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Wednesday, September 25, 2013
| Time | Event | |
| 08:00 - 09:00 | registration - On site Registration | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Introduction to Megha-Tropiques Rainfall Products ; MTGV ; Workshop Objectives - Roca / Viltard / Gosset | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break (Coriolis) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Sources of Uncertainty in Rainfall retrieval from Satellite - Ziad Haddad | |
| 11:15 - 12:30 | Validating/Improving Instant Rain rate Retrievals | |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | › A research framework to evaluate Level 2 active and passive rainfall products using ground radar-based National Mosaic QPE. - Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma / National Severe Storm Laboratory | |
| 11:35 - 11:50 | › Improving the instantaneous vertical profiling of precipitation using ground based radar measurements and passive microwave radiometers - Sahra Kacimi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
| 11:55 - 12:10 | › Algorithm Validation in the Megha-Tropiques Framework: An Attempt to Improve the Microphysic Parameterization in a Radiative Transfer Model - Audrey Martini, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales | |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | › Satellite Rainfall Retrievals during CHUVA-GLM Experiment: Rainfall Retrievals and Life Cycle Considerations - Daniel Vila, Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch (on site buffet) (Coriolis) | |
| 13:45 - 15:00 | Validating/Improving Instant Rain rate Retrievals (Coriolis) | |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | › Getting quantitative information on icy hydrometeors contributing to mw scattering from polarimetric radar - Frédéric Cazenave, Laboratoire d'étude des transferts en hydrologie et environnement | |
| 14:05 - 14:20 | › Comparison of Rain rates and rain classification from MT BRAIN retrievals over several operationnal and research radar in the Tropics - Matias Alcoba, GET, Toulouse et al. | |
| 14:25 - 14:40 | › Evaluation of the precipitating convective systems over the Arabian Peninsula using Megha-Tropiques data - Paul Kucera, National Center for Atmospheric Research | |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | › Tropical convective systems life cycle characteristics from geostationary satellite and precipitating estimates derived from TRMM and ground weather radar observations over the South American region - Thomas Fiolleau, Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Break | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Scaling properties of Rainfall - Venugopal | |
| 16:15 - 17:15 | scale issues - sampling (Coriolis) - tbd | |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | › Scale-related artefacts on precipitation measurement: why they impact satellite rainfall estimation - Sebastien Verrier, Université Versailles St Quentin/LATMOS, LOCEAN/UPMC/IPSL | |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | › Simulation of rain time series with zero rainfall and actual statistical distribution in a Universal Multifractal framework - Nawal AKROUR, latmos | |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | › Stochastic simulation of high resolution rain fields: application to assess gauge-based rainfall uncertainty in a land surface model implemented over the AMMA-CATCH Niger observatory. - Theo Vischel, Laboratoire d'étude des transferts en hydrologie et environnement | |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | › Rainfall fields estimation by data fusion based on a variational 4DVAR assimilation technic of rain gauges and microwave links - Francois MERCIER, Univ. Versailles St Quentin / LATMOS |
Thursday, September 26, 2013
| Time | Event | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | The Uncertainty Model for the TAPEER daily rainfall estimates (Coriolis) - Philippe Chambon | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | direct validation and ground truth uncertainty (Coriolis) | |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | › analytical/conceptual models for the satelite products : an example from the MT Water Vapor product - ramses sivira, Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace | |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | › How to account for uncertainties when assessing rainfall products by direct comparison with gauges - Clément GUILLOTEAU, Géosciences Environnement Toulouse | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | › Evaluation of satellite Rainfall Products over the Karnataka state and Kabini basin - Sensitivity to resolution and network density - Sekhar Muddu, IIsc, Bangalore | |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | › Rain-gage based rainfall products for the MT ground validation in West Africa - Guillaume Quantin, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break (Coriolis) | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | direct validation and ground truth uncertainty (Coriolis) | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | › Validation of Satellite-Based Precipitation Products Over Sparsely-Gauged African River Basins - Vera Thiemig, Climate Risk Management Unit; JRC | |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | › Direct