Poster Programme AS1.3

AS1.3

Precipitation: Measurement, Climatology, Remote Sensing, and Modeling (General Session)
Convener: Silas Michaelides  | Co-Conveners: Vincenzo Levizzani , Kenji Nakamura 
Oral Programme
 / Thu, 23 Apr, 10:30–12:00  / 13:30–19:00  / Room 10
 / Fri, 24 Apr, 08:30–12:00  / 13:30–15:00  / Room 10
Poster Programme
 / Attendance Fri, 24 Apr, 15:30–19:00  / Halls X/Y

Attendance Time: Friday, 24 April 2009, 15:30–17:00
Halls X/Y
Chairperson: F. Prodi, P. Nastos, W. Gallus
XY1
EGU2009-13322
Analysis of high accuracy rain intensity measurements from a field test site
I. Gnecco, L.G. Lanza, L. Stagi, and E. Vuerich

XY2 EGU2009-736
Use of high-resolution X-band weather radar for real rainfall estimation (withdrawn)
Z. Toofani nejad, H. Leijnse, R. Uijlenhoet, and M. Schaepman

XY3
EGU2009-1448
Comparisons of surface freshwater budget terms from reanalyses, hindcasts and observational data over the Mediterranean
M.L. Martin, R. Aznar, M.G. Sotillo, M.Y. Luna, and A. Morata

XY4
EGU2009-1449
Evaluation and verification of a short-range ensemble precipitation prediction system over Iberia
M.L.. Martin, D. Santos-Muñoz, F. Valero, A. Pascual, and L.I. Sebastian

XY5
EGU2009-13552
Regional drought assessment in Cyprus
S. Pashiardis and S.C. Michaelides

XY6
EGU2009-13508
Variability in rainfall frequency distribution in Cyprus
S.C. Michaelides, F.S. Tymvios, and T. Michaelidou

XY7
EGU2009-13509
The Siberian High and precipitation over Cyprus
P. Lingis and S.C. Michaelides

XY8
EGU2009-1713
Relationships between data measured by meteorological radars and Meteosat Second Generation for convective storms
V. Bliznak and Z. Sokol

XY9
EGU2009-2136
A new approach for the estimation of rain-drop size-distributions using Doppler lidar and cloud radar
K. Träumner, J. Handwerker, J. Grenzhäuser, and A. Wieser

XY10
EGU2009-13327
Spatial and temporal rainfall variation observed by vertically pointing radar clusters and disdrometers
W. Yen and S. Crewell

XY11
EGU2009-6986
Harmonic analysis of the precipitation in Greece
P.T. Nastos and C.S. Zerefos

XY12
EGU2009-11413
A study of periodicity and trend of the r-largest annual precipitation events in Athens, Greece
G. Tzavelas, A.G. Paliatsos, and P.T. Nastos

XY13
EGU2009-3170
A comparison of precipitation forecast skill between small convection-allowing and large convection-parameterizing ensembles
A. Clark, W. Gallus, M. Xue, and F. Kong

XY14
EGU2009-2525
Application of object-oriented verification techniques to ensemble precipitation forecasts
W. Gallus

XY15
EGU2009-2282
Current Status of Japan’s Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) Activity
K. Nakamura, M. Kojima, R. Oki, and T. Iguchi

XY16
EGU2009-2280
Diurnal variation of Summer Precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau
K. Nakamura and P. Sigh

XY17
EGU2009-2647
Microwave Land Surface Emissivity Map Derived from TRMM TMI and JRA25
F. A. Furuzawa, H. Masunaga, and K. Nakamura

XY18
EGU2009-10218
Observations of avalanches and precipitation in a dense network in North-Iceland
S. Brynjólfsson and H. Ólafsson

XY19
EGU2009-10878
Scale Dependence of Radar-Rainfall Uncertainty Based on the New Super-Resolution Data of NEXRAD
W.F. Krajewski and B.C. Seo

XY20
EGU2009-10245
Field-Testing the Suitability of Microrain Radars to Describe the Spatial Gradients of the Vertical Structure of Rainfall in Mountainous Regions
O. P. Prat and A. P. Barros

XY21
EGU2009-4668
Variability of precipitation in complex terrain and the investigation of representativeness of measurements for the Matre catchment area, Western Norway.
M. Skjerdal, J. Reuder, and F. Villanger

