H23F:
Global Precipitation Measurement, Validation, and Applications IV Posters

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Session ID#: 12836

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. To address this need, in early 2014 the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission “Core” satellite was launched by NASA and JAXA as a central platform in the GPM international satellite constellation.  The GPM Core, carrying a dual-frequency precipitation radar and multi-channel microwave imager, serves as on orbit calibration source and precipitation remote sensing laboratory to support radiometer measurements made by the larger GPM constellation.  Collectively, the GPM mission provides the next-generation of unified global precipitation products with accuracies and data latencies essential for research and integrated hydrometeorological applications, along with decades of satellite rain measurements. This session invites contributions in ALL areas of precipitation science including retrieval algorithms, ground validation, inter-sensor calibration and data fusion, and data utilization in hydrologic, weather, climate, and 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 Kakar1, Gail Skofronick Jackson1 and Walter Arthur Petersen2, (1)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States(2)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Science Research and Projects Division, ST-10, Huntsville, AL, United States
Chairs:  Yang Hong, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science (CEES), Norman, OK, United States, Walter Arthur Petersen, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Science Research and Projects Division, ST-10, Huntsville, AL, United States, Pierre Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma Norman, School of Meteorology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, United States and Dalia Kirschbaum, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Yang Hong, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science (CEES), Norman, OK, 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:

Interactive Visualization of Near Real-Time and Production Global Precipitation Mission Data Online Using CesiumJS (118083)
Matthew Lammers, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/KBRwyle, Precipitation Processing System, Greenbelt, MD, United States
On the Use of Johnson SB in Modelling Drop Size Distribution (120536)
Katia Cugerone1, Leo Pio D'Adderio2, Federico Porcù3, Carlo De Michele1 and Ali Tokay4,5, (1)Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Milano, 20133, Italy, (2)University of Ferrara, Department of Physics and Earth Science, Ferrara, Italy, (3)University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bologna, Italy, (4)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Joint Center For Earth Systems Technology, Baltimore, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Comparisons of Satellite Precipitation Estimates over the United States Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI) (120776)
Jessica R. P. Sutton, University of South Carolina Columbia, School of Earth Ocean and Environment, Columbia, SC, United States, Venkataraman Lakshmi, University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, United States, Nicholas Luchetti, Eastern Carolina University, Geography, Greenvile, NC, United States, Ethan Wright, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, NC, United States, Michael C Kruk, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, United States and John J Marra, NOAA Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, United States
The Next-Generation Goddard Convective-Stratiform Heating Algorithm: New Model Simulations for Tropical and Continental Summertime Environments (126336)
Stephen E Lang1, Wei-Kuo Tao2 and Di Wu2, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
The Next-Generation Goddard Convective-Stratiform Heating Algorithm: Addressing Higher Latitude, Cold Season, and Synoptic Systems (126524)
Di Wu1, Wei-Kuo Tao1 and Stephen E Lang2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, United States
High Resolution Model Simulations for MC3E, LPVEx, GCPEx and Olympex: Sensitivity of Microphysics (126544)
Wei-Kuo Tao1, Di Wu1, Stephen E Lang2, Takamichi Iguchi3 and Toshihisa Matsui1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Precipitation Variability across Satellite Footprints Derived from Ground-Based Radar Observations (182505)
Christopher R Williams, University of Colorado Boulder, Smead Aerospace Engineering Science, Boulder, United States
MRMS Experimental Testbed for Operational Products (METOP) (126823)
Jian Zhang, NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma, United States
Evaluation of GPM-based Multi-satellite IMERG Precipitation Products Over the Lower Colorado River Basin, Texas (127280)
Seyed Ehsan Omranian and Hatim Osman Sharif, University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, San Antonio, TX, United States
Towards better understanding of high-mountain cryosphere changes using GPM data: A Joint Snowfall and Snow-cover Passive Microwave Retrieval Algorithm (127328)
