1st IPWG Workshop
Madrid, 23-27 September, 2002
Presentations
SESSION 1 - The IPWG and related international projects
SESSION 2 - Operational rainfall estimations
- Status and outlook of operational satellite precipitation algorithms for extreme precipitation events
Roderick A. Scofield, and Robert J. Kuligowski
- The Eumetsat multi-sensor precipitation estimate (MPE)
Thomas Heinemann, Alessio Lattanzio, and Fausto Roveda
- NOAA's operational microwave retrieval algorithms: past, present and future
Ralph R. Ferraro
- Global precipitation analyses at monthly to 3-hr time scales
Robert F. Adler, George Huffman, Scott Curtis, David Bolvin, and Eric Nelkin
- A convective rainfall estimate technique developed by NSMC of China
Lu Naimeng, and Wu Rongzhang
- Some experiences on satellite rainfall estimation over South America
Daniel Vila, and Inés Velasco
SESSION 3 - Missions and instruments
SESSION 4 - Research activities
- Status of rainfall data assimilation at ECMWF
Peter Bauer, Jean-François Mahfouf, Virginie Marécal, Frédéric Chevallier, Philippe Lopez, and Emmanuel Moreau
- Impacts of improved error analysis on the assimilation of polar satellite passive microwave precipitation estimates into the NCEP global data assimilation system
Robert J. Kuligowski, Russ Treadon, and W. Chen
- Satellite based rainfall retrieval with Meteosat, GOES, and MSG in the mid-latitudes and the tropics
Christopher Reudenbach, and Jörg Bendix
- Rainfall estimation using cloud texture classification mapping
Kuo-Lin Hsu, X. Gao and Soroosh Sorooshian
- A TRMM-calibrated infrared technique for global rainfall estimation
Andrew J. Negri, Robert F. Adler, and L. Xu
- Multispectral observations of cloud top as a powerful tool for rainfall estimations
Vincenzo Levizzani, Daniel Rosenfeld, Elsa Cattani, Samantha Melani, Francesca Torricella, and Maria João Costa
- A neural network PMW / IR combined procedure for short term / small area rainfall estimates
Francisco J. Tapiador, Chris Kidd, Vincenzo Levizzani, and Frank S. Marzano
- Synergetic use of TRMM's TMI and PR data for an improved estimate of instantaneous rain rates over Africa
Jörg Schulz, Peter Bauer, and Clemens Simmer
- A diagnostic study of oceanic precipitation variability associated with the North Atlantic oscillation
Philip A. Arkin, H. M.Cullen, and Pingping Xie
- Precipitating cloud product of the Nowcasting SAF
Anke Thoss, Ralf Bennartz, and Adam Dybbroe
- Spatio-temporal stationarity of the mean rainfall
Armand Nzeukou, and Henry Sauvageot
SESSION 5 - Validation
- Verifying satellite precipitation estimates for weather and hydrological applications
Elizabeth E. Ebert
- Validation of an operational global precipitation analysis at short time scales
F. Joseph Turk, Elizabeth E. Ebert, Hyun-Jong Oh, Byung-Ju Sohn, Vincenzo Levizzani, Eric A. Smith, and Ralph Ferraro
- Performance of the h-e algorithm during the central american rainy season of 2001
Rosario Alfaro, and Roderick A. Scofield
- The ground reference for the validation of the Global Precipitation Climatology Project monthly rainfall estimates
Witold F. Krajewski, and M. Gebremichael
- A Global rainfall validation strategy
Wesley Berg, Chris Kummerow, and T. L'Ecuyer
- An intercomparison of gauge, radar and satellite rainfall in the Tropics
Augusto J. Pereira Filho, Andrew J. Negri, P. T. Nakayama
- Verification experiment of the Global Precipitation Climatology Project 1 degree daily product
Mark L. Morrissey, J. S. Greene, Mike D. Klatt, and J.Ensworth