The ESA DUE GlobVapour project carried out its second User Consultation Meeting in Oslo, Norway on 8 September 2011, in parallel to the EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference. EUMETSAT kindly offered facilities and beverages, what is acknowledged by the project.
The major objective of the meeting was to gather feedback on the GlobVapour project's products and approaches related to the retrieval, validation and assessment of atmospheric water vapour. The meeting offered a great opportunity for intense discussions as it brings together the producers and users of water vapour data sets.
In total, 22 scientists from various communities attended the meeting. The project received valuable feedback from the user community, with presentations of e.g. Ralf Bennartz (University of Wisconsin), Christine Rademacher (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology), Thomas August (EUMETSAT) and Estelle Obligis (Collecte Localisation Satellites).
Together with the outcome from stimulating discussions the presentations led to refinements of the project's activities and might lead to a continuation of GlobVapour activities beyond the projects end. Topics of major decisions were to initiate a dialogue with the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) community with the aim to provide the GlobVapour SSM/I+MERIS data set for CMIP5 evaluation and to get visibility in the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR5). Also, a guidebook containing methods, lessons learned and results from the IASI assessment would be valuable for the community and in particular for the water vapour and temperature profile assessment of the GEWEX Radiation Panel (GRP).
All participant and in particular the users are encouraged to continuously provide the project with feedback and results from first applications. The final meeting of the project is planned for 17+18 January 2012 at ESRIN, Frascati, Italy.
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