PROGRAMME

The CIMR Sci2Ops 2021 Meeting is organised in Central European Time Zone (CEST).

Monday 10th May 2021 

Session 1: Welcome from ESA/EC/EUMETSAT
Chairs: C. Donlon, O. Nordbeck, C. Accadia
Moderator: C. Donlon

09:00-09:10 Welcome from ESA (T. Tolker-Nielsen, Director of Earth Observation, ESA)
09:10-09:20 Welcome from EUM (P. Ruti, Chief Scientist, EUM)
09:20-09:40 Welcome from EC (M. Facchini, DG.DEFIS)
09:40-09:45 Meeting Aim and Objectives (C. Donlon, CIMR Mission Scientist)
09:45-09:55 Questions and Answers (O. Nordbeck and C. Accadia)

Session 2: The Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) Mission 
Chairs: C. Donlon, K. Scipal, C. Accadia
Moderator: C. Accadia

10:00-10:20 Copernicus user’s needs for polar regions and beyond (F. Jacq, O. Nordbeck, DG.DEFIS, Brussels, Belgium)
10:20-10:40 CIMR Mission Requirements and Overview of the CIMR Products (C. Donlon, and K. Scipal, ESA) 
10:40-10:55 Overview of the CIMR Mission (C. Galeazzi, F. Cipollini, C. Donlon, K. Scipal, ESA)
10:55-11:10 Overview of the CIMR Payload and expected performance (R. Midthassel and M. Sallusti, ESA)
11:10-11:30 Open Discussion and feedback (K. Scipal and C. Donlon)

11:30-11:40 Coffee

Session 3: Applications of CIMR data in the Arctic and Antarctic cryosphere domain
Chairs: T. Lavergne, R. Tonboe, G. Heygster, G. Spreen
Moderator: T. Lavergne

11:40-11:55 Assimilation of CIMR data in an ice-ocean model: the CMEMS Arctic MFC perspective (Laurent Bertino, CMEMS, Arctic Modelling and Forecast Centre, NERCS, Norway)
11:55-12:10 CIMR in support of the CMEMS Sea Ice products (Cecile Wettre, CMEMS, Arctic thematic Assembly Centre (TAC), Met.no, Norway)
12:10-12:25 Ice Concentration Retrieval from the Analysis of Microwaves: A methodology designed for CIMR (Lise Kilic, Paris Observatory, France)
12:25-12:40 Level-2 Sea Ice Drift Information from CIMR : Global, Sub-daily, Year-Round, and Accurate (T. Lavergne, Met.no, Norway)
12:40-12:55 Sea Ice Type Retrieval Using CIMR-Equivalent Channels from Combined AMSR2 and SMOS Observations, Christian Melsheimer, University of Bremen, Germany)

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:15 3 min presentation per poster.
14:15-14:30 Fusion of satellite SAR and passive microwave radiometer data for automated sea ice mapping and the expected impact of CIMR observations (T. Wulf, DMI, Denmark)
14:30-14:45 Optimal Estimation Retrieval of Sea Ice and Atmospheric Parameters Using Multi-Frequency Microwave Radiometers: Synergy of AMSR2 and SMOS Compared With the CIMR Candidate Mission (Raul Scarlat, University of Bremen, Germany)
14:45-15:00 From SMOS to CIMR - implications for the 1.4 GHz sea ice thickness retrieval (Lars Kaleschke, Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar und Meeresforschung
15:00-15:15 Analysis of the covariabilities between CIMR, CRISTAL, and ASCAT measurements, using self organized maps, for improved sea ice parameter estimates (Clement Soriot, Paris Observatory, France)

15:15-15:30 Coffee

15:30-15:45 Simulation of low microwave frequency thermal emission from thin saline sea ice for CIMR (Marcus Huntemann, University of Bremen, Germany)
15:45-16:00 Passive Microwave Retrieval of Lake Ice Cover and Thickness: Advances and Opportunities (Claude Duguay, University Of Waterloo, Canada)
16:00-16:15 Multi-Frequency Melt Status and Liquid Water Profile Detection over Ice Sheets using CIMR Frequencies (Andreas Colliander, NAS/JPL, USA)
16:15-16:30 Snow depth on sea ice retrieved from satellite microwave radiometers (Philip Rotosky, University of Bremen, Germany)
16:30-16:45 CIMR Airborne Arctic Campaign (Juha Lemmetyinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland)
17:00-17:15 Discussion.

