39th International Conference on Radar MeteorologyAMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

39th
International Conference on Radar Meteorology

Program

TIME SUN, SEP. 15 MON, SEP. 16 TUE, SEP. 17 WED, SEP. 18 THU, SEP. 19 FRI, SEP. 20 TIME
7:30-8:00 The Calling of the Deer
@Nara Park
The Calling of the Deer
@Nara Park
7:30-8:00
8:00-8:30 8:00-8:30
8:30-9:00 8:30-9:00
9:00-9:30 Opening Ceremony @NH Session 5A
Topic D @NH
Session 5B
Topic H @RH1
Session 9A
Topic E @NH
Session 9B
Topic I @RH1
Session 11A
Topic A @NH
Session 11B
Topic H @RH1
Session 15A
Topic B @NH
Session 15B
Topic H @RH1
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00 Session 1
Special Keynote @NH
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30 Short Courses @CR5, CR6, CR7, CR8, RC 10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break 10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30 Session 2A Topic B @NH Session 2B Topic G @RH1 Session 6A Topic C @NH Session 6B Topic F @RH1 Session 10A Topic F @NH Session 10B Topic H @RH1 Session 12A Topic B @NH Session 12B Topic I @RH1 Session 16A Topic C @NH Session 16B Topic G @RH1 11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00 11:30-12:00
12:00-12:30 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch 12:00-12:30
12:30-13:00 12:30-13:00
13:00-13:30 Excursion 13:00-13:30
13:30-14:00 Poster1 Topic A, Topic Dand Topic I @CR1-2 & CR3-4 Poster2 Topic B, Topic G and Topic H @CR1-2 & CR3-4 Poster3 Topic C, Topic E and Topic F @CR1-2 & CR3-4 Session 17A Topic E @NH Session 17B Topic I @RH1 13:30-14:00
14:00-14:30 14:00-14:30
14:30-15:00 14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30 Session 3A Topic A @NH Session 3B Topic I @RH1 Session 7A Topic E @NH Session 7B Topic I @RH1 Session 13A Topic C @NH Session 13B Topic F @CR5-6
-> @RH1
Closing Ceremony @NH 15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00 15:30-16:00
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break 16:00-16:30
16:30-17:00 Session 4A Topic E @NH Session 4B Topic F @RH1 Session 8A Topic A @NH Session 8B Topic G @RH1 Session 14A Topic D @NH Session 14B Topic G @CR5-6
-> @RH1
16:30-17:00
17:00-17:30 Ice Breaker @RH2 17:00-17:30
17:30-18:00 17:30-18:00
18:00-18:30 Welcome Reception @RH2 Banquet
@Garden (if rainy RH1)
18:00-18:30
18:30-19:00 18:30-19:00
19:00-19:30 19:00-19:30
19:30-20:00 19:30-20:00
TOPICS
A Spaceborne Radar and Its Observation
B Phased Array Radar Technology and Its Observation
C Wind Profiler, Cloud Radar, and NonHydrometeorological Radar
D New and Emerging Radar Technology
E Radar Networks, Quality Control, Processing and Software
F Quantitative Precipitation Estimation and Hydrology
G Microphysical Studies with Radars
H Organized Convection and Severe Phenomena
I Use of Radar Data for Nowcasting and Numerical Models

MONDAY, SEP. 16

[Session 1] 9:30-10:30 @NH
Special Keynotes

9:30 [Session 1-01] An Early History of Tropical Measuring Mission TRMM —The First Satellite Borne Precipitation Radar—

Nobuyoshi Fugono
Former Director General of the Communications Research Laboratory in Japan

10:00 [Session 1-02] Personal Recollections of Radar Meteorology and the AMS Conference

Roger M. Wakimoto
Former President of American Meteorological Society
University of California, Los Angeles

[Session 2A] 11:00-12:00 @NH
Phased Array Radar Technology and Its Observation

11:00 [Session 2A-01]
Development of Multi-Parameter Phased-Array Weather Radar (MP-PAWR)

*Masakazu Wada1, Fumihiko Mizutani1, Akiko Yamada1, Tomoo Ushio2, Hiroshi Hanado3, Katsuhiro Nakagawa3, Nobuhiro Takahashi4
1. Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation, 2. Tokyo Metropolitan University, 3. National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT), 4. Nagoya University

11:15 [Session 2A-02]
The Impact of a Wet Radome on Polarimetric Quality of Phased Array Weather Radars: Analysis and Calibration

*Jorge L Salazar-Cerreno1
1. Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC), The University of Oklahoma

11:30 [Session 2A-03]
Airborne Phased Array Radar (APAR): The Next Generation of Airborne Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar

*Wen-Chau Lee1, Louis Lussier1, Vanda Grubišić1
1. NCAR/EOL

11:45 [Session 2A-04]
Towards an Operational Demonstration of the First Full-Scale Polarimetric Phased-Array Radar

*Sebastian Torres1,2, Tom Buckman1,2, Christopher Curtis1,2, Eddie Forren1,2, Stephen Gregg1,2, Igor Ivic1,2, Rafael Mendoza2, David Schvartzman1,2, Christopher Schwarz1,2, Danny Wasielewski2, Allen Zahrai1,2
1. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, The University of Oklahoma, 2. National Severe Storms Laboratory, NOAA

[Session 2B] 11:00-12:00 @RH1
Microphysical Studies with Radars

11:00 [Session 2B-01]
How are the melting layer properties associated with snow microphysics? Insights from observations of multi-frequency radars and a dualpolarized radar

*Haoran Li1, Dmitri Moisseev1,2
1. Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, Finland., 2. Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland.

11:15 [Session 2B-02]
Melting Layer Ice Microphysical Processes in Winter Storms as Revealed by Quasi-Vertical Profiles of Polarimetric WSR-88D Radar Data

*Terry James Schuur1,2,3, Erica Griffin1,2,3, Alexander Ryzhkov1,2,3
1. University of Oklahoma/Cooperative Instituite for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, 2. NOAA/National Severe Stomrs Laboratory, 3. University of Oklahoma/School of Meteorology

11:30 [Session 2B-03]
Investigating snow aggregation close to the melting layer using novel ground-based triple-frequency observations

*Jose Dias Neto1, Stefan Kneifel1, Davide Ori1
1. University of Cologne

11:45 [Session 2B-04]
Estimation of Melting Layer Cooling Rate from Dual-Polarization Radar: Spectral Bin Model Simulations

*Jacob Carlin1,2, Alexander Ryzhkov1,2
1. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, 2. University of Oklahoma

[Poster1] 13:30-15:00 @CR1-2 & CR3-4
Spaceborne Radar and Its Observation

13:30 [Poster1-01]
Global Drop Size Distribution observed by GPM/DPR

*Moeka Yamaji1,2, Hiroshi G. Takahashi2, Takuji Kubota1, Riko Oki1, Atsushi Hamada3, Yukari N. Takayabu4
1. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 2. Tokyo Metropolitan University, 3. University of Toyama, 4. University of Tokyo

13:30 [Poster1-02]
A statistical method for reducing sidelobe clutter for the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar onboard the GPM Core Observatory

*Takuji Kubota1, Toshio Iguchi2, Takeshi Masaki3, Riko Oki1
1. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 2. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 3. Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan

13:30 [Poster1-03]
Evaluation of Velocity measurement accuracy for Future Geostationary Spaceborne Doppler weather radar

Zhengxia Qin1, *Xuehua Li1, Jianxin He1, Xiaodan Jian1, Xianfeng Zhou1, Sihan Wang1, Chengjun He1
1. Chengdu University of Information Technology

13:30 [Poster1-04]
Estimation of the top of the liquid layer from GPM/DPR

*Nobuhiro Takahashi1
1. Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University

13:30 [Poster1-05]
Research on the method of low sidelobe pulse suppression of Geosynchronous orbital Doppler weather radar

*Shunxian Tang1, JianXin He1, Rui Li1, Hao Wang1
1. Chengdu University of Information Technology

13:30 [Poster1-06]
Current status of the calibration of the GPM/DPR

*Takeshi Masaki1, Toshio Iguchi2, Kaya Kanemaru2, Kinji Furukawa3, Naofumi Yoshida1, Takuji Kubota3, Riko Oki3
1. Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, 2. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 3. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

13:30 [Poster1-07]
Radar-based Snowfall Estimates at Marquette, Michigan

*Ali Tokay1,9, Walter Petersen2, David B. Wolff3, Clarie Pettersen5, David Beacher7, Mark Kulie6, David Marks4,3, Jason Pippitt4,9, Matthew Wingo8,2
1. JCET/UMBC , 2. NASA/MSFC, 3. NASA/GSFC/WFF, 4. SSAI, 5. SSEC/University of Wisconsion, 6. NOAA, 7. NOAA/NWS, 8. UAH, 9. NASA/GSFC

13:30 [Poster1-08]
Characteristics of ice over stratiform rain: Global statistics from the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar and the proposed retrieval scheme

*Kamil Mroz1, Alessandro Battaglia1,3, Andrew Heymsfield5, Ann Fridlind2, Pavlos Kollias4
1. National Centre for Earth Observation, 2. NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA, 3. Earth Observation Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, 4. School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciencies, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA, 5. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado

13:30 [Poster1-09]
Onboard Calibration of Spaceborne Radar Parameters Using Sea Surface Echo

*Kaya Kanemaru1, Toshio Iguchi1, Takeshi Masaki2, Takuji Kubota3
1. NICT, 2. RESTEC, 3. JAXA EORC

13:30 [Poster1-10]
Heavy Ice Precipitation Band in an Oceanic Extratropical Cyclone Observed by GPM/DPR: A Case Study

*Shizuka Akiyama1, Shoichi Shige1, Yamamoto K. Munehisa1, Toshio Iguchi2
1. Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, 2. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

13:30 [Poster1-11]
Overview of the GPM/DPR Wide Swath Observation Experiment

*Kosuke Yamamoto1, Kinji Furukawa1, Nobuhiro Takahashi2, Takuji Kubota1, Kaya Kanemaru3
1. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 2. Nagoya University, 3. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

13:30 [Poster1-12]
Precipitation Characteristics in Coastal Area of Alaska Revealed from Spaceborne Radars

*Shunsuke Aoki1, Shoichi Shige1
1. Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University

13:30 [Poster1-13]
Diurnal Cycle of Coastal Convection in South China Sea and Modulation by Intraseasonal Oscillation Observed by TRMM and GPM

*Weixin Xu1, Steven Rutledge2, Kyle Chudler2
1. Sun Yat-sen University, 2. Colorado State University

13:30 [Poster1-14]
Melting layer detection from the GPM DPR measurements

*Takahisa Kobayashi1,2, Mistuharu Nomura1, Soichiro Sugimoto1, Ahoro Adachi2
1. Central Research Institute of Electric Industry, 2. Meteorological Research Institute

13:30 [Poster1-15]
Assessment of Dual-Frequency Radar for Retrieval of Snow Properties

*Liang Liao1, Robert Meneghini2, Ali Tokay3, Hyokyung Kim1
1. Morgan State University, 2. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, 3. University of Maryland Baltimore County

13:30 [Poster1-16]
Simulation of EarthCARE Doppler Velocity Measurements with NICAM: Effects of Doppler Broadening and Folding

