‐GCOM‐W Session Agenda‐
Date

01/25

Chair

Start EndNo

123Lunch
Plenary
Poster session
Reception
Comiso, Josefino
Cho, Kohei
Meier, Walter

10:20 10:40

4Heygster, GeorgPI Report: Cryosphere
Chair:
Cho, Kohei

01/26

PI Report: Land
Chair:
Asanuma, Jun

PI Report: Land
Chair:
Oki, Taikan
PI Report: Atmosphere
Chair:
Aonashi, Kazumasa

PI Report: Ocean
Chair:
Shibata, Akira

PI Report: Ocean
Chair:
Ebuchi, Naoto

Title
Opening Remarks // Status of GCOM‐W
Status of AMSR2 instrument and calibration // Status of AMSR2 follow‐on mission
Status of AMSR2 products
Status of US AMSR‐E science teamDiscussion of the day

RoomHall 10B

Hall 10A
Conf. room 10A
Main Hall 2F
Refinements for the Bootstrap AMSR2 sea ice concentration algorithm
Development of SIC Retrieval Algorithm for AMSR2Adjustment and enhancement of NASA Team2 sea ice concentreation retrievals for AMSR2High resolving sea ice concentration; Integrated Retrieval of surface and atmospheric parameters
over sea ice

Break

10:40 10:50
10:50 11:10

5Ohshima, Kay I.

11:10 11:30

6Ukita, Jinro

11:30 11:50

7Iida, Takahiro

Development of algorithm for thin ice thickness and detection of fast ice and its application toestimation of sea ice production
Retrieval of total sea ice concentration from AMSR‐E and AMSR2 data using pptimal estimation
techniques
Spatial and temporal variations of high turbidity surface water off the Thule region, northwest
Greenland

Lunch

11:50 13:10

01/27

Speaker
Kachi, Misako
Kasahara, Marehito
Maeda, Takashi
Lobl, Elena

10:00 10:20
Research Project Status 10:20 10:35
Chair:
10:35 10:50
10:50 11:10
Oki, Taikan
11:10 11:30
11:30 13:00
16:00
13:00
18:0018:00 20:00
9:20 9:40
9:40 10:00
10:00 10:20

13:10 13:30

8Kouzai, Katsutoshi

13:30 13:50

9Kelly, Richard

13:50 14:10

10Kim, Edward

14:10 14:30

11Iwahana, Go

Investigation on offshore wind energy resources by using AMSR2 and mesoscale meteorologicalmodel
Research development and maintenance of the GCOM‐W snow depth and snow water equivalent
product
Validation of AMSR2 soil moisture and snow data products using co‐located GPS and in situ
observations
Soil moisture dynamics after surface disturbance in tundra permafrost regions: as an indicator ofpermafrost degradation

Hall 10B

Break

14:30 14:40
14:40 15:00

12Walker, Jeffrey

15:00 15:20
15:20 15:40
15:40 16:00
16:00 16:10

13
1415

Asanuma, Jun
Lakshmi, Venkat
Jackson, ThomasBreak

16:10 16:30

16

16:30 16:50
16:50 17:10
17:10 17:30
10:00 10:20
10:20 10:40
10:40 11:00
11:00 11:20
11:20 11:40
11:40 13:20
13:20 13:40

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1920
21
22
23
24

Validation of global water and energy balance monitoring in the Australian Murray‐Darling Basinusing GCOM‐W1 data
Toward upscaling ground‐based measurements for validating the AMSR2 soil moisture products
Extended validation of downscaled AMSR2 Soil Moisture
Single Channel Soil Moisture Algorithm and Validation in the U.S.

Algorithms for global monitoring the Earth's surface parameters of the hydrological cycle
REAL GLIMPSE: REmote sensing ALgorithms for GLobal IMaging the Parameters of the SurfacESuzuki, Kazuyoshi Ensemble data assimilation of multi‐sensors' radiance at the northeast Eurasian continent
Development of Soil Moisture and Snow Algorithms for AMSR2 and AMSR‐E based LDAS products
Koike, Toshio
Discussion of the dayKazumori, Masahiro Development of TPW and CLW Retrieval Algorithms for AMSR2Aonashi, Kazumasa Next‐generation MWI precipitation retrieval algorithm
Geophysical Retrievals from GCOM‐W AMSR2Brewer, Marty
Imrovement of retrieval algorithms for wind speed and integrated atmospheric parameter
Mitnik, Leonid
Combining AMSR‐2 and Other A‐Train satellite data to study aerosols' indirect radiative effectLiu, Guosheng

Paloscia, Simonetta

Lunch
Development of SST and SSW Retrieval Algorithms for AMSR2Shibata, Akira
Hosoda, Kohtaro Daily‐minimum sea surface temperature estimation based on microwave and visible/infrared(for Sakaida, Futoki) measurements

13:40 14:00

25

14:00 14:20

26

14:20 14:40

27

14:40 14:50
14:50 15:10

28

15:10 15:30

29

Kutsuwada, Kunio

15:30 15:50
15:50 16:10

30

Ebuchi, NaotoLiu, Timothy

AMSR observation of ocean carbon cycle

Kubota, Masahisa
Validation of multisatellite‐derived wind speed dataset(for Kako, Shin‐ichiro)
BreakTomita, Hiroyuki Validation of AMSR2 SSW and SST
Validation study of surface wind and wave over open ocean for development of wave prediciton
model
Evaluation of marine surface wind observed by AMSR2 on GCOM‐W1 (2)Discussion of the day

Hall 10B