Session 3 Posters
1. CIMR Mission Artificial Intelligence Applications for Multi-temporal Climate Change Assessment in the Arctic (Thomas Chen, MIT, USA)
2. Retrieval of thickness of thin sea ice from CIMR observations (Marcus Huntemann University of Bremmen, Germany)
3. Exploring the sea-ice concentration capabilities of the CIMR mission. An algorithm baseline for the CIMR Level-2 SIC products (Thomas Lavergne Met.no, Norway)

Tuesday 11th May 2021

Session 4: Applications of CIMR data in the Global Ocean and Atmosphere Domain 
Chairs: J. Hoeyer, R. Santoleri, C. Accadia, C. Prigent, N. Reul)
Moderator: J. Hoeyer

09:00-09:15 The Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) mission: benefits for the present-day Copernicus Marine Service L4 Sea Surface Salinity processing chain (R. Santoleri, D. Ciani, CNR-Insitute Of Marine Sciences, Italy)
09:15-09:30 Retrieval of SST from CIMR observations (Pia Nielsen-Englyst Technical University Of Denmark / Danish Meteorological Institute, Denmark)
09:30-9:45 Impact of CIMR SST observations on high latitude CMEMS products (Jacob Høyer, DMI, Denmark)
09:45-10:00 The challenge of SSS retrieval with L-Band radiometry over the Arctic Ocean (Alexandre Supply, LOPS/CNES, France)
10:00-10:15 CIMR Capability of Measuring Ocean Surface Temperature, Salinity and Wind Speeds in Rain (Thomas Meissner, RSS, USA)

10:15-10:30 Coffee

10:30-10:45 EUMETSAT steps towards a synergistic approach for CIMR (Christophe Accadia, EUMETSAT, Germany)
10:45-11:00 CIMR's contribution to the observing system for sea surface temperature (Chris Merchant, University Reading, UK)
11:00-11:15 CIMR: a new instrument to monitor extreme wind events (Nicolas Reul, IFREMER, France)
11:15-11:30 CIMR, virtual scatterometer constellation and MWI global products over ocean (Ad Stoffelen, KNMI, the Netherlnads)
11:30-11:45 Global Precipitation Measurement: Synergistic activities between the GPM mission and CMIR (Christopher Kidd, UMD/ESSIC & NASA/GSFC, USA)
11:45-12:00 On the synergy of space-borne active and passive microwave sensors for global precipitation monitoring: perspectives towards the future CIMR mission (Giulia Panegrossi, National Research Council (CNR), Italy)
12:00-12:15 A reference ocean surface emissivity model in microwaves: a special attention to CIMR and the polar regions (Lise Kilic, Paris Observatory, France)
12:15-12:30 Enabling Arctic Salinity Measurements through Enhanced Radiometry (Sidharth Misra, NASA/JPL)
12:30-12:35 Session poster overview (Session Chairs)
12:35-13:00 Discussion

Session 4 Posters
1. Opportunities for enhanced oceanographic research and applications enabled by CIMR (Tong Lee, NASA/JPL, USA)
2. Potential CIMR impact on the CMEMS Mediterranean and Black Sea L3S and L4 SST products (Andrea Pisano, CNR, Italy)
3. Daily Rainfall Estimate by Emissivity Temporal Variation from 10 Satellites (Dr. Yalei You, CISESS/ESSIC, University of Maryland)

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

Session 5: Applications of CIMR data in the Global Terrestrial Domain 
Chair: M. Piles, S. Yueh, K. Luojus
Moderator: K. Lluojus

14:00-14:15 The key role for CIMR in the development and continuation of high impact applications on land (Robin van der Schalie, VanderSat, the Netherlands)
14:15-14:30 Operational Soil Moisture applications: Weather forecasting to Agriculture (Rajat Bindlish, NASA, USA)
14:30-14:45 Satellite L-band data continuity needs for the United States Department of Agriculture (Wade Crow, USDA ARS Hydrology And Remote Sensing Laboratory, USA) 
14:45-15:00 Evaluation of the synergy of the CIMR 1.4 to 36 GHz observations, for vegetation characterization over the Tropics (Catherine Prigent, Observatory of Paris, France)
15:00-15:15 Retrieval of soil and vegetation characteristics from multi-frequency (L, C, X) microwave radiometry (Martin Baur, University of Cambridge, UK)

15:15-15:30 Coffee

15:30-15:45 Terrestrial Snow Water Equivalent retrieval development in preparation for CIMR (Kari Loujus, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland)
15:45-16:00 Land Surface Hydrology and Ecology Retrievals and Applications Enabled with CIMR Unique Characteristics (Dara Entekhabi, MIT, USA)
16:00-16:15 Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) utility for addressing Ecosystem Science objectives pertaining to freeze-thaw and surface water inundation (John S. Kimball, University Of Montana, USA)
16:15-16:30 Assessing the Clear-sky Bias of Satellite Land Surface Temperature using Microwave-based Estimates (Sofia Ermida, Instituto Portugues Do Mar E Da Atmosfera (IPMA), Portugal)
16:30-16:45 A Multi-Frequency Approach Based on Artificial Neural Networks for Estimating The Hydrological Parameters From Microwave Radiometric Satellite Data (Simonetta Paloscia, CNR-IFAC, Italy)
16:45-17:00 Soil And Canopy Temperature Modelling In The Context Of The Upcoming Cimr Mission (Roberto Fernandez-Moran, University Of Valencia, Spain)
17:00-17:15 Adapting the SMAP Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithm to the Arctic Regions (Mohammad Mousavi, NASA/JPL, USA)
17:15-17:30 Discussion

Session 5 Posters
1. Error characterization of L-band passive microwave radiometry in soil moisture and VOD retrievals (Preethi Konkathi, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)

