About Us

Precipitation challenges knowledge because of its variability at all scales and its evolving interactions with the water, energy, and carbon cycles under a changing climate. It is a key hydrologic flux driving the atmospheric and surface storage, movement, and quality of water. Precipitation not only is the primary source of freshwater, it is also a major driver of natural hazards, and a major component of uncertainty in weather predictions and climate projections.

The AGU Precipitation Technical Committee gathers expertise in hydrology, atmospheric sciences, remote sensing and mathematics to address critical gaps in our knowledge of precipitation:

1. Process changes at convective and orographic scales,
   
   
2. Consistent observations for accurate estimation and prediction on a global scale at sufficiently high spatial and temporal resolution,
   
   
3. Snowfall, and
   
   
4. Closure of the water balance from headwater catchments to continental-scale river basins.
   
   

Key science questions addressed by sessions proposed for the upcoming Fall meeting are:

• How do precipitation processes and regimes interact with the Earth’s water storages from local to global scales?
  
  
• How well do current observations and model predictions capture precipitation variability to meet application needs and effectively monitor the water cycle in remote regions?
  
  
• How do local and regional societies and ecosystems respond to precipitation variability?

Who we are

Leadership:

Lisa Milani (Chair)
University of Maryland / NASA GSFC

Yagmur Derin (Deputy Chair)
University of Wisconsin

Subcommittees:

Fall Meeting Organization:

AGU Fall Meeting sub-committee coordinates Fall Meeting precipitation-related session proposals, mergers, advertisement, and scheduling with Hydrology Section. The overall goal is to ensuring no gaps in relevant topics and science exist in the program, while promoting precipitation field research at the annual meeting. The subcommittee activities include:

Volunteering time:

Members:

• Veljko Petkovic (Chair), University of Maryland
• Rick Schulte (Deputy Chair), Colorado State University
• Vesta Afzali Gorooh, UCSD
• Diego Cerrai, University of Connecticut
• Brenda Dolan, Colorado State University
• Benjamin Goffin, University of Virginia
• Pallavi Goswami, Monash University, Australia
• Samantha Hartke, NSF NCAR (RAL)
• Zhe Li, Colorado State University
• Elinor Martin, University of Oklahoma
• Andrew Newman, NSF NCAR
• Mobin Rahimi-Golkhandan, Drexel University
• Sarah Ringerud, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Devashish Prakash Singh, IIT Hyderabad
• Sarah Stough, OU/NSSL Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations
• Yinphan Tsan, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
• Shruti  Upadhyaya, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India / University of Oklahoma
• Omid Zandi, The University of Arizona

Students and Early Career Scientists (ECSprecip):

Volunteering time:

Members:

• Yoonjin Lee (Chair), CIRA, Colorado State University
• Malarvizhi Arulraj (Deputy Chair), University of Maryland
• Aaron Alexander, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Corey Amiot, NASA Postdoctoral Program, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
• Linda Bogerd, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands
• Noah Brauer, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, NOAA/NWS Weather Prediction Center
• Abhigyan Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
• Ishrat Dollan, Stony Brook University
• Brian Filipiak, University of Connecticut
• Pallavi Goswami, Monash University, Australia
• Samantha Hartke, NSF NCAR (RAL)
• Lindsey Hayden, UCAR / JCSDA
• Lihui Ji, UIUC
• Fraser King, University of Michigan
• Mochi Liao, UIUC
• Xinyue Liu, National University of Singapore
• Vasco Mantas, University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Aimee Matland-Dixon, University of Oklahoma
• Kaidi Peng, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Mobin Rahimi-Golkhandan, Drexel University
• Devashish Prakash Singh, IIT Hyderabad
• Shruti  Upadhyaya, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India / University of Oklahoma
• Yashraj Upase, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
• Daniel Watters, NASA Postdoctoral Program, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
• Yan Xie, University of Michigan
• Omid Zandi, The University of Arizona

Award Nominations:

The overall aim of the Awards subcommittee is to increase the recognition of the accomplishments of researchers in the field of precipitation through AGU honors and awards. The subcommittee achieves this aim through several goals:
1) Provide resources to potential nominators (e.g., identifying relevant awards, required documents, and key deadlines).
2) Offer assistance to potential nominators (e.g., review the nomination package).
3) Submit a nomination package to a worthy researcher.
4) Advocate for improving the award nomination process.

Volunteering time:

Members:

• Jackson Tan (Chair), University of Maryland Baltimore County / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Ishrat Dollan (Deputy Chair), Stony Brook University
• Vesta Afzali Gorooh, UCSD
• Malarvizhi Arulraj, University of Maryland
• Haonan Chen, Colorado State University / NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory
• Brenda Dolan, Colorado State University
• Mochi Liao, UIUC
• Xinyue Liu, National University of Singapore
• Andrew Newman, NSF NCAR
• Yinphan Tsan, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi