Concordiasi meeting at Météo-France (Toulouse, France) - 10 & 11 December 2008

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

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Agenda:

 Opening and Welcome (Florence Rabier)

 Concordiasi status (Florence Rabier)

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 WWRP, IPY and Concordiasi (David Parsons)

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 Model and Data analysis at Concordia (Christophe Genthon)

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 The atmospheric infrared spectra in polar regions (Michael Town)

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 Status of AIRS/IASI assimilation at ECMWF, monitoring of Concordia and Dumont d’Urville soundings (Anthony McNally)

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 Status of AIRS/IASI assimilation at Meteo-France (Vincent Guidard)

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 Developments for data assimilation over Antarctica and monitoring of Concordia and Dumont d’Urville soundings (Aurélie Bouchard)

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 IASI assimilation for chemistry applications (Laaziz El Amraoui)

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 Initial Environmental Evaluation (Yves Frenot)

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 Balloon development and initial results from T-PARC (Philippe Cocquerez)

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 Driftsonde development and initial results from T-PARC (Terry Hock)

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 Targeting strategy for Concordiasi: satellite overpasses and meteorology (Alexis Doerenbecher)

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