General

All,

As most of you know, Axel Von Engeln resigned as IROWG Co-Chair during IROWG-4 in Melbourne in April.  Axel served IROWG and did much of the heavy lifting for us for many years.  His support in establishing and determining the direction of this group was appreciated by all of us, and helped put us on the map with CGMS and WMO as well as RO scientists worldwide, and we will miss his leadership.  The news I have is that I have also decided to resign.  The result is, we need to identify 2 new co-chairs for IROWG.  After conferring with chairs from the other CGMS groups and discussing this with management who appointed me to this position, we have decided to follow the method that International TOVS Working Group (ITOVS) has been using for many years – democratic process via email.  The requirements for this position are:

1.  Reasonable knowledge and experience in the field of GNSS Radio Occultation
2.  Time and funding to devote to performing duties as a IROWG co-chair – including some minimal travel
3.  Willing to serve for up to 5 years
4.  Backing of a member country/agency for some minimal support for the IROWG Working Group Meetings (desired)

Tony Mannucci and I are going to request that if you would like to be considered for IROWG co-chair, that you send your request to be nominated to Tony (email: anthony.j.mannucci at jpl.nasa.gov) by August 31, 2015.  The list of self nominees will then be vetted to assure nominees meet above requirements.  Pending a sufficient number of nominees, we plan to request that IROWG members vote for the 2 nominees of their choice via email.

Best Regards

Dave Ector, Chair, IROWG with

Tony Mannucci, Rapporteur

Dear Colleagues,

the IROWG mailing list irowglist@irowg.org, which was so far hosted in Sweden, has now been moved to EUMETSAT.

Updated information is available at: https://irowg.org/further-information/mailing-list/

All current members of the “old” mailing list have been migrated. Also, the mailing list email addresses have not changed! The new mailing list differs however in some respects from the old one:

1. it has no archive (was not really used) 2. it has no member admin section (was used by very few members)

Kind regards,

Axel von Engeln

Dear Friends of RO,

the deadline for abstract submission to IROWG-4 is getting closer:  28th of February 2015. Registration and abstract submission as well as further information for IROWG-4 is available at:

http://cawcr.gov.au/events/IROWG-4/

Please also take note of the following information provided by the local
organizers:

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   Dear Colleagues,

    Preparations for IROWG-4 are well underway and we look forward to welcoming
    you at the Bureau of Meteorology in Melbourne. We are now in the process of
    putting together a draft program and need an indication of who will attend
    this conference.
   
    We would be very pleased if you could indicate your intention to attend this
    conference. This will help us in our preparations. We would be grateful if you
    could respond by the end of this month.
   
    Looking forward to meeting you in Melbourne.
  
   Regards,

   The local IROWG-4 organizing committee.

   IMPORTANT DATES:
       Abstract Deadline: 28 February 2015.
       Registration Payment due: 9 March 2015

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Kind regards,

         John LeMarshall, Kefei Zhang
         IROWG-4 Organizing Committee
         Dave Ector & Axel von Engeln
         Co-chairs IROWG
         http://www.irowg.org

Dear Friends of RO,

the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to end of February 2015.

Kind regards,

John LeMarshall, Kefei Zhang
IROWG-4 Organising Committee
Dave Ector & Axel von Engeln
Co-chairs IROWG

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Dear Friends of RO,

most of you already know place, time of the 4th IROWG workshop: it is going to be in Melbourne, Australia from the 16th to 22nd of April 2015. The workshop is hosted by The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research (CAWCR).

Registration and abstract submission as well as further information for
IROWG-4 is now available at:

http://cawcr.gov.au/events/IROWG-4/

Deadline for submission is the 15th of January 2015.

Kind regards,

John LeMarshall, Kefei Zhang
IROWG-4 Organising Committee
Dave Ector & Axel von Engeln
Co-chairs IROWG

Dear Friends of RO,

most of you already know place, time of the 4th IROWG workshop: it is going to be in Melbourne, Australia from the 16th to 22nd of April 2015. The workshop is hosted by The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research (CAWCR).

Registration and abstract submission as well as further information for IROWG-4 is now available at:

http://cawcr.gov.au/events/IROWG-4/

Deadline for submission is the 15th of January 2015.

Kind regards,

        John LeMarshall, Kefei Zhang
        IROWG-4 Organising Committee
        Dave Ector & Axel von Engeln
        Co-chairs IROWG
        http://www.irowg.org

All

we still have a few spaces available at the ROM SAF workshop. Please register if you would like to attend.

The closing date for registration is May 22, but we will consider late applications.

See:

http://old.ecmwf.int/newsevents/meetings/workshops/2014/GPS_Radio_Occultation/

 Sean

     * 1st Announcement * May 14, 2014 * 1st Announcement *

Dear Friends of RO,

we are pleased to announce that the next CGMS “International Radio Occultation Working Group” workshop (IROWG-4) will be hosted at the Bureau of Meteorology (http://www.bom.gov.au/) and the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research (http://www.cawcr.gov.au/) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia from 16th to 22nd of April 2015. Please mark these days in your calendar.

Further information on registration, program, etc will follow soon and will also be available at http://www.irowg.org.

Kind regards,

       Dave Ector & Axel von Engeln / Tony Mannucci

       Co-chairs / Rapporteur IROWG

       http://www.irowg.org

       John LeMarshall

       Bureau of Meteorology in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

       http://www.bom.gov.au/, http://www.cawcr.gov.au/

Dear Friends of RO,

the full meeting minutes / summary of OPAC-5 & IROWG-3 have now been finalised and are available at:

http://www.irowg.org/workshops/

The recently provided IROWG documents on:

– Critical Impact of the potential Delay or Descoping of the COSMIC-2/FORMOSAT-7 Programme, IROWG/DOC/2013/0

– Status of the Global Observing System for Radio Occultation (Update 2013), IROWG/DOC/2013/02

are also available.

You might note that we updated the IROWG website, which is now hosted by EUMETSAT. This will give us easier update options, e.g. allowing members of IROWG to work on certain pages. Early next year we will also include further pages on ROTrends, the RO-CLIM SCOPE-CM project, and how RO data is assimilated in NWP models.

The new website offers several other new features, e.g. RSS. We will further explore that and also try e.g. the meeting calendar next year.

For those of you entering the festive season, enjoy and talk to you again next year. Kind regards,

        Dave Ector & Axel von Engeln
        Co-Chairs IROWG
        http://www.irowg.org