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Concordiasi Workshop in Toulouse 29-31 March 2010 - Presentations

Issued Thursday 25 March 2010.


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Monday 29 March 2010

INTRODUCTION TO THE CONCORDIASI PROJECT

(Chair: Vincent Guidard)

Philippe Bougeault (CNRM-GAME): Introduction and welcome
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Marie-Anne Clair (CNES): Introduction
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Sophie Godin-Beekmann (INSU): Introduction
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Christine David (IPEV): Introduction
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Jim Caughey (WMO): The THORPEX-IPY cluster and the THORPEX Polar programme.
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Florence Rabier (CNRM-GAME): An overview of the Concordiasi project.
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THE BALLOON CAMPAIGN

(Chair: Albert Hertzog)

Philippe Cocquerez (CNES): Super-Pressure Balloons during Pre-Concordiasi
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Terry Deshler (U. Wyoming): Particle measurements from a Lagrangian platform near the tropical tropopause: Results form the February 2010 pre-Concordiasi campaign.
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Linnea Avallone (U of Colorado): In situ measurements of stratospheric ozone on long duration balloons during Concordiasi
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Terry Hock (NCAR): Status and Results of the recent Driftsonde Seychelles tests flights.
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Alex Doerenbecher (CNRM-GAME): Adaptive deployment of dropsonding above Antarctica.
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IASI ASSIMILATION

(Chair: James Cameron)

Thierry Phulpin (CNES): An overview of scientific applications with the IASI instrument.
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Vincent Guidard (CNRM-GAME): Status of IASI assimilation and IASI retrievals compared with dropsondes from the pre-Concordiasi campaign.
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Nadia Fourrié (CNRM-GAME): Use of cloudy IASI radiances, an intercomparison over the Southern polar region.
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Chawn Harlow (Met Office): IASI 1DVAR retrievals of temperature and emissivity over sea ice and snow covered land validated by dropsondes.
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Aurélie Bouchard (CNRM-GAME): IASI retrievals at Concordia using data from Concordiasi.
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Tuesday 30 March 2010

THE POLAR VORTEX

(Chair: Terry Deshler)

Howard K. Roscoe (British Antarctic Survey): Importance of and evidence for the existence of the edge region of the Antarctic stratospheric vortex.
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C. Roberto Mechoso (UCLA): Dynamical studies of the stratosphere with VORCORE SPBs
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Albert Hertzog (LMD): What can we learn about gravity-waves with Concordiasi?
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Vincent Noël (LMD): An optically thick PSC generated by gravity wave activity observed over Antarctica from spaceborne lidar, and its potential for NAT belt seeding .
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DATA ASSIMILATION

(Chair: Tony McNally)

Louis-François Meunier (Météo-France and GMAO): Lagrangian assimilation of VORCORE Antarctic Balloons in the GEOS-5 Assimilation System.
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Yann Michel (CNRM-GAME and NCAR): Background Error Statistics with a Mesoscale Model over Antarctica
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James Cameron (Met Office): The status of satellite data assimilation in polar regions at the Met Office.
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Chawn Harlow (Met Office): Lambertian snow emissivities: summary of recent work and application to Antarctica
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Stéphanie Guedj (CNRM-GAME): AMSU emissivities over Antarctica.
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Fatima Karbou (CNRM-GAME): Impact study of AMSU-A/B data over sea-ice in the Météo-France global assimilation system.
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MEASUREMENTS AND MODELLING OVER ANTARCTICA

(Chair: Eric Brun)

Frédérique Rémy (LEGOS): Observation of the Antarctica ice sheet by radar altimetry.
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Christophe Genthon (LGGE): Studies of Antarctic Precipitation Statistics.
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Gianpaolo Balsamo (ECMWF): Impact of Antarctica albedo changes in the ECMWF model.
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Eric Brun (CNRM-GAME): Snow modelling over Antarctica.
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Christophe Genthon (LGGE): Extremely stable boundary layer and fast-warming events on the Antarctic plateau.
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Wednesday 31 March 2010

MEASUREMENTS AND MODELLING AT CONCORDIA

(Chair: Christophe Genthon)

Maurizio Busetto (ISAC, CNR): BSRN measurements at Concordia
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Philippe Ricaud (LA): The 183-GHz radiometer HAMSTRAD: Validation over the Pyrenees mountains (France) and first measurements at Dome C (Antarctica).
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Delphine Six (LGGE): The 2009-2010 Concordiasi field campaign at Dome C
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STRATOSPHERIC OZONE

(Chair: Linnea Avallone)

Slimane Bekki (LATMOS): Stratospheric Ozone: concepts and interaction with climate.
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William Lahoz (NILU): Chemical data assimilation: adding value to observations and model.
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Benjamin Pajot (CERFACS): Assimilations of IASI ozone data with a CTM at high resolution.
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Albert Herzog (LMD): A brief overview of in-situ ozone measurements with the LMD B-Bop instrument during the Seychelles campaign.
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Laaziz El Amraoui (CNRM-GAME): Total ozone from Metop/IASI and Aura/MLS over Antarctica during the 2008 and 2009 austral winters.
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Tony McNally (ECMWF): The assimilation of IASI ozone sensitive radiances over Antarctica.
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