Chairs: Dong In Lee, Katharina Lengfeld

Presentations
- Geoff Austin (Met service Singapore / Auckland University): The impact of high resolution initialization of NWP models on their ability to make short term quantitative precipitation estimates
- Olivier Caumont (Météo-France): Weather radar data assimilation for high-resolution quantitative precipitation forecasting at Météo-France: Status and plans
- Tobias Mosthaf (Universität Stuttgart): Stochastic gridded multi-site simulation of hourly rainfall
- Nawal Akrour (LATMOS, UVSQ): Generation of 2D rain maps with realistic properties: methodology and results.
- Sean Lovejoy (McGill University): Space-time weather and macroweather precipitation models