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style="" lang="EN-US">FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Workshop 2006 Early Results
and IOP Campaigns</span><span style="" lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="" lang="EN-US">Time: November 28 December 1, 2006 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="" lang="EN-US">Place: Taipei, Taiwan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="" lang="EN-US">The </span><span lang="EN-US">FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC
is a joint Taiwan - US mission that provides a constellation of six
identical micro-satellites with unprecedented opportunities for global
observations of weather, climate, ionosphere/space weather and geodetic
research. The FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC mission was successfully launched on
April 15, 2006 (Taiwan time). Each microsatellite carries an advanced
GPS receiver (GOX) for radio occultation and precision orbit studies, a
tri-band beacon (TBB) transmitter, which transmits 150, 400, and 1067
MHz radio beacons to ground-based receivers for ionospheric tomography
and radio wave scintillation studies, and a tiny ionosphere photometer
(TIP) for ionospheric airglow observation in nadir direction (135.6
nm). The satellite mission is expected to provide 2,500 radio
occultation observations on vertical profiles of atmospheric air
density, temperature, and water vapor as well as ionospheric electron
density per day. </span></p>
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lang="EN-US">During the first few months after launch the six
micro-satellites will stay relatively close to each other in longitude
providing dense GPS radio occultation soundings and ionosphere
observations from TBB and TIP. Dense observations provide an excellent
opportunity for performing cross validation of the Formosat-3/COSMIC
data with ground-based, airborne and even conventional satellite
observations. NSPO and Taiwan science community are in the process of
conducting an Intense Observation Period (IOP) campaign during
May-November, 2006 for both atmosphere/weather and ionosphere/space
weather studies. Scientists from other nations are also encouraged to
conduct similar IOP campaigns.</span></p>
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lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-US">To provide an opportunity for scientists to present and
discuss their campaign results, impacts of studies and future
collaborations on using the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC data, NSPO will hold an
international scientific meeting on </span><span style="" lang="EN-US">FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC
Workshop 2006 Early Results and IOP Campaigns</span><span lang="EN-US">
to be held in Taipei, Taiwan during November 28-December 1, 2006.<span
style=""> </span>Scientists worldwide are invited to attend the
workshop.<span style=""> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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lang="EN-US">The participants are invited to submit papers presented
at the workshop for publication.<span style=""> </span>The guidelines
of the paper submission will be announced in the future. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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lang="EN-US">The important dates for the workshop are</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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style="color: red;" lang="EN-US">Abstract submission deadline: Oct.
31, 2006<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="color: red;" lang="EN-US">Registration deadline: Oct. 31, 2006<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="color: red;" lang="EN-US">The workshop website is </span><span
lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.ncu.edu.tw/%7Encu5680/workshop/">http://www.ncu.edu.tw/~ncu5680/workshop/</a><span
style="color: red;"> and the abstract submission and registration
procedures will be announced at the website. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Local
Organizing Committee:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Prof. Ben
Chao (National Central University), Co-Chair<span style=""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Prof.
Ching-Yuang Huang (National Central University), Co-Chair <span
style=""> </span><br>
Prof. Ching-Liang Tseng (National Cheng-Kung University), Co-Chair </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Dr.
Ming-Dean Cheng (Central Weather Bureau, Taiwan)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Prof.
Yen-Hsyang Chu (National Central University) <br>
Prof. Ben Jou (National Taiwan University)<br>
Dr. Tie-Yue Liu (National Space Organization)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Scientific
Program Committee:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Prof. C.
Z. Frank Cheng (NSPO and NCKU, Taiwan), Chair</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Prof. Ben
Chao (National Central University, Taiwan), co-Chair <br>
Dr. Bill Kuo (UCAR, USA), co-Chair<br>
Prof. Ching-Yuang Huang (National Central University, Taiwan),
Executive Secretary<br>
Dr. Ming-Dean Cheng (Central Weather Bureau, Taiwan)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Dr. Paul
Bernhardt (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Prof.
George Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Prof.
Yen-Hsyang Chu (National Central University, Taiwan)<br>
Dr. Ken Dymond (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Dr. Nobert
Jakowski (</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman;" lang="EN-US">Deutsches
Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt</span><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: TimesNewRoman;" lang="EN-US">,</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: TimesNewRoman;" lang="EN-US"> </span><span
style="" lang="DE">Germny</span><span lang="EN-US">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Prof. Ben
Jou (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)<br>
Dr. Chin S. Lin (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Prof. D.
Narayana Rao (National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, India) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Prof.
Ching-Liang Tseng (National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Prof.
Toshitaka Tsuda (Kyoto University, Japan)<br>
Dr. Jens Wickert (</span><span style="" lang="DE">GeoForschungsZentrum,
Germny</span><span lang="EN-US">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Prof.
Chun-Chieh Wu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Prof.
Mamoru Yamamoto (Kyoto University, Japan)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Advisory
Committee:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Dr. Rick
Anthes (UCAR, USA) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Dr. Jay
Fein (NSF, USA) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Prof.
Lou-Chuang Lee (NCU, Taiwan) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span
lang="EN-US">Dr. Lance Wu (NSPO, Taiwan) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span
lang="EN-US">Pro. Chao-Han Liu (Taiwan)</span></p>
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