H13B:
Global Precipitation Measurement, Validation, and Applications III Posters

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Yang Hong, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, Ramesh K Kakar, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Gail Skofronick Jackson, NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Walter Arthur Petersen, NASA GSFC/WFF Code 610.W, Wallops Island, VA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Yang Hong, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 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 GSFC/WFF Code 610.W, Wallops Island, VA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Yang Hong, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Global Precipitation Measurment (GPM): Mission Data Products, Near-Realtime and Standard Research Products, Availability, Latency and Services
Erich Franz Stocker1, Owen A Kelley1,2 and John E Stout1,2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
 
Detect Natural Hazard Prone Areas Remote Way
Diandong Ren1, Yang Hong2, Xinyi Shen2,3, Mervyn J Lynch4 and Guoping Zhang4, (1)Curtin University of Technolog, Perth, WA, Australia, (2)University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (3)Peking University, Beijing, China, (4)Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
 
High Resolution Model Simulation for MC3E, Ifloods, and Lpvex: Comparison with Observations
Wei-Kuo Tao1, Di Wu1,2, Stephen E Lang1,2, Takamichi Iguchi1,3 and Toshihisa Matsui1,3, (1)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)SSAI, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States
 
Wageningen Urban Rainfall Experiment 2014 (WURex14): Experimental Setup and First Results
Remko Uijlenhoet1, Aart Overeem1, Hidde Leijnse2 and Pieter Hazenberg1, (1)Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, (2)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands
 
Integration Time Influence on Rain Drop Size Distribution (DSD) and Radar Parameters from Disdrometer Data
Charanjit Pabla1, Lawrence D Carey1 and Walter Arthur Petersen2, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)NASA GSFC/WFF Code 610.W, Wallops Island, VA, United States
 
Simulation of Melting Ice–Phase Precipitation Hydrometeors for Use in Passive and Active Microwave Remote-Sensing Algorithms
Benjamin T Johnson, University of Maryland Baltimore County / JCET, Bowie, MD, United States
 
Soil Moisture Background Error Covariance Estimation in a Land-Atmosphere Coupled Model
Liao-Fan Lin1, Mohammad Ebtehaj1, Alejandro N Flores2, Jingfeng Wang1 and Rafael L Bras1, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States
 
Early Results of Precipitation Features from Half Year of the GPM Observations
Chuntao Liu, Texas A&M Univ Corpus Christi, corpus christi, TX, United States
 
Verification and Refinement of GPM Ground Validation Data at Wallops Flight Facility
David A Marks1,2, David B Wolff2, Walter Arthur Petersen2 and Ali Tokay3,4, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC/WFF Code 610.W, Wallops Island, VA, United States, (3)NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
A Comparative Study of Rainfall Observations during GPM Iphex Field Campaign
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
Kirstin Gleicher1, Stephen W Nesbitt2, Kimberly A Reed1, George Duffy1, Christopher R Williams3, Aaron Bansemer4, Stephen J Munchak5, Andrew Heymsfield4 and Walter Arthur Petersen6, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)NASA GSFC/WFF Code 610.W, Wallops Island, VA, United States
 
TRMM Based Studies of MJO Convection over the Central Indian Ocean, Maritime Continent, and Western Pacific Warm Pool
Steven A Rutledge and Weixin Xu, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
Validating The Goddard Convective-Stratiform Heating Algorithm for PMM
Stephen E Lang, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, Wei-Kuo Tao, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Yukari N Takayabu, AORI/University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan, Shoichi Shige, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Richard H Johnson, Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Paul E Ciesielski, Deptment of Atmoshpheric Science, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
Validation and Intercomparison of Satellite Rainfall Products over Guiana Shield
Justine Ringard1, Melanie Becker1, Pierre Audois1, Frederique Seyler2 and Laurent Linguet1, (1)University of French Guiana, Cayenne, French Guiana, (2)Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement - IRD Cayenne French Guiana, Cayenne, French Guiana
 
Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Data Using Deep Neural Networks
Yumeng Tao, Xiaogang Gao and Soroosh Sorooshian, Univ California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
 
Evaluation of Mixed-Phase Microphysics Within Winter Storms Using Field Data and In Situ Observations
Brian Colle1, Andrew Molthan2, Ruyi Yu1 and Stephen W Nesbitt3, (1)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (2)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States
 
Evaluation of the PERSIANN-CDR daily rainfall estimates in capturing the behavior of extreme precipitation events over China
Chiyuan Miao1, Hamed Ashouri2, Kuo-lin Hsu2, Soroosh Sorooshian2 and Qingyun Duan1, (1)Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, (2)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
 
Ground validation of Dual Precipitation Radar (DPR) on GPM by rapid scan Phased Array weahter Radar (PAR)
Yuki Hirano1, Tomoaki Mega1, Shigeharu Shimamura1, Ting Wu2, Hiroshi Kikuchi1, Tomoo Ushio1, Eiichi Yoshikawa3 and Chandrasekar V Chandra4, (1)Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, (2)Osaka University, Suita, Japan, (3)JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan, (4)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
Evaluating the Influence of Surface and Precipitation Characteristics on TMI and GMI Precipitation Retrievals.
Nicholas Carr, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, Pierre Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, CIMMS, Norman, OK, United States, Yang Hong, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, Jonathan J Gourley, National Severe Storms Lab, Oklahoma City, OK, United States, Ralph R Ferraro, Univ Maryland-ESSIC/CICS and NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD, United States, Christian D Kummerow, Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Walter Arthur Petersen, NASA GSFC/WFF Code 610.W, Wallops Island, VA, United States, Mathew Schwaller, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Nai-Yu Wang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
 
Signal to Noise Ratio for Different Gridded Rainfall Products of Indian Monsoon
Praneeta Nehra1, Hiteshri K Shastri1, Subimal Ghosh1, Vimal Mishra2 and Raghuram G Murtugudde3, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, 382, India, (3)Univ of MD--ESSIC, College Park, MD, United States
 
Profile Classification Module of GPM-DPR algorithm: performance of first dataset
Minda Le1, Chandrasekar V Chandra1 and Jun Awaka2, (1)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)Tokai University Sapporo Campus, Sapporo, Japan
 
Towards the Consideration of Surface and Environment variables for a Microwave Precipitation Algorithm Over Land
Nai-Yu Wang1, Yalei You1, Ralph R Ferraro2 and Ingrid Guch3, (1)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Univ Maryland-ESSIC/CICS and NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States
 
Salient Observations and Performance Evaluation of Iowa XPOL Radars during the NASA GPM IFloodS Campaign
Witold F Krajewski1, Kumar Vijay Mishra1, Miguel B. Galvez2, Radoslaw Goska1, Merhala Thurai2, V N Bringi2, Leonid Tolstoy2, Anton Kruger1 and Walter Arthur Petersen3, (1)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)NASA GSFC/WFF Code 610.W, Wallops Island, VA, United States
 
Blue Nile Rainfall Experiment: Validation Results
Mekonnen Gebremichael, University of California Los Angeles, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Adjusting Satellite Rainfall Error in Mountainous Areas for Flood Modeling Applications
Xinxuan Zhang1, Emmanouil N Anagnostou1, Marina Astitha1, Humberto J Vergara2, Jonathan J Gourley3 and Yang Hong2, (1)University of Connecticut, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Storrs, CT, United States, (2)The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (3)National Severe Storms Lab, Oklahoma City, OK, United States
 
Interpolation of the raindrop size distribution over a GPM-pixel-sized region.
Alexis Berne and Tim Raupach, EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
 
Why are Radar and Passive Microwave Profiles Associated with Lightning Probability over Land and Ocean So Profoundly Different?
Sarah D Bang1, Edward J Zipser1 and Chuntao Liu2, (1)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)Texas A&M Univ Corpus Christi, corpus christi, TX, United States
 
