Welcome from the The International Precipitation Working Group Ralph Ferraro Chris Kidd Joe Turk Peter Bauer Vincenzo Levizzani Arnold Gruber PEHRPP Geneva, 3-5 December 2007
PEHRPP Geneva, 3-5 December 2007 IPWG History Endorsed during the 52nd session of the WMO Executive Council in 2000 Formation Meeting: June 2001, Fort Collins, US IPWG-1: September 2002, INM, Madrid, Spain IPWG-2: October 2004, NRL, Monterey, US IPWG-3: October 2006, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia IPWG-4: Fall 2008 PEHRPP Geneva, 3-5 December 2007
IPWG Activities & Accomplishments Since 2001 expanded from 18 to 27 nationalities Contributioned to two major National Academy of Sciences (NAS) reports on TRMM and GPM missions Lobbied for high frequency channels (166 and 183 GHz) on the Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) Microwave Imager Organisation of precipitation-related meetings: e.g. Microwave/Snowfall workshops: Univ. of Wisconsin (Oct'05); Real-time validation of satellite and NWP precipitation datasets: expansion with new sites and participants Results in BAMS – Ebert et al., 2007, 88,1,47-64 Measuring Precipitation from Space – EURAINSAT and the Future (Levizzani, Bauer and Turk, Eds, 722p) PEHRPP Geneva, 3-5 December 2007
IPWG Inter-comparison regions Near-realtime inter-comparison of model & satellite estimates vs radar/gauge PEHRPP Geneva, 3-5 December 2007
PEHRPP Geneva, 3-5 December 2007 Validation web sites Australia: http://www.bom.gov.au/bmrc/SatRainVal/sat_val_aus.html USA: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/janowiak/us_web.shtml Europe: http://kermit.bham.ac.uk/~ipwgeu/ S.America: http://cics.umd.edu/~dvila/web/SatRainVal/dailyval.html Japan: http://www.radar.aero.osakafu-u.ac.jp/~gsmap/IPWG/sat_val_Japan.html PEHRPP Geneva, 3-5 December 2007
Web Page: http://www.isac.cnr.it/~ipwg/IPWG.html Future meetings Web Page: http://www.isac.cnr.it/~ipwg/IPWG.html PEHRPP Geneva, 3-5 December 2007