*Yuichiro Hagihara1, Yuichi Ohno2, Hiroaki Horie2, Woosub Roh3, Masaki Satoh3, Takuji Kubota1, Riko Oki1
1. JAXA, 2. NICT, 3. The University of Tokyo

13:30 [Poster1-17]
Overview, Update and Science of the GPM Validation Network Radar Database

*Walt Petersen1, Todd Berendes2, Patrick N Gatlin1, David Marks3, Jason Pippitt3, David Wolff4
1. Earth Science Branch, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, 2. ITSC/University of Alabama in Huntsville, 3. Science Systems and Applications, Inc./NASA GSFC, 4. NASA Wallops Flight Facility/NASA GSFC

13:30 [Poster1-18]
An improvement of the precipitation detection method for the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar onboard the Global Precipitation Measurement core observatory (GPM/DPR)

*Atsushi Hamada1, Kaya Kanemaru2, Toshio Iguchi2
1. University of Toyama, 2. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

13:30 [Poster1-19] Comparison of GPM DPR rain microphysics products with retrievals obtained using a self-consistent method

Eugenio Gorgucci1, *Luca Baldini1, Mario Montopoli1, Elisa Adirosi1
1. CNR - Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate

13:30 [Poster1-20] Characteristics of Products Associated with Path Attenuation Estimate After the Scan Pattern Change of the DPR Ka-band Radar

*Hyokyung Kim1,2, Robert Meneghini2, John Kwiatkowski3,2
1. GESTAR/MSU, 2. NASA/GSFC, 3. Geroge Mason University

13:30 [Poster1-21]
Constraining the deconvolution of oversampled satellite microwave observations to enhance the spatial resolution of rain estimates

*Ziad Haddad1, Sahra Kacimi1, Svetla Hristova-Veleva1
1. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

13:30 [Poster1-22]
Microphysical characteristics of precipitation over Korean Peninsula based on long-term GPM databases

*Choeng-lyong Lee1, Geunhyeok Ryu2, GyuWon Lee1
1. Center for Atmospheric REmote sensing, Kyungpook National University, 2. National Meteorological Satellite Center, Korea Meteorological Administration

13:30 [Poster1-23]
A New Evaluation Method for Cloud Microphysics Schemes Using GPM Dual-frequency Precipitation RadarA New Evaluation Method for Cloud Microphysics Schemes Using GPM Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar

*Shunji Kotsuki1, Kenta Kurosawa1, Kaya Kanemaru2, Koji Terasaki1, Takemasa Miyoshi1
1. RIKEN Center for Computational Science, 2. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

13:30 [Poster1-24]
Microphysical Insights from GPM Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar Observations

*Xiaowen Li1, Liang Liao1, Robert Meneghini2, Takamichi Iguchi3, Chuntao Liu4, Wei-Kuo Tao2
1. Morgan State University/NASA GSFC, 2. NASA GSFC, 3. University of Maryland, College Park/NASA GSFC, 4. Texas A&M, Corpus Christi

13:30 [Poster1-25]
Assessing climatological precipitation gradients derived using spaceborne radars in mountainous regions

*Masafumi Hirose1
1. Meijo University

13:30 [Poster1-26]
The Development of the Ground-Based W-band Electronical-Scanning Cloud Profiling Radar with Digital Beam Foaming Technique for calibration and Validation of EarthCARE/CPR

*Hiroaki Horie1, Hiroshi Hanado1, Yuichi Ohno1
1. NICT

13:30 [Poster1-27]
USING DUAL-FREQUENCY PRECIPITATION RADAR AND RADIOMETER DATA FOR SEA ICE MAPPING

*Zoya Andreeva1, Alexander Shikov2, Maria Panfilova3, Kirill Ponur2, Ilya Vinogradov2, Maria Ryabkova3, Vladimir Karaev3, Roman Volgutov1
1. State Research Center "Planeta" of Roshydromet (SRC Planeta), 2. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod (UNN), 3. Federal Research Center Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAP RAS)

13:30 [Poster1-28]
Uncertainties in the estimation of precipitation from GPM-DPR satellite over the Andesfrom ground based Ka-band profiler perspective

*Jairo Michael Valdivia1, Shailendra Kumar1, Danny Scipión1, Yamina Silva1, Patrick Gatlin2, Walter Petersen2
1. Geophysical Institute of Peru, 2. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

13:30 [Poster1-29]
CG lightning activities and GPM/DPR flagHeavyIcePrecip during heavy rainfall events

*Kenji Suzuki1, Rimpei Kamamoto1, Yuki Kaneko2, Katsuhiro Nakagawa3
1. Yamaguchi University, 2. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 3. National Institute of Information and Communication Technology

13:30 [Poster1-30]
New global precipitation observation pioneered by GPM/DPR

*Riko Oki1, Takuji Kubota1, Kinji Furukawa1, Yuki Kaneko1, Moeka Yamaji1, Kosuke Yamamoto1, Toshio Iguchi2, Yukari Takayabu3
1. JAXA, 2. NICT, 3. The University of Tokyo

13:30 [Poster1-31]
Investigation of Drop Size Distribution (DSD) of Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) with Squall Line Through Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) Observations

Ziwei Zhu1, *Youcun Qi1
1. Institute of Geographical Sciences and Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

13:30 [Poster1-32]
Cross-validation of CSU-CHIVO with GPM-DPR and ARM-CSAPR2 during RELAMPAGO

*Ivan Arias1, V. Chandrasekar1
1. Colorado State University

13:30 [Poster1-33]
Precipitation Microphysics of Tropical Cyclones over the Western North Pacific Based on GPM DPR Observations

*Hao Huang1, Fengjiao Chen2
1. Nanjing University, 2. Anhui Meteorological Information Centre

13:30 [Poster1-34]
EarthCARE L2 cloud/precipitation retrieval algorithms

*Kaori Sato1, Hajime Okamoto1
1. Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University

13:30 [Poster1-35]
Development status of EarthCARE Cloud Profiling Radar

*Yuichi Ohno1, Hiroaki Horie1, Kinji Furukawa2, Hirotaka Nakatsuka2, Yoshihisa Aida2, Yoshihiro Seki2, Kazuyuki Okada2, Kenta Maruyama2, Nobuhiro Tomiyama2, Satoshi Kusama2, Eiichi Tomita2
1. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 2. Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency

13:30 [Poster1-36]
Cross validation of TEMPEST-D CubeSat observations using ground polarimetric radar observations and numerical weather model predictions over precipitating storms

*CHANDRASEKAR RADHAKRISHNAN1, CHANDRA V1, Steven C. Reising1
1. Colorado State University

13:30 [Poster1-37]
The Sensitivity of Discrete Dipole Approximation to Hydrometeor Composition Heterogeneity

*Kwo-Sen Kuo1,2, Robert S Schrom2,3, Adrian M Loftus1,2, Ian S Adams2, William S Olson2,4
1. ESSIC, University of Maryland-College Park, 2. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 3. Universities Space Research Association, 4. JCET, University of Maryland-Baltimore County

[Poster1] 13:30-15:00 @CR1-2 & CR3-4
New and Emerging Radar Technology

13:30 [Poster1-38]
Obtaining the full scattering matrix with simultaneous H&V transmission radar

*Valery V Melnikov1
1. Oklahoma University

13:30 [Poster1-39]
New Textbook: Radar Meteorology, A First Course

*Robert M Rauber1, Stephen W Nesbitt1
1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

13:30 [Poster1-40]
A Novel ZDR Estimator for Improved Measurement Accuracy from Weak Signals

*Igor R. Ivic1,2
1. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies/The University of Oklahoma, 2. The National Severe Storms Laboratory/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

13:30 [Poster1-41]
Concept and Possible Configuration of Troposphere-Adaptive Phased Array Weather Radar with Comb-Beam Transmission

*Eiichi Yoshikawa1,2, Tomoo Ushio2
1. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 2. Tokyo Metropolitan University

13:30 [Poster1-42]
A Novel Super Resolution Algorithm for Weather Radar Echo Based on Sparse Representation

*Qiangyu Zeng1, Xing Zhang1, Jianxin He1, Zhao Shi1
1. CUIT

13:30 [Poster1-43]
Signal Processing for Suppressing Mutual Interferences in a Multiple Weather Radar Environment

*Taihei Uchida1, Eiichi Yoshikawa2, Hiroshi Kikuchi3, Naoto Takizawa1, Tomoaki Mega1, Tomoo Ushio1
1. Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 3. The University of Electro-Communications

13:30 [Poster1-44]
A Preliminary Application of SystemVue On Weather Radar Simulation

*QianYuChen Wang1, JianXin He1,2, Xu Wang1,2
1. Chengdu University of Information Technology, China, 2. Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Sounding, China

13:30 [Poster1-45]
EAGLE radar: An extremely low-cost, multi-beam, rapid-scan X-band radar for weather radar networks

David J Bodine1, Clarice Dyson1,2, *Robert Palmer1,2, Boonleng Cheong1, Charles Nicholls3, Justin Miller3, Michihiro Teshiba4, Ayano Ueki4
1. Advanced Radar Research Center, University of Oklahoma, 2. School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, 3. Nanowave Technologies, 4. Weathernews, Inc.

13:30 [Poster1-46]
The PX-10k: A polarimetric X-band transportable radar for rapid-scan weather observations

*Boonleng Cheong1, David Bodine1, Clarice Dyson1, Robert Palmer1, Charles Nicholls2, Justin Miller2
1. University of Oklahoma, 2. Nanowave Technologies

13:30 [Poster1-47]
THE ADVANCED COSINE NEIGHBOR ALGORITHM FOR TRUE WIND RETRIEVAL FROM WEATHER RADARS

*Ashwin Raju D K1, B Arul Malar Kannan1
1. India Meteorological Department

13:30 [Poster1-48]
Automatic Ground Clutter Identification Technique based on Neural Networks

*Tomomi Aoki1, Keiichi Yamaguchi1, Koichiro Gomi1, Takashi Murano2, Akiko Yamada2, Satoshi Kida2, Fumihiko Mizutani2, Masakazu Wada2
1. Toshiba Corporation, 2. Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation

13:30 [Poster1-49]
Development of Monostatic Antenna System for W-band FMCW Cloud Radar

*Tomohiro ARAI1, Kazuki SEKIYA1, Daichi MORI1, Kohei MORIKAWA1, Yohei KAWAMURA1, Toshiaki TAKANO1
1. Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University

13:30 [Poster1-50]
Water vapor measurement using digital terrestrial broadcasting waves

*Seiji Kawamura1, Hiroshi Hanado1, Hiroki Ohta1, Shingo Shimizu2
1. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 2. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience

13:30 [Poster1-51]
Progress in Development of a Laser Radar with Long-Duration Frequency-Modulated Pulse for Measuring Wind

*Hiroshi Yamasuge1, Eiichi Yoshikawa2, Tomoo Ushio1, Shoken Ishii3, Makoto Aoki3, Kazuki Hashimoto2
1. Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 3. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

13:30 [Poster1-52]
Radar refractivity estimation using solid-state weather radar

*Eiichi Sato1, Hiromu Seko1, Nobuhiro Nagumo2, Hiroshi Yamauchi2
1. Meteorological Research Institute, 2. Japan Meteorological Agency

