8th IPWG and 5th IWSSM Joint Workshop
Bologna, 3-7 October, 2016
Training Event Program
Science Committee
| Ralph R. Ferraro (Chair) | NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, USA |
| Ralf Bennartz | Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA |
| Tufa Dinku | IRI, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA |
Instructors
 | Kazumasa Aonashi | Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), Tsukuba, Japan |
| Pietro Ceccato | Columbia University, International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Palisades, NY, USA |
| Philippe Chambon | Météo France, Toulouse, France |
| Eugene E. Clothiaux | Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA |
| Tufa Dinku | Columbia University, International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Palisades, NY, USA |
| Marielle Gosset | Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Toulouse, France |
| George J. Huffman | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD, USA |
| Robert J. Kuligowski | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Center for Satellite Application and Research (STAR), College Park, MD, USA |
| Christian D. Kummerow | Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, USA |
| Sante Laviola | National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), Bologna, Italy |
| Davide Melfi | Italian Air Force Met Service, Operational Center for Meteorology (COMet), Pomezia (Rome), Italy |
| Dmitri Moisseev | Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland |
| Stephen J. Munchak | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD, USA |
Monday 3 October
Remote Sensing of Precipitation - The Basics
Tuesday 4 October
Retrieval Algorithms
| 5 | The GPM Microwave Imager and combined precipitation algorithms |
| Christian D. Kummerow | |
| 6 | Microwave Sounder Precipitation Algorithms -A perspective on retrieval methods |
| Sante Laviola | |
| 7 | Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMAP) project |
| Kazumasa Aonashi | |
| 8.1 | Combined Precipitation Algorithms - IMERG |
| 8.2 | Hurricane Matthew movie (21.2 MB) |
| 8.3 | GPM fleet movie (57.9 MB) |
| 8.4 | IMERG movie (19.7 MB) |
| George J. Huffman |
Wednesday 5 October
Products, Uses and their Performance
| 9 | Satellite Rainfall Performance and Hydrologic Forecasting Applications |
| Robert J. Kuligowski | |
| 10 | EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on Support to Operational Hydrology and Water Management (H-SAF) |
| Davide Melfi | |
| 11 | Application of Satellite Rainfall Estimates in Health |
| Pietro Ceccato, and Tufa Dinku | |
| 12 | Overview of IRI Data Library |
| Tufa Dinku, and Remi Cousin | |
| 13 | Validation of Satellite Rainfall Products |
| Marielle Gosset | |
| 14 | Assimilating Satellite Observations of Clouds and Precipitation into Numerical Weather Prediction Models |
| Philippe Chambon |