Wissenschaftsetage im Bildungsforum
Potsdam, Germany | October 7 – 9, 2024
www.ggos.org/event/ggos-topical-meeting-atmosphere/Programme
Monday, 7 October 2024
11:30 - 13:00

Registration

Opening
13:00 - 13:15

WelcomeLaura Sánchez, Robert Heinkelmann

13:20 - 13:35

GNSS Remote Sensing: Innovative Earth Observation with big prospects
Jens Wickert

13:40 - 13:55

Possible definition of Essential Variables for the Upper Atmosphere from theperspective of the Focus Area "Geodetic Space Weather Research"
Michael Schmidt, Ehsan Forootan

Magnetosphere, Ionosphere, Plasmasphere and Thermosphere,
as a coupled system
Convener: Michael Schmidt
14:00 - 14:15

DFG Research Unit Magnetosphere, Ionosphere, Plasmasphere and Thermosphere,
as a coupled system (MIPT)
Yuri Shprits, Juergen Kusche, Michael Schmidt, Claudia Borries, Tatjana Gerzen,
Elena Kronberg, Artem Smirnov, Dedong Wang

14:20 - 14:35

Advanced thermosphere modelling to increase consistency between observational
datasets and enable new applications
Günther March, Armin Corbin

14:40 - 14:55

Regular pattern in the solar wind impact on the ionosphere
Claudia Borries, Pelin Iochem1

15:00 - 15:05

Group photo

15:05 - 16:30

Coffee break + Poster session

16:30 - 16:45

Enhancing Mass Density Estimation of physical models in the thermosphere using
data assimilation
Armin Corbin, Jürgen Kusche

16:50 - 17:05

Assimilation of satellite geodetic data into the models of upper atmosphereEhsan Forootan, Saeed Farzaneh, Michael Schmidt, Maike Schumacher

17:10 - 17:25

Estimation of the topside ionosphere and plasmasphere by an Ensemble Kalman
Filter (EnKF) and the simultaneous multiplicative column-normalized method
SMART+Tatjana Gerzen, Michael Schmidt, David Minkwitz

18:30Dinner (at restaurant L’Osteria | Registration required)

Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Ionosphere modelling and applications
Convener: Paweł Wielgosz
08:30 - 08:45

A review on global ionospheric models and potential refinements
Ningbo Wang, Zishen Li, Ang Liu, Ang Li, Zhouyu Zhang

08:50 - 09:05

Study on hybrid LEO constellations for ionosphere reconstruction
Lucas Schreiter, Andreas Brack, Benjamin Männel, Harald Schuh, Daniel Arnold,
Adrian Jäggi

09:10 - 09:25

Ionospheric Radio Occultation as a tool for model validation
Joana Pires Morgado Fernandes Pereira

09:30 - 09:45

Advances on 3D Ionospheric Imaging at Low-Latitudes
Fabricio dos Santos Prol

09:50 - 10:05

ROTI Mapping Towards Monitoring Ionospheric Irregularities and Impact on GNSS
Precise Positioning
Zhe Yang

10:10 - 10:25

Multi-GNSS Ionospheric SSR Corrections for Enhanced GNSS Positioning
Performances in South America
Paulo S. de Oliveira Jr., Fabricio Prol, Lucas Bezerra

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break + Poster session

Climate application of geodetic atmospheric parameters
Convener: Rosa Pacione
11:00 - 11:15

Climate Applications of Geodetic Tropospheric Parameters
Rosa Pacione

11:20 - 11:35

GNSS tropospheric modeling and its applications
Cuixian Lu, Yuxin Zheng, Jiafeng Li, Xuanzhen Zhang, Chengbo Liu

11:40 - 11:55

GNSS Reflectometry: A Paradigm Shift in Atmospheric Monitoring and Research
Milad Asgarimehr, Tianqi Xiao, Daixin Zhao, Jens Wickert

12:00 - 12:15

GNSS-based Precipitable Water Vapor for the Global Climate Observing System
Galina Dick, Florian Zus, Jens Wickert, Benjamin Männel, Markus Ramatschi, Markus
Bradke212:20 - 12:35

Aliasing of atmospheric cloud water in time-variable gravity models from GRACE/FO and NGGM? Why cloud modeling might become more important for satellite
gravimetry
Christian Mielke, Anne Springer, Jürgen Kusche

12:40 - 14:00

Lunch break

Geohazards monitoring
Convener: Michela Ravanelli
14:00 - 14:15

An insight on Co-Seismic Ionospheric Disturbances: from first observations to newchallenges
Michela Ravanelli

14:20 - 14:35

Fingerprints of seismic activity in ionospheric electron density variations
Paweł Wielgosz, Wojciech Jarmołowski, Anna Krypiak-Gregorczyk, BeataMilanowska

14:40 - 14:55

Leveraging GNSS ionospheric Total Electron Content (TEC) data as a complementary
tool for Tsunami Early Warning Systems
Federica Fuso, Michela Ravanelli

