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The 4th International GPM Workshop
Global Precipitation Measurement: The Flagship Mission for Global Water and Energy Cycle Research



Presentation Material: 4th International GPM Planning Meeting
[15-17 June 2004; Marriott Hotel, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA]

*all files are powerpoint unless marked otherwise*

June 15 (Tuesday)

Welcome
1. Welcome (Ramesh Kakar / NASA-HQ -- Chair)
2. Logistics -- Paul Hwang / NASA-GSFC
3. GPM and NASA's Earth Science Enterprise -- Mary Cleave / NASA-HQ
4. Science Focus Areas in the Earth Science Enterprise and GPM's Contribution -- Jack Kaye / NASA-HQ

GPM / EGPM Program Status
5. ESA -- Amnon Ginati & Alberto Tobias / ESA-ESTEC
6. JAXA -- Masahiro Kojima / JAXA-TKSC
7. NASA -- Steven Neeck / NASA-HQ

GPM / EGPM Science Status
8. Europe & Canada -- Alberto Mugnai / CNR-ISAC & EGPM-MAG
9. Japan -- Kenji Nakamura / Nagoya Univ.
10.USA -- Eric Smith / NASA-GSFC

Views of Participating Organizations
11. Earth Observation Summit (GEO Committee) -- Toshio Koike / Tokyo Univ.
12. WCRP-GWEX -- Rick Lawford / GWEX
13. Role of GPM in Global Water Cycle Research & NEWS -- Pierre Morel / Univ. of Paris
14. NEWS and Emerging Hydrological Missions -- Michael Jasinski & Paul Houser / NASA-GSFC
15. JMA -- Toshiharu Tauchi / JMA
16. NOAA - Arnold Gruber & Marie Colton / NOAA-NESDIS
17. NASA Earth Science Applications Division -- Jared Entin & Ronald Birk / NASA-HQ
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18. The EUMETSAT perspective on GPM -- David Williams & Johannes Schmetz / EUMETSAT

Governance Issues
19. NASA -- Steven Neeck
20. JAXA -- Masahiro Kojima / JAXA-TKSC
21. ESA -- Chung-Chi Lin / ESA-ESTEC

Systems & Operations
22. NASA Mission Development Update -- John Durning / NASA-GSFC
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23. JAXA DPR Development Update -- Kinji Furukawa / JAXA-TKSC
24. EGPM System Concept Study -- Chung-Chi Lin / ESA-ESTEC
25. NPOESS Update -- Stanley Schneider / NASA-IPO

Data Information System
26. Status of NASA PPS -- Erich Stocker / NASA-GSFC
27. Status of JAXA Ground System -- Mitsuhiro Tsuchiya / JAXA-EORC
28. Report of Previous GDaWG Meeting -- Toshiaki Takeshima / JAXA-EORC

June 16 (Wednesday)

Standard Retrieval Algorithms
29. GPM Core (GMI) -- Christian Kummerow /Colo. State Univ.
30. GPM Core (DPR) -- Toshio Iguchi / NiCT
31. GPM -- Christopher Kidd / Univ of Birmingham & EGPM-MAG
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32. Megha Tropiques (CNES / ISRO) -- Michel Debois (LMD) & Raju Garudachar (ISRO)

Ground Validation Network
33. Report of Abingdon Meeting -- Eric Smith & Paul Hwang / NASA GSFC
34. US Oceanic Supersite -- Sandra Yuter / Univ. of Washington
35. US Continental Supersite -- Steven Rutledge / Colo. State Univ.
36. Ground Validation Planning in Japan -- Nobuhiro Takahashi / NiCT
37. European Virtual GV Site -- Martin Hagen / DLR
38. Catalonia Radar Network -- Sergi Paricio / Catalonia Met Service-METEOCAT

TRMM Validation
39. PR Algorithms -- Shuji Shimizu / JAXA-EORC
40. L2 Standard Rainrate Profile Algorithms -- Song Yang / George Mason Univ. (pdf)
41. Ground Validation Progress -- David Wolff / NASA-GSFC

Research & Applications 1
42. Precip Data Assimilation at ECMWF -- Peter Bauer / ECMWF
43. Precip Data Assimilation at MSC -- Godelieve Deblonde & J. F. Mahfouf / MSC
44. Precip Data Assimilation at GSFC -- Arthur Hou / NASA-GSFC

Research & Applications 2
45. GPM Research Activities in Brazil -- Roberto Calheiros / UNESP
46. GPM Research Activities in West Africa -- Everette Joseph / Howard Univ.
47. Monsoon Research Prospects with GPM -- Yasu-Masa Kodama / Hirosaki Univ.

Research & Applications 3
48. Typhoon Research Prospects with GPM -- Frank Marks / NOAA-HRD
49. GPM Research Activities in Korea -- Sung-Nam Oh / KMA-METRI
50. GPM and THORPEX: New Era for Global Weather Prediction -- Tesuo Nakazawa / JMA-MRI (pdf)
51. GPM Research Activities in Taiwan -- Wann-Jin Chen / CCIT
52. Using Satellite Rainfall Estimates for Flood and Drought Monitoring in Africa -- Kwabena Asante / USGS- EDC

June 17 (Thursday)

Research & Applications 4
53. Snowfall Research in Canada -- Paul Joe / MS-Canada
54. Climate Modeling Research in Japan -- Masaki Sato / JAMSTEC
55. Climate Modeling & GWEC -- Anthony Del Genio / NASA-GISS
56. High Latitude Weather Systems -- Yoshio Asuma / Hokkaido Univ.
57. Global Flood Alert System (GFAS) -- Akira Sasaki / IDI-IFNet
58. Error Analysis of PR Rainfall Measurements -- Tasuku Tanaka / JAXA-EORC


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