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<p class="MsoNormal">UCP’s COSMIC program is providing an opportunity for
graduate and both junior- and senior-level undergraduate students, who are U.S.
citizens or U.S. permanent residents, to attend and participate in the 3<sup>rd</sup>
International Conference on GPS Radio Occultation (ICGPSRO), to be held in Taipei,
Taiwan on 9–11 March 2016. The ICGPSRO focuses on the research and application
of GPS RO in meteorology, climate, and space weather. Students with research
interests aligned with these topics are encouraged to apply for travel support.
The ICGPSRO will be held in conjunction with the 10<sup>th</sup> FORMOSAT-3 /
COSMIC Launch Anniversary Celebration. Along with the workshop, the trip will
include student activities, which may include visits to Taiwan’s National Space
Organization and National Central University, as well as sightseeing in Taipei.<br>
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The FORMOSAT-3 / COSMIC mission, a joint Taiwan/U.S. project launched in 2006, currently
provides around 1,200 daily radio occultation profiles in the neutral
atmosphere, electron density profiles and total electron content arcs in the
ionosphere, GPS scintillation observations, and TIP radiance products. With the
continued operation of FORMOSAT-3 / COSMIC and the execution of the FORMOSAT-7
/ COSMIC-2 mission, radio occultation data will continue to be available to
support research and operations for many more years to come. With nearly an
order of magnitude more RO data expected to be available from COSMIC-2,
unprecedented research opportunities will open up for hurricane analysis and
prediction, Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), and climate processes, just to
name a few.</p>
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Application deadline: 13 November 2015<br>
Contact: Rebecca Metts, UCP/COSMIC<br>
303-497-2606, <a href="mailto:rnowak@ucar.edu">rnowak@ucar.edu</a><br>
To apply: <a href="http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu/taiwan2016/index.html">http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu/taiwan2016/index.html</a><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
<div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Kendra Greb, CGMP<div>Program Administrator</div><div>UCAR Visiting Scientist Programs</div><div>P.O. Box 3000</div><div>Boulder, CO 80307-3000</div><div><br></div><div>Ph: 303-497-1605</div><div>Fax: 303-497-8668</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.vsp.ucar.edu" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.vsp.ucar.edu/images/email/VSP_color_1-inch.png"></a><br></div></div></div>
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