Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM), conceived by NASA (USA) and JAXA (Japan) and supported by many other agencies, is an international space endeavor that has sparked global interest. Five previous planning workshops have been held in the US, Japan, and the Netherlands hosted by NASA, JAXA, and ESA respectively.

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November 6 (Monday)

Registration
+ Logistics (Paul Hwang)

GPM Program Status (Chair: Bryant Cramer)
+ NASA (Ramesh Kakar/Steve Neeck)
+ JAXA (.ppt) (Masahiro Kojima)
+ GPM of AEB (Raimundo Mussi)
+ Megha-Tropiques Status (Michel Debois)
+ Megha-Tropiques Status (PK Pal)

GPM Science Status (Co-Chairs: Steve Neeck & Masahiro Kojima)
+ US (Arthur Hou)
+ Japan (Riko Oki)
+ Europe (Peter Bauer)
+ Scientific Efforts of the Brazilian Community (Roberto Calherios)
+ Synergy Between CloudSat and GPM (Graeme Stephens)

Keynote Speech
+ Keynote Speech (Dr. Mary Cleave,15)

GPM Project Status (Co-Chairs: Ramesh Kakar & Riko Oki)
+ NASA GPM Project Status (Art Azarbarzin)
+ JAXA Overview (Kinji Furukawa)
+ NASA Ground Validation Development Status (Mathew Schwaller)
+ JAXA Ground Validation Development Status (Shuji Shimizu)
+ JAXA Data System Development Status (Tomomi Nio)
+ NASA Data System Development Status (Erich Stocker)

Perspectives of Participating Organizations/Regions/Countries (Co-Chairs: Arthur Hou & Kinji Furukawa)
+ UK (Chris Kidd)
+ Potential use of RARS and IGDDS in support of GPM data circulation (Marie Dumont)
+ Satellite Application Facility (SAF) in support to Operational Hydrology and Water Management (Alberto Mugnai)
+ Exploitation of X-band SARs for rain retrieval over land: a joint European-USA program within the GPM concept. (Frank Marzano & James Weinman)
+ Canada (Paul Joe)

November 7 (Tuesday)

Perspectives of Participating Organizations/Regions/Countries (continued)
+ IFNet/GFAS (Kazuhisa Ito)
+ GPM-related activities in Finland (Heikki Pohjola)
+ Spain (Francisco Tapiador)
+ CEOS Constellation Concept (Riko Oki & Chu Ishida)
+ Verification Activities Within the International Precipitation Working Group (Joe Turk & Phil Arkin)
+ NOAA (Ralph Ferraro)
+ JMA (Yoshiaki Sato)
+ NPOESS (Stanley Schneider)
+ NEWS (Paul Houser)

Status of Current Global Precipitation Products (Co-Chairs: Nobuhiro Takahashi & Joe Turk)
+ Multi-Sensor Precipitation Analysis Development in U.S. (Robert Adler)
+ Multi-Sensor Precipitation Analysis Development in Japan (Nobuhiro Takahashi)

GPM Science Frontiers in Algorithms & Validation (Co-Chairs: Toshio Iguchi & Chris Kidd)
+ Unified Global Precipitation Measurements (Chris Kummerow)
+ Precipitation Profiling Algorithm (Toshio Iguchi)
+ Snowfall Algorithm Development in U.S. (Gail Skofronick-Jackson)
+ HF Algorithm Development for Improved Precipitation Estimates Over Land (Ralph Ferraro)
+ Latent Heating Algorithm Development (Wei-Kuo Tao)
+ Algorithm Development and Evaluation Using Ground-Based Measurements (William Olson & Robert Meneghini)
+ Combined Role of S-and X-band Polarimetric Radar for GPM Ground Validation (Steve Rutledge)

GPM Science Frontiers in Understanding Precipitation Processes and Systems (Co-Chairs: Tetsuo Nakazawa & Ed Zipser)
+ Trends in Tropical Precipitation Characteristics (William Lau)
+ GPM for Understanding Atmospheric Latent Heating (Robert Houze)
+ GPM for Understanding Convective Systems (Ed Zipser)
+ GPM for Tropical Meteorology (Tetsuo Nakazawa)
+ GPM for Cloud Microphysics Modeling (Greg Tripoli)

November 8 (Wednesday)

GPM Science Frontiers in Science & Societal Applications (Co-Chairs : Ana Barros & Marshall Shepherd)
+ GPM and Societal Applications (Marshall Shepherd)
+ GPM for Operational Numerical Weather Prediction (.ppt) (Peter Bauer)
+ Towards Global Cloud Resolving Models (David Randall)
+ Precipitation Downscaling for Hydrological Applications (Efi Foufoula)
+ GPM for Landslide Prediction (Rafael Bras)
+ GPM for Hydrological Applications (Eric Wood)
+ Application of Satellite-Based Rainfall Data to Runoff Analysis (Inomata Hironori)
+ GPM and Hydrometeorological Extremes (Ana Barros)
+ Global Study of Bright Band Structure: Is It Invariant? (V. Chandrasekar)

Forum on International Collaboration
+ Plans for Promoting European Participation in GPM (Discussion Leader: Peter Bauer)
+ Plans for Promoting Asian Participation in GPM (Discussion Leader: Riko Oki)
+ Science Collaboration on GPM Ground Validation (Co-Chairs: Walt Petersen & Shuji Shimizu)
+ GPM Data Processing, Dissemination, and Access (Co-Chairs: Erich Stocker & Nio Tomomi)

Wrap Up (Ramesh Kakar/Steve Neeck/Masahiro Kojima)
+ NASA Wrap Up
+ Jaxa Wrap Up

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