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Working Groups

Information on all the Working Groups listed below is contained in "A report on the Eleventh International TOVS Study Conference (ITSC)." Please visit the ITSC web page for availability information.

• Advanced Infrared Sounders
  Planning and recommendations in preparation for future instrumentation
  http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/itwg/aswg/
  
• ATOVS/TOVS data in NWP
  Operational and research applications of low earth orbit (LEO) sounder data in numerical weather prediction
  http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/itwg/nwp/
  
• ATOVS/TOVS in climate studies
  Studies applying the 30 year climate database from the NOAA polar sounder
  http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/itwg/cwsg/
  
• International Issues and Future Systems
  Cooperative actions with the international weather satellite community on issues involving polar remote sensing
  
• Radiative transfer and surface property modelling
  Fostering the development of radiative transfer and surface models for ATOVS applications
  http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/itwg/groups/rtwg/rtwg.html
  
• Satellite Sounder Science and Products
  Promoting the development and utilization of meteorological techniques and products from operational and research satellites in weather and climate applications
  http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/itwg/sssp/index.html
  

Technical Sub-Groups

Information on all the Technical Sub-Groups listed below is contained in the Reports of the International TOVS Study Conference.

• AAPP (ATOVS and AVHRR Pre-Processing Package)
  AAPP is the ATOVS direct broadcast pre-processing software developed by the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility for Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP SAF).
  http://www.metoffice.com/research/interproj/nwpsaf/

• ICI (Inversion Coupled with Imager)
  ATOVS Temperature and moisture retrieval software from Meteo-France
  http://www.meteorologie.eu.org/ici/index.html

• IAPP (International ATOVS Processing Package)
  http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/opsats/polar/iapp/IAPP.html

• 3I/3R (Improved Initialization Inversion)
  Temperature and moisture retrieval software

• IMAPP (International MODIS and AIRS Processing Package)
  EOS MODIS and AIRS preprocessing and product derivation software from the UW CIMSS
  IMAPP is freely available at the following website:
  http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/imapp/

• Frequency Management
  Maintaining spectral frequencies for scientific applications
  http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/itwg/groups/frequency/

• RTTOV (Radiative Transfer (A) TOVS)
  Fast radiative transfer model software from the NWP SAF
  http://www.metoffice.com/research/interproj/nwpsaf/rtm/