XY22
EGU2009-9336
Analysis of the spatial variability of rain drop size distributions during rain events
C. Caracciolo, F. Porcù, L.P. D'Adderio, and F. Prodi

XY23
EGU2009-9378
Radar-disdrometer comparison during rain events over the urban area of Rome
C. Caracciolo, F. Porcù, L.P. D'Adderio, F. Prodi, L. Baldini, and E. Gorgucci

XY24
EGU2009-10618
Modelling of orographic precipitation over Portugal and effects on the surrounding regions
M.-J. Costa, D. Santos, R. Salgado, V. Levizzani, F. Pinelli, D. Bortoli, and A.M. Silva

XY25
EGU2009-11354
Spatial Structure Analysis of Heavy Short-term Rainfalls in the Czech Republic
S. Bek, V. Bližňák, and J. Ježek

XY26
EGU2009-12923
Evaluation of effective rainfall in different conditions
H. Sharifan and A. Asady

XY27
EGU2009-4387
The estimation of QPF uncertainty on the basis of QPF spread
P. Zacharov and D. Řezáčová

XY28
EGU2009-7927
Atmospheric precipitation in the high-mountain positions of the Low and High Tatras
M. Ostrozlik

XY29
EGU2009-11742
Regional Precipitation Characteristics Observed in West Africa
P.A. Kucera

XY30
EGU2009-12352
TRMM sampling issues over ground areas of varying size
E. Stocker and J Kwiatkowski

XY31
EGU2009-11916
Monthly and seasonally verification of precipitation in Poland
K. Starosta and J. Linkowska

XY32
EGU2009-12228
TRMM .25 x .25 gridded precipitation text product
E. Stocker

XY33
EGU2009-6505
Diurnal rainfall pattern over and around the Indochina Peninsula observed by TRMM-PR
H. G. Takahashi

XY34
EGU2009-5017
Evaluation of the hydrologic measure quality of the Saint Nizier weather radar data on the local urban area of Greater Lyon
F. Renard, D. Faure, and J. Comby

XY35
EGU2009-5193
Correlation of air temperature above water-air sections with the forecasted low level clouds
N.Sh. Huseynov and B.M. Malikov

XY36
EGU2009-8005
Near-real-time global rainfall map using multi-satellite data by JAXA and its validation
T. Kubota, M. Kachi, R. Oki, T. Ushio, S. Shige, K. Aonashi, and K. Okamoto

XY37
EGU2009-5571
Investigation of orography impact on extreme dry spells over Greece
C. Oikonomou, H. Flocas, I. Manola, M. Hatzaki, and D.N. Asimakopoulos

XY38
EGU2009-7507
Precipitation Estimation from Radar Data Using Artificial Neural Network Systems
G Tiron, S Gosav, C Oprea, and D Dorohoi

XY39
EGU2009-8587
Comparing high-resolution daily gridded Precipitation data with satellite rainfall estimates of TRMM_3B42 over Iran
S. Javanmard, A. Yatagai, H. Kawamoto, M. I. Nodzu, and J. B. Jamali

XY40
EGU2009-6774
Correlation between the climatological data and radar data for hail
m. paraschivescu and m bogdan

XY41 EGU2009-7380
Predictability of precipitation in complex terrain - A comparison of high-resolution rain gauge measurements and fine-scale numerical simulations (withdrawn)
I.Y. Sulen and J. Reuder

XY42
EGU2009-8740
Spatio-Temporal Clustering of Monitoring Network
I. Hussain and J. Pilz

XY43
EGU2009-94
Quantification of the scavenging action of the north-east monsoonal rains over southern India
A. Rai, S Adhikary, S Chakraborty, and S Ghosh

XY44 EGU2009-745
Improving rain rate estimates from ground –based weather Radar using Artificial Neural Networks (withdrawn)
Z. Toofani nejad, A.M Noorian, and A. Sedaghat kerdar

XY45
EGU2009-1150
Occurrence and characteristics of hail in continetal part of Croatia
D. Počakal and B Lipovščak

Attendance Time: Friday, 24 April 2009, 17:30–19:00
Halls X/Y
Chairperson: M. Casaioli, M. Turco, F. Teschl
XY46
EGU2009-1384
The forecaster’s added value in QPF
M. Turco and M. Milelli

