The 1^st International Precipitation Working Group (IPWG) Workshop
Arnold Gruber and Vincenzo Levizzani

• Operational Applications Working Group
  
• Research Activities Working Group
  
• Validation Activities Working Group
  

• The IPWG and its relationship to WMO and CGMS
  Donald E. Hinsman, and James F. W. Purdom
  
• Linking research with global training and applications: the IPWG and virtual laboratory for satellite data utilization
  James F. W. Purdom, and Donald E. Hinsman
  
• The Global Precipitation Climatology Project: accomplishments and future outlook
  Arnold Gruber
  

• 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
  

• European Contribution to the Global Precipitation Mission (EGPM): a new ESA Earth Explorer Opportunity Mission
  Paul Ingmann, and J. Pedro V. Poiares Baptista
  
• Frequent rain observation from geostationary satellite by millimeter submillimetre-wave sounding
  Bizzarro Bizzarri, Albin Gasiewski and David Staelin
  

• 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
  

• 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