Day 1 (March 4, 2008):

  8:30 Registration (continued from previous day)
  9:30 Programmatic Overview (Session Chair: Carlos Angelis)
  9:30 Welcome: Mussi/Kakar

Meeting logistics: (Arai/Hwang)

  9:45 Workshop Objectives: (Angelis/Hou)
  10:00 NASA Program Status (Ramesh Kakar)
  10:20 JAXA Program Status (Kenji Nakamura)
  10:40 AEB-INPE Program Status (Mussi/Chamon)

  11:00 Break

  11:20 GPM GV Status and Activities in the U.S (Session Chair: Beth Ebert)
  11:20 Framework for GPM GV Science and Implementation: (Session: Chair: Arthur Hou/NASA)
  11:40 Report on U.S. GPM GV Science activities (Walt Petersen/U. Alabama-Huntsville)
  11:55 Report on U.S. GPM GV System Development (Mathew Schwaller / NASA)
  12:10 Linking NOAA HMT & operational hydrological applications in the U.S. with GPM GV (Tim Schneider/NOAA)

 12:30 Lunch

  14:00 GPM GV Activities in Japan (Session Chair: Kenji Nakamura)
  14:00 Japan's main GV site of Okinawa (S. Shimzu/JAXA)
  14:20 DPR hardware calibration (K. Nakagawa/NICT)

  14:40 Joint Research Plans - I(Session Chair: Walt Petersen)
  14:40 Finland (Heikki Pohjola/FMI)
  15:00 Canada (David Hudak/EC)
  15:20 France (Remy Roca/LMD)

  15:40 Break

  16:10 Joint Research Plans - II (Session Chair: Heikiki Pohjola)
  16:10 Brazil (Luiz Machado/INPE)
  16:40 Australia (Beth Ebert/BMRC)
  17:00 UK (Chris Kidd/U. Birmmingham)
  17:20 Germany (Alessandro Battaglia/U. Bonn, TBC)

  17:40 Adjourn for the Day

  18:30 Reception / Ice Breaker

 8:30 Joint Research Opportunities - I (Session Chair: Remy Roca)
 8:30 Italy ( Luca Baldini /ISAC)
  8:50 Netherlands (Iwan Holleman/OPERA)
  9:10 Spain (Francisco Tapiador/U. Castilla-La Mancha)
  9:30 Catalunya in GPM GV (X. Llort/ GRAHI, D. Sempere-Torres/GRAHI, D. Velasco/GRAHI, S. Paricio/METEOCAT, J.J. Pastor/ACA)
  9:50 German GV activities (Ruetger Rollenbeck/U. Marbug)
  10:10 German National Network (Martin Hagen/German Weather Services)

  10:30 Break

  11:00 Joint Research Opportunities - II (Session Chair: Dave Hudak)
 11:00 Iberoamericana Network for Monitoring and Forecast of Hydrometeorological
 11:20 Ground validation network over complex terrain and coastal environments in Eastern Mediterranean (Emmanouil Anagnostou/Hellenic Center and U. Connecticut)
  11:40 Cyprus (Silas Michaelides/Cyprus Met Service)

  12:00 Lunch

  13:30 Joint Research Opportunities III (Session Chair: Christa Peters - Lidard)
  13:30 Proposed Megh - Tropiques related validation plan (Baby Simon/ISRO)
  13:50 Terrain-influenced Monson Rainfall in the Taiwan area: An Introduction to SoWMEX/TiMREX ( Ben Jou & Ming-Dah Chou/National Taiwan University)
  14:10 Korea (Mi-Lim Ou/NIMR/KMA)
  14:30 Israel (Eyal Amitai/George-Mason U.)
  14:50 Integrated Hydrological validation (Baldemar Mendez Antonio/Universidad Nacional Autonoma México)

  15:10 Break

  15:30 Discussion Session: Building an integrated framework for international GPM GV activities and future opportunities (Session Chair: Arthur Hou)

This open session aims to refine the key elements for integrating international GV activities into a common scientific and operational framework to contribute effectively to the GPM Mission and to meet the needs of the participating nations, and also to identify future field campaign and programmatic opportunities in each of the following areas:

1- National-network validation

2- Physical process validation

3- Integrated hydrological/model validation

 17:00 Adjourn for the day

  9:00 Plenary Session (Co-Chairs: Artur Hou and Carlos Angelis)
  9:00 Summary of Joint Research Plans
  9:20 Summary of Joint Research Opportunities
  9:40 Summary of Discussion
  10:10 Break
  10:40 Discussion: Next Steps and Action Items (Co-Chairs: Arthur Hou and Carlos Angelis)

Joint proposal preparation and procedures, identification of programmatic needs of potential partners, and preparation of a workshop report.

  11:45 Closing Remarks (Raimundo Mussi/Ramesh Kakar)
  12:00 End of Conference