Joint AMSR Science Team Meeting
14-16 August 2007
Missoula, MT

All presentations are in PDF.

Tuesday 14 August
8:30	Welcome and Introduction	Spencer & Shibata
8:40	Instrument status	Takeshima
9:10	Activities at the TLSCF	Conway
9:40	SIPS status	Conover
10:10	Generation of a L2A Product for Midori-2 AMSR	Wentz
10:40	AMSR-E status at NSIDC	Weaver
11:10	JAXA Project status	Sasaki
11:40	JAXA Processing/archive/distribution	Takezawa
12:10	Lunch
1:30	Science updates
	A-train Satellites	A. Kelly
	A-train discussion
	Clouds, Aerosols and Precipitation	Kummerow
	Cloud microphysical changes associated with Tropospheric warming	Spencer
	CLASIC Field Experiment Plans	Jackson
	Support of Multi-Sensor Data Analysis through Web Services	Khalsa

Wednesday 15 August
8:00	Science Papers:
Rainfall
	Use of the TRMM Precipitation Radar for Understanding of Uncertainties in AMSR-E Rainfall Retrievals	Wilheit
	Planned Rainfall Algorithm Updates	Kummerow
	Validation of Mid- and High-Latitude Ocean Precipitation Retrievals from AMSR-E	Petty
Ocean
	Removal of 6GHz satellite-RFI in AMSR-E SST algorithm	Shibata
	An accuracy of wind speed retrieval algorithm from AMSR-E 6 & 10 GHz data	Saitoh
	Balancing the Hydrological Cycle on Decadal Time Scales	Wentz
	AMSR-E Ocean Products in Action Merged Microwave Water Vapor Movie (avi) Sea Surface Temperature (Pacific/tropical) (mov) Sea Surface Temperature (Gulf of Mexico) (avi)	Brewer
Land
	Analysis of land surface moisture trends in multiyear AMSR-E data	Chan
	Northern carbon cycle science activities using AMSR-E	Kimball
	An adaptive ensemble Kalman filter for AMSR-E soil moisture data assimilation	Reichle
	Validation of NASA and JAXA Soil Moisture Products	Jackson
	Current status of ground-based observation and AMSR-E soil moisture measurement validation in Mongolia	Kaihotsu
Snow
	AMSR-E SWE products: status	R. Kelly
Data Assimilation
	A step toward operational use of AMSR-E horizontal polarized radiance in JMA global data assimilation system	Kazumori
Instrument
	JAXA Geolocation Update	Yamanashi/Taniguchi

Thursday 16 August
8:30	Discussion
	What should be done when the instrument stops working
	Ramifications for a lower rotation speed: geolocation
	GCOM-W: estimated launch date, 6&10 GHz channels, hot load…	Imaoka
	Will there be another Joint AMSR meeting in Japan?
	Will the US AMSR Science Team be part of the GCOM-W Science Team?
	AMSR session at Micro-rad in Florence, Italy, March 2008
Short answers to the above questions What should be done when the instrument stops working (especially about alg. updates) The algorithms will be updated in about a year to 18 months from now. Any further updates will be discussed at that time. Ramifications for a lower rotation speed: geolocation, … Not an option for AMSR-E. Will there be another Joint AMSR meeting in Japan? Yes. See Sasaki-san’s presentation on Tuesday, August 14. Will the US AMSR Science Team be part of the GCOM-W Science Team? JAXA as well as the members of the US Science Team would like the AMSR-E Science Team to be part of the GCOM Science Team. A letter will go to Ramesh Kakar expressing our and JAXA’s wishes. AMSR session at Micro-rad in Florence, Italy, March 2008. Please let Elena Lobl (Elena.lobl@nasa.gov )know if you are interested in presenting at the Micro-rad Specialist meeting in Florence, Italy. Next meeting in the US: Huntsville, AL, June 2008. TBD (maybe Telluride?)