Wednesday 12th May 2021

Session 6: Applications of CIMR data Modelling and Climate applications (2030 and the Earth System cycles)
Chairs:  P. de Rosnay, C. Prigent, C. Accadia, J. Johannnesen
Moderator: J. Johannesen

09:00-09:15 Sea ice needs for C3S reanalysis activities (Hans Hersbach, C3S, ECMWF)
09:15-09:30 Use of surface information in Copernicus Arctic regional reanalysis (Harald Schyberg, Met.no, Norway)
09:30-09:45 Impact of microwave radiometer and altimeter observations on ECMWF sea ice initialisation and forecasting (Beena Balan Sarojini, ECMWF)
09:45-10:00 CIMR for all-sky all-surface assimilation in operational weather forecasting at ECMWF (Alan Geer, ECMWF)
10:00-10:15 NOAA operational exploitation of the CIMR mission (Eric Bayler, NOAA, USA)
10:15-10:30 The CIMR mission: contributions to the ESA Climate Change Initiative (Anna Maria Trofier, ESA)
10:30-10:45 Coupled earth system assimilation of low frequency passive microwave observations: potential of CIMR for NWP and reanalysis activities (Patricia deRosnay, ECMWF)
10:45-11:00 Land Surface Temperature retrievals with CIMR: benefits and opportunities (Samuel Favrichon, Observatoire de Paris, France)
11:00-11:05 Session poster overview (Session Chairs)
11:05-11:15 Open discussion

Session 6 Posters
1. A Community Land Active Passive Microwave Radiative Transfer Modelling Platform (CLAP) for integrated modeling, interpretation and application of multi-frequency emission and backscattering signals of land surface (Z. Bob Su, University Of Twente, The Netherlands)
2. Development of a new 38-year time series of daily, global fractional snow cover products based on fusion of optical and passive microwave radiometer data, Rune Solberg, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway)
3. CIMR brightness temperature data assimilation in intermediate complexity coupled model experiments (Andreas Storto, CNR ISMAR, Italy)

11:15-11:30 Coffee

Session 7 CIMR Synergy and Cal/Val 
(Co Chairs: C. Prigent and D. Smith, G. Spreen, M. Piles, N. Reul, K. Luojus, C. Accadia)
Moderator: Dave Smith

11:30-11:45 Overview of the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 3 (AMSR3) and its synergies with CIMR mission (Misako Kachi, JAXA, Japan)
11:45-12:00 Exploiting synergies: Towards a multi-parameter retrieval in the Arctic using CIMR and Metop-SG(B) MWI (Janna Rückert, University of Bremen, Germany)
12:00-12:15 Oceanic surface currents from the synergy of high resolution sea-surface temperature and altimeter-derived data: potential benefits from the Copernicus (Ciani/Santoleri)
12:15-12:30 First End-to-End Simulator for a Performance Evaluation of the Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (Carlos Jimenez, Estellus, France)12:30-12:45 Sensitivity of passive microwave signals over ocean to geophysical parameters at all frequencies (Georg Heygster, University of Bremen, Germany)
12:45-13:00 Session poster overview (Session Chairs)

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-14:15 Following the Trail: Developing an Uncertainty Model for the CIMR Level-1 data (David Smith, UKRI/Ral Space, UK)
14:15-14:30 Radio Frequency Interference Detection and Filtering for Microwave Radiometry (Joel Johnson, The Ohio State University, USA)
14:30-14:45 CIMR and the L-band Experience in Dealing with RF (Yan Soldo, NASA GSFC/USRA, USA)
14:45-15:00 Validation approaches and Fiducial Reference Measurements for Copernicus Sea and Sea-Ice Surface Temperature (Anne O’Carroll, EUMETSAT, Germany)
15:00-15:15 Science Objectives and Plan of NASA CIMR Enhancement Study (Simon Yueh, NASA/JPL, USA)
15:15-15:45 Discussion

Session 7 Posters
1. The Global L-band Observatory for Water Cycle Studies (GLOWS) Mission (David Long, Brigham Young University, USA)
2. The Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) sea surface temperature validation with shipborne infrared radiometers (Werenfrid Wimmer, University of Southampton, UK)

15:45-16:00 Coffee

Session 8 Wrap up
(C. Donlon, K. Scipal, C. Accadia, O. Nordbeck)

16:00-16:10 Cryosphere Panel Key findings for CIMR (T. Lavergne)
16:10-16:20 Global Ocean and Atmosphere Panel Key findings for CIMR (C. Prigent)
16:20-16:30 Terrestrial Panel Key findings for CIMR (M. Piles)
16:20-16:30 Climate and Modelling Panel Key findings for CIMR (P. de Ronsay)
16:30-16:40 Synergy and Cal/Val Panel Key findings for CIMR (C. Accadia)
16:40-17:20 General Discussion: CIMR Science to Operations – then Next Steps (All of the above people + O. Nordbeck, K. Scipal and C. Donlon)
17:20-17:30 Closing remarks (O. Nordbeck, C. Accadia, K. Scipal and C. Donlon)