Megha-Tropiques Workshop on Rainfall Products Validation and Applications.

›8:00 (1h)

registration

8:00 - 9:00 (1h)

registration

On site Registration

›9:00 (1h)

Introduction to Megha-Tropiques Rainfall Products ; MTGV ; Workshop Objectives
Roca / Viltard / Gosset

9:00 - 10:00 (1h)

Introduction to Megha-Tropiques Rainfall Products ; MTGV ; Workshop Objectives

Roca / Viltard / Gosset

›10:00 (30min)

Coffee break

› Coriolis

10:00 - 10:30 (30min)

Coffee break

Coriolis

›10:30 (30min)

Sources of Uncertainty in Rainfall retrieval from Satellite
Ziad Haddad

10:30 - 11:00 (30min)

Sources of Uncertainty in Rainfall retrieval from Satellite

Ziad Haddad

›11:15 (1h15)

Validating/Improving Instant Rain rate Retrievals

11:15 - 12:30 (1h15)

Validating/Improving Instant Rain rate Retrievals

› 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 11:15-11:30 (15min)

› Improving the instantaneous vertical profiling of precipitation using ground based radar measurements and passive microwave radiometers - Sahra Kacimi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory 11:35-11:50 (15min)

› 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 11:55-12:10 (15min)

› 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 12:15-12:30 (15min)

›12:30 (1h)

Lunch (on site buffet)

› Coriolis

12:30 - 13:30 (1h)

Lunch (on site buffet)

Coriolis

›13:45 (1h15)

Validating/Improving Instant Rain rate Retrievals

› Coriolis

13:45 - 15:00 (1h15)

Validating/Improving Instant Rain rate Retrievals

Coriolis

› Getting quantitative information on icy hydrometeors contributing to mw scattering from polarimetric radar - Frédéric Cazenave, Laboratoire d'étude des transferts en hydrologie et environnement 13:45-14:00 (15min)

› 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. 14:05-14:20 (15min)

› Evaluation of the precipitating convective systems over the Arabian Peninsula using Megha-Tropiques data - Paul Kucera, National Center for Atmospheric Research 14:25-14:40 (15min)

› 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 14:45-15:00 (15min)

›15:00 (30min)

Break

15:00 - 15:30 (30min)

Break

›15:30 (30min)

Scaling properties of Rainfall
Venugopal

15:30 - 16:00 (30min)

Scaling properties of Rainfall

Venugopal

›16:15 (1h)

scale issues - sampling
tbd

› Coriolis

16:15 - 17:15 (1h)

scale issues - sampling

Coriolis

tbd

› Scale-related artefacts on precipitation measurement: why they impact satellite rainfall estimation - Sebastien Verrier, Université Versailles St Quentin/LATMOS, LOCEAN/UPMC/IPSL 16:15-16:30 (15min)

› Simulation of rain time series with zero rainfall and actual statistical distribution in a Universal Multifractal framework - Nawal AKROUR, latmos 16:30-16:45 (15min)

› 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 16:45-17:00 (15min)

› 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 17:00-17:15 (15min)