Chairs: Walter Arthur Petersen, NASA MSFC, Science Research and Projects Office, Huntsville, AL, United States and Pierre Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, United States
Primary Convener: Yang Hong, University of Oklahoma, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, United States
Co-conveners: Ramesh K Kakar, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Gail Skofronick Jackson, NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Walter Arthur Petersen, NASA MSFC, Science Research and Projects Office, Huntsville, AL, United States
OSPA Liaison: Yang Hong, University of Oklahoma, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, United States
Detect Natural Hazard Prone Areas Remote Way (4117)
Diandong Ren1, Yang Hong2, Xinyi Shen3,4, Mervyn J Lynch5 and Guoping Zhang5, (1)Hohai University, School of Oceanography, Nanjing, China, (2)University of Oklahoma, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, United States, (3)Peking University, Beijing, China, (4)University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (5)Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
High Resolution Model Simulation for MC3E, Ifloods, and Lpvex: Comparison with Observations (5904)
Wei-Kuo Tao1, Di Wu1,2, Stephen E Lang1,3, Takamichi Iguchi1,4 and Toshihisa Matsui1,5, (1)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)SSAI, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, United States, (5)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States
Integration Time Influence on Rain Drop Size Distribution (DSD) and Radar Parameters from Disdrometer Data (7460)
Charanjit Singh Pabla, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, Lawrence D Carey, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Atmospheric and Earth Science, Huntsville, United States and Walter Arthur Petersen, NASA MSFC, Science Research and Projects Office, Huntsville, AL, United States
Soil Moisture Background Error Covariance Estimation in a Land-Atmosphere Coupled Model (8550)
Liao-Fan Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States, Ardeshir Ebtehaj, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, United States, Alejandro N Flores, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, Jingfeng Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, United States and Rafael L Bras, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
Verification and Refinement of GPM Ground Validation Data at Wallops Flight Facility (10261)
David A Marks, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States; NASA GSFC/WFF Code 610.W, Wallops Island, VA, United States, David B Wolff, NASA GSFC/WFF Code 610.W, Wallops Island, United States, Walter Arthur Petersen, NASA MSFC, Science Research and Projects Office, Huntsville, AL, United States and Ali Tokay, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, Baltimore, MD, United States
A Comparative Study of Rainfall Observations during GPM Iphex Field Campaign (11637)
Md Kalimur Rahman, Clemson University, Glenn Department of Civil Engineering, Clemson, SC, United States, Ali Tokay, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Firat Y. Testik, Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC, United States
Comparison of airborne and ground based measurements and the relationships between microphysical parameters from GCPEx (12353)
Kirstin Harnos1, Stephen W Nesbitt1, Kimberly A Reed1, George Duffy1, Christopher R Williams2, Aaron Bansemer3, Stephen J Munchak4, Andrew Heymsfield5 and Walter Arthur Petersen6, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States, (3)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)NASA MSFC, Science Research and Projects Office, Huntsville, AL, United States
Validating The Goddard Convective-Stratiform Heating Algorithm for PMM (13029)
Stephen E Lang, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, United States, Wei-Kuo Tao, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Yukari N Takayabu, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Shoichi Shige, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto, Japan, Richard H Johnson, Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Paul E Ciesielski, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Evaluation of Mixed-Phase Microphysics Within Winter Storms Using Field Data and In Situ Observations (14289)
Brian Colle, Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Andrew Molthan, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth and Planetary Office, Huntsville, United States, Ruyi Yu, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States and Stephen W Nesbitt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Climate, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, United States
Evaluation of the PERSIANN-CDR daily rainfall estimates in capturing the behavior of extreme precipitation events over China (14372)
Chiyuan Miao1, Hamed Ashouri2, Kuo-lin Hsu2, Soroosh Sorooshian3 and Qingyun Duan4, (1)Beijing Normal University, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing, China, (2)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)University of California, Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States, (4)Hohai University, Nanjing, China
Ground validation of Dual Precipitation Radar (DPR) on GPM by rapid scan Phased Array weahter Radar (PAR) (14771)
Yuki Hirano1, Tomoaki Mega2, Shigeharu Shimamura1, Ting Wu3, Hiroshi Kikuchi4, Tomoo Ushio2, Eiichi Yoshikawa5 and V Chandrasekar6, (1)Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, (2)Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Division of Electrical, Electronic and Infocommunications Engineering, Osaka, Japan, (3)Gifu University, Gifu, Japan, (4)Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan, (5)JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan, (6)Colorado State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, United States
Evaluating the Influence of Surface and Precipitation Characteristics on TMI and GMI Precipitation Retrievals. (16486)
Nicholas Carr, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, Pierre Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, United States, Yang Hong, University of Oklahoma, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, United States, Jonathan J Gourley, NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Oklahoma City, United States, Ralph R Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, United States, Christian Kummerow, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, Walter Arthur Petersen, NASA MSFC, Science Research and Projects Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, Mathew Schwaller, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Nai-Yu Wang, NOAA NESDIS, Space Weather Observations (SWO), Lanham, United States
