Joint AMSR Science Team Meeting
13-15 September 2005
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI

All presentations are in PDF.

Tuesday, 13 September 2005
8:30	Welcome and Introduction	Spencer
8:45	View from NASA HQ	Kakar
9:00	California's Changing Climate	Christy
9:15	Hardware and Project status
	GCOM status	Imaoka
10:00	Break
10:15	Team Lead SCF	Conway
11:00	Processing Status
	at JAXA	Imanaka
	at NASA	Regner
12:00	Lunch
1:30	NSIDC Status: AMSR-E Products, Tools and User Statistics Proposal Regarding ADEOS II Web Pages on NSIDC Web Site	Marquis
2:15	JAXA EOC Archive Status	Imanaka
	JAXA EOC Archive Status	Takeshima
2:45	NSIDC validation data archive	Holm
3:15	Question & Answer period

Wednesday, 14 September 2005
8:30	Brightness Temperature comparison (JAXA vs. RSS)	Braswell
9:00	Science update (15 min. each):
Soil Moisture
	Application of AMSR-E and MODIS for monitoring Arctic Tundra Carbon Cycle Dynamics: Recent Results for Alaska Monitoring Stations	Kimball
	Development of a global dynamic AMSR land surface emissivity database	Galantowicz
	Assimilation of AMSR-E soil moisture data for seasonal forecasting	Reichle
	Intercomparison of two AMSR-E soil moisture retrievals algorithms and their validation	Wood
	SMEX and Watershed Soil Moisture Validation	Jackson
	Current status of ground observations in Mongolia Kaihotsu	Kaihotsu
	Performance of AMSR-E in Three Field Exp.: SMEX02, SMEX03, and SMEX04	Lakshmi
Snow
	Improvement of snow and soil moisture algorithm	Koike
	AMSR-E snow product developments and improvements	Kelly
	Canadian Validation of AMSR-E Snow Cover Products	Walker
	Snow cover products combining AMSR-E and MODIS data/stable calib. targets	Armstrong
Sea Ice
	Near real-time sea ice motions from AMSR-E for Antarctic field support	Meier
	Antarctic sea ice validation studies	Comiso
	AMSR-E sea ice products: Updates and Validation	Markus
	Validation of AMSR sea ice parameters using satellite, aerosonde, and in situ data	Heinrichs
	Sea Ice Remote Sensing using AMSR 89 GHz data Heygster	Heygster
Rainfall
	Ocean Rainfall Retrieval and Validation	Petty
	AMSR Rainfall Algorithm: status, issues and prospects	Kummerow
	Improved Physically-based AMSR-E Oceanic Rainfall Algorithm	Wilheit
Ocean
	Three years of ocean products from AMSR-E: Evaluation and Applications	Wentz
	'Wind speed inside storms'	Shibata
	Development of AMSR-E Tb data assimilation system at JMA	Sato
	Comparison of ENSO signal in AMSR-E fields and GISS GCM simulations	Chen
PSR	Updates	Klein
RFI	6 GHz RFI from space	Yoshikawa/ Shibata
4:30	Adjourn
5:30	gathering at the Hawaiian Hilton: Rainbow I; COMPLIMENTS OF ROY

Thursday, 15 September 2005
Workshop Format!
8:30	Calibration discussion: is it 'done', is ADEOS AMSR calibration the same?
Geolocation
	RSS fix	Wentz
	JAXA fix	Takeshima
Masks	land, sea ice, uniform across the program?
Quality flags	at all levels of data and all algorithms; how can we keep track of them
11:30	Lunch
12:30	Proposal	Lobl
	Future meeting; where 1/year

AMSR-E Project Documents

AMSR-E SIPS Documents

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