Announcement

Dec 20 2023

Save the Dates: IROWG – 10, 12-18 September 2024, Boulder, CO, US

 

Update on March 20, 2024: IROWG-10 is now open for abstract submission. Registration will be open in mid April. Please check the event webpage for latest information.

Dear IROWG,

Please mark your calendars for IROWG-10 to be held from September 12 to 18, 2024, at the UCAR campus in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Currently, teams from UCAR/COSMIC and JCSDA are actively coordinating the logistics for the event. More comprehensive details will be shared in the new year.

We eagerly anticipate your presence in Boulder in 2024!

More IROWG events can be found here.

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Dec 19 2023

Save the dates for IROWG ROMEX Workshop, April 17-19, 2024, Darmstadt, Germany

Dear all, 

We are going to have the ROMEX Workshop on April 17-19, 2024, a hybrid meeting hosted at EUMETSAT in Darmstadt, Germany.  Currently, EUMETSAT is working on logistic arrangements. The registration plans to open in Jan, 2024. Additional information about hotel booking, transportation, etc. will be provided then as well. 
 
We are currently planning for no registration fees.
More information about ROMEX can be found here. 

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Aug 10 2023

ROMEX Workshop – April 17-19, 2024-and planning survey

Note: The ROMEX Workshop has been confirmed. Therefore, the following survey has been closed. To register for the ROMEX Workshop, please go to the workshop website:

https://www.eventsforce.net/irowg-romex

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Dear ROMEX working group,

Please mark your calendars for the ROMEX Workshop on April 17-19, 2024, a hybrid meeting hosted at EUMETSAT in Darmstadt, Germany. After our recent ROMEX experimental design meeting, we agreed a formal meeting to discuss results together in a forum would be beneficial. EUMETSAT graciously offered to provide meeting space, coffee, lunches and one welcoming reception. We are currently planning for no or modest registration fees.

We’ve strategically chosen these dates to precede the CGMS WGII meeting (week of April 22), allowing us to present our findings and follow-up plans to the CGMS the following week.

Your participation either way is key, and we’re eager to gauge the level of interest in either in person or virtual participation. All ROMEX members are strongly recommended to participate. Please help us shape the workshop by taking a quick survey. Your input is valuable!

Here is the link to the workshop survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd663OdR5K1kH9_pq0DWDiNj5MrXgQ5D_aFFQTTvl1ue9emPw/viewform?usp=pp_url

If you have difficulties accessing this survey, you can just write back to me and let me know whether you plan to attend this workshop, in person or remote, and whether you need an official letter of invitation to the meeting. Collections of contributions and short abstracts will occur later as the ROMEX experiments begin, but the planning for this meeting is best to begin now.

Best regards,

Hui

On behalf of the ROMEX steering committee

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Jun 28 2023

CGMS-51 Plenary IROWG presentation available online

The CGMS-51 plenary session was held on 26-28 June 2023 in Tokyo, Japan. The meeting was open to CGMS members, observers and on invitation only. Uli presented IROWG recommendations as part of the CGMS-WG II presentations. The presentation has been uploaded to the IROWG webpage (under documents).

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Jun 28 2023

ROMEX: Data Terms and Conditions, NASA-spire data, and some other updates

Dear ROMEX working group,

I’m sending this email to update you since our last meeting in May. We will not have a June meeting since data is still being processed. However, this email will give you some information you have sought.

The Terms and Conditions for using ROMEX data are finalized and are ready to be signed. If you would like to use ROMEX data, please sign the document. This applies to data providers and processing centers and anybody else if you touch data beyond those from your organization.

The document (Terms and Conditions) is in the ROMEX Google folder (restricted to ROMEX participants only). Or you can use the document (pdf) on the IROWG webpage. We accept signatures by an organization or an individual. If an organization signs the letter, please indicate the POC (point of contact) for this organization. This POC will be responsible for receiving the password for the data FTP later. Also, this person will be contacted if there is a violation of the Terms and Conditions during ROMEX. If no POC is identified explicitly, we’ll contact the person who sent in the signature.

Please send the signed document to:

I’ll put a list of the signed organizations on the IROWG-ROMEX webpage later.
News about data:
A big THANK YOU to NASA and Spire! Now NASA-Spire data is available to us. So we are going to have extra data beyond what we already have. We will have about 35000-40000 profiles daily for the ROMEX testing period. Exact data counts will be available later.
What is going on now:
EUMETSAT is collecting data and processing them as necessary. Now EUMETSAT has received data from UCAR, NOAA, EUMETSAT, CMA, Yunyao, PlanetIQ, and GeoOptics and is working to receive data from Spire and Tianmu currently.
The steering committee just had a meeting (a couple of hours ago) with ROMSAF (Thanks to Kent and Santi) to finalize the data distribution procedure. You need to sign the Terms and Conditions, and, once ready, ROMSAF will give you a password to access some website/server. We are going to have some tests before finalizing the procedure.
The data link will be posted to the IROWG-ROMEX webpage later as well.
Last meeting minutes:
Please look at the last meeting minutes in our shared Google folder.  (Thanks to Rick for making the notes)
Next meeting:
We would like to have a meeting soon (probably in July) about data distribution and experiment design. Stay tuned!
I want to acknowledge everyone working hard to keep ROMEX moving forward. We are getting there!
Hui
On behalf of
ROMEX steering committee

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May 31 2023

The RO Modeling EXperiment (ROMEX) white paper available on the IROWG website

The ROMEX introduction and white paper are now available on the IROWG webpage under the Project tab-ROMEX.

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May 25 2023

Dates for IROWG-10 and potential inter-sessional meetings

Dear IROWG,
We are pleased to announce that UCAR/COSMIC and JCSDA will host our next IROWG workshop (IROWG-10). The workshop will be held over the UCAR campus in Boulder, Colorado, US, September 12-18, 2024.
Please note the dates are different from what we discussed from IROWG-9 due to some other related RO events happening at the end of this calendar year. To accommodate the gap between these two IROWG workshops and the upcoming CGMS-52 meetings in Spring 2024, inter-sessional meetings (virtual, around February-March 2024) are being considered at this point. We will iterate this idea with the IROWG subgroup lead. If you have any comments and ideas, please feel free to talk to any subgroup lead or communicate directly with us.
Hui Shao (IROWG co-chair)
on behalf of
Uli Foelsche and Tony Mannucci (IROWG co-chair and Rapporteur)
Jan Weiss and Ben Ruston (IROWG-10 organizing committee)

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Apr 21 2023

IROWG-9 meeting minutes and CGMS-51 documents available online

The IROWG-9 meeting minutes and the CGMS-51 working paper and presentations have been uploaded to the IROWG webpage (under documents).

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Jun 2 2022

June 6, 2022: Abstract Deadline for IROWG-9

Please submit your abstract before June 6 at:

https://opacirowg2022.uni-graz.at/en/

 

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Apr 22 2022

Hui Shao will be the next IROWG co-chair

Dear IROWG community,

We are very happy to report that Hui Shao (NOAA/Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation) will be our next IROWG co-chair.

The official inauguration will take place at the OPAC-IROWG workshop in September.

Thank you to all who participated in the voting process.

And a very big THANK YOU to Sean Healy for his many years of service for the IROWG community!

Sean will still be heavily involved in the preparation of the OPAC-IROWG and CGMS workshops and
then gradually hand over to Hui.

Tony Mannucci
IROWG Rapporteur

Uli Foelsche
IROWG Co-chair

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