Modeling the Microwave Single-scattering Properties of Aggregate Snowflakes
Holly Nowell1, Ryan E Honeyager2 and Guosheng Liu1, (1)Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (2)Florida State University, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States
 
An Evaluation Of Cold Season Precipitation Microphysical Properties From A Ground-Based Perspective
Kimberly A Reed1, Stephen W Nesbitt1 and Ali Tokay2, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)NASA, Greenbelt, MD, 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
Yixin Wen, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, Yang Hong, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, Pierre Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, CIMMS, Norman, OK, United States, Jonathan J Gourley, National Severe Storms Lab, Oklahoma City, OK, United States and Jian Zhang, National Severe Storms Lab, Norman, OK, United States
 
Cloud Ice Crystal Orientation Inferred from Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Microwave Imager
Jie Gong, GEST, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Dong Liang Wu, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States, K Franklin Evans, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Kyu-Myong Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Insights Into Precipitation Processes As Revealed By Profiling Radar, Disdrometer and Aircraft Observations During The MC3E Campaign.
Scott E Giangrande1, Tami Toto1, Subhashree Mishra2, Alexander Ryzhkov2, Aaron Bansemer3 and Matt Kumjian4, (1)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, (2)National Severe Storms Lab Norman, Norman, OK, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
 
An Aircraft And Radar Based Analysis Of Cloud And Precipitation Microphysics In Mid-Latitude Continental Clouds
Subhashree Mishra1,2, Matt Kumjian3, Aaron Bansemer4, Scott E Giangrande5, Alexander Ryzhkov1,2 and Tami Toto5, (1)National Severe Storms Lab Norman, Norman, OK, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
 
Improving PERSIANN-CCS Rainfall Estimation using Passive Microwave Rainfall Estimation
Negar Karbalaee, Kuo-lin Hsu and Soroosh Sorooshian, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
 
New Features of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Validation Network
Mathew Schwaller and Kenneth R Morris, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Simulation of the 2008 Iowa Flood using HiResFlood-UCI Model with Remote Sensing Data
Phu Nguyen, Andrea R Thorstensen, Kuo-lin Hsu, Amir AghaKouchak, Brett F Sanders and Soroosh Sorooshian, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States
 
Uncertainty Estimation of Global Precipitation Measurement through Objective Validation Strategy
Hyungjun KIM1, Nobuyuki Utsumi1, Shinta Seto2 and Taikan Oki1, (1)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (2)Nagasaki University, Yokohama-Shi, Japan
 
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
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, CA, United States
 
Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission Products and Services at the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC)
Dana Ostrenga1, Zhong Liu2, Bruce Vollmer1, William L Teng3 and Steven J Kempler1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (ADNET Systems), Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Preliminary Comparisons of the GPM Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar to Ground Validation Radars of the GPM Validation Network
Kenneth R Morris and Mathew Schwaller, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Improvements to a Low-Latency, GPM-Ready Rainfall Rate Algorithm
Yan Hao1, Robert Joseph Kuligowski2 and Yaping Li1, (1)IMSG, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
Evaluation of fine soil moisture data from the IFloodS (NASA GPM) Ground Validation campaign using a fully-distributed ecohydrological model
Satish Bastola, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States, Yannis G 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 Tech, Atlanta, GA, United States
 
Relationships between subtropical warm precipitation features and lower tropospheric water vapor
Kyle Wodzicki and Anita D Rapp, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States
 
Winter Precipitation Classification from Two Dimensional Video Disdrometer Data: Observations from Gcpex and Lpvex Experiments
Gwo-Jong Huang1, Chandrasekar V Chandra1 and Dimitri Moisseev2, (1)Colorado State University, 1373 Campus, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)University of Helsinki, Physics, Helsinki, Finland
 
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