H12E:
Global Precipitation Measurement, Validation, and Applications II


Session ID#: 10521

Session Description:
Measurements of global precipitation are necessary for monitoring earth’s water resources and the global hydrologic cycle, understanding climate variability, and improving weather prediction. The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission, launched in Feb 2014, is designed to provide the next-generation of unified global precipitation products with accuracies and data latencies essential for research and integrated hydrometeorological applications, along with decades of hierarchy of satellite rain measurements. This session invites contributions in ALL areas of precipitation science including retrieval algorithms, ground validation, intersensor calibration and data fusion, and data utilization in hydrologic, weather, climate, and related societal applications.
Primary Convener:  Yang Hong, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science (CEES), Norman, OK, United States
Conveners:  Ramesh K Kakar, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Gail Skofronick Jackson, NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Walter Arthur Petersen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Walter Arthur Petersen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Gail Skofronick Jackson, NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Yang Hong, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science (CEES), Norman, OK, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Walter Arthur Petersen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

1854 Precipitation [HYDROLOGY]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
3354 Precipitation [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4303 Hydrological [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Evaluating Cloud and Precipitation Processes in Numerical Models using Current and Potential Future Satellite Missions (Invited) (83525)
Susan C van den Heever1, Wei-Kuo Tao2, Gail Skofronick Jackson3, Simone Tanelli4, Tristan S L'Ecuyer5, Walter Arthur Petersen2 and Christian Kummerow1, (1)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States
Observed Precipitation Vertical Structure to Support Assumptions used in Satellite Rainfall Retrieval Algorithms (82406)
Christopher R Williams, University of Colorado Boulder, Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States
Relations between precipitation rate and mass weighted mean diameter for the GPM/DPR algorithm (78875)
Shinta Seto and Tatsuya Shimozuma, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
An uncertainty model for snowfall rate retrievals from the GPM DPR (85964)
Kimberly A Reed and Stephen W Nesbitt, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States
Performance of Precipitation Algorithms During IPHEx and Observations of Microphysical Characteristics in Complex Terrain (75914)
Jessica Marie Erlingis, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, Jonathan J Gourley, National Severe Storms Lab, Oklahoma City, United States, Pierre Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, United States, Emmanouil N Anagnostou, University of Connecticut, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Storrs Mansfield, United States, John A Kalogiros, National Observatory of Athens, Institute of Environmental Research & Sustainable Development, Athens, Greece and Marios Anagnostou, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Dept. of Water Resources and Env. Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Marousi Athens, Greece
Evaluating the Global Precipitation Measurement mission with NOAA/NSSL Multi-Radar Multisensor: current status and future directions. (80150)
Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter1, Yang Hong1, Jonathan J Gourley2, Nicholas Carr1, Walter Arthur Petersen3, Mathew Schwaller3, Emmanouil N Anagnostou4, Christian D Kummerow5, Ralph R Ferraro6, Nai-Yu Wang7, Simone Tanelli8, Joe J Turk8 and George John Huffman3, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)National Severe Storms Lab, Oklahoma City, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Connecticut, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Storrs Mansfield, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (6)NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, United States, (7)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (8)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Ground Validation of IMERG as a Function of Spatiotemporal Scale (67500)
Jackson Tan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA, United States; Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc., Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Walter Arthur Petersen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Yudong Tian, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Level One Validation Concept for GPM over Dallas - Fort Worth Urban Network (85344)
V. V Chandrasekar1, Haonan Chen2, Minda Le1 and Sounak Kumar Biswas3, (1)Colorado State University, 1373 Campus, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, United States

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