Signal to Noise Ratio for Different Gridded Rainfall Products of Indian Monsoon (17354)
Praneeta Nehra1, Hiteshri K Shastri1, Subimal Ghosh2, Mishra Vimal3 and Raghuram G Murtugudde4, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Department of Civil Engineering, Centre for Climate Studies, Mumbai, India, (3)Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Department of Civil Engineering, Gandhinagar, India, (4)Univ of MD--ESSIC, College Park, United States
Towards the Consideration of Surface and Environment variables for a Microwave Precipitation Algorithm Over Land (18163)
Nai-Yu Wang, NOAA NESDIS, Space Weather Observations (SWO), Lanham, United States, Yalei You, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, United States, Ralph R Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, United States and Ingrid Caitlin Guch, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States
Salient Observations and Performance Evaluation of Iowa XPOL Radars during the NASA GPM IFloodS Campaign (19379)
Witold F Krajewski1, Kumar Vijay Mishra2, Miguel B. Galvez3, Radoslaw Goska4, Merhala Thurai3, Viswanathan N Bringi3, Leonid Tolstoy3, Anton Kruger5 and Walter Arthur Petersen6, (1)University of Iowa, Iowa Flood Center and IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering, Iowa City, United States, (2)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States, (5)University of Iowa, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa City, IA, United States, (6)NASA MSFC, Science Research and Projects Office, Huntsville, AL, United States
Adjusting Satellite Rainfall Error in Mountainous Areas for Flood Modeling Applications (21826)
Xinxuan Zhang, University of Connecticut, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Groton, CT, United States, Emmanouil N Anagnostou, University of Connecticut, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Storrs Mansfield, United States, Marina Astitha, University of Connecticut, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Groton, CT, United States, Humberto J Vergara, University of Iowa, Iowa, United States, Jonathan J Gourley, NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Oklahoma City, United States and Yang Hong, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
The Latest Progress in the VPR-Identification and Enhancement (VPR-IE) Approach: Incorporate Climatological and Real-time VPR Information from Spaceborne Precipitation Radar to the NOAA MRMS system (24676)
Yixin Wen, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, Yang Hong, University of Oklahoma, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, United States, Pierre Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, United States, Jonathan J Gourley, NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Oklahoma City, United States and Jian Zhang, NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma, United States
Cloud Ice Crystal Orientation Inferred from Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Microwave Imager (25269)
Jie Gong1, Dong Liang Wu, PhD2, K Franklin Evans3 and Kyu-Myong Kim1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Climate and Radiation Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Insights Into Precipitation Processes As Revealed By Profiling Radar, Disdrometer and Aircraft Observations During The MC3E Campaign. (25270)
Scott E Giangrande, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, United States, Tami Fairless, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, Subhashree Mishra, National Severe Storms Lab Norman, Norman, OK, United States, Alexander Ryzhkov, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, Norman, United States, Aaron Bansemer, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States and Matthew R Kumjian, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
Improving PERSIANN-CCS Rainfall Estimation using Passive Microwave Rainfall Estimation (26294)
Negar Karbalaee, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, CA, United States, Kuo-lin Hsu, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Soroosh Sorooshian, University of California, Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States
Simulation of the 2008 Iowa Flood using HiResFlood-UCI Model with Remote Sensing Data (27429)
Phu Nguyen1, Andrea R Thorstensen2, Kuo-lin Hsu2, Amir AghaKouchak3, Brett F Sanders1 and Soroosh Sorooshian4, (1)University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States, (4)University of California, Irvine, Department of Earth Systems Science, Irvine, United States
Multi-Frequency Radar and Microwave Radiometer Simulations of Surface Snowfall Events from GCPEx: Synergistic Application of In-Situ Microphysics Observations with Modeled Ice Scattering Properties (29088)
Mark Kulie, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Stephen W Nesbitt, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States, Daniel S Harnos, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Andrew Heymsfield, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Benjamin T Johnson, University of Maryland Baltimore County / JCET, Bowie, MD, United States and Simone Tanelli, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission Products and Services at the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC) (29248)
Dana Ostrenga, NASA/GSFC/GES DISC and ADNET SYS., Greenbelt, MD, United States, Zhong Liu, NASA GES DISC/GMU, Greenbelt, United States, Bruce Vollmer, NASA GSFC, GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, William L Teng, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (ADNET Systems), Greenbelt, MD, United States and Steven J Kempler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Evaluation of fine soil moisture data from the IFloodS (NASA GPM) Ground Validation campaign using a fully-distributed ecohydrological model (29390)
Satish Bastola, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States, Yannis Dialynas, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States, Elisa Arnone, Universita degli Studi Palermo, Palermo, Italy and Rafael L Bras, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, United States