Ardeshir Ebtehaj, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, Minneapolis, United States and Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Rain/No-Rain Identification from Bispectral Satellite Information using Deep Neural Networks (128776)
Yumeng Tao, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
High Resolution Evaluation of IMERG by Sensors, Surfaces and Seasons (129295)
Jackson Tan, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, Walter Arthur Petersen, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Science Research and Projects Division, ST-10, Huntsville, AL, United States and Pierre Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, United States
Precipitation Nowcast using Deep Recurrent Neural Network (129514)
Ata Akbari Asanjan1, Tiantian Yang1, Xiaogang Gao1, Kuo-lin Hsu2 and Soroosh Sorooshian2, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States
Precipitation Climatology and Relation of Variations to Surface Temperature from GPM (129693)
Jian-Jian Wang, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Evaluation of GPM IMERG, TMPA 3B42V7 and CHMPA Products over the Guangdong Province, China at Multiple Spatiotemporal Scales (130798)
Dashan Wang and Xianwei Wang, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
Evaluation of the GPM IMERG precipitation estimates over complex terrain in the United States (131927)
Sungmin O, University of Graz, Institute for Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Meteorology/Institute of Physics (IGAM/IP), NAWI, Graz, Austria; University of Graz, FWF-DK Climate Change, Graz, Austria and Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma, Advanced Radar Research Center, Norman, OK, United States; NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, United States
Evaluation of Satellite Precipitation and Hydrological Model Predictions for Flood Events Over The Guadalupe River Basin, Texas (134195)
Hatim Osman Sharif, University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, San Antonio, TX, United States and Chad Furl, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
Does GPM-based multi-satellite precipitation enhance rainfall estimates over Pakistan and Bolivia arid regions? (135903)
Frédéric Satgé1, Yawar Hussain2, Marie-Paule Bonnet3, Ramiro Pillco4, Jorge Molina4, Franck Timouk5, Henrique Roig1, Hernan Martinez-Carvajal Sr.2 and Akhter Gulraiz6, (1)University of Brasilia, Institute of Geoscience, Brasilia, Brazil, (2)UNB University of Brasilia, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Asa Norte, Brazil, (3)IRD Institute for Research and Development, Marseille Cedex 02, France, (4)University of San Andres, Institute of Hydrology and Hydraulic, La Paz, Bolivia, (5)GET Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Toulouse, France, (6)Quaid-i- Azam University, Department of Earth Sciences, Islamad, Pakistan
TRMM-3B43 Bias Correction over the High Elevations of the Contiguous United States (136365)
Hossein Hashemi1, Klas Matias Nordin1, Venkataraman Lakshmi2 and Rosemary J Knight3, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, United States, (3)Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
Comparison of TRMM Derived Rainfall Products for General and Extreme Rains over Maritime Continent (137806)
Andung Bayu Sekaranom, Nagoya University, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University. Furo-cho Chikusa-ku., Nagoya, Japan; Gadjah Mada University, Department of Environmental Geography, Faculty of Geography, Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Hirohiko Masunaga, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Blending Gauge Data with CMORPH for a Global Daily Precipitation Analysis (138416)
Shaorong Wu, Innovim - NOAA/NCEP/CPC, College Park, MD, United States and Pingping Xie, NOAA/NCEP, College Park, United States
Precipitation error modeling using a non-parametric statistical technique: Development and hydrologic evaluation over the Iberian Peninsula. (139119)
Md Abul Ehsan Bhuiyan1, Efthymios Ioannis Nikolopoulos2,3, Emmanouil N Anagnostou4, Pere Quintana-Segui5 and Anais Barella-Ortiz5,6, (1)University of Connecticut, Natural Resources and the Environment, Groton, CT, United States, (2)University of Connecticut, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Groton, CT, United States, (3)Innovative Technologies Center SA, Athens, Greece, (4)University of Connecticut, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Groton, CT, United States, (5)Observatori de l'Ebre, Universitat Ramon Lull-CSIC, Roquetes, Spain, (6)UCLM & OE, Castilla-La Mancha University, Toledo, Spain
Utilizing the Vertical Variability of Precipitation to Improve Radar QPE (139208)
Patrick N Gatlin and Walter Arthur Petersen, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
New global precipitation products and data service updates at the NASA GES DISC (139453)
Zhong Liu1,2, Dana Ostrenga3,4, Andrey Savtchenko2,5, Barbara Deshong5,6, Bruce Vollmer7, Mary Greene8,9 and Steven J Kempler2, (1)George Mason University Fairfax, Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS), Fairfax, VA, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA/GSFC/GES DISC and ADNET SYS., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)ADNET Systems Inc., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)ADNET Systems Inc. Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GES DISC, Greenbelt, United States, (7)NASA GSFC, GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)NASA GSFC GES DISC (Telophase Corp), Greenbelt, United States, (9)ADNET Systems Inc. Greenbelt, Greenbelt, United States