15:00 - 16:30

Coffee break + Poster session

16:30 - 16:45

GFZ Global Ionospheric Disturbances Monitoring System and Initial Results on theEffects of Scintillations on GNSS Signal Quality at Different Frequencies
Chinh Nguyen, Markus Ramatschi, Jens Wickert, Christina Arras, Benjamin Männel,
Markus Bradke, Torsten Schmidt

16:50 - 17:05

GNSS remote sensing to study sea-ice and ionospheric irregularities in the central
ArcticMaximilian Semmling, Martin Kriegel, Jens Wickert, Sebastian Gerland, GunnarSpreen, Mainul Hoque, Jens Berdermann

17:10 - 17:25

Towards Near-real-time Ionospheric Monitoring of Tsunamis using the GUARDIAN
SystemSiddharth Krishnamoorthy, Léo Martire, Attila Komjathy, Bela Szilagyi, Panagiotis
Vergados, Larry Romans, Yoaz Bar-Sever, Allison Craddock, Fiona Luhrmann, JihyePark, Pavel Inchin, Christopher Moore, Ernesto Fernandez, Vasily Titov

Wednesday, 8 October 2024
Geodetic Methods for Water Vapor Monitoring
Convener: Kyriakos Balidakis
08:30 - 08:45

Geodetic Methods for Water Vapor Monitoring
Kyriakos Balidakis, Florian Zus, Jungang Wang, Rohith Muraleedharan Thundathil

08:50 - 09:05

Prediction and Monitoring of Precipitable Water Vapor (PWV) Profiles Using GNSSRadio Occultation (GNSS-RO) Satellite Technique in Turkey
Emine Tanır Kayıkçı, Seldanur Çelik Tunçer, Ahmet Yavuzdoğan, Murat Bektaşoğlu,Şeyma Gül Cihan, Kutluhan Gümrükçüoğlu, Mualla Yalçınkaya, Kamil Teke, YaseminŞişman, Neslihan Beden, Jens Wickert

09:10 - 09:25

On the Agreement of 12 Years PWV from WVR, GNSS, Radiosonde, and ERA5Jungang Wang, Kyriakos Balidakis, Mathias Palm, Torsten Schmidt, Jens Wickert,
Robert Heinkelmann, Harald Schuh3

09:30 - 09:45

Validation of the new multi-channel water vapour radiometer for atmosphericcorrections in space geodesy
Peng Feng, Gunnar Elgered, Rüdiger Haas

Severe weather monitoring with geodetic techniques
Convener: Kyriakos Balidakis
09:50 - 10:05

Assimilation of ground-based GNSS Zenith Total Delays and tropospheric gradientsfor Severe Weather Prediction
Rohith Thundathil, Florian Zus, Galina Dick, Jens Wickert

10:10 -10:25

Atmospheric Delay Parameterization in Storm-Resolving Numerical Weather Models
Kyriakos Balidakis, Leonid Petrov, Florian Zus, Jungang Wang, Rohith Thundathil,Henryk Dobslaw

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break + Poster session

11:00 - 11:15

Severe weather analysis with real-time GNSS tropospheric products and radarreflectivity
Viktoria Pencheva, Tsvetelina Dimitrova, Guergana Guerova

11:20 - 11:35

Tracking of severe thunderstorms using GNSS-SNR: Case studies from summer 2023
over Central Europe
Matthias Aichinger-Rosenberger, Benedikt Soja

11:40 - 11:55

GRENet: GNSS-enhanced Radar Extrapolation Network for Precipitation Nowcasting
Quanfei Wang, Cuixian Lu, Yuxin Zheng, Galina Dick, Jonathan Jones

Atmospheric modelling based on artificial intelligence
Convener: Benedikt Soja
12:00 - 12:15

Machine learning enabled extreme rainfall prediction using GNSS, Radar, lightning,
and weather data for Indian coastal city
Sumit Pandey, Ramji Dwivedi

12:20 - 12:35

Machine Learning-Based Ionospheric Corrections for Single-Frequency VLBI
Observations
Benedikt Soja, Marcel Iten, Arno Rüegg, Matthias Schartner, Hana Krásná, Marisa
Nickola, Aletha De Witt

12:40 - 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 - 14:15

Combination of Optimization Machine Learning and Statistical Tests to Determine
MIT Key Parameters for Ionospheric Forecast Models
Nhung Le, Benjamin Männel, Andreas Brack, Chinh Nguyen, Thach Thanh Luong,Tham Bui Thi Hong, Jens Wickert, Harald Schuh

14:20 - 14:35

Simulation-based analysis of near real-time tropospheric delay estimation using thevariometric algorithm
Rachele Fratini, Alessandra Maria De Pace, Marco Fortunato, Augusto Mazzoni,
Mattia Crespi

14:40 - 15:15

Closing / Summing up

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Poster Presentations
Authors are invited to hang their posters during the registration period (11:30 - 13:00) on Monday 7 October.
The posters will be on display during the three days of the conference.