XY47 EGU2009-3113
Cross Validation of TRMM Precipitation Radar and Ground Radar Reflectivities (withdrawn)
J. Wang and D. Wolff

XY48 EGU2009-1860
Assessment of Global Rainfall Products Using TRMM Ground Validation Data (withdrawn)
D. Wolff and B. Fisher

XY49
EGU2009-2406
Precipitation Downscaling versus Observational Network Dataset: Results for the West Coast of Norway
M. d. S. Mesquita, I. Barstad, and U. Heikkilä

XY50
EGU2009-2594
Snowfall measurements using a combination of high spectral resolution lidar and radar observations
E. Eloranta

XY51
EGU2009-2598
Simulation of Global Precipitation Measurement Microwave Imager level 1 and 2 data
Y. Ji, E Stocker, and S Bilanow

XY52
EGU2009-2617
Changes in sub-daily rainfall at Melbourne, Australia, 1950-2007: a neglected aspect of climate change with implications for ecohydrology and catchment water yield.
D. Dunkerley

XY53 EGU2009-3177
An Enhanced Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Validation Network Prototype (withdrawn)
K. R. Morris and M. R. Schwaller

XY54
EGU2009-3537
Novel method for water vapour monitoring using wireless communication networks measurements
N. David, P. Alpert, and H. Messer

XY55
EGU2009-3671
A New Understanding for the Rain Rate retrieval of Attenuating Radars Measurement
P. Koner, A. Battaglia, and C. Simmer

XY56
EGU2009-3717
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission: U.S. Program and Science Status
A. Hou, A. Azarbarzin, R. Kakar, and S. Neeck

XY57 EGU2009-3754
Operational Estimation of Accumulated Precipitation using Satellite Observation, by Eumetsat Satellite Application facility in Support to Hydrology (H-SAF Consortium). (withdrawn)
A. Di Diodato, L. De Leonibus, F. Zauli, D. Biron, and D. Melfi

XY58 EGU2009-4146
Can a Multimodel SuperEnsemble technique be used for precipitation forecasts? (withdrawn)
D. Cane and M. Milelli

XY59
EGU2009-4959
Precipitation Data Merging using a Machine Learning Based Fusion
A.C. Turlapaty, V.G Anantharaj, N.H Younan, and F.J. Turk

XY60
EGU2009-5247
On the rainfall retrieval with the 183-WSL algorithm over Northern Europe
S. Laviola, E. Cattani, F. Marra, V. Levizzani, and C. Kidd

XY61 EGU2009-5557
Precipitation and Circulation Anomalies Associated with the ENSO and Antarctic Oscillations (AAO) (withdrawn)
G. Gu and R. Adler

XY62
EGU2009-5942
The structure of short-term rainfall: trends in variability studied with data from Portugal
M.I.P. de Lima, M.F.E.S. Coelho, S.C.P. Carvalho, and J.L.M.P. de Lima

XY63
EGU2009-6286
An ensemble methodology to estimate precipitation overland from passive microwave observations
M. Grecu, E. N. Anagnostou, and A. Papadopoulos

XY64
EGU2009-6618
Improvements to Reduce Bias in the Real-Time TMPA
G.J. Huffman, R.F. Adler, D.T. Bolvin, and E.J. Nelkin

XY65
EGU2009-6970
The Megha-Tropiques Mission: overview of the French Science and Cal/Val plans
R. Roca

XY66
EGU2009-7641
Statistical Analysis of 2D-Video Disdrometer Measurements and Errors of Polarimetric Rainfall Estimators
J. Kalogiros, M. Anagnostou, E. Anagnostou, and A. Papadopoulos

XY67
EGU2009-8227
Development of the DPR algorithms for GPM science construction
R. Oki, S. Shimizu, T. Kubota, N. Yoshida, M. Kachi, and T. Iguchi

XY68
EGU2009-8416
LMODEL: A Multi-Sensor Satellite Precipitation Algorithm Using Cloud Development Modeling and Model Updating
T. Bellerby, K. Hsu, and S. Sorooshian

XY69
EGU2009-9002
The impact of drought and rainfall deficit on Romanian agriculture
E. Mateescu, D. Alexandru, D. Anghel, and O. Oprea

XY70
EGU2009-9629
Quantitative precipitation forecasts in the Alps - an assessment from the Forecast Demonstration Project MAP D-PHASE
F. Ament, T. Weusthoff, M. Arpagaus, and M. Rotach

XY71
EGU2009-9727
Validation of the Blended MW-IR Satellite-derived instantaneous rain rate and accumulated rainfall products in the Western Black Sea Basin of Turkey
I Sonmez, AU Komuscu, A Oztopal, Z Sen, and E Erdi

XY72
EGU2009-9810
CMORPH Improvements: A Kalman Filter Approach to Blend Various Satellite Rainfall Estimate Inputs and Rain Gauge Data Integration
J. Janowiak, R. Joyce, and P. Xie

XY73
EGU2009-10164
Evaluating the improvements of the BOLAM meteorological model operational at ISPRA: A case study approach - preliminary results
S. MARIANI, M. CASAIOLI, B. LASTORIA, C. ACCADIA, and S. FLAVONI

XY74
EGU2009-10229
Geostatistical Assessement of Spatial Patterns in Precipitation Extremes over Europe
R. Durao, M. J. Pereira, A. C. Costa, and A. Soares

XY75
EGU2009-10241
The NOAA/NESDIS Operational Microwave Integrated Retrieval System
L. Zhao

XY76
EGU2009-10251
A network of disdrometers to investigate the variability of the microstructure of precipitation at the radar pixel scale
J. JAFFRAIN, A. Berne, A. Studzinski, and F. Pantillon

XY77
EGU2009-10400
Analysis of strong rainfall events at Cividale del Friuli (Northeastern Italy) from 1920 to 2007
R.R. Colucci, F. Cucchi, F. Stravisi, and L. Zini

XY78
EGU2009-10601
Examination of Effective Dielectric Constants Derived from Non-Spherical Melting Hydrometeor
L. Liao and R. Meneghini

XY79
EGU2009-11149
Neurocomputing and raingauge network measurements: low cost spatiotemporal analysis of 10-days singletons to attempt high resolution inference
G. Langella, F. Terribile, and A. Basile

XY80
EGU2009-11537
HAMP - the microwave package on the upcoming High Altitude and LOng range aircraft HALO
M. Mech, S. Crewell, G. Peters, and L. Hirsch

XY81
EGU2009-11573
Assessing Precipitation, Snowpack and Runoff over Colorado
R. Rasmussen, V. Grubisic, D. Gochis, D. Yates, K. Miller, P. Houser, C. Lui, K. Ikeda, M. Tewari, and J. Dudhia

XY82
EGU2009-11575
Flower elliptical constellation of millimeter-wave radiometers for precipitating cloud monitoring at geostationary scale
F.S. Marzano, D. Cimini, M. Montopoli, T. Rossi, D. Mortari, S. Di Michele, and P. Bauer

XY83
EGU2009-11692
Spatio-temporal characteristics of the diurnal precipitation cycle over Sweden and the linkage to large-scale circulation
A. Walther, J.-H. Jeong, and D. Chen

XY84
EGU2009-11712
A Rapid Protoyping Approach for the Evaluation of Potential GPM-Era Precipitation Products for Water Resources Management Applications
V. G. Anantharaj, P. R. Houser, F. J. Turk, C. A. Peterson, F. Hossain, R. J. Moorhead, D. L. Toll, and G. Mostovoy

XY85
EGU2009-11897
Small intensity precipitation effect on wind induced loss of liquid precipitation measurement
B. Chvíla and B. Sevruk

XY86
EGU2009-12089
Results of Dynamic Calibration of Tipping-Bucket Rain Gauges
V. Kvicera and M. Grabner

XY87
EGU2009-12367
Microwave scattering from frozen hydrometeors: for what size parameters the actual shape is of influence?
F. Teschl, W. L. Randeu, and R. Teschl

XY88
EGU2009-12640
High resolution probabilistic precipitation forecast over Spain combining the statistical downscaling tool PROMETEO and the AEMET short range EPS system (AEMET/SREPS)
A.S. Cofino, C. Santos, J.A. Garcia-Moya, J.M Gutierrez, and B. Orfila