3rd International Atmospheric Limb Workshop

The 3rd International Atmospheric Limb Workshop, organized by the OSIRIS team at the University of Saskatchewan, will be held in Montréal, Canada, on Tuesday, April 25 to Friday, April 28, 2006. This year's meeting is sponsored in part by the Canadian Space Agency and also by World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) SPARC. SPARC provided funding that allowed several young researchers and students to attend the meeting.

Two previous International Atmospheric Limb Workshops, held in Bremen, 2003, and Stockholm, 2004, brought together scientists involved in remote sensing techniques with a particular focus on limb scattering in the UV and visible spectral range. The Stockholm workshop extended the focus to include infrared and microwave/sub-mm soundings techniques. This year's workshop will continue the limb scattering and emission dicussion and will extend the focus with some emphasis on recent advances in occultation experiments from satellite platforms.

• Limb view instrument design and technique
• Species retrieval from solar and stellar sources (UV, visible, NIR)
• Species retrieval from rotational/vibrational emissions and thermal sources (IR, microwave, sub-mm)
• Radiative transfer
• Inversion techniques
• Clouds and aerosols (troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere)
• Data assimilation

A preliminary draft of the program is now available. Click here for the current version. All participants will give an oral presentation. Friday is a dedicated working day and there will opportunity for small group discussion and planning.

The conference fee is CDN $200 per person and includes agenda and abstracts, morning and afternoon coffee breaks at the hotel, and the conference dinner on the Thursday evening.
Please fill in this form and fax it (with credit card number) or mail it with enclosed cheque. Credit card payments will be charged by the University of Saskatchewan. All information will be destroyed after processing.

The meeting will take place at the Hotel Delta Centre-Ville.
Rooms have been reserved at a conference rate of CDN $150 per double room per night.
The hotel is perfectly located downtown at the edge of Old Montréal and the Business District. (click for map)

Booking deadline is March 18. Please telephone the hotel directly at 1-877-814-7706 to make your reservation. Be sure that you reference your attendance at the "3rd International Atmospheric Limb Workshop" to confirm your room rate.

We will meet each day in the Auditorium room at the hotel. This room will be set up with tables in classroom style and a computer, LCD projector, overhead, and whiteboard will be provided.

It is the recommendation of the organizing committee that you do not rent a vehicle. Take a taxi from the airport to the hotel. Our hotel is located in the heart of tourist area and within walking distance of most locations of interest.

• Adam Bourassa, University of Saskatchewan
• Doug Degenstien, University of Saskatchewan
• Dick Gattinger, University of Saskatchewan
• Ted Llewellyn, University of Saskatchewan
• John Burrows, University of Bremen

Please feel free to contact one of these members of the local organizing committee at the University of Saskatchewan with any questions or concerns:

• Adam Bourassa Phone: 1 306 966 6456
• Ted Llewellyn

Information concerning the workshop will be frequently updated on this website.

Tuesday AM	Flynn	Flittner	Bergman	Xu	Rault	Loughman	Taha
Tuesday PM	Hornstein	Haley	Bourassa	Loughman	Mendrok	Brohede	Kuehl
Wednesday AM	McLinden	Sioris	Tukiainen	Krecl	Rozanov	Urban	Baron
Wednesday PM	Kasai	Rozanov	Roth	Englert	Stevens	vonSavigny	Lossow	Karlsson
Thursday AM	Bernath	Degenstein	McDade	Rahnama
Thursday PM	deLange	Fussen	Kyrola	Seppala	Rohen	Waldemarsson	Gattinger	Llewellyn