CNES-ISRO Second Science Workshop on
Megha-Tropiques held in Paris during July, 2001
This scientific workshop/ meeting was held
in Paris, CNES, during 2-6 July 2001. The purpose, in its first part, was to
address the scientific issues of Megha-Tropiques, then, in the second part, to
begin the review of processing methods and algorithmes which could be applied on
the data. The programme of the meeting is given below :
Session-I
: Presentation of the Megha-Tropiques Mission
(Chairman
R. Narasimha)
D. Borel (CNES representative) : Welcome and Introduction
M.S. Narayanan : Introduction, presentation of the Indian delegation
M. Desbois : Summary of Megha-Tropiques 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
(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
U.C. Mohanty : Intra-seasonal variability of the summer monsoon over
India
R. Roca : Multi-satellite observations of relevant climate parameters
during the INDOEX
experiment
Kusuma Rao : METEOSAT observations of the modulation of the Indian summer
monsoon over intraseasonal scales.
J.-Ph Duvel : Scale Interaction between Mesoscale Convective Systems and
Intraseasonal Oscillations over the Indian Ocean Region
B. 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
Session-3
: 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
Session-4
: 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.
P.K.
Pal, N Agarwal and C M 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.
Round table on precipitation retrieval (including discussion on 157 GHz)
. Panel :
R. Narasimha, J. Srinivasan, L. Eymard, M. Desbois, M.S. Narayanan, R.
Gairola, I. Jobard, N. Viltard, P. Bauer.
Session-5
: 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
Session-6
: 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
LIST
OF PARTICIPANTS
J.
Srinivasan (CAOS, IISc, Bangalore) : jayes@caos.iisc.ernet.in
R.
Narasimha (CAOS, IISc, Bangalore) : roddam@cas.iisc.ernet.in
G.
Raju (SAC, ISRO, Ahmadabad) : raju_garudachar@hotmail.com
M.S.
Narayanan (SAC, ISRO, Ahmedabad) : soumya15@hotmail.com
B.S.
Gohil (SAC, ISRO, Ahmadabad) : bsgohil@yahoo.com
P.K.
Pal (SAC, ISRO, Ahmadabad) : pkpal25@hotmail.com
R.
Gairola (SAC, ISRO, Ahmadabad) + CETP: rgairola@hotmail.com , rakesh.gairola@cetp.ipsl.fr
K.
Rao (CAOS, IISc, Bangalore) + LMD : kusuma_rao@yahoo.com, rao@merlin.polytechnique.fr
N.C.
Mohanty (IIT, Delhi) : mohanty@cas.iitd.ernet.in
B.
K. Mitra (NCMRWF, Delhi) : akm@ncmrwf.gov.in
R.C.
Bhatia (IMD, Delhi) : rcbhatia@imd.ernet.in
Jacob
Ninan (ISRO HQ, Bangalore)
L.
Eymard, CETP : Laurence.EYMARD@cetp.ipsl.fr
M.
Desbois, LMD : desbois@lmd.polytechnique.fr
I.
Jobard, LMD : jobard@lmd.polytechnique.fr
N.
Karouche, CNES : Nadia.Karouche@cnes.fr
P.
Batista, ESA : pedro@xe.estec.esa.nl
R.
Sadourny, LMD : Sadourny@lmd.ens.fr
J.-L.
Redelsperger, CNRM : Jean-Luc.REDELSPERGER@meteo.fr
R.
Roca, LMD : Roca@lmd.polytechnique.fr
J.-Ph.
Duvel, LMD : duvel@lmd.ens.fr
K. Laval, LMD : Laval@lmd.ens.fr
F.
Roux, LA : rouf@aero.obs-mip.fr
F.
Sirou, LMD : sirou@lmd.polytechnique;fr
M.
Capderou,LMD : capderou@lmd.polytechnique.fr
N.
Viltard, CETP : nicolas.viltard@cetp.ipsl.fr
P.
Bauer, ECMWF : peter.bauer@ecmwf.int
M.
Viollier, LMD : michel.viollier@lmd.polytechnique.fr
S.
Franquet, LMD : Franquet@lmd.polytechnique.fr
E.
Obligis, CLS : Estelle.Obligis@cls.fr
Michèle
Vesperini
Geneviève
Sèze
Patrick
Raberanto
Hélène
Brogniez
Françoise
Desalmand
Taï
Feng Yang
Olivier
Talagrand
Serge
Janicot
Benjamin
Sultan
Laurence
Picon
André
Szantai
JSC
(CNES)
Nicole
Papineau
Vincent
Cassé
Denis
Borel
Serge
Platard
Jean-Pierre
Midan
Alain
De Leffe
A list of few extended abstracts received so far can be viewed as pdf files at http://www.isro.org under space science section. A full compilation of the long abstracts of papers presented during the workshop is planned to be brought out by CNES.