Workshop 1 (December 11, 2008):

Output and results


IGCP 565 Project Workshops

IGCP 565 Workshop 1: Science of geodetic monitoring of the hydrological cycle


Workshop Program:
08:30 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 10:40 Session 1, Chair: Hans-Peter Plag
09:00 - 09:10 Hans-Peter Plag Opening and Welcome
09:10 - 09:40 Norman Miller: California Drought Scenario Modeling and Uncertainties (abstract, presentation)
09:40 - 10:10 Richard Lawford: The Integrated Global Water Cycle Observations (IGWCO) Theme: Past, Present and Future (abstract, presentation)
10:10 - 10:40 Markus Rothacher: GRACE Status and Results (presentation)
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 - 12:30 Session 2, Chair: Richard Gross
11:40 - 12:10 Xiaoping Wu: Inversions of Geodetic Observations: Current Spatial and Temporal Resolution (abstract, presentation)
11:10 - 11:40 Richard Lawford: Overview of the Global Energy and Water Experiment (GEWEX) (abstract, presentation)
12:10 - 12:30 Initial discussion
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:30 Session 3, Chair: Norman Miller
13:30 - 14:00 Matt Rodell, Ben Zaitchik, Bailing Li, and Rolf Reichle: Integrating Geodetic Observations into Hydrological Models (abstract, presentation)
14:00 - 14:30 Jakob Flury: Future gravity satellite missions: the lessons learnt from current data processing (abstract, presentation)
14:30 - 14:45 S. Petrovic, R. Schmidt, S. Werth, A. Güntner, F. Barthelmes, J. Kusche, J. Wünsch, M. Rothacher: Periodic Components of Water Storage Changes from GRACE and Global Hydrology Models(presentation)
14:45 - 15:00 Richard Gross, Geoffrey Blewitt, Hans-Peter Plag: Surface Mass Loads from GRACE, GPS, and Earth Rotation (abstract, presentation)
15:00 - 15:15 Hans-Peter Plag: Improving spatial and temporal resolution through combined geodetic observations (abstract, presentation)
15:15 - 15:30 Chris Hartnady, Richard Wonnacott, Eric Calais, and Andiswa Mlisa: GPS Application for Groundwater Resource Assessment, Hermanus, South Africa (Abstract, presentation)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 18:00 Session 4, Chair: Markus Rothacher
16:00 - 17:00 Discussion (Chaired by Susanna Zerbini and James Park): The key uncertainties, and the potential contributions of GGOS to narrowing down these uncertainties
17:00 - 18:00 Summing up: Discussion of the summary presentation to be given at the GRACE Science Team meeting.

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