GPM Level 1 Science Requirements: Science and Performance Viewed from the Ground (141290)
Walter Arthur Petersen1, Pierre Kirstetter2, David B Wolff3, Christopher Kidd4, Ali Tokay5, V Chandrasekar6, Patrick N Gatlin1, Mircea Grecu7, George John Huffman8 and Gail Skofronick Jackson9, (1)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Wallops Flight Facility, Code 610W, Wallops Island, United States, (4)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, United States, (7)Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (9)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Inundation Retrieval Using Passive Microwave Observations (142114)
Zeinab Takbiri, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Ardeshir Ebtehaj, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, United States and Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States
Systematic anomalies over inland water bodies of High Mountain Asia in TRMM precipitation estimates: No longer a problem for the GPM era? (144762)
Guoqiang Tang, Wuhan University, School of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, Wuhan, China, Di Long, Tsinghua University, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China and Yang Hong, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Satellite Rainfall Data vs Interpolated Ground Measurements in Metro Manila: Error Analysis, Patterns, and Trends from Dense Network of Ground Stations (147968)
Luke Jonathan Yano Ampil1, Jherrielloyd Garchitorena Yao2, Nofel Lagrosas3, Genevieve Rose H Lorenzo2 and James Simpas2, (1)Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines, (2)Manila Observatory, Quezon City, Philippines, (3)Ateneo de Manila University, Manila Observatory, Quezon City, Philippines
Validation of High Resolution Orbital Precipitation Over Upper Mahanadi River Basin, India (154779)
Amar Kant Gautam, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India and Ashish Pandey, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, WRD&M, Roorkee, India
Developing an Orographic Adjustment for the SCaMPR Algorithm (157013)
Ismail Yucel, Middle East Technical University, Department Of Civil Engineering, Ankara, Turkey, Mustafa Akcelik, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey and Robert Joseph Kuligowski, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States
First-Year Evaluation of GPM-Rainfall over the Netherlands: IMERG Day 1 Final Run (V03D) (157817)
Manuel Felipe Rios Gaona, Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, Netherlands, Aart Overeem, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, Hidde Leijnse, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands, Remko Uijlenhoet, Wageningen University and Research, Environmental Sciences, Wageningen, Netherlands and Albrecht Weerts, Deltares, Operational Water Management & Early Warning, Delft, Netherlands
A Global Snowfall Analysis using Combined Spaceborne Remote Sensing Observations and Reanalysis Data (159370)
Marian Mateling1, Mark Kulie1 and Tristan L'Ecuyer2, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, United States
Raindrop Shape and Fall Speed Interactions (165431)
Md Kalimur Rahman, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, Firat Y. Testik, University of Texas at San Antonio, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Construction Management, San Antonio, United States and Flow Physics Laboratory
Building the Column: Ground-Up Integration of Multi-Sensor Precipitation Observations (165629)
Stephanie Mullins Wingo, NASA IMPACT / UAH, Huntsville, United States, David A Marks, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, David B Wolff, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Wallops Flight Facility, Code 610W, Wallops Island, United States and Walter Arthur Petersen, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Science Research and Projects Division, ST-10, Huntsville, AL, United States
Comparison of satellite precipitation products with Q3 over the CONUS (166059)
Jianxin Wang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Walter Arthur Petersen, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Science Research and Projects Division, ST-10, Huntsville, AL, United States, David B Wolff, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Wallops Flight Facility, Code 610W, Wallops Island, United States and Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
Comparing IMERG-v3 with gauge-based precipitation data in Africa (169591)
Amin K Dezfuli1, Charles M Ichoku1, George John Huffman2, John Steven Selker3 and Rebecca Hochreutener3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
Comparison of Imerg Half Hourly Final GPM data with Rain Gauge for Riyadh City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (171125)
Emre Tekeli and Senayi Dönmez, Çankırı Karatekin University, Civil Engineering, Çankırı, Turkey
Estimation and comparison of the derived Dmass and Nw parameters between NASA's S-band Polarimetric Radar (NPOL) and disdrometers. (171512)
