A Concordiasi meeting was hosted by Météo-France in Toulouse, France.
Participants:
– CNES: Didier Renaut and Philippe Cocquerez
– IPEV: Yves Frénot
– LGGE: Christophe Genthon, Ghislain Picard, Hélène Castebrunet, Michael Town
– LMD: Albert Hertzog
– NCAR: Terry Hock Jack Fox, Hal Cole
– WMO (by teleconference): David Parsons
– ECMWF: Anthony McNally
– Météo-France: Eric Brun, Jean Pailleux, Florence Rabier, Alexis Doerenbecher, Vincent Guidard, Aurélie Bouchard, Fatima Karbou, Vincent-Henri Peuch and Laaziz El Amraoui
Minutes
Agenda:
– Opening and Welcome (Florence Rabier)
– Concordiasi status (Florence Rabier)
– WWRP, IPY and Concordiasi (David Parsons)
– Model and Data analysis at Concordia (Christophe Genthon)
– The atmospheric infrared spectra in polar regions (Michael Town)
– Status of AIRS/IASI assimilation at ECMWF, monitoring of Concordia and Dumont d’Urville soundings (Anthony McNally)
– Status of AIRS/IASI assimilation at Meteo-France (Vincent Guidard)
– Developments for data assimilation over Antarctica and monitoring of Concordia and Dumont d’Urville soundings (Aurélie Bouchard)
– IASI assimilation for chemistry applications (Laaziz El Amraoui)
– Initial Environmental Evaluation (Yves Frenot)
– Balloon development and initial results from T-PARC (Philippe Cocquerez)
– Driftsonde development and initial results from T-PARC (Terry Hock)
– Targeting strategy for Concordiasi: satellite overpasses and meteorology (Alexis Doerenbecher)