A Radio Occultation Science Workshop co-sponsored by COSMIC and COAA will be held at Boulder, Colorado on August 21-23. COSMIC, the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate, is a joint U.S.-Taiwan project. The scientific foundation for COSMIC is the radio occultation (limb sounding) technique which was developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Stanford University in the late 1960s to study planetary atmospheres. COAA, Chinese-American Oceanic and Atmospheric Assopciation, founded in 1993, is registered as a non-profit and charitable organization (Combined Federal Campaign Agency Designation No. 7854). It is operated under the non-profit Public Benefit Corporation Law for scientific purposes.
The 3-day workshop will discus three broad areas: (1) Recent advances in radio occultation science, methods and applications ; (2) status and results from recent and planned RO missions; and (3) radio occultation instrumentation. For further information, contact COSMIC Program Office/UCAR, Attn: Courtney Hils, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307 or http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu