Primary Conveners: Yang Hong, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, 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: Pierre Kirstetter1, Walter Arthur Petersen2 and George John Huffman2, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, CIMMS, Norman, OK, United States(2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Pierre Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, CIMMS, Norman, OK, United States
Use of TRMM and GPM Multi-Satellite Precipitation Data for Hydrological Modeling (59395)
Mehmet B Ercan, Water Resources, Indianapolis, IN, United States, Venkataraman Lakshmi, Univ South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States, Gail Skofronick Jackson, NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and George John Huffman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
A Climatological Perspective on U.S. Rainfall and North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones (61965)
Beda Nidhi Luitel1, Gabriele Villarini2, Gabriel Andres Vecchi3, Hiroyuki Murakami3 and Wei Zhang3, (1)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (2)University of Iowa, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Iowa City, IA, United States, (3)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
Advances in Satellite Microwave Precipitation Retrieval Algorithms Over Land (73939)
Nai-Yu Wang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, Yalei You, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Ralph R Ferraro, Univ Maryland-ESSIC/CICS and NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD, United States
In-depth Analysis of Land Surface Emissivity using Microwave Polarization Difference Index to Improve Satellite QPE (68307)
Yaoyao Zheng1, Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter1, Yang Hong1, Yixin Wen1, Joseph Turk2 and Jonathan J Gourley3, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)National Severe Storms Lab, Oklahoma City, OK, United States
Explore GPM IMERG and Other Global Precipitation Products with GES DISC GIOVANNI (69768)
Zhong Liu1,2, Dana Ostrenga3, Bruce Vollmer3, Kyle Macritchie2 and Steven J Kempler3, (1)George Mason University Fairfax, Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS), Fairfax, VA, United States, (2)NASA GSFC GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Passive Microwave Rainfall Error Analysis using High-Resolution X-band Dual-Polarization Radar Observations in Complex Terrain (72670)
Yagmur Derin1, Emmanouil N Anagnostou1, John A Kalogiros2, Marios Anagnostou3, Anna Cinzia Marra4, Giulia Panegrossi4, Vincenzo Levizzani4, Elsa Cattani4, Daniele Casella4 and Paolo Sanò4, (1)University of Connecticut, civil and environmental engineering, Storrs, CT, United States, (2)National Observatory of Athens, Institute of Environmental Research & Sustainable Development, Athens, Greece, (3)National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Dept. of Water Resources and Env. Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Marousi Athens, Greece, (4)CNR Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Bologna, Italy
Calibration to improve forward model simulation of microwave emissivity at GPM frequencies over the U.S. Southern Great Plains (73191)
Kenneth W Harrison1, Christa D Peters-Lidard2, Yudong Tian3, Sarah Ringerud2 and Sujay Kumar2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Weak Linkage between the Heaviest Rainfall and Tallest Storms (76312)
Atsushi Hamada, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Yukari N Takayabu, AORI/University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan, Chuntao Liu, Texas A&M Univ Corpus Christi, corpus christi, TX, United States and Edward J Zipser, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Microwave Signatures of Inundation Area (79111)
Zeinab Takbiri, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Ardeshir Ebtehaj, Utah State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logan, UT, United States and Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Microphysics in West African squall line with an Xband polarimetric radar and an Hydrometeor Identification Scheme: comparison with in situ measurements (79461)
Frederic Cazenave1,2, Marielle Gosset1,3, Modeste Kacou4, Matias Alcoba3 and Emmanuel Fontaine5, (1)IRD Institute for Research and Development, Marseille Cedex 02, France, (2)LTHE Laboratoire d'étude des Transferts en Hydrologie et Environnement, Saint Martin d'Hères, France, (3)GET Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Toulouse, France, (4)University Félix Houphouët Boigny, LAPA-MF, Abidjan, Côte D'ivoire, (5)Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand, Aubiere Cedex, France
Merging PERSIANN-CCS Satellite-based Rainfall Data and Pointwise Gauge Measurements over Chile (86494)
Zhongwen Yang1, Kuolin Hsu2, Soroosh Sorooshian2, Xinyi Xu1, Dan Braithwaite2 and Koen M J Verbist3,4, (1)College of Water Sciences, Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences of Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, (2)University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)UNESCO-IHP, Hydrological Systems and Global Change section, Santiago, Chile, (4)nternational Centre for Eremology, Department of Soil Management, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium