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The International Winds Working Group (IWWG) was established and held its first meeting in 1991 and became a formal working group of the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS) in 1994. John Morgan, the first Director of EUMETSAT, was the driving force behind creation of the group which initially focussed on cloud track winds from geostationary satellites. In later years the group widened the area of interest to include winds from tracking water vapour features and winds over polar regions from feature tracking using polar orbiter imagery. The group also addresses winds from other space based observations. Examples include ocean surface winds derived from radar backscatter (e.g. Seawinds, ASCAT) and conical-scanning microwave radiometers (e.g. WindSat), winds derived from research missions (e.g. MISR) and future datasets including wind profile information from space-borne lidar (e.g. ADM-Aeolus) and 3-D wind fields derived from tracking features in clear sky moisture fields produced from future geostationary hyperspectral infrared sounders (e.g. MTG-IRS). IWWG provides a forum to discuss and coordinate research and developments in data production, verification/validation procedures, and assimilation techniques.


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10th INTERNATIONAL WINDS WORKSHOP
to be held on 22-26 Feb 2010 in Tokyo, Japan

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

    30 Sep 2009     Deadline for registration and abstract submission

    31 Oct 2009     Deadline for application for travel support

    20 Dec 2009     Deadline for requesting hotel reservation

    08 Jan 2010     Deadline for requesting visa invitation

    26 Mar 2010     Deadline for submitting final manuscript

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Oct 09: Steve Wanzong (UofWisconsin-Madison/CIMSS) visited UK Met Office and ECMWF to present recent AMV research using simulated datasets

Jul 09: Mary Forsythe (UK Met Office) and Iliana Genkova (ECMWF) visited EUMETSAT to discuss recent AMV product development and AMV use in NWP

Apr 09: Release of new-look IWWG website

Nov 08: Progress report on the global AMV inter-comparison study submitted to the 36th CGMS Annual Meeting.

Aug 08: Proceedings of the 9th International Winds Workshop available online

Apr 08: Jaime Daniels (NOAA) and Mary Forsythe (Met Office) replace Ken Holmlund (EUMETSAT) and Chris Velden (CIMSS) as Co-Chairs of IWWG

Feb 08: Release of the 3rd NWP SAF AMV analysis report