9th IPWG Workshop
Seoul, 5-9 November, 2018


Oral Presentations



Monday 5 November

Session 1 - News from on-going programs

Chairs: R. R. Ferraro, D.-B. Shin

1.1The WMO space program
W. Balogh (presentation given by R. R. Ferraro)
1.2The KMA space program
J.-D. Jang
1.3Recent progress of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission in Japan
T. Kubota, R. Oki, and K. Furukawa
1.4Long-term water cycle observation by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) series: AMSR-E, AMSR2 and follow-on
M. Kachi, H. Fujii, T. Kubota, T. Maeda, N. Ono, M. Kasahara, and N. Ebuchi (presentation given by T. Kubota)
1.5The status of the latest reprocessing of the GPM mission data
E. F. Stocker


Session 2 (interactive) - Looming challenges / Setting objectives

Chairs: G. J. Huffman, R. R. Ferraro

2.1.1Data Assimilation Working Group Report
B. T. Johnson, and K. Okamoto
2.1.2Research Working Group Report
A. Behrangi, and Y. Choi
2.1.3Scattering Working Group Report
I. S. Adams
2.1.4Validation Working Group Report
E. Tarnavsky and V. Maggioni (presentation given by C. Kidd)
2.2Whither the constellation?
G. J. Huffman
2.3Microwave calibration requirements for precipitation monitoring from space
R. R. Ferraro
2.4Conically-scanning small satellite microwave radiometer - Supporting the constellations of the future
S. Brown
2.5High-frequency-guided deconvolution of oversampled radiances
J. Steward, Z. Haddad, S. Hristova-Veleva, S. Kacimi, and E.-K. Seo


Session 3 - Validation 1

Chairs: P.-E. Kirstetter, G.-W. Lee

3.1Inter-comparisons over Europe and beyond
C. Kidd, S. Shige, D. Vila, B. Maseko, R. Ferraro, V. Singh, A. K. Mitra, A. Kumar, S. K. Mukherjee, M. Sapiano, E. de Coning, V. Levizzani, E. E. Ebert, J. Janowiak, F. J. Turk, and P. A. Arkin
3.2Constraining precipitation amount and spatial pattern over high latitudes regions using diverse observations
A. Behrangi, R. F. Adler, and G. J. Huffman
3.3Comparisons of TRMM Microwave Imager rainfall datasets from NASA and JAXA
N.-Y. Wang, Y. You, T. Kubota, K. Aonashi, S. Shige, M. Kachi, C. D. Kummerow, D. Randel, R. R. Ferraro, S. A. Braun, and Y. N. Takayabu
3.4Rainfall retrieval from commercial microwave links - A new step towards operationalization in a gauge poor region: Africa
M. Gosset, M. Alcoba, F. Cazenave, M. Turko, A. Yapi, M. Kacou, F. Bella, E. Kamtchoum, A. Nzeukou, and H. Leijnse
3.5Ocean Rain and ice-phase precipitation measurement network - The global ocean surface reference dataset for all water cycle components
C. Klepp, S. Michel, P. A. Kucera, A. Protat, and J. Burdanowitz
3.6Developing data services to provide data quality information for global satellite-based precipitation products
Z. Liu, C.-L. Shie, and D. Meyer
3.7Development of radar rainfall estimation system using S-band polarization weather radar network in Korea
S.-H. Jung , M.-K. Suk, S. Lee, Y.-A Oh, and K. Jang


