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GCOM-W1/AMSR2 session (Lang. English)
January 13, 2009, Prince Room (B1F)
Session 1: Introduction (Chair: T. Oki)
15:15 - 15:20

Welcome and meeting goals (JAXA/EORC)

15:20 - 15:40

Status of AMSR2 development (Norimasa Ito)

15:40 - 16:00

GCOM-W1 science (Taikan Oki)

16:00 - 16:20

GCOM-W1 research project (Keiji Imaoka)

16:20 - 16:30

BreakSession 2: Atmosphere (Chair: K. Aonashi)
16:30 - 16:45

Development of passive microwave precipitation retrieval algorithm
for AMSR2 (Kazumasa Aonashi)

16:45 - 17:00

Oceanic rainfall for climate trends and variability based on
microwave emission brightness (Long Sang Chiu)

17:00 - 17:15

Advancement of algorithms for retrieval of integrated water vapor
and integrated cloud liquid water taking into account theirmesoscale variability (Leonid Mitnik)

17:15 - 17:30

Development of retrieval algorithm of total water vapor content andtotal liquid water content for GCOM-W1 AMSR2 (MasahiroKazumori)

17:30 - 17:50
18:30 - 20:30

Discussion
Reception, Ambassador’s Ballroom (B2F)

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January 14, 2009, Ambassador’s Ballroom N (B2F)
Session 3: Cryosphere and Land Surface (Chair: T. Koike)
9:30 - 9:45

A combined active-passive algorithm for retrieval of soil moistureusing AMSR and PALSAR (Venkat Lakshmi)

9:45 - 10:00

Improved AMSR-2 soil moisture algorithm and validation (ThomasJ. Jackson)

10:00 - 10:15

Global monitoring of soil moisture, snow cover and vegetation
biomass by using multi-frequency AMSR-2 data: Global Algorithms
for the Monitoring of sURface parameters (GLAMOUR) (SimonettaPaloscia)

10:15 - 10:30

Development of AMSR2 algorithms for snow depth and soilmoisture and a land hydrological data assimilation system (ToshioKoike)

10:30 - 10:40

Break

10:40 - 10:55

A Validation Plan of Soil Moisture Measurement Algorithm ofAMSR 2 and Current Status of AMSR-E Validation in Mongolia(Ichirow Kaihotsu)

10:55 - 11:10

Development of NDVI prediction algorithm over Mongolia using
GSMaP precipitation, reanalysis temperature and AMSE-R soil
moisture (Hiroyuki Iwasaki)

11:10 - 11:25

Polar cryospheric monitoring related global environmental changeusing GCOM-W AMSR2 (Hiroyuki Enomoto)

11:25 - 11:40

Cryospheric applications of GCOM-W AMSR2 data at NSIDC(Walter Meier)

11:40 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:30

Discussion
Lunch

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Session 4: Sea ice (Chair: K. Cho)
13:30 - 13:45

Enhanced algorithm for sea ice concentration using AMSR-2 data(Josefino C. Comiso)

13:45 - 14:00

AMSR2 sea ice concentration algorithm development (ThorstenMarkus)

14:00 - 14:15

Developement of sea ice thickness and concentration algorithm inthin ice region (Sohey Nihashi for Keiichiro Oshima)

14:15 - 14:25

Break

14:25 - 14:40

Retrieval of sea ice types and properties from AMSR2 and MODIS(Georg Heygster)

14:40 - 14:55

A study on thin sea ice detection using AMSR2 data (Kohei Cho)

14:55 - 15:10

Toward high-resolution observations using UAVs in the Arctic (JunInoue)

15:10 - 15:25

Development and application of sea ice motion data in the Arctic
Ocean derived by AMSR-E data (Koji Shimada)

15:25 - 15:35

Break

15:35 - 15:55

Discussion

Session 5: Ocean-1 (Chair: A. Shibata)
15:55 - 16:10

Algorithm Developments of SST ans SSW for AMSR-E andAMSR2 (Akira Shibata)

16:10 - 16:25

Validation of AMSR-E SST, comparison with in-situ andAqua/MODIS SST data (Kohtaro Hosoda)

16:25 - 16:40

Algorithm development for GCOM-W AMSR2: Ocean suite (ChelleL. Gentemann)

16:40 - 17:00

Discussion

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January 15, 2009, Ambassador’s Ballroom N (B2F)
Session 6: Ocean-2 (Chair: N. Ebuchi)
9:30 - 9:45

Evaluation of wind speed algorithm of AMSR and AMSR-E using
scatterometer-derived wind data (Naoto Ebuchi)

9:45 - 10:00

Estimation of surface specific humidity using microwave radiometerdata (Shinsuke Iwasaki for Masahisa Kubota)

10:00 - 10:15

Validation of satellite-derived surface wind speed and air specifichumidity at the JAMSTEC Kuroshio Extension Observatory(Shinsuke Iwasaki for Hiroyuki Tomita)

10:15 - 10:30

Construction and validation of gridded product of surface windspeed over the world ocean using AMSR-E data (KunioKutsuwada)

10:30 - 10:50

Discussion

10:50 - 11:00

Break

Session 7: Discussion and Future Plan (Chair: T. Oki)
11:00 - 11:45
11:45

Discussion and Future Plan
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GCOM Workshop 2009 Program
January 13 - 15, 2009
Pan Pacific Yokohama Bay Hotel Tokyu