One of the key meteorological parameters for weather forecasting, meteorological studies and climate applications is wind. It has therefore been a major task for the science and operational community to exploit the imagery data from satellites in order to derive Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMVs) by tracking observed cloud and moisture features. The globally derived AMV fields are an established and essential product, especially for numerical weather prediction, and are complemented by other satellite-based observations of the atmospheric flow. The biennial International Winds Workshops are the forums used by the International Winds Working Group (IWWG) for co-operation in the operational and research community, and have strongly contributed to the improvement in quality of the derived wind fields.
The Workshop is an opportunity to present advances and new ideas in this specialised field. We therefore encourage participation from all organisations operating meteorological satellites, as well as from data users and the science community. Presentations on operational and experimental wind retrievals from satellite imagery data and their use for Numerical Weather Prediction, nowcasting, or in climatological applications are welcome. In addition, research work on wind retrievals from active and passive microwave instruments and active optical systems (lidar) is encouraged.
The 17th International Winds Workshop will be hosted by NASA Langley, and the First Announcement is coming soon.
Workshop Organizers
The meeting is being organised by a joint Scientific Program Committee:
- Upendra Singh (NASA) – Organizing Committee Chair
- Shelley Stover (NASA), Kristopher Bedka (NASA) – Local Logistics Chairs
- Feng Lu (CMA), Iliana Genkova (NOAA) – Co-Chairs IWWG
- Jaime Daniels (NOAA) – CGMS Rapporteur for IWWG
- Dr Régis Borde (EUMETSAT) and Steve Wanzong (UW-Madison/SSEC/CIMSS), former Co-Chairs IWWG
- Anne Taube – International Relations EUMETSAT
To eliminate the need for a spam filter, all comments on presentations will need to be approved by the moderator, Steve Wanzong.