Session 4 - Validation 2

Chairs: M. Gosset, N.-Y. Wang

4.1Investigation of Arctic mixed-phase clouds during ACLOUD with the novel active and passive microwave package MiRAC
M. Mech, S. Crewell, A. Anhäuser, L.-L. Kliesch, A. Ehrlich, M. Wendisch, R. Neuber, C. Lüpkes, A. Macke, and the ACLOUD team
4.2Countrywide QPE from commercial microwave link networks performs great, so why is it not yet available?!
C. Chwala, H. Leijnse, A. Overeem, R. Uijlenhoet, H. Messer, P. Alpert, A. Doumounia, D. Tricarico, M. Fencl, V. Bareš, M. S. Afzal, S. H. Hussain Shah, G. Roversi, P. P. Alberoni, J. Andersson, R. van de Beek, C. De Michele, M. D'Amico, R. Nebuloni, and H. Kunstmann
4.3Evaluation of Multi-Source Weighted-Ensemble Precipitation (MSWEP) product across different rainfall regimes of Ethiopia
E. Lemma, and R. Ramsankaran
4.4Assessing uncertainty in mass-dimensions estimates using 3D synthetic particles
K.-S. Kuo, and P. Gatlin
4.5DeepRain: ConvLSTM network for precipitation prediction using multichannel radar data
S. Kim, S. Hong, M. Joh, and S.-K. Song
4.6GPM, TRMM, and other global precipitation products and services at NASA GES DISC
Z. Liu, B. Vollmer, A. Savtchenko, D. Ostrenga, B. DeShong, F. Fang, M. Greene, R. Albayrak, J. Su, C.-L. Shie, E. Sherman, J. Acker, A. Li, W. Teng, J. Wei, G.-D. Lei, and D. Meyer




Tuesday 6 November

Session 5 - Climate and Meteorology

Chairs: A. Geer, P. Chambon

5.1Means, trends and intensity changes over the satellite era
R. F. Adler, G. Gu, J.-J. Wang, and G. J. Huffman
5.2Performance of the Version 1 Reprocessed, Bias-Corrected CMORPH in depicting the warm season extreme precipitation events
S. Wu, P. Xie, R. Joyce, and L. Ren
5.3Prospects for assimilating micro- and macrophysical details of precipitation in global weather forecasting
A. Geer, R. Forbes, P. Lopez, and other authors of SAC paper
5.4Impact of GNSS PW data assimilation on short-term precipitation forecast
J.-S. Kang, M. Joh, and J.-H. Jo
5.5Assimilating cloudy and rainy microwave observations from SAPHIR on-board Megha-Tropiques
P. Chambon, F. Duruisseau, É. Wattrelot, M. Barreyat, and J.-F. Mahfouf
5.6Data assimilation and application based on MWHTS for typical tropical cyclone and hurricane
J. He, and Y. Guo


Session 6 (interactive) - Assessment of global precip products 1

Chairs: Z. S. Haddad, R. Roca

6.1Joint assessment of global precip products
R. Roca, and Z. S. Haddad
6.2Global precipitation products - Standard quality assessment
H. Masunaga, T. Kubota, C. D. Kummerow, and F. A. Furuzawa
6.3Assessment of global precipitation products: Uncertainty
P.-E. Kirstetter, and F. J. Turk
6.4Consistency
D.-B. Shin, and A. Behrangi
6.5Surface data
C. Kidd, and S. Durden


Session 8 - Algorithms 1

Chairs: V. Levizzani, J.-D. Park

8.1The status of the GOES-rainfall rate product
Y. Li, and R. J. Kuligowski
8.2The GPM GPROF V6 Database
C. D. Kummerow, D. Randel, S. E. Ringerud, P. Brown, and R. Zhang
8.3GPM (CSH) Latent Heating Retrieval
W.-K. Tao, S. Lang, and T. Iguchi
8.4Innovations in morphing for Version 6 IMERG
G. J. Huffman, J. Tan, and D. T. Bolvin
8.5Second Generation CMORPH: Real time production
R. Joyce, P. Xie, and S. Wu
8.6Great Lakes convective snow: A GPM passive microwave perspective
L. Milani, M. S. Kulie, G. Panegrossi, S. E. Ringerud, J.-F. Rysman, G. Skofronick-Jackson, P. Sanò, P.-E. Kirstetter, N. Y. Wang, and A. C. Marra
8.7A 1DVAR-based snowfall rate product for passive microwave sounder and imager/sounder
H. Meng, C. Kongoli, J. Dong, and R. R. Ferraro
8.8Microwave rainfall retrieval for GPM over the Korean peninsula
J.-D. Park, H. Jeoung, G.-H. Ryu, E.-K. Seo, and J.-D. Jang
8.9The KGPM rain retrieval: A database and rain estimation algorithm in the oceans off East Asia
E.-K. Seo, G.-H. Ryu, and S. Hristova-Veleva



