Announcement

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We are pleased to announce:

OPAC-IROWG 2016 International Workshop on Occultations for Probing Atmosphere and Climate
Joint OPAC-6 & IROWG-5 Workshop
September 8-14, 2016, Seggau Castle,
Leibnitz near Graz, Austria
http://wegcwww.uni-graz.at/opacirowg2016
https://irowg.org/workshops/irowg-5/

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An attractive forum for everybody interested in atmospheric remote sensing by occultation methods and/or the use of occultation data in atmospheric physics, chemistry, meteorology, and climate.
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The Joint OPAC-6 & IROWG-5 Workshop
will follow the objectives and the successful format of the OPAC series (see previous one at http://wegcwww.uni-graz.at/opacirowg2013).

The integrated 5th Workshop of the International Radio Occultation Working Group
(IROWG) will include working meetings. The permanent Working Group of the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS) focuses on the exchange of experiences in the exploitation of RO data for operational and research use.

Topical areas include:
+ Occultation methodology (generic aspects, math-phys basis, iono.
+ influences) Use of occultation data in atmospheric physics,
+ meteorology, and NWP Use of occultation data in climate monitoring and
+ research Specific occultation methods and related techniques (LEO,
+ stellar, solar/lunar, reflectometry) Occultations in ionosphere and
+ planetary science Future occultation missions

With growing impact and applications of radio occultation data and many exciting recent results from our community in different fields such as meteorology and climate science, it is just the right time to gather again.

You are cordially invited to join OPAC-IROWG 2016, the Joint OPAC-6 & IROWG-5 Workshop in Seggau Castle, Leibnitz near Graz, Austria, in September 2016.
Welcome!

U. Foelsche, A.K. Steiner, G. Kirchengast, (WEGC & IGAM UniGraz, AT), OPAC Chairs

S. Healy (ECMWF, Reading, UK), IROWG Co-Chair

A.J. Mannucci (JPL, Pasadena, USA), IROWG-CGMS Rapporteur

B. Kuo (UCAR, Boulder, USA), Co-Chair N. Yen (NSPO, Taipei, TW), Co-Chair

J. Wickert (GFZ Potsdam, DE), Co-Chair

A. von Engeln (EUMETSAT, DE), Co-Chair

The *2nd Announcement and Call for Papers* will follow by March 18, 2016, together with opening of our website http://wegcwww.uni-graz.at/opacirowg2016/.
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– Ulrich Foelsche

– Institute for Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Meteorology (IGAM)
– Institute of Physics, University of Graz
– Universitaetsplatz 5, 8010 Graz, Austria
– and
– Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (WEGC)
– University of Graz
– Brandhofgasse 5, 8010 Graz, Austria

– Tel: +43-316-380-8590 or -8433
– Fax: +43-316-380-9825 or -9830
– E-mail: ulrich.foelsche@uni-graz.at

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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