Ionosphere modelling and applications
Convener: Paweł Wielgosz
Comparison and quality assessment of differential total electron content obtained from VGOS andCODE GIM.
Nataliya Zubko, Niko Kareinen, Munghui Xu, Tuomas Savolainen, Markku Poutanen
A Geophysically Informed Random Forest for Predicting VTEC in Northern Malawi
Robert Galatiya Suya
Ionospheric irregularities detected from GNSS measurements collected at COSMIC-2 Precise Orbit
Determination antennas
Ayomide Olabode, Lucas Schreiter, Christina Arras, Andreas Brack, Mahdi Alizadeh, Lung-Chih Tsai,
Harald Schuh
Effectiveness of CCD ionospheric monitors for air navigation based on GBAS: Investigation andimplementation under Brazilian conditions
Renan Rodrigues Toledo Costa, Paulo Sergio de Oliveira Júnior, Ivandro Klein, Thiago Tiedtke dos Reis,
Weverton da Costa Silva, João F. Galera Monico
K-band (24 GHz) VLBI signal path delays caused by the troposphere and ionosphere
Hana Krasna, Aletha de Witt, Christopher S. Jacobs, David Gordon, Benedikt SojaAn open-source ray-tracing tool for space geodetic techniques
Florian Zus, Kyriakos Balidakis, Ali Hasan Dogan, Rohith Thundathil, Galina Dick, Jens Wickert
Performance Analysis of Dual-Frequency Precise Point Positioning under the Effects of Extreme
Geomagnetic Storm: A Case Study of “May 2024 Solar Storm (10-13 May 2024)”
Paulo Sergio de Oliveira Junior, Lucas dos Santos Bezerra, Claudia Pereira Krueger
Impact of different broadcast ionospheric Models on single-frequency GPS positioning
Lahouaria Tabti [withdrawn]

Climate application of geodetic atmospheric parameters
Convener: Rosa Pacione
GNSS radio occultation data for weather forecast and climate research
Torsten Schmidt, Patrick Schreiner, Jens Wickert
Improvement of snow depth estimation using GNSS reflected signals
Xintai Yuan
Assessment of ERA5 Diurnal Cycle Mismatches in Tropospheric Zenith Total Delays Using GNSS Data
Peng Yuan, Harald Schuh, Jens Wickert, Zhiguo Deng
15 years GNSS Meteorology in Bulgaria/Southeast Europe
Guergana Guerova
Quantitative Analysis of Multi-source Slant Tropospheric Delays at Chinese VLBI Stations
Jun Jiang, Shuli Song
Further Analysis on Long-Term Ground-Based GNSS-Derived ZTD Trends Estimated from REPRO3Solutions
Kyriakos Balidakis, Marcelo Santos, Anna Klos, Rosa Pacione, Riley Hughes
Atmospheric water vapour retrieval with mass-market GNSS receivers

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B. Ambrus, A. Khaldi, Sz. Rozsa
Impact of synergistic assimilation of Radar-based precipitation and GNSS zenith total delay on heavy
rainfall forecast: A case study over northern Germany in 2017
Jiafeng Li, Cuixian Lu, Yuxin Zheng
MSDM: A Generative Adversarial Network for precipitation nowcasting over West American using
multi-source data
Xindi Luo, Cuixian Lv, Yuxin Zheng, Quanfei Wang
Real-time high-resolution tropospheric delay mapping based on GFS forecasts and GNSS
Xuanzhen Zhang, Cuixian Lu, Yuxin Zheng, Chengbo Liu, Bo He

Atmospheric modelling based on artificial intelligence
Convener: Benedikt Soja
Adaptation of AI Weather Models for Extreme Precipitation Forecasting Using GNSS-Derived
Precipitable Water Vapor
Liangjing Zhang
Explainable AI for GNSS Reflectometry: Investigating Feature Importance for Ocean Wind Speed
Estimation
Tianqi Xiao, Milad Asgarimehr, Daixin Zhao, Jens Wickert
Prediction of atmospheric parameters at the Geodetic Prediction Center of ETH Zurich
Benedikt Soja, Laura Crocetti, Marcel Iten, Shuyin Mao, Matthias Schartner
Machine Learning-Based Tropospheric Delay Model for High-Resolution Regional Integrated Water
Vapor Retrievals
Lingke Wang, Duo Wang, Hansjoerg Kutterer

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Paper publication
Participants are invited to submit their papers toJournal: Advances in Space Research (ASR),
https://cosparhq.cnes.fr/publications/advances-in-space-research-asr/
Special Issue: Ionospheric Imaging: Recent Advances and Future Directions
Deadline: 15 January 2025
Guest Editors: Marcio Muella, Fabricio ProlMore details at: https://cosparhq.cnes.fr/assets/uploads/2024/04/IonosphericImaging.pdf
Submissions will be subject to peer review before publication.

Venue
The GGOS Topical Meeting on the Atmosphere will be hosted in the Wissenschaftsetage imBildungsforum(https://www.wis-potsdam.de/de/wis-wissenschaftsetage-imbildungsforum) located in (https://www.wis-potsdam.de/en/contact-find-us-0):
proWissen Potsdam e. V.
WIS im Bildungsforum
Am Kanal 47
14467 Potsdam
Germany

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