Dear Land Surface Working Group members

A reminder that the next Precipitation Measuring Missions PMM land surface working group telecall will take place on
Friday March 7 at 10 AM Eastern, for one hour maximum.   Call-in numbers are below.   Agenda is as follows: 


Update on GPM core observatory launch and spacecraft status- Gail Skofronick-Jackson, Project Scientist  (5 mins)

Update of Land Group webpage (currently out of date)- Joe Turk, Ralph Ferraro, Yudong Tian (5 mins)

Yudong Tian, Sarah Ringerud, Ken Harrison, others -  discussions on ways ahead for physical land surface modeling needed
for GPM precipitation retrieval efforts  (10 mins)

Amir AghaKouchak - scientific presentation on drought modeling and use of remote sensing data
Hamidreza Norouzi- land surface emissivity modeling
(each 15-min type presentation on current research topics, PDF materials to be emailed out before the date)   (30 mins total)


Date/Time: March 7, 2014  10AM Eastern
Dial in from your phone or video endpoint:
Meeting ID: 5794
MeetingPlace Phone Number  818-354-3434
Toll Free Number 1-866-328-8761

We will have the next telecall some time in April date TBD.  The future topics will get back to land surface modeling efforts,
so keep in mind any future topics that any of you would like to present or open up for discussion.


See you this Friday-


Joe Turk
Christa Peters-Lidard
Co-Chairs, Land Surface Working Group