Benefit of the MTG candidate Infra-Red Sounding mission to regional forecast

Kick-Off Meeting

Lilly room, Foothills Lab, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, USA
18 January 2007

Participants: Rolf Stuhlmann, Stephen Tjemkes, Chris Snyder, Hans Huang, Xin Zhang, Dale Barker, Yongsheng Chen and Yongrun Guo

09:00 Rolf Stuhlmann and Stephen Tjemkes arrive at FL.

10:00 Welcome. Chris Snyder
10:10 Welcome. Hans Huang
10:15 MTG, MTG-IRS and MTG-IRS-OSSE. Rolf and Stephen
11:15 Break
11:30 MTG-IRS-OSSE work plan. Hans Huang
12:15 Work lunch: discussion on the general strategy.
14:00 The nature run. Hongli Wang (presented by Hans Huang)
14:30 Discussion on deliverables.
17:00 Summary and close of the meeting. Hans Huang

19 January 2007
09:30 Radar OSSE. Jenny Sun.
10:00 COSMIC. Bill Kuo