# Presentation: 021575

## GPM GV 2005 Workshop Introduction

**Ming-Dah Chou**
- Chair Research Professor
- Department of Atmospheric Sciences
- National Taiwan University
- September 27, 2005

## 09:30  Preliminaries 
10:20  Status of GPM Programs 
               ♦ NASA GPM 
               ♦ JAXA GPM 
11:30  Session 1: Algorithm and Application Needs
13:00  Lunch (lunch boxes prepared)
17:00  Session 2: GV Network System Integration
19:00  Ice Breaker
20:30  Buses leave for Westin Hotel

- 09:30  Preliminaries
- 10:20  Status of GPM Programs
-                ♦ NASA GPM
-                ♦ JAXA GPM
- 11:30  Session 1: Algorithm and Application Needs
*1**3:00  Lunch (lunch boxes prepared)*
- 17:00  Session 2: GV Network System Integration
- 19:00  Ice Breaker
*20:30  Buses leave for Westin Hotel*

## 08:20  Buses leave for Central Weather Bureau
09:00  Session 3: Working Group Meetings
12:15  Session 3: WG Reports & Discussion
13:00  Lunch (lunch boxes prepared)
14:30  Session 4  : Accumulation of Experience from GV Sites: 
                                    TRMM
17:00  Session 5-I: Accumulation of Experience from GV Sites:
                                    Northern/Snow 
18:15  Buses leave for Westin Hotel
19:00  Banquet (Keynote Speaker: Prof. Richard Lindzen of MIT)
                Title: "The Properties of Convection and the Measurement
                         of Precipitation from Space -- A Theoretician's View"

- 08:20  Buses leave for Central Weather Bureau
- 09:00  Session 3: Working Group Meetings
- 12:15  Session 3: WG Reports & Discussion
- 13:00  Lunch (lunch boxes prepared)
- 14:30  Session 4  : Accumulation of Experience from GV Sites:
-                                     TRMM
- 17:00  Session 5-I: Accumulation of Experience from GV Sites:
-                                     Northern/Snow
*18:15  Buses leave for Westin Hotel*
- 19:00  Banquet (Keynote Speaker: Prof. Richard Lindzen of MIT)
-                 Title: "The Properties of Convection and the Measurement
-                          of Precipitation from Space -- A Theoretician's View"

## 08:20  Buses leave for Central Weather Bureau
09:00  Session 5-II:  Accumulation of Experience from GV Sites:
                                      Subtropics - Midlatitudes/Arid
11:00  Session 5-III: Accumulation of Experience from GV Sites:
                                      Tropics - Midlatitudes/Wet 
13:00  Lunch (lunch boxes prepared)
14:30  Session 6: Applications  	
15:30  Wrap-up 
                Final discussion, issues & future plans
16:45  Buses leave for Westin Hotel

*08:20  Buses leave for Central Weather Bureau*
- 09:00  Session 5-II:  Accumulation of Experience from GV Sites:
-                                       Subtropics - Midlatitudes/Arid
- 11:00  Session 5-III: Accumulation of Experience from GV Sites:
-                                       Tropics - Midlatitudes/Wet
*1**3:00  Lunch (lunch boxes prepared)*
- 14:30  Session 6: Applications
- 15:30  Wrap-up
-                 Final discussion, issues & future plans
*16:45  Buses leave for Westin Hotel*

## One-day field trip
Visit to CWB Observation Station
Lunch
Tour of Taroko National Park

(Please bring your passport with you on Friday)

***One-day field trip***
- Visit to CWB Observation Station
- Lunch
- Tour of Taroko National Park
- (Please bring your passport with you on Friday)

## Wednesday evening: Banquet will be on the 3rd floor of Westin Taipei.

You can ask the hotel to arrange a taxi for transportation to the airport. The fare is ~NT$1,200 (~US$40).

Try your best to visit the Palace Museum.

- Wednesday evening: Banquet will be on the 3rd floor of Westin Taipei.
- You can ask the hotel to arrange a taxi for transportation to the airport. The fare is ~NT$1,200 (~US$40).
- Try your best to visit the Palace Museum.

## Thank you.