Validation of Satellite Based Rainfall Estimates against Ground Based Observations from Rain Gauges - Elena Tarnavsky, University of Reading | |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | › Elucidating Errors and Uncertainties Through Deconstruction of Precipitation Products - Chriss Kidd, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | › Satellite Rainfall Validation Activities over South America - Daniel Vila, Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Using Satellite Rainfall for Flood Modeling in Mountainous Basins (Coriolis) - Manos Anagnostou | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch ( on site buffet) (Coriolis) | |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | hydrological applications - Rainfall error propagation (Coriolis) | |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | › Potential of MT rain Products for flood prediction in the Tropics : preliminary studies over the Niger River - claire casse, Géosciences Environnement Toulouse | |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | › Hydrological Evaluation of Satellite-Based Rainfall Estimates over the Volta and Baro-Akobo Basin - Vera Thiemig, Climate Risk Management Unit; JRC | |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | › Sensitivity of the hydrological model DHSVM to rainfall forcing: application to the Ouémé catchment in Benin - Theo Vischel, Laboratoire d'étude des transferts en hydrologie et environnement | |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | › A preliminary study on Variational Data Assimilation for the control of rainfall overthe Ouémé river (Benin) - houda yahi, marielle Gosset, Cristophe Peugeot, Sylvie Thiria, Serge Janicot | |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | › Sensitivity studies of the Hydrological Models response to Satellite based rainfall forcing in Benin, West-Africa - Christophe Peugeot, HydroSciences Montpellier - et al. | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Uncertainties in measuring Surface Moisture (Coriolis) - ahmad Al Bitar | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Water Cycle - Cross validations - other land surface appl (Coriolis) | |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | › Correcting Satellite Based Precipitation Products Using SMOS Measurement - Thierry Pellarin, Laboratoire d'étude des transferts en hydrologie et environnement | |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | › How satellite rainfall estimate errors may impact rainfed cereal yield simulation in West Africa. - Johanna Ramarohetra, Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break (Coriolis) | |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | GROUP DISCUSSIONS uncertainties and validation methods / Error propagation (Coriolis) | |
| 19:15 - 20:30 | Cocktail reception Toulouse Town Hall - Reception par le Maire de Toulouse |
Friday, September 27, 2013
| Time | Event | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Other Ground Validation activities and data sets, MTGV preliminary results. (Coriolis) - TBD | |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | › Xband radar based Rainfall Quantitative Estimation during MeghaTropiques GV exercises - Modeste KACOU, Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Laboratoire de Physique de l'Atmosphère et Mécanique des Fluides | |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | › Comparison of the Cameroon Weather Synoptic Stations Rainfall Data with TRMM Datasets: Intra and inter annual Rainfall variability. - MOUDI PASCAL IGRI, Ecole Africaine de la Météorologie et de l'Aviation Civile/Laboratoire de Modélisation Environnementale et de Physique de l'Atmosphère | |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | › Validation of satellite-derived rainfall estimates over China - wei liao, National Meteorological Information Center | |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | › Validation and Intercomparison of Satellite Rainfall Products over Peru - Waldo Lavado, Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, SENAMHI | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | › Precipitation product retrieved from EUMETSAT geostationary satellites. - Marie Doutriaux-Boucher, EUMETSAT | |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | › Validation of Satellite Rainfall Products over the Upper Blue Nile Basin - Mekonnen Gebremichael, University of California Los Angeles | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Other Ground Validation activities and data sets, MTGV preliminary results. | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | › Preliminary assesment of the MT TAPEER product and impact of MADRAS - Taburet et al. | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Current MTGV plan and new opportunities for collaboration (Coriolis) - Gosset et al. - General discussion | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch ( on site buffet) (Coriolis) | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Closing Discussion - Chairman reports | |
| 14:00 - 17:00 | mini-course on R for Ground reference Rainfall Processing and SAt-Ground comparisons - a 3 hours short course based on examples to learn how to Quality control and process your rain gauges data with the free package R. |
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