13:30 [Poster1-53]
The NRC W- and X-band Airborne Radar Systems: Calibration and Signal Processing

Cuong Nguyen1, *Mengistu Wolde1, Andrew Pazmany2
1. Flight Research Laboratory, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 2. ProSensing Inc., Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

13:30 [Poster1-54]
Development of road meteorological observation system using integrated vehicle sensor

*Hong Ki Sung1, Kyu Soo Chong1, Sang Hun Lim1
1. Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology

13:30 [Poster1-55]
Optimized Waveform for High-Sensitivity Weather Radars via Coordinate Descent

Mohammad Alaee-Kerahroodi1, *Kumar Vijay Mishra2, Bhavani Shankar M.R.1, Anton Kruger2, Witold F Krajewski2, Bjorn Ottersten1
1. SnT, University of Luxembourg, 2. The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52246, USA

13:30 [Poster1-56]
Rigorous spectral observation theory and its applications to Spaced Antenna measurement

*Koji Nishimura1,2, Taishi Hashimoto1, Masaki Tsutsumi1, Toru Sato3
1. National Institute of Polar Research, 2. Research Organization of Information and Systems, 3. Kyoto University

13:30 [Poster1-57]
ROTTERDAM – development of an operational X-band radar observation framework dedicated to urban weather research and smart-city applications

*Yann Dufournet1, Albert Oude Nijhuis1, Igor Stepanov1, Tobias Otto1
1. SkyEcho

[Poster1] 13:30-15:00 @CR1-2 & CR3-4
Use of Radar Data for Nowcasting and Numerical Models

13:30 [Poster1-58]
Convective Storm Nowcasting Using a Deep Learning Approach

*Lei Han1, Wei Zhang1, Juanzhen Sun2
1. Ocean University of China, 2. NCAR

13:30 [Poster1-59]
Evaluation of the ConvGRU Deep Learning Method for Convective Weather Nowcasting

Hanyang Guo1, Mingxuan Chen2, *Lei Han1
1. Ocean University of China, 2. Institute of Urban Meteorology, CMA, China

13:30 [Poster1-60]
BiLateral Operational Storm-Scale Observation and Modeling (BLOSSOM)

*Toshihisa Matsui1, David B Wolff2, Stephen Lang3, Karen Mohr4
1. NASA GSFC & ESSIC UMD, 2. NASA Wallops Flight Facility, 3. NASA GSFC & SSAI, 4. NASA GSFC

13:30 [Poster1-61]
Research of Multi-Resolution Incremental Four Dimensional Variational Radar Data Assimilation

*ChungYi Lin1, Zhiquan Liu2, Jing-Shan Hong3, Chin-Hsiao Chiang3, Ya-Ting Tsai3
1. National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, 2. National Center for Atmospheric Research, 3. Central Weather Bureau

13:30 [Poster1-62]
The development of a terrain-resolving 4DVar data assimilation system (IBM_VDRAS) and its applications in analyzing heavy rainfall processes in Taiwan

Ying-Jhang Wu1, *Yu-Chieng Liou1, Sheng-Lun Tai2,1, Juanzhen Sun3
1. National Central University, Taiwan, 2. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA, 3. National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA

13:30 [Poster1-63]
Validation of microphysics parameterization of numerical model in winter season using radar measurements

*Sujeong Cho1, Kwang Deuk Ahn1
1. Korea meteorological administration, Numerical modeling center, Numerical data application division

13:30 [Poster1-64]
Precipitation type analysis using a hydrometeor classification of high-resolution radar data - evaluation results of winter season 2018/2019 at Deutscher Wetterdienst

*Tim Boehme1, Joerg Steinert1
1. Deutscher Wetterdienst

13:30 [Poster1-65]
Nowcasting of stratiform rain exploiting signatures in the dendritic growth layer, microphysical retrievals and spectral bin modelling

*Silke Troemel1, Jacob Carlin2,3, Alexander Ryzhkov2,3, Clemens Simmer1
1. IGM, University of Bonn, 2. CIMMS, University of Oklahoma, 3. NOAA/NSSL

13:30 [Poster1-66]
An Innovative Method of Using GPM Observation to Quantitatively Evaluate Cloud and Precipitation Properties Simulated by the DOE Climate Model over the Continental U.S.

*Jingyu Wang1, Jiwen Fan1, Robert Houze2, Stacy Brodzik2, Kai Zhang1, Po-lun Ma1
1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2. University of Washington

13:30 [Poster1-67]
Sizing and Nowcasting Severe Hail Exploiting a Polarimetric C-band Radar Network

*Mari L Schmidt1, Silke Trömel1, Alexander V Ryzhkov2, Clemens Simmer1
1. University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 2. CIMMS/University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA

13:30 [Poster1-68]
The Clouds and Precipitation Exploration Laboratory in Germany (CPEX-Lab)

*Silke Troemel1, Susanne Crewell2, Ulrich Loehnert2, Peter Knott3, Clemens Simmer1
1. Institute for Geosciences and Meteorology, University of Bonn, 2. Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, 3. RWTH Aachen/ FHR Wachtberg

13:30 [Poster1-69]
Analysis of the May 19, 2013 Edmond-Carney Tornadic Supercell by EnKF Assimilation of S-band Radar Data

*Milind Sharma1, Robin Tanamachi1, Daniel T Dawson II1, Youngsun Jung2, Kevin Thomas2
1. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, 2. Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, Norman, Oklahoma, USA

13:30 [Poster1-70]
Nowcasting with the Rijnmond X-band radar: challenges and validation of algorithms

*Albert Oude Nijhuis1, Yann Dufournet1, Tobias Otto1, Igor Stepanov1
1. SkyEcho

13:30 [Poster1-71]
The Use of Dual Phased Array Weather Radar Observations to Short-range Convective Forecasts

*James Taylor1, Guo-Yuan Lien1, Shinsuke Satoh2, Takemasa Miyoshi1
1. RIKEN RCC-S, 2. NICT National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

13:30 [Poster1-72]
Thunderstorm Identification Algorithm Research Based on Simulated Airborne Weather Radar Reflectivity Volume Scan Data

Xu Wang1,2, *Rui Liao1, Jianxin He1,2, Wanting Chen1
1. CUIT University, 2. Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Sounding of China Meteorological Administration

13:30 [Poster1-73]
Utilize polarimetric radar to assess the performance of WRF-SBM Simulations of Deep Convective Systems

*Wei-Kuo Tao1, Takamichi Iguchi1, Toshihisa Matsui1
1. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

13:30 [Poster1-74]
Improving radar echo Lagrandian extrapolation by blending numerical model wind information: statistical performance of typhoon cases

*Kao-Shen Chung1, I-An Yao1, Hsin-Hung Lin2
1. National Central University, 2. National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction

13:30 [Poster1-75]
Using GPM radar data to understand the causes of abrupt change in the direction of Cyclone Fani

*Harish Baki1, C Balaji1, Balaji Srinivasan1
1. Indian Institute of Technology Madras

13:30 [Poster1-76]
The Multi-Year Reanalysis of Remotely Sensed Storms update and research progress

*Anthony E Reinhart1,2, Kiel L Ortega1,2, Skylar Williams1,2, Travis M Smith1,2
1. OU/CIMMS, 2. NOAA/OAR/NSSL

13:30 [Poster1-77]
Application of Lightning Location and Radar Data in Cloud Analysis System and Numerical Experiments

*Guoqiang Xu1, Chan Sun2
1. National Meteorological Center of CMA, Beijing 100081, 2. Chinese Academy Meteorological Sciences of CMA, Beijing 100081

13:30 [Poster1-78]
Comparison of Model Results of Hurricane Earl (2010) and the APR-2 Dual-frequency, Dual-polarization RadarData Collected During the NASA GRIP Investigation

*Jainn Jong Shi1, Scott A Braun2, Zhining Tao3
1. NASA/GSFC GESTAR/Morgan State University, 2. NASA/GSFC, 3. NASA/GSFC GESTAR

13:30 [Poster1-79]
Radar-Based Rainfall Nowcasting based on Deep Learning over Southern China

*Zhenqing Liang1, Junjun Hu2, Sheng Chen3,4, Chaoying Huang1, Asi Zhang3,4, Liusi Xiao3,4
1. Key Laboratory of Environment Change and Resources Use in Beibu Gulf (Nanning Normal University), Ministry of Education, Guangxi, China, 2. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA, 3. School of Atmospheric Sciences, and Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Climate Change and Natural Disaster Studies, Guangzhou 510275, China, Guangzhou 510275, China, 4. Southern Laboratory of Ocean Science and Engineering (Guangdong, Zhuhai)

13:30 [Poster1-80]
Location error of optical flow techniques on nowcasting

*Arthur Costa Tomaz de Souza1, Georgy Ayzel1, Maik Heistermann1
1. Institute for Environmental Sciences and Geography, University of Potsdam

13:30 [Poster1-81]
Improving Radar-Based Hail Impact Estimates by Modelling Hail Trajectories

*Jordan Palmer Brook1, Alain Protat2, Joshua Soderholm2, Hamish McGowan1
1. University of Queensland, 2. Australian Bureau of Meteorology

13:30 [Poster1-82]
A study on radar data assimilation methods to improve precipitation forecast

*Jiwon Lee1, Ki-Hong Min1
1. Department of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea

13:30 [Poster1-83]
A Dual Polarized Radar Data Assimilation for a Meso-scale Numerical Model

*Jae-Geun Lee1, Ki-Hong Min1
1. Department of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea

13:30 [Poster1-84]
Improvement of Quantitative precipitation forecast using radar data assimilation in a weather prediction model

*Jeong-Ho Bae1, Ki-Hong Min1, Hee-Dong Lee1
1. Department of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences, Kyungpook National University

13:30 [Poster1-85]
Assimilating every 30-second phased array weather radar data in a torrential rainfall event on July 6, 2018 around Kobe city

*Yasumitsu Maejima1, Shigenori Otsuka1, Takemasa Miyoshi1,3
1. RIKEN, Center for Computational Science, 2. University of Maryland, College Park, 3. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

13:30 [Poster1-86]
Testing a new Winter hydrometeor classification algorithm for distinction between ice pellets and freezing rain

Brandon Hickman1, *Raquel M Evaristo1, Silke Trömel1, Clemen Simmer1
1. Institute for Geoscience and Meteorology, University of Bonn

13:30 [Poster1-87]
A deep-learning approach to three-dimensional precipitation nowcasting

*Shigenori Otsuka1, Marimo Ohhigashi1, Viet Phi Huynh2, Pierre Tandeo3, Takemasa Miyoshi1
1. RIKEN, 2. Eurecom, 3. IMT Atlantique

13:30 [Poster1-88]
Quantitative Precipitation Forecast System using Dual Polarization Radar Data in Korea

*Kyung-Yeub NAM1, Myoung-Jae SON1, Young-A OH1, Ji-Won KIM1, Kun-Il JANG1, Jung-Whan LEE1
1. Korea Meteorological Administration

13:30 [Poster1-89]
The Australian Wind Profiler Network and its role in Numerical Weather Prediction

