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The Goal
To bring together researchers focusing on the measurement of snowfall rate from space using active and passive microwave sensors.
The Purpose
To assess the state of the science and measurement technology and to recommend future directions in research and technology development.
Topics of Interest
Include instrument development, retrieval techniques, assimilation systems, modeling of microwave radiative transfer within snow particles and snowy air, modeling of microphysical processes, surface snow measurement and ground validation. In concert with the location of the meeting, we are placing a special emphasis on the measurement of orographic snowfall.
Format
The workshop will focus around the five main topics
identified in the outline below. Expert panels will be assigned to review
each topic led by a Panel Chair and Rapporteur. The Panel Chair will
be invited to present a comprehensive review of the topic to the workshop
based on input from all of the panel members given prior to the workshop
and solicit additional short presentations by the panel members. The
Powerpoint files for the review presentation and any additional presentations
will be included on the IWSSM website (under construction) prior to the
meeting and updated by the presenter from community input before and
after the workshop. Breakout groups for each topic will be assigned by
the Workshop Committee, and will be led by members of the panels, for
the purpose of generating multidisciplinary input to each topic. The
Rapporteur from each panel will be asked to contribute a summary of the
panel’s findings to a workshop report. Questions
for each session are
online.
Registration and a small reception are planned for the evening of Monday, March 31, 2008. The workshop will convene the morning of Tuesday, April 1, 2008, and conclude on the afternoon of Friday, April 3, 2008.
The workshop is held under the auspices of the International Precipitation Working Group (IPWG), the GEWEX Radiation Panel (GRP), the NASA Precipitation Measurement Mission (PMM) program on behalf of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, and the Storm Peak Laboratory (SPL), which is administered by the Desert Research Institute (DRI).
Program Committee
Ralf Bennartz (University of Wisconsin), Ralph Ferraro (NOAA/NESDIS), Gail Skofronick Jackson (Goddard Space Flight Center), Paul Joe (Meteorological Service of Canada), Chris Kummerow (Colorado State University), Ian McCubbin (Storm Peak Laboratory, DRI), Gregory Tripoli (University of Wisconsin), and Deborah Vane (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
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