Session I-a. Precipitation analysis procedures (GPCP, CMAP)
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| George Huffman and Bob Adler (GSFC/NASA) |
(1) The current approach to GPCP monthly and daily precipitation
estimates.
(2) The Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) in real and post-real
time |
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| Pingping Xie, Yelena Yarosh, John Janowiak (NCEP/NOAA),
and Phillip A. Arkin (ESSIC/UMD) |
Techniques used to create CMAP and their
potential improvements |
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Session I-b. Precipitation analysis procedures (NWP data assimilation)
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| Philippe Lopez (ECMWF) |
Precipitation assimilation at ECMWF |
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| Arthur Hou (DAO/NASA/GSFC) |
Precipitation assimilation at NASA Goddard |
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| Bruce MacPherson (Met Office) |
Precipitation assimilation at the Met Office (UK) and
COST-717 collaboration in Europe |
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| Peter Bauer (ECMWF) |
Rain estimation from passive microwave satellite observations |
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| Ko Koizumi (JMA) |
Precipitation assimilation to JMA mesoscale model using
4D-Var method |
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| Per Kallberg (ECMWF) |
The precipitation in ERA-40 |
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Session I-c. Precipitation analysis procedures (Other methods)
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| Murray Salby (U. Colorado) |
Gridding of global precipitation from satellite measurements |
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| Evgeny Yarosh, Wayne Higgins and Wei Shi (NCEP/NOAA) |
High-resolution daily precipitation analysis over U.S.
at CPC/NCEP |
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| Joe Turk (NRL) |
Blending precipitation data sets from multiple sources
at short time scales |
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| Beth Ebert (BMO) |
The Australian operational daily rain gauge analysis |
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| Jurgen Grieser (DWD) |
Towards an adaptive method for spatial interpolation
of global rain gauge data |
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| Xiaogang Gao, Soroosh Sorooshian, and Kuolin Hsu |
Strategy of error analysis and reduction in the PERSIANN
System |
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Session II - Observation characteristics (rain gauge and satellite)
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| Udo Schneider (GPCC/DWD) |
Operational processing, quality control and analysis
of rain gauge data at GPCC |
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| Yukari Takayabu (CCSR/Univ. Tokyo) |
Precipitation characteristics observed from TRMM PR |
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Session III. Validation and Collaboration
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| Efi Foufoula (Univ. Minn.) |
Formulating and creating multisensor-multiscale precipitation
datasets and model verification |
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| Anna Ghelli (ECMWF) |
The relevance of gridded rainfall observations to verify
ECMWF precipitation forecasts |
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| Witold Krajewski (U. Iowa) |
Error characteristics of rain gauge and radar estimates
and validation issues |
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| Mark Serreze (NSIDC) |
Monitoring precipitation over the Arctic drainage: Data
requirements, shortcomings and applications of atmospheric reanalysis |
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| V. Levizzani (CNR, Italy) and Arnie Gruber (NESDIS/NOAA) |
The international Precipitation Working Group: Opportunities
and perspectives |
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