*Bronwyn Dolman1,2, Iain Reid1,2, Chris Tingwell3
1. ATRAD Pty Ltd, 2. University of Adelaide, 3. Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology

13:30 [Poster1-90]
From observation to climatology: preparing 17-year radar- and NWP-based hail data series for climatological studies

*Simona Trefalt1, Katharina Schroeer2, Urs Germann1, Alessandro Hering1, Luca Nisi2, Cornelia Schwierz2
1. MeteoSwiss, Division for Radar, Satellite and Nowcasting, 2. MeteoSwiss, Division for Analysis and Forecasting

13:30 [Poster1-91]
Towards the assimilation of polarimetry-derived hydrometeor mixing ratios in Germany

*Lucas Reimann1, Clemens Simmer1, Silke Troemel1
1. Meteorological Institute University of Bonn

13:30 [Poster1-92]
Assimilation of Dual Polarization Radar Using GSI Cloud Analysis: A Case Study

*Zhicheng Ding1, Kun Zhao1
1. Nanjing University

13:30 [Poster1-93]
Performance Evaluation of Spectral Bin Classifier (SBC) using ICE-POP 2018 cases

*Wonbae Bang1, Jacob Carlin2, Alexander Ryzhkov2, Kwonil Kim3, GyuWon Lee1,3
1. Center for Atmospheric Remote sensing (CARE), Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea, 2. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, The University of Oklahoma, and NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma, USA, 3. Dept. of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea

13:30 [Poster1-94]
Nowcasting of Precipitation Type using Weather Radar Data

*Joerg Steinert1
1. Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany

13:30 [Poster1-95]
Towards an efficient polarimetric radar forward operator for NWP frameworks

*Jana Mendrok1, Jeffrey Snyder2, Silke Troemel3, Ulrich Blahak1
1. Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany, 2. NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma, USA, 3. Institute for Geosciences and Meteorology, University Bonn, Bonn, Germany

13:30 [Poster1-96]
Assimilating radar data with retrieved thermodynamic fields: A case study of frontal system on June 11 2012

*Ching-Yin Ke1, Kao-Shen Chung1, Yu-Chieng Liou1, Shu-Chih Yang1
1. National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

13:30 [Poster1-97]
Refractivity distributions over the Kanto and Osaka plains and their impacts on the rainfall forecasts

*Hiromu Seko1,3, Eiichi Sato1, Hiroshi Yamauchi2, Yoshinori Shoji1, Shinsuke Satoh4
1. Meteorological Research Institute, 2. Japan Meteorological Agency, 3. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 4. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

13:30 [Poster1-98]
A smart multi-sensor approach for dynamically guiding a solid-state X-band radar during intense weather systems approaching urban areas

*Samantha Melani1, Alessandro Mazza1, Francesca Caparrini2, Andrea Antonini2, Alberto Ortolani1
1. CNR-IBIMET | Consorzio LaMMA, 2. Consorzio LaMMA

13:30 [Poster1-99]
Comparison of VIL Nowcast Social Experiment Results Using XRAIN and MP-PAWR Data Conducted in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area in 2015 and 2018

*Koyuru Iwanami1, Kohin Hirano1, Hisashi Nakagaki2, Ryohei Misumi1, Takeshi Maesaka1, Shingo Shimizu1
1. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, 2. Japan Weather Association

13:30 [Poster1-100]
Implementing Aircraft Mode-S Data in the Austrian Hydrometeor Classification System

*Rudolf Kaltenboeck1, Vera Meyer2, Lukas Tüchler2
1. Austro Control, Austria, 2. ZAMG, Austria

13:30 [Poster1-101]
A Simulating Method of Polarimetric Weather Radar Data for Typhoon Detection

*Zewei Zhao1, Xichao Dong1, Jiaqi Hu1
1. Beijing Institute of Technology

13:30 [Poster1-102]
Is It Possible to Predict Typhoon Track Using Wind Field Observation by Wind Profiler and Dual Doppler Radars?

*Dong-In Lee1, Jisun Lee1, Sung-Ho Suh1
1. Pukyong National University

13:30 [Poster1-103]
Development of a new seamless integrated forecasting system (SINFONY) at DWD

*Markus Schultze1, Ulrich Blahak1, Kathrin Wapler1, Marcus Paulat1, Roland Potthast1, Axel Seifert1, Manuel Werner1, Liselotte Bach1, Elisabeth Bauernschubert1, Robert Feger1, Kathrin Feige1, Michael Hoff1, Markus Junk1, Alberto de Lozar1, Lisa Neef1, Rafael Posada1, Martin Rempel1, Sven Ulbrich1, Christian Welzbacher1
1. Deutscher Wetterdienst

13:30 [Poster1-104]
Development of a probabilistic precipitation-nowcasting approach at DWD

*Markus Schultze1, Martin Rempel1, Manuel Werner1, Kathrin Wapler1
1. Deutscher Wetterdienst

13:30 [Poster1-105]
Tornado Occurrence Forecasting Method Based on a Simplified 4DVAR Radar Data Assimilation and Traditional Radar Echo Identification and Nowcasting Technique: Preliminary Results.

*Soichiro Sugimoto1, Zhuming Yin2, Juanzhen Sun2
1. Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, 2. National Center for Atmospheric Research

13:30 [Poster1-106]
Dynamic assignment of RADAR reflectivity uncertainty forcing data assimilation in WRF numerical model

*Alberto Ortolani1,2, Luca Rovai1,2, Riccardo Benedetti1, Andrea Antonini1, Luca Fibbi1,2
1. Consorzio Lamma, 2. CNR-IBIMET

13:30 [Poster1-107]
Data assimilation of Ka-band radar and X-band radar for rainfall prediction

*Kosei Yamaguchi1, Eiichi Nakakita1, Kazuki Ueshima2, Yosuke Horiike3
1. DPRI, Kyoto University, 2. NTT DOCOMO, INC., 3. Osaka Metro Co., Ltd.

13:30 [Poster1-108]
Comparison Between Assimilation of Radial Velocity and Radar Atmospheric Motion Vectors in a 3DVAR System to Forecast Precipitation

*Eder Paulo Vendrasco1, Renato Galante Negri1, Dirceu Luis Herdies1
1. National Institute for Space Research

[Session 3A] 15:00-16:00 @NH
Spaceborne Radar and Its Observation

15:00 [Session 3A-01]
Gaps in Cloud and Precipitation Observations from Space: Opportunities and Requirements for Future Spaceborne Radar Missions

*Pavlos Kollias1,3, Alessandro Battaglia4,5, Simone Tanelli6
1. Stony Brook University, 2. Brookhaven National Laboratory, 3. University of Cologne, 4. University of Leicester, 5. UK National Centre for Earth Observations, 6. Jet Propulsion Laboratory

15:15 [Session 3A-02]
The EarthCARE/CPR Development Status

*Kazuyuki Okada1, Eiichi Tomita1, Kinji Furukawa1, Yoshihisa Aida1, Hirotaka Nakatsuka1, Yoshihiro Seki1, Satoshi Kusama1, Nobuhiro Tomiyama1, Kenta Maruyama1
1. JAXA

15:30 [Session 3A-03]
Next precipitation measuring mission after GPM/DPR

*Kinji Furukawa1, Kosuke Yamamoto1, Yuki Kaneko1, Takuji Kubota1, Riko Oki1, Nobuhiro Takahashi2
1. JAXA, 2. Nagoya University

15:45 [Session 3A-04]
RainCube's first year in space : product calibration, validation and considerations on spatial resolution and sampling

*Simone Tanelli1, Ousmane O Sy1, Gian Franco Sacco1, Robert M Beauchamp1, Ziad S Haddad1
1. Jet Propulsion Laboratory

[Session 3B] 15:00-16:00 @RH1
Use of Radar Data for Nowcasting and Numerical Models

15:00 [Session 3B-01]
Why is radar data so difficult to assimilate properly?

*Frederic Fabry1, Veronique Meunier1
1. McGill University

15:15 [Session 3B-02]
Assimilation of OPERA radars data in AROME-France NWP model: a challenge

*Maud Martet1
1. Meteo France, DR/GMAP/OBS

15:30 [Session 3B-03]
Development of Dual-Pol Radar Forward Operator in Simulation of a Supercell Storm and possible Use in the Variational Data Assimilation Schemes

*Jidong Gao1, Guifu Zhang2, Muyun Du3,4
1. NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, 2. School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, 3. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, 4. Hubei Key Laboratory for Heavy Rain Monitoring and Warning Research, Institute of Heavy Rain, Chinese Meteorological Adminstration

15:45 [Session 3B-04]
Assimilating radar observed and retrieved variables to improve the model convective scale rainfall forecast : OSSE and real case studies

*Yu-Ting Cheng1, Yu-Chieng Liou1
1. Dept. of Atmosphere Sciences, National Central University, Taoyuan City 320, Taiwan

[Session 4A] 16:30-18:00 @NH
Radar Networks, Quality Control, Processing and Software

16:30 [Session 4A-01]
Rethinking Ground Clutter Filtering: Regression Filtering to Improve Radar Signal Statistics

*John C Hubbert1, Greg Meymaris1, Ulrike Romatschke1, Mike Dixon1
1. NCAR

16:45 [Session 4A-02]
Evaluation of wind turbine clutter detection and suppression in dual-pol weather radar observations

Amit Dutta2, *Evan Ruzanski1, V. Chandrasekar2
1. Vaisala, 2. Colorado State University

17:00 [Session 4A-03]
Radio Frequency Interference Characterization and Mitigation for Polarimetric Weather Radar

Jiapeng Yin1, Peter Hoogeboom1, *Christine Unal1, Herman Russchenberg1
1. Delft University of Technology

17:15 [Session 4A-04]
How Do Reflectivity Gradients Affect the Performance of Range Oversampling Processing?

