Visiting Scientist Program

As part of the GRAS SAF project we have an ongoing visiting scientist programme. This programme allows scientists from institutions that are not SAF members to participate in the activities of the SAF, either as Visiting Scientists or as Associate Scientists, through appropriate projects in their home institutes. If you're interested in joining us for e.g. 1-6 months to work on one of our research projects feel free to contact us.

2000-2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008

List of long-term Visiting Scientists

2000 - 2002

Prof. Michael E. Gorbunov
Institute for Atmosphere Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Visit: DMI, Oct - Dec 2000
Topic: Diffraction correction methods in occultation data
Report: M. E. Gorbunov, Radioholographic methods for processing radio occultation data in multipath regions
DMI Scientific Report No. 01-02 (2001).

Prof. Stephen S. Leroy
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California
Visit: DMI, Nov 2000 to Nov 2001
Topic: Development of GRAS SAF offline products

2003

Dr. Josep M. Aparicio
GRAS SAF, IEEC, Barcelona, Spain
Visit: UCAR, Feb - Aug 2003
Topic: Interoperability of future COSMIC and Metop/GRAS data from the point of view of the community of users

Dr. Andrea K. Steiner
U Graz, Austria
Visit: DMI in August 2003
Topic: Error analyses of refractivity profiles
Report: Error Analyses of Refractivity Profiles Retrieved from CHAMP Radio Occultation Data
DMI Scientific Report 04-02, Copenhagen, 2004

Prof. Michael Gorbunov
Institute for Atmosphere Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Several visits at DMI 2003-2005
Topic: CT/FSI processing chain optimization and bending angle error estimation
Report: Operational Processing of CHAMP Data: Mathematical Methods, Data Filtering and Quality Control
DMI Scientific Report 05-07, DMI, Copenhagen, 2005

2004

Dr. Siebren de Haan
KNMI, The Netherlands
Visit: DMI/KNMI, Apr 2004 - Apr 2005
Topic: Global Climate Maps Based On RO Refractivity Data
Report: Global Maps from GPS Radio Occultation Data
DMI Scientific Report 05-08, DMI, Copenhagen, 2005

Dr. Jens Wickert
GFZ, Potsdam, Germany
Visit: DMI, Oct 2004
Topic: Comparison of retrieval chains and radio sonde analyses
Report: Comparison of Vertical Refractivity and Temperature Profiles From CHAMP With Radiosonde Measurements
DMI Scientific Report 04-09, 2004

2005

Dr. Georg Beyerle
GFZ, Potsdam, Germany
Visit: DMI, June-July 2005
Topic: Open loop simulations
Report: Simulating GPS radio occultation events

Dr. Armin Loescher
University of Graz, Austria
Visit: DMI, April-December 2005
Topic: Global Climate Maps
Report: In preparation

Dr. Oleguer Nogues
IEEC, Barcelona, Spain
Visit: IEEC, Oct 2005 - Mar 2006
Topic: Asissted Raw Sampling (ARS)

2006

Dr. Ralf Lindau
University of Bonn, Germany
Visit: DWD/DMI, Jan-June 2006
Topic: Joint CM-GRAS SAF VS activity on: CM SAF Humidity Composite Product (HCP) and RO data

Dr. Armin Loescher
University of Graz, Austria
Visit: DMI, January-December 2006
Topic: Radio Occultation Processing Intercomparison Campaign

2007

Prof. Michael Gorbunov
Institute for Atmosphere Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Visit: DMI in February-May 2007
Topic: Analysis of GRAS radio occultation data

2008

Prof. Michael Gorbunov
Institute for Atmosphere Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Visit: DMI, June 2008
Topic: Validation of GRAS and COSMIC data

Dr. Josep Aparicio
Meteorological Service of Canade, Environment Canada
September 2008
Topic: Beta testing of ROPP-2 package

Prof. Michael Gorbunov
Institute for Atmosphere Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Visit: DMI, Nov-Dec 2008
Topic: Validation, quality control and optimization of the processing of GRAS data