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NDSC Microwave Workshop 2003 - Programme

Place of Workshop:

Universität Bern - Exakte Wissenschaften
Institut für angewandte Physik
Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern
Roomnumber: A97

Thursday, April 3rd

09.00 Welcome address, logistics Nik Kämpfer
     
  Presentation of Instrumental Calibration  
     
09.15 SOMORA: O3 (ppt, 5.5 MB) Yasmine Calisesi, University of Bern, IAP
09.35 RAM: H2O (ppt, 5.4 MB) Manuel Quack, University of Bremen, IUP
09.55 AMSOS: H2O (pdf, 2 MB) Dietrich Feist, University of Bern, IAP
10.15 AMSOS: Hardware presentation Vladimir Vasic, University of Bern, IAP
     
10.30 Coffee Break  
     
  Presentation of Instrumental Calibration (cont.)  
     
11.00 ASMUWARA: Monitoring of the troposphere (pdf, 1 MB) Lorenz Martin, University of Bern, IAP
11.20 MIAWARA: H2O (pdf, 1.4 MB) Beat Deuber, University of Bern, IAP
11.40 Onsala Radiometer: H2O & CO (ppt, 1.3 MB) Peter Forkman, Onsala Space Observatory
     
12.30 Lunch at Mensa  
     
14.00 Hardware Presentation of IAP Radiometers  
  MIAWARA: Water vapour  
  ASMUWARA: Monitoring of the troposphere  
  GROMOS: Ozone  
  NIOS: Observation of solar flares  
     
15.20 Coffee break  
     
15.50 Seoul Radiometer: O3 (ppt, 3.4 MB) Jung Jin Oh, Sookmyung University Seoul
16.10 WVMS: H2O (ppt, 34 MB) Gerald Nedoluha & Mike Gomez, NRL
16.30 UMAS Radiometer: O3 (pdf, 1 MB) Alan Parrish, University of Massachusetts
16.50 Alomar Radiometer: H2O Paul Hartogh, MPAE
17.10 MIRA 2: O3, ClO, N2O (ppt, 10.4 MB) Gerhard Hochschild, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
     
20.00 Dinner  

Friday, April 4th

09.00 Quasioptical Isolator @ 183 GHz (pdf, 0.1 MB) Vladimir Vasic, University of Bern, IAP
09.20 Calibration load for SMILES (pdf, 1.4 MB) Axel Murk, University of Bern, IAP
09.40 Demonstration of ABmm vector network analyzer Axel Murk, University of Bern, IAP
     
10.00 Coffee Break  
     
  Discussion  
10.30 Rapporteur of Presentations (pdf, 0.1 MB) Daniel Gerber, University of Bern, IAP
     
  Discussion (plenary or groups) on calibration loads,  
  calibration concepts, baseline issues,  
  implementation of calibration in retrieval  
  software, ...  
     
12.30 Lunch at Mensa  
     
14.00 Discussion continued  
     
15.30 Coffee break  
     
16.00 Conclusion, Closing Remarks Nik Kämpfer, University of Bern, IAP
     
16.30 Workshop end  

Saturday, April 5th (optional)

08.10 Visit to Jungfraujoch, details will be announced at the workshop
   
19.30 Arrival at Bern