*Christopher Curtis1, Sebastian Torres1
1. CIMMS/NSSL

17:30 [Session 4A-05]
Assessing the antenna characteristics and pointing accuracy of a polarimetric weather radar

*Michael Frech1, Theodor Mammen1, Bertram Lange1
1. Deutscher Wetterdienst

17:45 [Session 4A-06]
Rejuvenating refractivity processing: A radar meteorology story (an intertwined tale of hardware, propagation, processing, and weather)

*Frederic Fabry1, Daniel Hogg1, Ya-Chien Feng2
1. McGill University, 2. NCAR

[Session 4B] 16:30-18:00 @RH1
Quantitative Precipitation Estimation and Hydrology

16:30 [Session 4B-01]
Polarimetric VPR - a new methodology for mitigation of the bright band contamination in QPE

*Alexander Ryzhkov1, Pengfei Zhang1
1. University of Oklahoma

16:45 [Session 4B-02]
Upscaling microwave link rainfall estimation: pilot studies from cellular communication networks in Africa, Asia and South America

Tommy van Leth2, *Aart Overeem1,2, Jenny Prosser3, Daniele Tricarico3, Hidde Leijnse1, Remko Uijlenhoet2
1. Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, 2. Wageningen University & Research, 3. GSM Association

17:00 [Session 4B-03]
RadAlp: Potential of radar remote sensing for the estimation of liquid and solid precipitation in the French Alps

*Guy Delrieu1, Anil Kumar Khanal1, Frédéric Cazenave1, Brice Boudevillain1, Dominique Faure2, Nan Yu2, Nicolas Gaussiat2
1. Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, Grenoble, France, 2. Météo-France, Toulouse, France

17:15 [Session 4B-04]
Capturing the variability of the DSD actually improves the estimate of the ground rainfall from weather radar

*Jacques Victor Testud1, Emmanuel Moreau1, Erwan Le Bouar1
1. NOVIMET

17:30 [Session 4B-05]
Advantages and challenges of a specific attenuation based radar QPE for operations

*Jian Zhang1, Lin Tang2, Steve Cocks2, Pengfei Zhang2, Alexander Ryzhkov2, Carrie Langston2, Brian Kaney2, Ken Howard1
1. National Severe Storms Lab, 2. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma

17:45 [Session 4B-06]
Application of the self-consistency among the polarimetric variables to improve the precipitation estimation

*Nan YU1, Qingtong GU2, Nicolas GAUSSIAT1
1. Centre de Météorologie Radar, Météo France, 2. Meteorological Observation Centre of China Meteorological Administration

   

TUESDAY, SEP. 17

[Session 5A] 9:00-10:30 @NH
New and Emerging Radar Technology

9:00 [Session 5A-01]
The Colorado State University ship-based C-band dual-polarized radar: Deployments and early science results

*Steven A Rutledge1, V. Chandrasekar1, Brenda Dolan1, Kyle Chudler1, Jim George1, Francesc Junyent1
1. Colorado State University

9:15 [Session 5A-02]
An S-band Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave Radar: Observations During the 2017 California Oroville Dam Crisis

*Allen B. White1, Paul E. Johnston2,1, Daniel J. Gottas1, Benjamin J. Moore1
1. NOAA/ESRL Physical Sciences Division, 2. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

9:30 [Session 5A-03]
Multistatic Passive Weather Radar: Development, Validation, and Latest Results

*Andrew Byrd1, Robert Palmer1, Caleb Fulton1
1. Univ. of Oklahoma/ARRC

9:45 [Session 5A-04]
The Vapor In-cloud Profiling Radar (VIPR): Field deployment and validation of in-cloud humidity profiles retrieved using a 170 GHz differential absorption cloud radar

*Richard Roy1, Matthew Lebsock1, Ken Cooper1, Luis Millan1, Raquel Rodriguez Monje1, Jose Siles1
1. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

10:00 [Session 5A-05]
Calibration for Weather Radars using UAV Hosted Targets

*Sergio Daniel Graniello1, V Chandrasekar1, Shashank Joshil1, Jim George1, Patrick Kennedy1
1. Colorado State University

10:15 [Session 5A-06]
The C-band On Wheels (COW) quickly deployable radar

*Joshua Wurman1, Karen Ann Kosiba1, Brian Pereira1
1. The Center for Severe Weather Research

[Session 5B] 9:00-10:30 @RH1
Organized Convection and Severe Phenomena

9:00 [Session 5B-01]
SimRadar – A U.S.-Japan collaborative effort to develop a polarimetric radar simulator for tornado studies

David J Bodine1, *Boonleng Cheong1, Takashi Maruyama2, Caleb Fulton1,3, Sebastian Torres1,4, Robert Palmer1,5, Howard Bluestein5, Arturo Umeyama1,3, Javier Lujan1,3, Zach Wienhoff5, Casey Griffin1,5
1. Advanced Radar Research Center, University of Oklahoma, 2. Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, 3. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 4. National Severe Storms Laboratory, NOAA, 5. School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma

9:15 [Session 5B-02]
Mobile Radar Observations of the Evolving Debris Field Compared with a Damage Survey of the Shawnee, Oklahoma Tornado

*Roger M Wakimoto1, Zachary Wienhoff2, Howard B Bluestein2
1. UCLA, 2. University of Oklahoma

9:30 [Session 5B-03]
An investigation of tornadic debris signatures in damaging tornadoes using observations and simulations of Doppler spectra

*Zachary Wienhoff1, Howard Bluestein1, David Bodine2, Boon Leng Cheong2, Dylan Reif1, Nathan Dahl3,4, Trey Greenwood1
1. School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, 2. Advanced Radar Research Center, 3. Cooperative Insitute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, 4. NOAA National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center

9:45 [Session 5B-04]
A Polarimetric Radar Climatology of Supercell Thunderstorms in the United States

*Michael M. French1, Darrel M. Kingfield2, Kristofer S. Tuftedal1, Jacob H. Segall1, Jeffrey C. Snyder3
1. Stony Brook University, 2. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado & NOAA/OAR/ESRL/Global Systems Division, 3. NOAA/OAR/National Severe Storms Laboratory

10:00 [Session 5B-05]
Rapid-scan, polarimetric observations of supercells using a mobile phased array radar

*Robin L Tanamachi1, Stephen J Frasier2, William Heberling2, Carl Wolsieffer2, Allison T LaFleur1, Milind Sharma1
1. Purdue University, 2. University of Massachusetts Amherst

10:15 [Session 5B-06]
Multi-sensor observation of evolution from cumulus to cumulonimbus in Tokyo metropolitan area

*Takeshi Maesaka1, Tadayasu Ohigashi1, Koyuru Iwanami1, Shin-ichi Suzuki1, Yukari Shusse1, Namiko Sakurai1, Kaori Kieda1, Shingo Shimizu1, Yasushi Uji1, Nobuhiro Takahashi2, Hiroshi Hanado3, Katsuhiro Nakagawa3, Tomoo Ushio4
1. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, 2. Nagoya University, 3. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 4. Tokyo Metropolitan University

[Session 6A] 11:00-12:00 @NH
Wind Profiler, Cloud Radar, and NonHydrometeorological Radar

11:00 [Session 6A-01]
Modeling and measurements of cloud radar dual-wavelength ratio of ice hydrometeors

*Sergey Y Matrosov1, Maximilian Maahn1, Gijs de Boer1
1. CIRES, Universty of Colorado and NOAA ESRL

11:15 [Session 6A-02]
Phase Characterization of Southern Ocean Clouds using HIAPER Cloud Radar (HCR) and High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) Observations: results from SOCRATES

*Troy J Zaremba1, Robert M. Rauber1, Joseph A. Finlon1, Greg M. McFarquhar2, Sonia Lasher-Trapp1, Daniel M. Stechman2
1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , 2. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma

11:30 [Session 6A-03]
G-band radars and their potential in cloud microphysical studies

*Alessandro Battaglia1, Pavlos Kollias2
1. University of Leicester, Leicester, UK, 2. University of Stonybrook, NY, US

11:45 [Session 6A-04]
Clear-Air Echoes Observed by Ka-Band Scanning Polarimetric Cloud Radars

*Tadayasu Ohigashi1, Takeshi Maesaka1, Shin-ichi Suzuki1, Yukari Shusse1, Namiko Sakurai1
1. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience

[Session 6B] 11:00-12:00 @RH1
Quantitative Precipitation Estimation and Hydrology

11:00 [Session 6B-01]
The influences of large scale forcing on the diurnal cycle of rainfall over Darwin

*Robert Clyde Jackson1, Scott Collis1, Yan Feng1, Valentin Louf2, Alain Protat4, Rob Warren2, Brenda Dolan5, Elizabeth Thompson6, Scott Powell7, Scott Giangrande3, Die Wang3
1. Argonne National Laboratory, 2. Monash University, 3. Brookhaven National Laboratory, 4. Bureau of Meteorology Australia, 5. Colorado State University, 6. University of Washington, 7. Naval Postgraduate School

11:15 [Session 6B-02]
Dual-polarization radar signatures of the convectively driven Lausanne flash-flood event on June 11, 2018

*Marco Gabella1, Daniel Wolfensberger1, Marco Boscacci1, Jacopo Grazioli1, Urs Germann1
1. MeteoSwiss

11:30 [Session 6B-03]
Advancing flash flood early warnings using a proxy of polarimetric PAR observations

*Yixin Wen1, Terry Schuur1,2, Humberto Arrieta Vergara1,2, Charles Kuster1,2, James Kurdzo3
1. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, 2. NOAA/NSSL, 3. Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, Massachusetts

11:45 [Session 6B-04]
Application of the weather radar-based quantitative precipitation estimations for flood runoff simulation in a dam watershed

*Younghyun Cho1, Joon-Woo Noh1, Eul-Rae Lee1
1. K-water Research Institute, K-water (Korea Water Resources Corporation)

[Poster2] 13:30-15:00 @CR1-2 & CR3-4
Phased Array Radar Technology and Its Observation

13:30 [Poster2-01]
High-Temporal Resolution Observations of Weak-Echo Reflectivity Bands in the 16 May 2017 Wheeler, Texas, Tornado

*Casey Griffin1,2, David Bodine1,2, Javier Lujan1,2, Robert Palmer1,2
1. University of Oklahoma, 2. Advanced Radar Research Center

13:30 [Poster2-02]
An evaluation of the Multi Parameter Phased Array Weather Radar

*Taku Suezawa1, Hiroshi Kikuchi2, Tomoaki Mega1, Eiichi Yoshikawa3, Hiroshi Hanado4, Syugo Hayashi1,5, Tomoo Ushio1
1. Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2. The University of Electro-Communications, 3. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 4. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 5. Meteorological Research Institute

13:30 [Poster2-03]
Research to Operations Strategy for Meteorological Phased Array Radar

*Mark E. Weber1,2, Kurt Hondl2
1. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, 2. NOAA OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory

13:30 [Poster2-04]
Preliminary analysis to design C-band polarimetric phased array weather radar

*Kento Nakamura1, Hiroshi Kikuchi2, Tomoaki Mega1, Tomoo Ushio1
1. Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2. The University of Electro-Communications

13:30 [Poster2-05]
Bias of the polarimetric variables on the Ten Panel Demonstrator (TPD) of a phased array weather radar

*Djordje Mirkovic1,2, Dusan S Zrnic2
1. CIMMS (OU), 2. NSSL (NOAA)

13:30 [Poster2-06]
A First Look at the ATD Data Corrections

*Igor R. Ivic1,2, David Schvartzman1,2
1. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies/University of Oklahoma, 2. The National Severe Storms Laboratory/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

13:30 [Poster2-07]
Development of a Shared Mobile C-band Polarimetric Atmospheric Imaging Radar (PAIR)

*Tian-You Yu1,3, Matthew S. McCord3, Jorge L. Salazar1,3, Caleb Fulton1,3, Robert D. Palmer1,3, Howard B. Bluestein2
1. School of Electrical and Computer, University of Oklahoma, 2. School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, 3. Advanced Radar Research Center, University of Oklahoma

13:30 [Poster2-08]
Assessing the Benefits of a Rapid-Scanning Phased Array Weather Radar

*Andrew Mahre1,2, Kyle Pittman3,4, Tian-You Yu1,2,5, David Bodine1,2
1. Advanced Radar Research Center, University of Oklahoma, 2. School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, 3. Nothern Illinois University, 4. Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program, 5. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma

13:30 [Poster2-09]
Spatial-Temporal Evolutions of Precipitation Cores and Lightning Activity Observed by Phased Array Weather Radars and BOLT

*Yukie Moroda1, Kazuhisa Tsuboki2, Shinsuke Satoh3, Katsuhiro Nakagawa3, Tomoo Ushio4, Hiroshi Kikuchi5
1. National Institute for Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan / Institute for Space-Earth Environment Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, 2. Institute for Space-Earth Environment Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, 3. National Institute for Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan, 4. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hino, Japan, 5. University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

13:30 [Poster2-10]
Preliminary result of MIMO observation with the MU radar

*Tomoya Matsuda1, Hiroyuki Hashiguchi1
1. Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere,Kyoto University

13:30 [Poster2-11]
Development of a dual-polarized slotted waveguide array antenna made of injection-molded resin

*Tomoya Matsuda1, Ikuya Kakimoto1, Yoshihiko Konishi2, Narihiro Nakamoto1, Takashi Uesaka1, Takashi Uno1, Tomoyuki Koyanagi1, Takeshi Yamamoto1
1. Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, 2. Hiroshima Institute of Technology

13:30 [Poster2-12]
X-band Phased Array Weather Radar Observations of a Mesocyclone in the Tokyo Urban Area

*Shigeharu Shimamura1,3, Kazuomi Morotomi1,3, Saori Kurihara1, Fumiaki Kobayashi2, Toshiaki Takano3, Atsushi Higuchi3, Hisato Iwashita4
1. Japan Radio Company, Ltd., 2. National Defense Academy of Japan, 3. Chiba University, 4. Meisei Electric Co., Ltd.

13:30 [Poster2-13]
Analyses of a Severe Convective Storm Using an X-band Polarimetric Phased Array Radar in Southern China

*Asi Zhang1,2, Sheng Chen1,2
1. Sun Yat-sen University, 2. Southern Laboratory of Ocean Science and Engineering

13:30 [Poster2-14]
Analysis of Equatorial Atmosphere Radar (EAR) Spaced-Antenna Performance from Multiple Orientation of the Receiving Antennas

*Nor Azlan bin Mohd Aris1,2, Hiroyuki Hashiguchi1, Mamoru Yamamoto1
1. RISH, Kyoto University, 2. FKEKK, UTeM

13:30 [Poster2-15]
Meteorological observations and system performance from a C-band phased array weather radar in Beijing, China

*Sheng Chen1, Asi Zhang1, Chaoying Huang3, Yanqiang Wei2, Zhirui Wang2
1. School of Atmospheric Sciences, and Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Climate Change and Natural Disaster Studies, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China, 2. Beijing Institute of Radio Measurement, Beijing, 100854, China, 3. Key Laboratory of Environment Change and Resources Use in Beibu Gulf (Guangxi Teachers Education University), Ministry of Education, Guangxi, 530001 China

13:30 [Poster2-16]
Application of MMSE Doppler spectrum estimator to an X-band Phased Array Weather Radar

*Naoya Takizawa1, Eiichi Yoshikawa2, Hiroshi Kikuchi3, Tomoaki Mega1, Tomoo Ushio1
1. Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 3. The University of Electro-Communications

13:30 [Poster2-17]
Initial observations with X-band multi-parameter phased array radar in Japan

*Hiroshi Kikuchi1, Taku Suezawa2, Tomoo Ushio2, Yasuhide Hobara1
1. The University of Electro-Communications, 2. Tokyo Metropolitan University

13:30 [Poster2-18]
Observation of summer thunderclouds on 13 August 2018 over Kanto-Plain using Multi-Parameter Phased Array weather radar

*Takeharu Kouketsu1, Nobuhiro Takahashi1, Katsuhiro Nakagawa2
1. Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, 2. NICT, Koganei, Tokyo

13:30 [Poster2-19]
Eye Wall Structure of Typhoon, ‘Jebi’ Observed by Kobe Phased Array Weather Radar

*Koji Sassa1, Akira Nishii1, Shinsuke Satoh2
1. Kochi University, 2. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

13:30 [Poster2-20]
Analysis of isolated convective systems by using multi-parameter phased array weather radar

*Nobuhiro Takahashi1, Hiroshi Hanado2
1. Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, 2. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

13:30 [Poster2-21]
Application of adaptive beamforming to Dual Polarization Phased Array Weather Radar

*Shuhei Uchida1, Hiroshi Kikuchi3, Eiichi Yoshikawa2, Tomoaki Mega1, Tomoo Ushio1
1. Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 3. The University of Electro-Communications

13:30 [Poster2-22]
Weather Measurements Using a Cylindrical Polarimetric Phased Array Radar

*Zhe Li1,2, Guifu Zhang1,3
1. Advanced Radar Research Center, University of Oklahoma, 2. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 3. School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma

13:30 [Poster2-23]
Validation of VIL Nowcast for 30-minute Forecast using Multi-Parameter Phased Array Weather Radar

*Kohin Hirano1, Koyuru Iwanami1, Takeshi Maesaka1
1. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience

13:30 [Poster2-24]
Interference mitigation for the phased array radars using a novel null steering technique

*Mohammad-Hossein Golbon-Haghighi1,2, Guifu Zhang1,2
1. Advanced Radar Research Center, University of OKlahoma, 2. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 3. School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma

13:30 [Poster2-25]
Development of the early detection system of the localized torrential rainfall using vortex tubes observed by the phased array weather rada

*Katsuhiro Nakagawa1, Masayuki Katayama2, Aritoshi Masuda2, Hiroshi Hanado1, Koji Zettsu1, Eiichi Nakakita3
1. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) , 2. Japan Weather Association (JWA), 3. Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University

13:30 [Poster2-26]
Development and Preliminary Results of the Airborne Phased Array Radar (APAR) Observation Simulator (AOS)

*Scott Mabry Ellis1, Wen-Chau Lee1, George Bryan, Kevin Manning, Ting-Yu Cha, Michael Bell, Louis Lussier1
1. NCAR/EOL

13:30 [Poster2-27]
NCAR's Phased Array Line Replacement Unit Demonstrator: calibration, beamforming and observations

*Peisang Tsai1, Rodrigo Lebron2, Jorge Salazar2, Jonathan Emmett1, Eric Loew1, James Ranson1, Adam Karboski1, Christopher Burghart1
1. NCAR, 2. OU

13:30 [Poster2-28]
Analysis of misocyclones structures of a storm on 15 May 2017 in Okinawa using a phased array weather radar

*Ryusho Imai1, Nobuhiro Takahashi1
1. Nagoya University

[Poster2] 13:30-15:00 @CR1-2 & CR3-4
Microphysical Studies with Radars

13:30 [Poster2-29]
Simultaneous observations from scanning radars and a vertically pointing micro rain radar and quantitative evaluation of polarimetric estimates

*Ricardo Reinoso-Rondinel1,2, Marc Schleiss2
1. University of Bonn, 2. Delft University of Technology

13:30 [Poster2-30]
Bulk Microphysical Properties of Orographic Rainfall Deduced by Vertically Pointing Radars in the Western United States

*Allen B. White1, Daniel J. Gottas1, Robert Cifelli1, Haonan Chen2,1
1. NOAA/ESRL Physical Sciences Division, 2. Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere

13:30 [Poster2-31]
Dual-Wavelength Polarimetric Radars Observation of Snow Development Process

*Jingya Wu1, Qiang Sun1, Daren LÜ1, Yongheng Bi1
1. IAP, CAS

13:30 [Poster2-32]
The IMPACTS Airborne Field Campaign to Investigate U.S. East Coast Snowstorms

*Gerald M Heymsfield1, Lynn McMurdie2, Scott A Braun1, John E Yorks1
1. Goddard Space Flight Center, 2. University of Washington

13:30 [Poster2-33]
The triple-frequency retrieval of the characteristic size and width of rain drop size distribution

*Kamil Mroz1, Alessandro Battaglia1,2, Stefan Kneifel3, Leo Pio D'Adderio4
1. National Centre for Earth Observation, 2. Earth Observation Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, 3. Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 4. Italian National Research Council, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate ISAC-CNR, Roma, Italy

13:30 [Poster2-34]
X-band Radar Observations of the Angular Dependence of Specific Differential Phase Above the Bright Band

*Joshua Hampton1, Lindsay Bennett2,1, Ryan Neely III2,1
1. University of Leeds, 2. National Centre for Atmospheric Science

13:30 [Poster2-35]
Statistical Characteristics of Raindrop Size Distribution and Associated Polarimetric Radar Signatures in Complex Terrain Over the San Francisco Bay Area

Robert Cifelli1, *Haonan Chen2, Allen White1
1. NOAA ESRL Physical Sciences Division, 2. Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere

13:30 [Poster2-36]
The microphysical properties of stratiform cloud cluster during Indian Summer Monsoon: A case study using dual polarimetric C-Band radar and aircraft observations.

*Soumya Samanta1,2, P. Murugavel1, Dinesh Gurnule1, Thara Prabhakaran1
1. Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan, Pune-411008, India., 2. Department of Meteorology and Oceanography, College of Science and Technology, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam-530003, India.

13:30 [Poster2-37]
Microphysical Insights from Coincident Multi-Frequency and Polarimetric Radar Observations During OLYMPEX

*Stephen J Munchak1, Ian S Adams1, Robert S Schrom1,2
1. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 2. NASA Postdoctoral Program

13:30 [Poster2-38]
Evolution of precipitation microphysics characteristics of a Typhoon Ewiniar (2018) landfall over southern China based on S-band polarimetric radar and 2DVD distrometer observations

*Xiantong Liu1, Qilin Wan1, Hui Xiao1, Huiqi Li1, Tengfei Zheng1
1. Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology of China Meteorological Administration, Guangzhou

13:30 [Poster2-39]
Microphysical Characteristics and Types of Precipitation for Different Seasons over North Taiwan

*Pay-Liam Lin1, Meng-Tze Lee1, Wei-Yu Chang1, Balaji Kumar Seela1, Jayalakshmi Janapati1
1. Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Central University

13:30 [Poster2-40]
Variability of cloud microphysical properties in context of thermodynamic and radar-derived structure of mesoscale convective systems: results from PECAN

*Greg McFarquhar1, Dan Stechman2, Robert Rauber3, Brian Jewett3
1. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies and School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, 2. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, 3. Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois

13:30 [Poster2-41]
Conversion of the Vertical Profile of Reflectivity from Ku band to C band based on the Drop Size Distribution from the Global Precipitation Measurement mission (GPM) Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR)

*Ziwei Zhu1, Youcun Qi1
1. Institute of Geographical Sciences and Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

13:30 [Poster2-42]
Characteristic Analysis of the Downburst in Greely,Colorado on 30 July 2017 Using WPEA Method and X-Band Radar Observations

*Hao Wang1, Venkatachalam Chandrasekar2, Jianxin He1, Zhao Shi1, Lijuan Wang1
1. Chengdu University of Information Technology, 2. Colorado State University

13:30 [Poster2-43]
Development of modular ice microphysics retrieval for AWARE and other ARM sites

Frederic Tridon1, Petros Kalogeras2,3, *Alessandro Battaglia2,3, Stefan Kneifel1, Ann Fridlind4
1. Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK, 3. National Center for Earth Observation, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK, 4. NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NY, USA

13:30 [Poster2-44]
Large-Eddy Simulations of Cumulus Congestus Cloud Using Super Droplet Method

