Session 6 |
| | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) |
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Chairpersons: Robert Meneghini, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; Eyal Amitai, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD |
| 8:30 AM | 6.1 | Global distribution of extremely intense storms between 36 S and 36 N using evidence from the TRMM radar
David P. Yorty, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. J. Zipser and S. W. Nesbitt |
| 9:00 AM | 6.2 | Precipitation Processes Derived from TRMM Satellite Data, Cloud Resolving Model and Field Campaigns
W. -K. Tao, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Lang, J. Simpson, R. Meneghini, J. Halverson, R. Johnson, and R. Adler |
| 9:15 AM | 6.3 | Retrieval of Latent Heating Profiles from TRMM Radar Data 
Shinsuke Satoh, Communications Research Laboratory, Koganei, Japan; and A. Noda |
| | 6.4 | PAPER WITHDRAWN
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| 9:30 AM | 6.5 | Uncertainties in the rain profiling algorithm for the TRMM Precipitation Radar
Toshio Iguchi, Communications Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan; and T. Kozu and R. Meneghini |
| 9:45 AM | 6.6 | On the role of drop size distribution in TRMM rain profiling algorithm
Ali Tokay, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Meneghini, J. Kwiatkowski, E. Amitai, T. Kozu, T. Iguchi, C. Williams, M. Kulie, and C. Wilson |
| 10:00 AM | 6.7 | Evaluation of TRMM PR retrieved rain products using data from the ground-based polarimetric weather radar of Darwin
Franck Ferreira, CETP, Velizy, France; and P. Amayenc, E. Le Bouar, and J. Testud |
| 10:15 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:16 AM | | Exhibit Hours 10:30–11:30 A.M.
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| 10:45 AM | 6.8 | Estimation of Spaceborne Radar Signals from Polarimetric Ground Radar Observations
Steve Bolen, NASA/Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX; and V. Chandrasekar and A. Benjamin |
| 11:00 AM | 6.9 | Combined Space and Ground Radar Observations: An Impact of TRMM PR MDZ
Roberto V. Calheiros, University of the State of S. Paulo, Bauru, Brazil; and M. A. Lima |
| 11:15 AM | 6.10 | Comparison of Space-borne and Ground-based Radar Measurements from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
Paul A. Kucera, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and W. F. Krajewski |
| 11:30 AM | 6.11 | Comparisons of Measurements from the TRMM PR and the WSR-88D Ground-based Radar
Liang Liao, Caelum Research Corp., Greenbelt, MD; and R. Meneghini and T. Iguchi |
| 11:45 AM | 6.12 | Methodologies for Evaluating the Accuracy of TRMM Ground Validation Rainfall Products
E. Amitai, NASA/GSFC and JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and D. B. Wolff, M. Robinson, D. S. Silberstein, D. A. Marks, M. S. Kulie, and B. Fisher |
| 12:00 PM | 6.13 | Dual wavelength rain estimates from space
Chun-Lei Liu, Univ. of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and A. Illingworth |