H33J:
Global Precipitation Measurement, Validation, and Applications III

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Session ID#: 34429

Session Description:
Global precipitation measurements are necessary for monitoring earth’s water resources and the global hydrologic cycle, understanding climate variability, and improving weather prediction. 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 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 precipitation 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. Within the broader session, specific contributions are also solicited associated with the GPM Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX).
Primary Convener:  Yang Hong, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Norman, OK, United States
Conveners:  Gail Skofronick Jackson, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Walter Arthur Petersen, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Science Research and Projects Division, ST-10, Huntsville, AL, United States and Lynn A. McMurdie, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Chairs:  Lynn A. McMurdie, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Angela K. Rowe, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Lynn A. McMurdie, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 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:

Multiscale comparison of GPM radar and passive microwave precipitation fields over oceans and land: effective resolution and global/regional/local diagnostics for improving retrieval algorithms (211275)
Clément Guilloteau, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Christian Kummerow, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, United States; University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, United States
A new perspective on the raindrop size distribution and its implications for retrievals of light rainfall (241829)
Patrick N Gatlin1, Merhala Thurai2, Walter Arthur Petersen3 and Viswanathan N Bringi2, (1)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Science Research and Projects Division, ST-10, Huntsville, AL, United States
Cross Validation of Rain Drop Size Distribution between GPM and Ground Based Polarmetric radar (296318)
V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, United States, Sounak Kumar Biswas, Colorado State University, CIRA, Fort Collins, United States, Minda Le, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Haonan Chen, Colorado State University and NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States
Exploring Database Improvements for GPM Constellation Precipitation Retrievals (295209)
Sarah Ringerud, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Christopher Kidd, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, MD, United States and Gail Skofronick Jackson, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
GPM SLH: Convective Latent Heating Estimated with GPM Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar Data (270593)
Yukari N Takayabu1, Atsushi Hamada2, Chie Yokoyama2, Yasutaka Ikuta3, Shoichi Shige4, Moeka Yamaji5 and Takuji Kubota6, (1)The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (2)AORI/University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan, (3)Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan, (4)Kyoto University, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto, Japan, (5)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Japan, (6)JAXA/EORC, Tsukuba, Japan
Reconciling CloudSat and GPM DPR Estimates of Falling Snow (280771)
Stephen J Munchak, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Gail Skofronick Jackson, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Mark Kulie, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States, Norman Wood, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States and Lisa Milani, CNR Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Bologna, Italy
Using Simulated Crystal Aggregates to Represent Snow and Melting Precipitation in the GPM Combined Radar-Radiometer Algorithm (223856)
William S Olson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Kwo-Sen Kuo, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States, Benjamin T Johnson, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Craig Pelissier, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, United States, Lin Tian, GESTAR/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Mircea Grecu, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Stephen J Munchak, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Andrew Heymsfield, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Validation of Bin Microphysics in Large Eddy Simulations for the 30 January 2012 Lake Effect snow case during GCPEx (301667)
Branislav M. Notaros, Colorado State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Andrew James Newman, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Lulin Xue, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Gwo-Jong Huang, Colorado State University, 1373 Campus, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Viswanathan N Bringi, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States

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