Science Team

Team Leader

Team Member   (Principal Investigators of the GCOM third research announcement)

Principal Investigator	Research Organization	Research theme
Aonashi, Kazumasa	Meteorological Research Institute	Improvement of passive microwave precipitation retrieval algorithm for AMSR2
Chang, Paul	NOAA NESDIS	Comprehensive multi-sensor database for validation and algorithm development of AMSR-2 ocean products in extreme environmental conditions
Cho, Kohei	Tokai University	Improving sea ice concentration algorithm for AMSR-2
Comiso, Josefino C.	NASA GSFC	Refinements for the Bootstrap AMSR2 sea ice concentration algorithm
Ebuchi, Naoto	Hokkaido University	Evaluation of marine surface wind observed by AMSR2 on GCOM-W1
Enomoto, Hiroyuki	National Institute of Polar Research	Polar ice sheets monitoring related global environmental change using GCOM-W AMSR2
Gentemann, Chelle L.	Remote Sensing Systems	Geophysical retrievals from GCOM-W AMSR2
Heygster, Georg	University of Bremen	High resolving sea ice concentration, geolocation and thickness of thin sea ice
Oyama, Ryo	Meteorological Research Institute	Development of the method to estimate maximum wind speed of tropical cyclones using GCOM/AMSR2 data
Jackson, Thomas J.	USDA ARS	Soil moisture validation in the U.S. and a land surface temperature product
Kaihotsu, Ichirow	Hiroshima University	Asia AMSR-E/AMSR2 validation experiment
Kazumori, Masahiro	Japan Meteorological Agency	Development of retrieval algorithm of total water vapor content and total liquid water content for GCOM-W1 AMSR2
Kelly, Richard	University of Waterloo	Research development and maintenance of the GCOM-W snow depth and snow water equivalent product
Kim, Edward J.	NASA GSFC	Validation of AMSR2 soil moisture and snow data products using co-located GPS and in situ observations
Koike, Toshio	The University of Tokyo	Development of Soil Moisture and Snow Algorithms for AMSR2 and AMSR-E based LDAS products
Konda, Masanori	Kyoto University	Validation of the modulation of the ocean wind derived by AMSR2 caused by swell waves
Kouzai, Katsutoshi	Kobe University	Investigation on evaluation method for offshore wind energy resources using AMSR2-derived wind speed and SST products
Kubota, Masahisa	Tokai University	Evaluation and utilization of GCOM-W1 standard products
Lakshmi, Venkat	University of South Carolina	Improvement of spatial resolution and validation of GCOM-W soil moisture
Liu, Guosheng	Florida State University	Detecting and retrieving solid precipitation using AMSR2
Liu, W. Timothy	JPL CalTech	Ocean's role in global water and energy cycles
Markus, Thorsten	NASA GSFC	Refinement and adjustment of NASA Team 2 sea ice concentration retrievals for AMSR2
Matsushima, Dai	Chiba Institute of Technology	A development of soil moisture products of AMSR2 with higher spatial resolution using combined satellite data and a surface heat budget model
Meier, Walter N.	NSIDC	Continuity and enhancement of NSIDC cryospheric products using GCOM-W AMSR2 data
Mitnik, Leonid M.	V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute	Water vapor, cloud liquid water and wind speed retrieval algorithms for GCOM-W1 AMSR2
Ohshima, Kay I.	Hokkaido University	Development of algorithm for thin ice thickness and detection of fast ice based on direct sea ice observations
Paloscia, Simonetta	IFAC-CNR	Algorithms for global monitoring the Earth's surface parameters of the hydrological cycle
Shibata, Akira	Meteorological Research Institute	Algorithm developments of SST and SSW for AMSR-E and AMSR-2
Spencer, Roy W.	The University of Alabama in Huntsville	Radiative forcing versus feedback over the oceans using AMSR2
Suzuki, Kazuyoshi	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology	A study on ensemble snow data assimilation in north-east Eurasian region
Takamura, Tamio	Chiba University	Ground-based validation of cloud parameters for GCOM-W
Tomita, Hiroyuki	Nagoya University	Validation of GCOM-W product using in-situ observation data over the ocean
Walker, Jeffrey	Monash University	Towards global water and energy balance monitoring using GCOM-W1 in the Australian Murray Darling Basin