Wednesday 7 November

Session 9 - Algorithms 2

Chairs: C. D. Kummerow, A. Behrangi

9.1Improving passive microwave precipitation estimates over land: Toward a physical, process-based approach
S. Ringerud, C. Peters-Lidard, Y. You, C. D. Kummerow, D. Randel, G. Skofronick-Jackson, and M. S. Kulie
9.2Improvements of the GSMaP microwave radiometer rainfall algorithm considering cloud and precipitation processes: Heavy orographic rainfall retrieval
S. Shige, and M. K. Yamamoto
9.3Nonlocal parameters to improve passive microwave precipitation retrieval
C. Guilloteau, and E. Foufoula-Georgiu
9.4Convective/stratiform classification from conically-scanning microwave radiometers: Implications for improved precipitation retrievals from imagers
S. Hristova_Veleva, E.-K. Seo, Z. S. Haddad, S. Kacimi, O. Sy, J. Steward, R. Sawaya, and I. Fenni
9.5A prototype precipitation retrieval algorithm for passive microwave radiometers using a priori databases with various cloud microphysics schemes: Applications to tropical cyclones
Y. Choi, D.-B. Shin, M. Joh, and J.-S. Kim
9.6The JCSDA Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM)
B. T. Johnson, P. Stegmann, J. Rosinski, T. Greenwald, T. Zhu, M. Chen, Y. Ma, K. Garrett, and T. Auligné
9.7Remote sensing of extreme precipitation and moisture: Synergies between GPM and other sensors
F. J. Turk, E. Cardellach, R. Padulles, C. O. Ao, M. de la Torre Juarez, S. Hristova-Veleva, and J. D. Neelin


Session 12 (interactive) - Assessment of global precip products 2

Chairs: Z. S. Haddad, R. Roca

12.1Validation at weather scales in regions without ground measurements
R. R. Ferraro, and R. E. Kuligowski
12.2Extremes
R. Roca et al.



Thursday 8 November

Session 13 - Algorithms 3

Chairs: C. Kidd, G. J. Huffman

13.1Three-dimensional sensor forward modeling of clouds and precipitation in the Multi-Instrument Inverse Solver Testbed (MIIST)
I. S. Adams, S. J. Munchak, K.-S. Kuo, C. Pelissier, T. Clune, and R. Kroodsma
13.2Non-parametric methodology to improve the GPM combined precipitation estimates
M. Grecu, K.-S. Kuo, and W. S. Olson
13.3Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Estimates with ground- and space-based remote sensing
P.-E. Kirstetter, J. J. Gourley, and J. Zhang
13.4Improving satellite-based sub-hourly surface rain estimates using vertical rain profile information
N. Utsumi, H. Kim, F. J. Turk, and Z. S. Haddad
13.5Common features of raindrop size variability over the global oceans
D. I. Duncan, P. Eriksson, and S. Pfreundschuh
13.6Composite of satellite precipitation products using nowcasting technique
G.-W. Lee, S. Baek, S.-R. Ryu, G. Lyu, and C.-Y. Chung
13.7Detecting convections using GOES-R ABI data
Y. Lee, C. D. Kummerow, and M. Zupanski


Session 15 - Science, Oceanography, Hydrology, Health/Drought Monitoring

Chairs: R. F. Adler, N.-Y. Wang

15.1Can we constrain global landslide-rainfall scaling with satellite measurements?
O. Marc, T. Uchida, J.-P. Malet, M. Gosset, and A. Stumpf
15.2Applications of satellite rainfall and satellite altimetry for hydrological prediction in tropical basins - Focus in Africa: Niger and Congo
A. Paris, M. Gosset, R. Juca Oliveira, C. Dardel, S. Calmant, and B. Tanimoun
15.3Advancing flash flooding early warning using a rapid-scan polarimetric radar observations
B. Wen, T. Schuur, C. Kuster, and H. Vergara
15.4The value of satellite rainfall estimate in agriculture and food security
T. Dinku