*Toshiki Matsushima1, Seiya Nishizawa1, Shin-ichiro Shima1,2
1. Riken Center for Computational Science, 2. Graduated School of Simulation Studies, University of Hyogo

13:30 [Poster2-45]
Generation of Rain Drops at Cloud Bottom Observed with W-band Cloud Radar FALCON-I

*Keisuke HIKAWA1, Taichi IURA1, Hyuga MORITA1, Ryo FUEDA1, Yohei KAWAMURA1, Toshiaki TAKANO1, Atsushi HIGUCHI2, Tamio TAKAMURA2, Fumiaki KOBAYASHI3, Kazuomi MOROTOMI4, Shigeharu SHIMAMURA4, Hisato IWASHITA5
1. Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, 2. Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University , 3. National Defense Academy of Japan, 4. Japan Radio Co., Ltd, 5. Meisei Electric co., Ltd

13:30 [Poster2-46]
Advances in Chinese Dual-polarization and Phased-array Weather Radars: Observational Analysis of a Supercell in Southern China

*Chong Wu1, Liping Liu1, Xi Liu1
1. Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences

13:30 [Poster2-47]
Characteristics of particle size distribution of falling ash particles from Sakurajima obtained from laser-optical particle size velocity disdrometer observation data

*Ren Takaoka1, Masayuki Maki2, Seiji Fukushima1, Masato Iguchi3, Daisuke Miki3, Tomofumi Kozono4, Takahiro Miwa5, Takeshi Maesaka5
1. Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University, Japan, 2. Research and Education Center for Natural Hazards, Japan, 3. Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan, 4. Graduate School, Tohoku University, Japan, 5. National Resarch Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Japan

13:30 [Poster2-48]
Classification of precipitation and volcanic clouds using operational X-band polarimetric radar parameters

*Yura Kim1,3, Masayuki Maki1, Masato Iguchi2, Dong-In Lee3
1. Research and Education Center for Natural Hazards, Kagoshima University, Japan, 2. Sakurajima Volcano Research Center/DPRI, Kyoto University, Sakurajima, Kagoshima, Japan, 3. Department of Environmental Atmospheric Sciences, Pukyong National University, Namgu, Busan, Republic of Korea

13:30 [Poster2-49]
What does a positive KDP-peak region above the melting level indicate? ~ Statistics of KDP profiles obtained by a Ka-band polarimetric radar ~

*Taro Shinoda1, Tadayasu Ohigashi2, Hiroyuki Yamada3, Yukiya Minami4, Kazuhisa Tsuboki1
1. Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, 2. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), 3. University of the Ryukyus, 4. Ishikawa Prefectural University

13:30 [Poster2-50]
Overview of JAXA A-train Products Towards EarthCARE Synergistic Research

*Yuichiro Hagihara1, Maki Kikuchi1,2, Hajime Okamoto3, Tomoaki Nishizawa4, Takashi Y. Nakajima5, Takuji Kubota1, Riko Oki1
1. JAXA, 2. The University of Newcastle, 3. Kyushu University, 4. National Institute for Environmental Studies, 5. Tokai University

13:30 [Poster2-51]
Vertical Structure and Dynamical Properties during Snow Events in Middle Latitudes of China from VPR-CFMCW Observations

*Ye Cui1,2, Zheng Ruan2, Ming Wei1, Feng Li2, Runsheng Ge2
1. NUIST, 2. CAMS

13:30 [Poster2-52]
The analysis of lightning characteristics using LINET and S-band Polarimetric radar in Korea.

*Mi-Young Kang1, Cheol-Hwan You1, Dong-In Lee1, Hyeon-Joon Kim1
1. Pkyoung National University

13:30 [Poster2-53]
The evolution and structure of a long-lived triple-hailfall storm using polarimetric radar in southeast China

*Ang Zhou1, Kun Zhao1, Hao Huang1
1. Key Laboratory of Mesoscale Severe Weather/MOE and School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Road, Nanjing, China

13:30 [Poster2-54]
Snow Microphysical Characteristics and Snowfall Estimation by Z-SR Relations Derived from 2D Video Disdrometers in East China

*Ranting Tao1, Kun Zhao1
1. Nanjing University

13:30 [Poster2-55]
A new generalized approach for distribution normalization and implications for radar retrieval of raindrop size distributions

*Hugh Morrison1, Matthew R. Kumjian2, Olivier P. Prat3, Marcus van Lier-Walqui4
1. National Center for Atmospheric Research, 2. Pennsylvania State University, 3. North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, North Carolina State University, 4. NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University

13:30 [Poster2-56]
A Hydrometeor Classification Method and Its Applications for X-band Dual-polarization Radar Measurements

*Hui Xiao1,2, Liang Feng1, Yue Sun1,2
1. Key Laboratory of Cloud Precipitation Physics and Severe Storms (LACS), & Center of Disaster Reduction, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)

13:30 [Poster2-57]
DERIVING MICROPHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SNOW AND ICE PARTICLES FROM A DUAL POL WEATHER RADAR

*Erwan LE BOUAR1, Jacques TESTUD1, Emmanuel MOREAU1
1. NOVIMET

13:30 [Poster2-58]
Performance evaluation of a radar-based super-cooled water detection algorithm during the SNOWIE Field Campaign

*David Serke1, Sarah Tessendorf1, Alexei Korolev2, Ivan Heckman2, Jeff French3, Allyson Rugg1, Julie Haggerty1, David Albo1
1. NCAR, 2. ECCC, 3. University of Wyoming

13:30 [Poster2-59]
Dynanmical and Microphysical Properties of Precipitating Clouds in the South of China Based on VPR-CFMCW and Disdrometer Observations

*Zheng Ruan1, Yang Zhao Huo2, Feng Li1, Run Sheng Ge1
1. Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, 2. Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters

13:30 [Poster2-60]
Drop Size Distribution Characteristics of Seven Typhoons from 2D-Video Disdrometer and C-band Polarimetric Radar in China

*Kun Zhao1, Long Wen1
1. Nanjing University

13:30 [Poster2-61]
Analyzing supercells and their attendant hazards using raw and bias-corrected S-Band differential reflectivity

*Darrel Kingfield1, Michael M French2, Jeffrey C Snyder3, Kristopher Tuftedal2, Jacob Segall2
1. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, and NOAA/OAR/ESRL/Global Systems Division, Boulder, Colorado, 2. School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, 3. NOAA/OAR/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma

13:30 [Poster2-62]
Hailstorm observations with X-band polarimetric radars in Tokyo metropolitan area, Japan.

*Yukari Shusse1, Shin-ichi Suzuki1, Takeshi Maesaka1, Kaori Kieda1, Hitoshi Yokoyama1, Koyuru Iwanami1, Kohin Hirano1
1. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience

13:30 [Poster2-63]
Development of a Practical Hydrometeor Classification Algorithm via a Bayesian Approach Using C-band Dual Polarization Radar

*Akihito Umehara1, Tetsuji Koike2, Kentaro Yamamoto3, Nobuhiro Nagumo3, Hiroshi Yamauchi3
1. Meteorological Research Institute, JMA, 2. Osaka Regional Headquarters, JMA, 3. Observation Department, JMA

13:30 [Poster2-64]
Triple-Frequency Airborne Radar Observations of Mid and High Latitude Clouds

*Cuong Nguyen1, Mengistu Wolde1, Samuel Haimov2, Alexei Korolev3, Leonid Nichman1, Matthew Bastian1, Natalia Bliankinshtein1, Ivan Heckman3
1. Flight Research Laboratory, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 2. Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Wyoming, Wyoming, USA, 3. Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Canada

[Poster2] 13:30-15:00 @CR1-2 & CR3-4
Organized Convection and Severe Phenomena

13:30 [Poster2-65]
Downburst observations using a high density ground surface meteorological observation network

*Hisato Iwashita1, Toshiaki Morita1, Koji Shibata1, Fumiaki Kobayashi2
1. Meisei Electric Co.,ltd., 2. National Defense Academy

13:30 [Poster2-66]
Characteristics and Precipitation of Three Types of Convective Storms During the Beijing Extreme Rainfall of 15-17 July 2018

*Cha Yan Cao1
1. National Meteorological Centre

13:30 [Poster2-67]
The first detection of a significant tornado in China with Doppler weather radar

*Xiaoding Yu1
1. Training Center, China Meteorological Administration

13:30 [Poster2-68]
Analysis of Mesoscale Character on Bohai Ocean–effect Snowstorm by Doppler Radar Data

*Cheng Fang Yang1
1. Shandong Meteorological Observatory

13:30 [Poster2-69]
Energetics and Rotational Dynamics of Hurricane Clusters

*Bryan Kerman

13:30 [Poster2-70]
Evolution and Development Mechanisms of an Intense Arc-Shaped Squall Line Occurring along the South Side of a Cold Vortex

Yanduo GONG2,3, *Yongguang ZHENG1,2, Qi LUO2,1
1. National Meteorological Centre, CMA, 2. Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA, 3. Heilongjiang Meteorological Office

13:30 [Poster2-71]
A New Machine Learning-Based Tornado Detection Algorithm for the WSR-88D Network

*Thea Sandmael1,2, Kimberly Elmore1,2, Brandon Smith1,2
1. OU CIMMS, 2. NOAA NSSL

13:30 [Poster2-72]
Automated identification of ZDR arcs in simulated radar data: A comparative study

*Allison Theresa LaFleur1, Robin Tanamachi1, Daniel Dawson1, Raychel Nelson1, Brice Coffer2
1. Purdue University, 2. North Carolina State University

13:30 [Poster2-73]
The evolution of a tornadic supercell based on data from a mobile, rapid-scan, X-band, polarimetric Doppler radar and a WSR-88D radar, integrated with cloud-top features viewed by a rapid-update, geosynchronous satellite

*Howard Bluestein1, Dylan Reif1, Zachary Wienhoff1, Daniel Lindsey2, Daniel Bikos3
1. School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, 2. NOAA/NESDIS, 3. Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)

13:30 [Poster2-74]
The Nature of Winter Thunderstorms in Japan

*Koichiro Michimoto1
1. Otowa Electric Co. Ltd.