Leo Pio D'Adderio1, Ali Tokay2, David A Marks3, Kenneth R Morris2, David B Wolff4, Patrick N Gatlin5, Walter Arthur Petersen6 and Federico Porcù7, (1)University of Ferrara, Department of Physics and Earth Science, Ferrara, Italy, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Wallops Flight Facility, Code 610W, Wallops Island, United States, (5)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Science Research and Projects Division, ST-10, Huntsville, AL, United States, (7)University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bologna, Italy
Development of Innovative Technology to Expand Precipitation Observations in Satellite Precipitation Validation in Under-developed Data-sparse Regions (171723)
Paul A Kucera, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Martin Steinson, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Intercomparison of IMERG and TRMM 3B42 in light of complicated terrain over Korean peninsula (171972)
Kiyoung Kim1, Seongkyun Kim1 and Minha Choi2, (1)Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Sungkyunkwan University, Department of Water Resources, Graduate School of Water Resources, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Improving the Statistical Modeling of the TRMM Extreme Precipitation Monitoring System (177133)
Levon Demirdjian, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Yaping Zhou, GESTAR/Morgan State University, Greenbelt, MD, United States and George John Huffman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Fall Speeds of Freezing and Frozen Raindrops (177511)
Alyssa M. Flynn1, Kalimur Rahman2 and Firat Y. Testik2, (1)University of Texas at San Antonio, Civil and Environmental Engineering, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at San Antonio, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Construction Management, San Antonio, United States
Assessing Applications of GPM and IMERG Passive Microwave Rain Rates in Modeling and Operational Forecasting (178407)
Anita Le Roy1, Matthew R Smith1, Jonathan Case2 and Bradley Zavodsky3, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)ENSCO, Inc./NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
UC Irvine CHRS iRain - An Integrated System for Global Real-time Precipitation Observation (178526)
Hoang Tran1, Phu Nguyen2, Phat Huynh2, Thanh Palacios2, Dan Braithwaite2, Kuo-lin Hsu3 and Soroosh Sorooshian3, (1)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)University of California, Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States
Airborne 4-Frequency Radar Measurements of Precipitation and Clouds During IPHEX and RADEX (182299)
Gerald M Heymsfield, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Lin Tian, Morgan State University, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Mircea Grecu, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Evaluation of Satellite Quantitative Precipitation Estimates (QPEs) Products (187820)
Olivier P Prat, CICS-NC/NCSU, Asheville, NC, United States and Brian R Nelson, NOAA/NCEI/CWC, Asheville, NC, United States
Humidity affects shifts from snow to rain in the Western U.S. (189171)
Jackson B Crews1, Adrian Adam Harpold2, Seshadri Rajagopal1, Rina Schumer3, Rose Sarah Petersky4 and Taylor Scott Winchell5, (1)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (2)University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States, (3)Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States, (4)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Development of a low-budget, remote, solar powered, and self-operating rain gauge for spatial rainfall real time data monitoring in pristine and urban areas (189383)
Javad Shafiei Shiva1, David G Chandler2, Kyle John Nucera2 and Nick Valinski3, (1)Syracuse University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse, NY, United States, (2)Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States, (3)AECOM, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Comprehensive Evaluation of GPM and TRMM: A Case Study of the Winter 2015-2016 over California (191831)
Jingjing Li, California State University Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Geology, and Environment, Los Angeles, United States and Hao Liu, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States
Remote Sensing-based Rainfall Estimates in Data-Scarce Himalaya: Performance Assessment of TRMM_3B42v7, TRMM_3B42RT v7 & GPM_3IMERGHH v03 using Ground Rainfall and Stream Hydrographs in Sikkim Himalaya, India (196159)
Jagdish Krishnaswamy1, Manish Kumar2 and Shrinivas Badiger2, (1)Indian Institute for Human Settlements, School of Environment and Sustainability, Bangalore, India, (2)Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation, Bangalore, India
Comparison of MERRA and MERRA2 Climatology Based on Events Derived from Applying a Visibility Criterion Related to Blizzard-like Conditions (197106)
Kwo-Sen Kuo, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States, Michael G Bosilovich, Earth Sciences Division, Greenbelt, United States, Amidu Oloso, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Allison Collow, UMBC, Greenbelt, United States

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