...

Dear all, I’m pleased to announce that the Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT) special issue titled“The Radio Occultation Modeling EXperiment (ROMEX): observational quality, processing, and numerical weather prediction (NWP) applications”is now open for submissions. ROMEX, an IROWG-led initiative, aims to assess the impact of ~35,000 daily radio occultation (RO) profiles—collected from 13 missions during September–November 2022—on numerical weather ...

Dear IROWG, This week marks the CGMS-53 Working Group meeting. Our IROWG documents and presentations – building on insights from IROWG-10 and the Second ROMEX Workshop – have been uploaded to the IROWG website: IROWG Documents (CGMS-53 Documents) They are also available on the CGMS-53 website under the WGII tab: CGMS-53 Website A huge thank you to everyone who contributed ...

Dear All, We have completed the transition of the IROWG email list. The previous address, irowglist@irowg.org, is now officially retired. Going forward, all IROWG announcements will be sent to the new email address. The IROWG website has also been updated with the latest contact information. Please help spread the word within your networks. I would like to extend ...

This is a friendly reminder that we will fully switch to the new mailing list address (announcements@lists.irowg.org) on Dec 15, 2024 (in four days). After the transition day, all announcements relevant to the IROWG community will use the new email list. Only the subscribed members can send posts to this email list. If not yet, please subscribe to the list at https://lists.irowg.org. The new platform at https://lists.irowg.org offers several ...

Hi all, In looking further at the new BUFR sequence, we have been asked the question whether the 1D-Var products (temperature, pressure and specific humidity) and the surface quantities (surface pressure, geopotential height of surface) are required. These are referred to as Level2b and Level2c products in the ROM SAF BUFR description: https://rom-saf.eumetsat.int/romsaf_bufr.pdf We are thinking that NWP ...

Dear IROWG/ROMEX community, You are cordially invited to attend the second IROWG ROMEX (ROMEX-2) Workshop, taking place from February 25–27, 2025, at EUMETSAT Headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany. Initial results of ROMEX activities were discussed at the First IROWG ROMEX workshop in February 2024 and during the IROWG-10 meeting in September 2024 . The Second ROMEX workshop aims to finalize and ...

Dear Friends of IROWG, As discussed during the IROWG-10 workshop, we are transitioning the IROWG mailing list to a new service provider. The time has come to make this move. What You Need to Do  (for existing subscribers) You should have received an email (as of Nov 18, 2024) from our new mailing list address:     announcements@lists.irowg.org This email will ...

Mark your calendars for the IROWG-11 Workshop, which will take place from September 10 to 16, 2026, at Seggau Castle, Austria. This workshop will be held in conjunction with OPAC-8. We look forward to your participation!