Joint AMSR Science Team Meeting
La Jolla, CA
6-8 September 2006

All presentations are in PDF.

Wednesday, 6 September
8:30	Welcome and Introduction	Spencer
8:40	View from NASA HQ	Kakar
8:50	Project update: JAXA	Yamanashi
9:20	Activities at the TLSCF	Conway
9:50	Processing Status at JAXA/EOC	Imanaka
10:20	SIPS Processing Status	Regner
10:50	AMSR-E status at NSIDC	Leon
11:10	NSIDC - Validation data	Holm
11:30	Lunch
1:00	Some details on the Senior Review Terra Senior Review Table of Contents	Lobl
1:30	Science updates
	Operational Use of AMSR-E radiance data in the JMA Global Analysis	Sato
	A method of typhoon center estimation using AMSR-E data	Saitoh
	Passive microwave sensor inter-calibration using stable land surface targets	Armstrong
	Geolocation and re-sampling 6.9 and 10.7 GHz Channels: Implications for Applications	Brewer

Thursday, 7 September
8:00	Science update (15 min. each):
Ocean
	AMSR-E Ocean Products for Climate Research	Wentz
	Improvement of AMSR SST by considering the air-sea temperature difference	Shibata
	NRT global daily 9 km multi-sensor SSTs from MODIS, AMSR-E, and TMI	Gentemann
	Biases in total precipitable water vapor climatologies from AIRS and AMSR	Hearty
Snow
	AMSR-E snow algorithm: encapsulating snowpack properties in the retrievals	Kelly
	Update on Canadian Snow Science Activities using AMSR-E	Walker
Sea Ice
	AMSR-E Studies of Thin Sea Ice in the Ross Sea	Kwok
	Snow depth on sea ice: Processing update and an overview of the val campaign in March 06	Markus
	In Situ Observations during the Arctic AMSRIce03 and AMSRIce06 Validation Campaigns	Maslanik
	Comparative studies of AMSR-E and MODIS sea ice data	Comiso
Rainfall
	AMSR-E rainfall and Cloud water	Kummerow
	Revised Estimates of the Impact of Drop Size Distribution on Rainfall Retrieval Uncertainties	Wilheit
	Preliminary validation of mid- and high-latitude ocean precipitation using island stations	Petty
	AMSR and other Aqua Data in Global Precipitation Analysis: Progress and Plans	Adler
Soil Moisture
	AMSR-E land surface emissivity database	Moncet
	Space-Time Variability of AMSR-E and Modeled Soil Moisture	Njoku
	Update on Ground Based Soil Moisture Validation	Jackson
	Current status of soil moisture monitoring by AWS and ASSH and its data analysis	Kaihotsu
	Using in-situ, modeled and AMSR-E retrieved soil moisture for AMSR-E validation	Wood
	Data assimilation of AMSR-E soil moisture	Reichle
	Dev. and Val. of AMSR-E Soil Temp. and Moisture Alg. for pan-Arctic Basin Land Surfaces	Jones
	Relationship between rainfall and soil moisture based on AMSR-E data	Jin

Friday, 8 September
8:30	Discussion
	Activities in 2007:JAXA AMSR Workshop: when, where, how long… JAXA Senior review Lobl IGARSS07 (4x1/2 sessions/AMSR only: Cryosphere, soil moist., rainfall, operations??) Midori AMSR US algorithm	JAXA, Lobl
	GCOM-W: estimated launch date, data for US science use	JAXA
	Coordinated AMSR-E Algorithm	Kummerow
	AMSR-E Data Management Plan (AMSR-E data User's Guide) review	Lobl
	Short ATBD	Lobl
	Next meeting location options: end of August in a 'cool' (temp wise) place (Vancouver, Canada, Seattle,WA,….) end of May or September in Huntsville or WDC??	Lobl

AMSR-E Project Documents

AMSR-E SIPS Documents

AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Minutes, as reported in The Earth Observer