Conferences and Meetings

On this page, you will find contributions of RMIB GERB Team to GIST meetings and international conferences and some associated resources, including slide presentations, posters and papers.

2008, October 29-30: GIST 28

Location: GISS, New York (USA).
Resources:

"Comparison of GERB Instantaneous Radiance and Flux Products with CERES Edition-2 Data" - PowerPoints(PPT).

2005, September 19-23: 2005 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference

Location: Dubrovnik (Croatia).
Resources:

"Pixel-based composite TOA clearsky reflectances for SEVIRI visible images" - Proceeding(PDF).
"Narrowband-to-broadband conversions for SEVIRI" - Proceeding(PDF).

2004, November 8-10: 22nd GIST Meeting

Location: Brussels (Belgium).
Resources:

"Update on SEVIRI scene identification" - Slides(PDF)|Movie 1(GIF)|Movie 2(GIF)|Movie 3(GIF)|Movie 4(GIF).

2004, November 2-4: 2nd CERES-II Science Meeting

Location: Williamsburg (Virginia, USA).
Resources:

"Estimation of TOA clearsky images with SEVIRI" - Slides(PDF)|Movie 1(GIF)|Movie 2(GIF)|Movie 3(GIF).

2004, October 19-20: GERB Data Meeting

Location: London (UK).
Resources:

"Update on SEVIRI scene identification" - Slides(PDF)|Movie 1(GIF)|Movie 2(GIF)|Movie 3(GIF).

2004, March 29 - April 2: Joint CERES-II and GERB Science Team Meetings

Location: Boulder (Colorado, USA).
Resources:

"Validation of GERB scene ID for CERES ADM selection" - Slides(PDF).
"ADMs anisotropic correction factors and mixed clear scene types: a sensitivity study" - Slides(PDF).

2003, August 3-8: 48th SPIE Annual Meeting

Location: San Diego (California, USA).
Resources:

"Estimation of TOA Radiative Fluxes from the GERB Instrument Data" - Slides(PDF) - Proceedings(PDF).

2003, May 14-16: 18th GIST Meeting

Location: Valencia (Spain).
Resources:

"RMIB geolocation assessment with RGP" - Slides(PDF).
"Mission report" - (PDF).

2003, April 6-11: EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly

Location: Nice (France).
Resources:

"Use of the MSA products as an adequate representation of the surface albedo in the ALADIN-Belgium NWP model" - Poster(PDF).
"Estimation of the 2002 Mount Etna volcanic plume radiative forcing from Meteosat-7 data" - Slides(PDF).
"First TOA fluxes from the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) Instrument" - Slides(PDF).
"Parameterization of look-up tables for cloud optical depth estimation from visible narrowband reflectances" - Slides(PDF).

2003, February 12th: Conference of Dr. Yves Govaerts (EUMETSAT)

Location: RMIB.
Resources:

"Meteosat surface albedo" - Slides (PDF).

2003, February 5th: 17th GIST meeting

Location: Imperial College (UK).
Resources:

"RMIB First Results" - Slides (PDF).
"Unfiltering of the GERB2 Data" - Slides (PDF).
Mission report - (PDF).

2002, October 30th: Conference of Dr. Cédric Bertrand

Location: RMIB.
Resources:

"Radiative Fluxes Comparison: Model (ALADIN) Versus Observation (GERB)." - Slides (PDF) (7MB!).

2002, September 22-27: SPIE 9th International Symposium on Remote Sensing

Location: Crete (Greece).
Resources:

"CM-SAF high resolution radiation budget products" - Proceeding(PDF) | Slides(PDF).
"Validation and homogenization of cloud properties retrievals for RMIB GERB/SEVIRI scene identification" - Proceeding(PDF) | Slides(PDF).

2002, September 17-19: 27th CERES Science Team Meeting

Location: Princeton (New-Jersey, USA)
Resources:

"Status of the GERB data Processing System at Launch", RMIB Co.I. Report - Slides(PDF).
"GERB Inversion - Summary and Validation Plan", ADM WG, - Slides(PDF).

2002, September 2-6: 2002 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference

Location: Dublin (Ireland).
Resources:

"Regional Bias in the OLR Estimated from the Geostationary Orbit" - Proceeding(PDF) | Poster (PDF).
"Homogenisation of the reflected solar fluxes in the Climate Monitoring SAF" - Proceeding(PDF) | Poster (PDF).

2002, April 21-26: XXVIIth EGS General Assembly

Location: Nice (France).
Resources:

Mission Report (PDF in french).
"The use of GERB-like Fluxes to Validate NWP Models" - Slides(PDF).
"Generation of TOA Radiative Fluxes from the GERB Instrument Data" - Slides(PDF).
"TOA Clear-Sky Reflectance for GERB/SEVIRI Scene Identification" - Poster(PDF).

2002, January 21-25: Joint CERES and GERB Science Team Meetings

Location: Brussels (Belgium).
Resources:

"Validation and Homogenisation of Cloud Properties Retrievals for RMIB GERB/SEVIRI Scene Identification" - Slides(PDF).
"GERB LW Radiance-to-Flux Conversion" - Slides(PDF).

2001, October 1-5: The 2001 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Data Users' Conference.

Location: Antalya (Turkey).
Resources:

"Validation and Homogenisation of Cloud Properties Retrievals for RMIB GERB/SEVIRI Scene Identification" - Proceeding(PDF) | Slides(PDF).
"Derivation of Top Of the Atmosphere Radiative Fluxes from SEVIRI: Methodology, Accuracy and Perspectives." - Proceeding(PDF) | Slides(PDF).