Proceedings of the conference

Second MEGHA-TROPIQUES Scientific Workshop
Paris July 2-6, 2001

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D. Borel (CNES representative)	Welcome and Introduction
M.S. Narayanan	Introduction,  presentation of the Indian delegation
M. Desbois	General objectives and principles, presentation of the French delegation
G. Raju	The organisation of the project in India/ISRO
N. Karouche	The organisation of the project in France/CNES
P. Batista	The view of ESA on GPM and Megha-Tropiques

2nd Session : Scientific problems and objectives
Chairwoman  L. Eymard
 
 

R. Sadourny	Issues on tropical systems and climate
J. Srinivasan	Energy and moisture budgets of the tropical convective systems
J.-L. Redelsperger	Actual issues in mesoscale tropical convective systems understanding : the experience of  experimental campaigns  and mesoscale  modelling
R. Narasimha	New scaling arguments for low-wind eddy fluxes
N.C. Mohanty	Intraseasonal variability of the summer monsoon over India (Soon Available)
R. Roca	High resolution observations of free tropospheric humidity from METEOSAT over the Indian Ocean
Kusuma Rao	METEOSAT observations of the modulation of the Indian summer monsoon over intraseasonal scales (Soon Available)
J.-Ph Duvel	Scale Interaction between Mesoscale Convective Systems and Intraseasonal Oscillations over the Indian Ocean Region
A. K. Mitra  and  S. Das	Representation of Deep Moist Convection In NCMRWF  Global T80 Analysis / Forecast System:  Results From Different  Experiments
K. Laval	Simulation of Monsoon disturbances in LMD GCM
F. Roux	Tropical cyclone issues and other climatic risks in tropical area

3rd Session : Presentation of the Megha-Tropiques instruments
Chairman M.S. Narayanan
 

G. Raju  / C. Goldstein	the Madras instrument on Megha Tropiques
M. Gheudin / L. Eymard	the Saphir instrument on Megha Tropiques
F. Sirou / M. Viollier	the ScaRaB instrument on Megha Tropiques
M. Capderou	the specificity of the Megha-Tropiques orbit

 

4 th Session : Algorithms and data processing : precipitation
Chairman M. Desbois
 

N. Viltard	the experience of precipitation retrieval from TRMM
R. Gairola	rainfall and other parameters from TMI/TRMM
I. Jobard	Status of satellite retrieval of rainfall at different scales using multi-source data
PK Pal, N Agarwal and CM Kishtawal	Vertical structure of rainfall from TRMM-PR data for assimilation in GCM
Peter Bauer and Virginie Marécal	Assimilation of rainfall from TRMM in the ECMWF model

5th Session : Algorithms and data processing : surface properties and fluxes
Chairman  J. Srinivasan
 

M.S. Narayanan	Marine Observations from Indian Oceansat-1 and Stratification over the Arabian Sea
D. Bourras / L. Eymard	retrieval of sea surface heat fluxes from microwave measurements
M. Viollier	restitution of Longwave and Shortwave radiative fluxes from combinations of ScaRaB and Meteosat data

 

6th Session : Algorithms and data processing : water vapour and multiparameter retrieval
Chairman  J. Srinivasan
 

R.C. Bhatia	Validation of water vapour and wind speed products dérive from MSMR payload onboard IRS_P4 Satellite and meteorological applications of data products
S. Franquet, N. Scott	Simulations of radiative transfer in the Saphir channels in the perspective of WV profiles retrievals
B.S. Gohil	Simulation studies for humidity profile retrieval from SAPHIR
E. Obligis	Mutiparameter retrieval from microwave data. Part 1 : data base and direct model
R. Gairola	Mutiparameter retrieval from microwave data. Part 2 : Inversion