6th IPWG Workshop
São José dos Campos, 15-19 October, 2012

EXTENDED ABSTRACTS

6th International Precipitation Working Group Meeting summary
Paul A. Kucera and Bozena Lapeta
WMO priorities and perspectives on IPWG
Stephan Bojinski
Global precipitation: A time to rethink the representation of data products?
Chris Kidd
Use of satellite rainfall estimates for improving climate services in Africa
Tufa Dinku
Comparing a multi-channel geostationary satellite precipitation estimator with the single channel hydroestimator over South Africa
Estelle de Coning
Validation of surface reference data sets using satellite and model information
Chris Kidd
The oceanic precipitation measurement surface validation data set
Christian Klepp
A physically-based soil moisture and microwave emissivity dataset for GPM applications
F. Joseph Turk, Li Li, and Ziad S. Haddad
Recent developments on precipitation analysis at C.N.M.C.A. in the framework of EUMETSAT H-SAF
Antonio Vocino, Antonio Agresta, Daniele Biron, Davide Melfi, Marco Petracca, Massimiliano Sist, and Francesco Zauli
The EUMETSAT H-SAF Hydrological Satellite Application Facility precipitation products suite at C.N.M.C.A.
Daniele Biron, Davide Melfi, Antonio Vocino, Massimiliano Sist, Leonardo Facciorusso, Antonio Agresta, Francesco Zauli, Alessandro Cheloni, David Palella, Giuseppe Leonforte, Alessandro Palazzo, Lucio Torrisi, Francesca Marcucci, and Luidi De Leonibus
Severe storm identification with the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU)
Ralph Ferraro and James Beauchamp
The impact of Nefodina convective clouds identification in the rain rate retrieval of H-SAF
Davide Melfi, Francesco Zauli , Daniele Biron , Antonio Vocino , Massimiliano Sist
New GSMAP microwave imager over-land precipitation retrieval algorithm
Kazumasa Aonashi, Satoshi Kida, Takuji Kubota, Misako Kachi, Riko Oki, Tomoo Ushio, Shoichi Shige, and Ken'ichi Okamoto
Online inter-comparison of satellite-derived global precipitation products
Zhong Liu, Dana Ostrenga, William Teng, and Steven Kempler
Heading toward launch with the Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for GPM (IMERG)
George J. Huffman, David T. Bolvin, Daniel Braithwaite, Kuolin Hsu, Roberto Joyce, Chris Kidd, Soroosh Sorooshian, and Pingping Xie
Ice water path study using passive microwave sensors during the cloud life cycle
Ramon C. Braga and Daniel A. Vila
Quasi-global precipitation as depicted in the GPCP V2.2 and TMPA V7
George J. Huffman, David T. Bolvin, Eric J. Nelkin, and Robert F. Adler
Improving daily satellite rainfall estimated over Africa by merging with national raingauge observations
Tufa Dinku
EUMETSAT's role in the provision of precipitation related satellite data
Thomas Heinemann and Volker Gärtner
Current status of the AMSR2 and the GCOM-W1 "Shizuku"
Misako Kachi and Keiji Imaoka
Characterization of the microphysics of ice in tropical convection for rain retrieval algorithms
Audrey Martini, Nicolas Viltard, Luiz A. Toledo Machado, and T. Biscarro