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-Madison

Subcommittees:

Annual Meeting Organization:

AGU Annual Meeting sub-committee coordinates Annual 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: 

Students and Early Career Scientists (ECSprecip):

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:

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Members:

• Veljko Petkovic (Chair), University of Maryland
• Rick Schulte (Deputy Chair), Colorado State University
• Andrew Newman, NSF NCAR
• Devashish Prakash Singh, IIT Hyderabad
• Diego Cerrai, University of Connecticut
• Holly Mallinson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Lisa Milani, ESSIC University of Maryland - NASA GSFC
• Omid Zandi, The University of Arizona
• Sarah Ringerud, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Vesta Afzali Gorooh, UCSD
• Yagmur Derin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Zhe Li, Colorado State University

Members:

• Yoonjin Lee (Chair), Seoul National University
• Malarvizhi Arulraj (Deputy Chair), University of Maryland
• Aaron Alexander, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Abhigyan Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
• Corey Amiot, NASA Postdoctoral Program, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
• Daniel Watters, NASA Postdoctoral Program, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
• Devashish Prakash Singh, IIT Hyderabad
• Fraser King, University of Michigan
• Holly Mallinson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Ishrat Dollan, Stony Brook University
• Kaidi Peng, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Lihui Ji, UIUC
• Linda Bogerd, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands
• Lisa Milani, ESSIC University of Maryland - NASA GSFC
• Mobin Rahimi-Golkhandan, Drexel University
• Mochi Liao, UIUC
• Nana Liu, University of Oklahoma
• Pallavi Goswami, Monash University, Australia
• Shruti Upadhyaya, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
• Stergios Emmanouil, University of Connecticut
• Xinyue Liu, National University of Singapore
• Vasco Mantas, University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Vesta Afzali Gorooh, UCSD
• Yagmur Derin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Yan Xie, University of Michigan
• Yashraj Upase, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India

Members:

• Jackson Tan (Chair), University of Maryland Baltimore County / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Ishrat Dollan (Deputy Chair), Stony Brook University
• Brenda Dolan, Colorado State University
• Devashish Prakash Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
• Lisa Milani, ESSIC University of Maryland - NASA GSFC
• Malarvizhi Arulraj, University of Maryland
• Mobin Rahimi Golkhandan, Drexel University
• Nana Liu, University of Oklahoma
• Omid Zandi, University of Arizona
• Pallavi Goswami, Monash University
• Shruti, Upadhyaya, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
• Stergios Emmanouil, University of Connecticut
• Xinyue Liu, National University of Singapore
• Vesta Afzali Gorooh, UCSD
• Yagmur Derin, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Contacts:

aguprecip@gmail.com

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