2016 GDAP Meeting

Nov 29 - Dec 1, 2016 | Washington, DC, USA

Find a PDF of the agenda here.

Annual Meeting of the GEWEX Data and Assessments Panel

29 November – 1 December 2016
USRA, Suite 940, 425 3rd Street, SW, Washington, DC

DRAFT AGENDA

TUESDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2016

08:30   Registration

09:00 – 09:10 Welcome – J. Schulz and P. van Oevelen
09:10 – 09:30 Feedback from GEWEX SSG, WDAC, SCOPE-CM – J. Schulz
09:30 – 09:45 IGPO Update – P.J. van Oevelen
09:45 – 10:15 GEWEX Strategy and JSC Report – G. Stephens
10:15 – 10:30 GDAP meeting objectives – J. Schulz / M. McCabe

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00 Discussion of GEWEX strategy and meeting objectives – All

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

Ongoing Assessments
13:30 – 14:15
 Water Vapor Assessment – M. Schröder
14:15 – 14:30 Aerosol Assessment – S. Kinne
14:30 – 15:00 Precipitation Assessment – H. Masunaga, C. Kummerow

15:00 –15:30 Break

New Assessments
15:30 – 15:45
 Update of the GEWEX Cloud Assessment Database – C. Stubenrauch
15:45 – 16:15 Potential new cloud assessment and link to CGMS ICWG – A. Heidinger
16:15 – 16:45 Water vapor budget analysis over monsoon area derived from different reanalysis products – T. Zhou
16:45 – 17:30 Discussion on assessments and analysis – All

17:30 Reception

WEDNESDAY, 30 NOVEMBER 2016

New Member Presentations
09:00 – 09:30
 Contribution of Mesoscale Convective Systems to the water and energy budget of the tropics – Remy Roca
09:30 – 10:00 The NASA NEWS Integrated E&WC Climatology Project – Tristan L’Ecuyer

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:00 Soil Moisture Products and Assessment – W. Dourigo (remotely)

GEWEX Products, Including Integrated Product
Each product should state the status with respect to the integrated product
11:00 – 11:20
 ISCCP Production at NCEI and Changes to ISCCP Products – K. Knapp / W. Rossow
11:20 – 11:50 SRB – P. Stackhouse
11:50 – 12:10 GPCP – R. Adler

12:10 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 13:50 LandFlux – M. McCabe / C. Jimenez
13:50 – 14:10 SeaFlux – C.A. Clayson
14:10 – 14:30 Aerocom – S. Kinne
14:30 – 15:00 Discussion on Integrated Product – C. Kummerow / All

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break

Ground-Based Networks
15:30 – 15:50
 Soil Moisture Networks – W. Dourigo (remote presentation)
15:50 – 16:10 BSRN – Chuck Long
16:10 – 16:30 GPCC update – Marc Schröder for Udo Schneider
16:30 – 16:50 ARM site update – J. Mather
16:50 – 17:30 Discussion on ground-based networks

THURSDAY, 1 DECEMBER 2016

New Initiatives
09:00 – 09:15
 Surface radar data reprocessing including a workshop – J. Schulz for B. Nelson and A. Becker
09:15 – 10:00 GEWEX Process Evaluation Study group on Upper Tropospheric  Clouds and Convection (UTCC PROES) – Claudia Stubenrauch

10:00 – 10:20 Coffee Break

GDAP Governance and Future Direction
10:20 – 12:00
 SSG reporting and next meeting, new GDAP chairs, future direction, next GDAP meeting – J. Schulz

12:00 Adjourn

 

Background image by NASA’s Marshal Space Flight Center used under Creative Commons license.