| Day 1 (25th Sep 2008) |
| Registration |
| 08:30 – 09:00 |
Registration |
| Opening Remarks |
| 09:00 – 09:15 |
Opening Ceremony |
| 09:15 – 09:30 |
Group Photo Taking |
| 09:30 – 10:00 |
Introduction: Energy and Water Cycle in the Context of Global Change
Dr. Long S. CHIU
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| 10:00 – 10:30 |
Keynote Speech: Dr. William B. ROSSOW
Diagnosing Variations in Global Energy/Water Exchanges from Satellite Observations
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| 10:30 – 10:45 |
Coffee Break |
| Session 1A: Remote Sensing of Energy and Water Cycle |
| 10:45 – 12:35 |
Invited Lecture: (16) Remote Sensing of Rainfall - Remaining Challenges
Christian D. KUMMEROW
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(2) The SSFM Dataset for Radiation Climatology
Wenbo SUN
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(18) The Goddard Satellite-based Surface Turbulent Fluxes (GSSTF) Dataset: Review and Prospects
Chung-lin SHIE, Long S. CHIU, Robert ADLER, Pingping XIE, I-I LIN, Eric NELKIN, Feng-Chin WANG, Roongroj CHOKNGAMWONG
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(7) Passive Microwave Rainfall Estimations: Considering Rainfall Variability at Different Spatial Resolutions
Dong-Bin SHIN
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(29) A Gauge-Satellite Merged Analysis of Daily Precipitation over China
Pingping XIE, Jian-Yin LIANG, Anyuan XIONG, Yan SHEN, Mingyue CHEN, Robert J. JOYCE, John E. JANOWIAK, Phillip A. ARKIN
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| 12:35 – 14:00 |
Lunch (Location: Chung Chi College Staff Club) |
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Session 2: Aerosol Impact on Local and Regional Climate
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| 14:00 – 15:50 |
Invited Lecture: (26) GAMIL-LIAM: An Atmosphere-Aerosol Model in China
Bin WANG
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(3) Influence of Asian Dust over the Eastern Pacific Ocean and North America
Baike XI
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(6) The Impact of Aerosols on Tropical Rainfall Characteristics
Tsoen Hei HAR, Long S. CHIU
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(9) Study of Component Aerosol Direct Radiative Effect over East Asia
Xuepeng Tom ZHAO
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(30) Retrieval of Aerosol Optical Thickness using MODIS 500 x 500m2, a study in Hong Kong and Pearl River Delta region
Man Sing WONG, Janet NICHOL, Kwon Ho LEE
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| 15:50 – 16:10 |
Coffee Break |
| Session 1B: Remote Sensing of Energy and Water Cycle |
| 16:10 – 17:50 |
(4) Studying the Role of Water and Energy Cycle in Extreme Events Using An Integrative Analysis
Xiquan DONG
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(25) Development of the Microwave calibrated Infrared Split-window Technique (MIST) for rainfall estimation
Roongroj CHOKNGAMWONG, Long S. CHIU
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(15) Spatial and Temporal Analysis between Rain Gauge Data and TRMM Rainfall Retrievals
Wing Fung James WONG, Long S. CHIU
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(28) Verifying High-Resolution Satellite Precipitation Products over China
Yan SHEN, Anyuan XIONG, Pingping XIE
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(32) Snow Water Equivalent Estimation from Spaceborne Ku-band Scatterometer in Northeast China
Kaishan SONG, Yuanzhi ZHANG, Su YAN, Yufei WANG, Hongyan XI
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| 18:00 |
Welcome Dinner (Location : Star Seafood Floating Restaurant, 22-27 Tai Chung Kiu Road, Shatin, HK) |
| Day 2 (26th Sep 2008) |
| Session 3A: Global and Regional Climate Changes |
| 09:00 – 10:30 |
Invited Lecture: (19) Relationships between Global Precipitation and Surface Temperature on Inter-annual and Longer Time Scales During 1979-2006
Robert F. ADLER
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(1) Long-term Trends and Short-term Oscillations
Weihong QIAN
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(10) Comparison of Hydrological Impacts of Climate Changes Simulated by Six Hydrological Models in the Dongjiang Basin, South China
Yongqin David CHEN
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(12) Area Change of Lake Area in the Latest 20 Years in West China Based on Remote Sensing Data
Ruixia LIU
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| 10:30 – 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| Session 3B: Global and Regional Climate Changes |
| 11:00 – 12:20 |
(13) Construction of A Global Map of The Philippines: Assessment of Renewable Energy Resources to Mitigate and Adapt Global Climate Change
Carlos PASCUAL
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(20) An Enhancement of Seasonal Precipitation Range Under Global Warming
Chia CHOU
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(24) The variation and Distribution of Snow Cover in China
Yujie LIU
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| 12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch (Location: Chung Chi College Staff Club) |
| Session 4: ENSO, monsoon and typhoon |
| 14:00 – 15:50 |
Invited Lecture: (27) Global Warming and Typhoon Activity
Johnny C. L. CHAN
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(23) Winter-to-Spring Transition in East Asia - A Planetary-scale Perspective of the South China Spring Rain Onset
Ho LIN
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(21) Relationships Between Summer Convection and Large-scale Circulation During the Sub-Seasonal Change around the Philippine Sea
Wen-shung KAU
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(5) Surface Latent Heat Flux and Sea Surface Temperature Associated with Rapidly Intensifying Typhoons
Si GAO, Long S. CHIU
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(33) Estimating the water vapor transport pathways and associated remote sources of water vapor forming extreme rainfall: a case study over east of China in July 2007
Bin CHEN, Jin Yeu TSOU, Xiangde XU |
| 15:50 – 16:20 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:20 – 17:00 |
Panel Discussions |
