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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1st Announcement<br>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Eighth FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Data Users' Workshop</strong><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">30 September to 2 October 2014<br>
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">UCAR, Boulder, CO, USA</span></font></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><font size="4">Dear Friends and Colleagues, </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><font size="4">We would like to invite you to attend the "Eighth FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Data Users' Workshop." This workshop will be held at UCAR' Center Green (CG1) conference facility in Boulder, Colorado, USA from 30 September to 2 October 2014. </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><font size="4">The FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC is a joint U.S.-Taiwan mission, launched in April 2006. Since its launch, FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC has provided more than four million GPS radio occultation (RO) soundings to support research and operation, and demonstrated its value on operational numerical weather prediction, atmospheric physics, climate, and space weather. More than 2,660 researchers from 77 countries have become registered users of the data. Currently, FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC is providing 1,000-1,500 RO soundings per day, even after 7.5 years of operation in orbit. The success of COSMIC has prompted U.S. agencies to move forward to a follow-on RO mission (called FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2) with Taiwan that will launch six satellites into low-inclination orbits in early 2016, and another six satellites into high-inclination orbits in early 2018. The continued operation of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC and the execution of the FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 mission promise to provide continuous high-quality GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) RO data at unprecedented density, which could greatly benefit research and operation. </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><font size="4">The series of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Data Users' Workshops have been an excellent forum for a dialogue between RO data providers and data users, and with which to promote and broaden the applications of RO data in various science disciplines, including weather, climate, and space weather. This workshop will follow the objectives of previous workshops, with a highlight on the progress of the FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 mission, and the opportunities it will provide for different fields. Anyone who is interested in the occultation methodology and data processing, receiver technology and POD, RO data application, and future missions is warmly welcomed. <br>
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<p><font size="4"><font face="Calibri">More information about the workshop can be found at:<br>
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Registration information will be available at the above URL by 1 April 2014. <br>
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<p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><font size="4">We encourage you to give a presentation to share your experience in developing RO technique or in using the RO data. This workshop promises to be another interesting and stimulating meeting for us all. We hope you will attend and will also encourage your colleagues to join us. <br>
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We plan to host a Student Poster Session again this year and some financial support may be available to student participants. More information will be provided by 1 April 2014. <br>
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We look forward to meeting you in Boulder at the end of September 2014. <br>
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Sincerely, <br>
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Zhen Janet Zeng<br>
Chair, Workshop Organizing Committee</font><br>
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