ROMEX

Aug 10 2023

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

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

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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