Joint AMSR Science Team Meeting
14-16 July 2008
Telluride, CO

All presentations are in PDF.

Monday, July 14
9:00	Introduction	Spencer & Shibata
9:00	News from NASA HQ	Kakar
9:40	TLSCF status	Conway
10:00	SIPS status	Regner
10:20	JAXA algorithm, processing, and archive status	Sasaki
10:40	NSIDC status	Leon
11:00	Science updates
	AMSR-E Evidence for Changes in Precipitation Microphysics During Tropospheric Warming	Spencer
	The Relation Between SST, Clouds, Precipitation and Wave Structures Across the Equatorial Pacific	Rapp & Kummerow
	High Latitude Precipitation: AMSR, Cloudsat, AIRS	Adler
	Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP) Mission	Njoku
	On-Orbit Calibration of WindSat	Wentz & Brewer
	Wind and Water Distribution over Ocean	Liu
	Multiyear Ice Studies using AMSR-E and SSM/I data	Comiso

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
830	Science Papers:
Soil Moisture
	Update Status of Soil Moisture Algorithm	Fujii
	Use of AMSR-E Land Parameter Modeling and Retrievals for SMAP Algorithm Development	Chan
	Comparison of Land SurfaceTemperatures From Land Surface Models and Microwave and Infrared Satellite Retrievals	Liang
	Mapping Terrestrial Water and Carbon Fluxes Using AMSR-E and MODIS	Kimball
	Validations of AMSR-E soil moisture estimation in Mongolia and a renewal plan of ground-based monitoring instruments �	Kaihotsu
Precipitation
	Merging of the RSS ocean parameters retrieval algorithm with the UW-Madison ocean precipitation algorithm	Petty
	The relationship between observed land surface emissivities derived from AMSR-E +status of GPROF_2008	Kummerow
	Potential Improvements to the AMSR-E L2 Rain over Land Algorithm	Ferraro
	Progress on a combined AMSR-E TMI Level 3 Oceanic Rainfall Algorithm	Wilheit
Ocean
	Integration of the AMSR-E Ocean Products into the Existing Satellite Climate Record	Wentz
	Comparison of relative wind directions retrieved from AMSR-E method and from Windsat polarimetric method	Shibata
	Application of AMSR-E all weather ocean wind speed algorithm to Windsat data	Saitoh (Sadao)
	Looking at AMSR-E Ocean Products AMSR-E SST Movie AMSR-E Water Vapor Movie	Brewer
Sea Ice
	AMSR sea ice applications	Meier
	An update of the March 2006 Arctic aircraft validation campaign	Markus
	Sea ice exchange between the Canadian Archipelago, the Arctic Ocean and Baffin Bay using enhanced AMSR-E imagery	Agnew
Snow
	Uncertainties assessment in the AMSR-E SWE product: atmospheric effects and grain size sensitivity	Tedesco
	Assessing the effect of physical temperature on SWE retrievals from AMSR-E observations	Kelly

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
9:00	Applications
	Current status of AMSR-E data utilization in JMA/NWP	Kazumori
9:20	Instrument
	AMSR-E Geometric Correction Except for 89GHz	Saitoh (Susumu)
9:40	GCOM Status	Imaoka

10:00	Discussions: future of AMSR-E Science Team GCOM-W Science team Aqua/Terra/AMSR meeting in 2009	Lobl
AMSR-E MISSION OPERATIONS and GROUND SYSTEM STATUS MEETING
13:00	JAXA Organization and Personnel Updates	M. Tsuchiya
13:15	ESMO Update	A. Kelly
13:30	EOS Aqua Status	W. Guit
13:50	AMSR-E/IST Operation Status at JAXA/EOC	H. Takezawa
14:10	JAXA Report: Torque Status	H. Motoi
14:45	Planning for Torque Contingency/Response to Red Limit	J. Pawloski
15:15	EMOS: IST Activities/Future Plans	P. Johnson
15:50	OA Updates (Personnel)	JAXA/NASA
16:10	ESDIS Report	K. Michaels/B. Krupp
16:25	Other Discussion Items
16:40	Summary/Actions/Next Steps

AMSR-E Project Documents

AMSR-E SIPS Documents

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