Workshop Agenda (PDF)

Tuesday, March 29 – Arrival/registration

Wednesday, March 30 – Invited Overview Talks

8:00 – 8:30 Registration

8:30 – 10:30 Scientific presentations

Uli Loehnert – Welcome and local organization
Volker Gaertner – IPWG
Ralf Bennartz – IWSSM-1/2 overview
Arthur Hou – GPM
Tristan L'Ecuyer – CloudSat

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 13:00 Scientific presentations

Simone Tanelli – ACE
Anthony Illingworth - EarthCare
Paul Joe – PPM
Corinna Hoose – Ice in global climate models
Axel Seifert – Ice/snowfall physical parameterizations

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 16:00 Scientific presentations

Jean-Pierre Blanchet – Precipitation processes
Andy Heymsfield – Ice microphysics
Guosheng Liu – Ice MW optical properties
Alessandro Battaglia – Radar remote sensing of snowfall
Stefan Buehler – Sub-millimeter

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 – 18:30 Scientific presentations

Catherine Prigent – Surface emissivity
Gail Skofronick-Jackson - Passive MW remote sensing and IOPs
Dmitri Moissev – Ground validation
Working group formation

19:30 Reception

Thursday, March 31

9:00 – 12:30 WG Meetings (Coffee break 10:30-11:00)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 15:30 Plenary: Initial working group reports

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 18:00 WG Meetings

Friday, April 1

9:00 – 15:00 Visit Schneefernerhaus observation station

17:00 – 19:00 Working group meetings

Saturday, April 2

9:00 – 12:00 Final plenary session, working group reports, writing assignments

Working groups

Applications (Chairs: Seifert, Blanchet)

• Critical measurements needed for: climate modeling, hydrology, ice microphysical modeling, QPE, NWP, other.
• What are the requirements for GV and field experiments?

Radiative Properties of Falling Snow (Chairs: Liu, Heymsfield)

• Ice radiative properties modeling issues: Non-spherical particles, habit, size distributions
• Andy Heymsfield challenge on radar reflectivity modeling
• Supercooled liquid water
• Other forward modeling issues (e.g. emissivity)
• Radiative closure

Global and Regional Detection and Estimation (Chairs: Skofronick, L'Ecuyer)

• Retrieval issues Radar
• Radiometer synergy
• Current operational algorithms for detection/estimation
• What can we achieve within 3, 10 years?

Missions and Concepts (Chairs: Tanelli, Joe)

• Science to be addressed
• Technology and measurement synergies
• Technology gaps, next steps
• New spaceborne missions
• New ground-base remote sensing technology

Validation (Chairs: Hudak, Koskinen)

• New airborne and ground base technology
• Measurements for uncertainties, representativeness
• Field campaigns
• Regional/global validation approaches
• Long-term GV efforts
• Additional needs for validation
• International coordination