Session 5R |
| | TRMM/ GPM studies and algorithms |
| | Chair: Nobuhiro Takahashi, NICT, Koganei-shi, Tokyo Japan
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| 3:30 PM | 5R.1 | Storm morphology and rainfall characteristics of TRMM precipitation features  
Stephen W. Nesbitt, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and R. Cifelli and S. A. Rutledge |
| 3:45 PM | 5R.2 | Global distribution of convection penetrating the tropical tropopause
Chuntao Liu, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. Zipser |
| 4:00 PM | 5R.3 | Retrieval of Raindrop Size Distribution from Simulated Dual-Frequency Radar Measurements
Stephen Joseph Munchak, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and A. Tokay |
| 4:15 PM | 5R.4 | Possible algorithms for the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) on the GPM core satellite
Toshio Iguchi, NICT, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan |
| 4:30 PM | 5R.5 | The potential for water vapor and precipitation estimation with a differential-frequency radar
Robert Meneghini, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Liao and L. Tian |
| 4:45 PM | 5R.6 | Shallow convection in the tropics: How often and how much does it rain?
Courtney Schumacher, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX |
| 5:00 PM | 5R.7 | Relative errors in TRMM satellite Version 5 and Version 6 products: Steps forward and backward
Sandra E. Yuter, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and J. E. Stout, R. Wood, J. Kwiatkowski, and D. Horn |
| 5:15 PM | 5R.8 | A Numerically Stable Dual-Frequency Bayesian Precipitation Retrieval Algorithm for GPM
Jonathan P. Meagher, JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and Z. S. Haddad |