Surface

1. Heiner Billing
Group: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Instrument: ATOVS/AMSU
Measurement: AMSU Emissivity Variation with Scan Angle

2. Jennifer Francis
Group: Rutgers University, USA
Instrument: TOVS
Measurement: Polar Pathfinder Data Set and Applications

3. Norman Grody
Group: NOAA/NESDIS
Instrument: ATOVS/AMSU
Measurement: Snow Cover, Precipitation and Surface Wetness
(due to snow melt, flooding and precipitation)

4. Catherine Prigent
Group: LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, France
Instrument: SSM/I
Measurement: Microwave Land Surface Emissivity

5. John Sapper
Group: NOAA/NESDIS
Instrument: AVHRR
Measurement: Global SST

6. Marion Schroedter
Group: DLR (German Aerospace Center) ATMOS User Center
Instrument: Wide range of sensors
Measurement: Numerous Measurements and
Derived Data Products

7. Fuzhong Weng
Group: NOAA/NESDIS/ORA
Instrument: ATOVS AMSU
Measurement: Surface and Precipitation Products

8. Limin Zhao
Group: NOAA/NESDIS
Instrument: Microwave instruments
Measurement: Surface and Precipitation Products

9. Sid Boukabara
Group: NOAA/NESDIS
Instrument: Microwave instruments
Measurement: Atmospheric, surface, cloud and precipitation products