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AWAJI

Symposium and Workshops

The Water Cycle Session Summary

   9 presentations
  1. Water cycle observation scenario of NASDA (R. Oki)
  2. ESA's earth observation programs and EGPM (E. Herland)
  3. Water cycle variation and precipitation observation (K Nakamura)
  4. Monitoring global precipitation - status and future (R.Adler)
  5. TRMM PR development and achievement (K. Okamoto)
  6. Precipitation research related to TRMM and GPM validation (P. May)
  7. PR in GPM era (T. Iguchi)
  8. Importance of precipitation observation in Asia (H. Uyeda)
  9. Water and energy budget in Asian monsoon region (K. Masuda)
Recognition of importance of water cycle observation
NASDA, ESA, NASA (presentation in the plenary session)


From TRMM to GPM
3-hourly global rain map

PR (DPR)' importance and feasibility


Ground-based observation for microphysical structure

Water cycle observation ->precipitation observation ->(TRMM and) GPM

Regional scale precipitation measurement, and large scale water and energybalance study

Satellite program: big -> needs well-designed structure:
EO scenarios with international collaboration/framework - research and application objectives - realistic but partly challenging hardware to meet the objectives with algorithm, validation
The session was not comprehensive, not full-discussion type, but showed a good prototype what a satellite mission is.