Announcement

     * 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