13:30 [Poster2-75]
Radar analysis of linear rain bands occurred Kochi Prefecture during the Heavy Rain Event of July 2018

*Akira Nishii1, Koji Sassa1
1. Kochi University

13:30 [Poster2-76]
A Comparison of the Polarimetric Radar Characteristics of Hurricanes Harvey (2017) and Florence (2018)

*Jennifer DeHart1, Michael Bell1
1. Colorado State University

13:30 [Poster2-77]
Classification of Heavy Ocean–effect Snow by Doppler Radar Observations

*Chang Liu1
1. Meteorological Observatory in Shandong Province

13:30 [Poster2-78]
THE Effect of wind shear on thunderstorms lightning ACTIVITY: a CASE STUDY IN THE AMAZON BASIN

*Pedro Augusto Sampaio Messias Ribeiro1, Carlos Augusto Morales Rodriguez1
1. Universidade de Sao Paulo

13:30 [Poster2-79]
Investigation of the Local Torrential Rains in Ordos on July 7-10, 2016

*Xuefeng Meng1, Jingbo Yun1
1. Inner Mongolian Meteorological Observatory

13:30 [Poster2-80]
Preliminary Analysis of the Causes of "811" Strong Tornado weather

*Jingbo Yun1, Xuefeng Meng1
1. Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Meteorological Observatory

13:30 [Poster2-81]
A study on the physical process involved in the genesis of a severe tropical tornado

*Xiuming Wang1, Xiaoding Yu1
1. China meteorological Administration Training center

13:30 [Poster2-82]
Microphysical Characteristics of a Great Rainstorm in Northern China Observed by 2DVD and Micro Rain Radar

*Li Luo1,2, Hui Xiao1,2, Huiling Yang1, Haonan Chen3,4, Jia Guo5, Yue Sun1,2
1. Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), 3. Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 4. NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, 5. Beijing Metstar Radar CO., LTD

13:30 [Poster2-83]
Patterns of Thunderstorm Evolution Over Lake Victoria Basin Based on Meso- and Local-Scale Environmental Factors

*Rita Roberts1, James Wilson1, Daniel Megenhardt1, Pascal Waniha2, Benedicto Katole2
1. NCAR, 2. TMA

13:30 [Poster2-84]
Radar-based “Diurnal-Cycle Indices” for hydrometeorology over Indonesian maritime continent

*Manabu D. Yamanaka1,3, Shuichi Mori3, Hiroyuki Hashiguchi4, Albertus Sulaiman5, Reni Sulistyowati5, Mariko Ogawa4, Osamu Kozan1,4
1. Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), 2. Kobe University, 3. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 4. Kyoto University, 5. Agency of Assessment and Application of Technology (BBPT)

13:30 [Poster2-85]
An updated and extended radar-based hail climatology for Switzerland

*Simona Trefalt1, Katharina Schroeer2, Urs Germann1, Alessandro M Hering1, Luca Nisi2, Cornelia Schwierz2
1. MeteoSwiss, Division for Radar, Satellite and Nowcasting, 2. MeteoSwiss, Division for Analysis and Forecasting

13:30 [Poster2-86]
Multifractal analysis on rainfall rate obtained by radars and the numerical model CReSS during 3 Typhoon cases in 2012 in S. Korea

*Jisun Lee1,2, Ioulia Tchiguirinskaia2, Daniel Schertzer2, Yu-Chieng Liou3, Dong-In Lee1
1. Department of Environmental Atmospheric Science, Pukyong National University, Busan, Republic of Korea, 2. HM&Co, École des Ponts, UPE, Champs-sur-Marne, France, 3. Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan

13:30 [Poster2-87]
Comparison of Cloud Microphysical Characteristic Simulations of Atmospheric Models with Hydrometeor Classification Based on X-band Dual-Polarization Radar Measurements for a Strong Convective Cloud Precipitation

*Huiling Yang1, Xiao Hui1,3, Yue Sun1,3
1. Key Laboratory of Cloud Precipitation Physics and Severe Storms (LACS), & Center of Disaster Reduction, 2. Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)

13:30 [Poster2-88]
An Observational Study of Jumping Cirrus with Ground-based Visible Cameras and X-band Radar

*Takafumi Seguchi1, Suginori Iwasaki1, Masashi Kamogawa2, Tomoki Ushiyama3, Hajime Okamoto4
1. NDA of Japan, 2. GCARR, University of Shizuoka , 3. ICHARM, PWRI, 4. RIAM, Kyushu University

13:30 [Poster2-89]
Cause Analysis of an Extreme Gale Event in Lingui

*Mengsong Nong1
1. Guangxi Meteorological Observatory

13:30 [Poster2-90]
Influence of Synoptic Pattern and Low-Level Wind Speed on Intensity and Diurnal Variations of Orographic Convection in Summer over Pearl River Delta, South China

*Xiaona Rao1, Kun Zhao1
1. Key Laboratory of Mesoscale Severe Weather/MOE and School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

13:30 [Poster2-91]
Multi-scale structure of meso-gamma scale vortex observed by X-band Doppler radars

*Hanako Inoue1, Kenichi Kusunoki1, Naoki Ishitsu1, Kenichiro Arai1, Chusei Fujiwara2, Toru Adachi1, Hiroto Suzuki2
1. Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, 2. East Japan Railway Company

13:30 [Poster2-92]
Preliminary results from the Tiny TWIRL 2019 tornado low-level wind study

*Karen Ann Kosiba1, Joshua Wurman1
1. The Center for Severe Weather Research

13:30 [Poster2-93]
Preliminary results from the CSWR 2019 hurricane low-level wind campaign

*Joshua Wurman1, Karen Ann Kosiba1
1. The Center for Severe Weather Research

13:30 [Poster2-94]
Characteristics of QLCS Downdrafts and Environments Observed during the VORTEX-Southeast Project

James Marquis1, *Karen Ann Kosiba1, Joshua Wurman1
1. The Center for Severe Weather Research

13:30 [Poster2-95]
A dual-polarization radar observation of the thunderstorm dominated by positive cloud to ground lightning flash

*Syugo Hayashi1,2, Akihito Umehara2, Nobuhiro Nagumo3
1. Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2. Meteorological Research Institute, JMA, 3. Observation Department, JMA

13:30 [Poster2-96]
Tornado Recognition Algorithm Based on Fuzzy Logic

*Jia Xu1, Qiangyu Zeng1, Jianxin He1, Yi Zhu2
1. CUIT , 2. Jiangsu Atmospheric Detection Center

13:30 [Poster2-97]
Development process and lightning characteristics of a supercell thunderstorm observed by Tokyo LMA, an X-band phased array weather radar, and X-band polarimetric radars in Tokyo, Japan

*Namiko Sakurai1, Paul R. Krehbiel2, William Rison2, Rohald J. Thomas2, Daniel Rodeheffer2, Shingo Shimizu1, Koyuru Iwanami1, Takeshi Maesaka1, Kaori Kieda1, Yasushi Uji1
1. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), 2. New Mexico Tech., NM, USA

13:30 [Poster2-98]
Observations of convective storm and tornado-like vortex using X- and Ka-band radars and Doppler lidars in Tokyo, Japan

*Shin-ichi Suzuki1, Takeshi Maesaka1, Koyuru Iwanami1, Kaori Kieda1, Yasushi Uji1
1. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience

13:30 [Poster2-99]
A Comparison of MRMS Echo Top Altitudes and Cloud-Top Heights from Satellite

*Skylar S Williams1, Kristin M Calhoun2
1. OU/CIMMS NOAA/OAR/NSSL, 2. NOAA/OAR/NSSL

13:30 [Poster2-100]
Interactions between the atmospheric large-scale and the small-scale tropical convection properties

*Valentin Louf1, Christian Jakob1, Alain Protat2
1. Monash University, 2. Bureau of Meteorology

13:30 [Poster2-101]
Developing and Assessing the Performance of an Object-Based Tornado Debris Signature Detection Algorithm

*Jeffrey Snyder1, John Krause2,1, Arthur Witt1
1. NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, 2. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma

13:30 [Poster2-102]
Polarimetric Radar Characteristics of Large Hail and Its Growth

*Jeffrey Snyder1, John Krause2,1, Kiel Ortega2,1
1. NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, 2. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma

13:30 [Poster2-103]
Two Distinct Modes of Precipitation Systems around the Southwestern Coast of Sumatra During the Passage of an MJO Event

*Biao Geng1, Masaki Katsumata1
1. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

13:30 [Poster2-104]
Different Precipitation Systems between Hiroshima and Hyogo during the Extreme Rainfall Event in July 2018 Revealed by the Radar Observation

*Kenta Sueki1,2, Yoshiyuki Kajikawa1,3
1. RIKEN Center for Computational Science, 2. RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, 3. Research Center for Urban Safety and Security, Kobe University

13:30 [Poster2-105]
Characteristics of three-dimensional wind field of Line-Shaped Rain Bands around Sapporo.

*Yuta Ohya1, Tomohito Yamada1
1. Hokkaido University

13:30 [Poster2-106]
Withdrawn: Low level wind characteristics over Cochin, India during the 2018 Monsoon Flood as observed with a 205 MHz wind Profiling Radar

*Manoj Manguttathil Gopalakrishnan1, Mohanakumar K1, Rakesh V1, Rejoy Rebello1, Titu Samson1
1. Cochin University of Science and Technology

13:30 [Poster2-107]
Field observation of rainfall distributed in vertical cross section with Xband radar under severe windy conditions in 2018

*Hiroki OKACHI1, Yasushi Fujiyoshi2, Tomohito Yamada3
1. Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, 2. Professor emeritus, Hokkaido University, 3. Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University

13:30 [Poster2-108]
Dual-Radar Observation study of Squall lines in China

*HaiGuang Zhou1
1. Chinese Academy of Meteorolgical Science

[Poster2] 13:30-15:00 @CR1-2 & CR3-4
Quantitative Precipitation Estimation and Hydrology

13:30 [Poster3-99]
Extended Validation of Composite-Weighted Rain Rate Algorithm using Iowa XPOL-5 Radar Scans over a Twin-Bucket Rain Gauge Network

Merhala Thurai1, V. N. Bringi1, *Kumar Vijay Mishra2, Witold Krajewski2
1. Colorado State University, 2. University of Iowa

[Session 7A] 15:00-16:00 @NH
Radar Networks, Quality Control, Processing and Software

15:00 [Session 7A-01]
Artificial Intelligence and weather radars

*Chandra V Chandrasekar1, Ryan Gooch1, Joseph Hardin2, Haonan Chen3
1. Colorado State University, 2. PNNL, 3. NOAA, ESRL

15:15 [Session 7A-02]
Classification of Rain Echoes by Deep Learning Using Phased Array Weather Radar Data

*Shinsuke Satoh1, Hiroshi Hanado1, Seiji Kawamura1, Tomohiko Konno1, Michiaki Iwazume1, Shigenori Otsuka2, Takemasa Miyoshi2
1. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 2. RIKEN Center for Computational Science

15:30 [Session 7A-03]
Correction of Polarimetric Observations from SSPA X-band Weather Radar

*Jeong-Eun Lee1, Sung-Hwa Jung1
1. Weather Radar Center, Korea Meteorological Administration, South Korea

15:45 [Session 7A-04]
Research to operations: Establishing a next generation hail size estimation algorithm

*Nick Guy1, Scott M Ganson1
1. Verisk Weather Solutions

[Session 7B] 15:00-16:00 @RH1
Use of Radar Data for Nowcasting and Numerical Models

15:00 [Session 7B-01]
Big Data Assimilation: Past 6 Years and Future Plans

*Takemasa Miyoshi1, Shigenori Otsuka1, Takumi Honda1, Guo-Yuan Lien2, Yasumitsu Maejima1, Marimo Ohhigashi1, Yoshito Yoshizaki3, Hiromu Seko4, Hirofumi Tomita1, Shinsuke Satoh5, Tomoo Ushio6, Balazs Gerofi1, Yutaka Ishikawa1, Naonori Ueda1, Kana Koike7, Yasuhiko Nakada8
1. RIKEN, 2. Central Weather Bureau, Taiwan, 3. Meteorological Satellite Center, 4. Meteorological Research Institute, 5. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 6. Tokyo Metropolitan University, 7. MTI, Inc., 8. Tokyo Electric Power Company

15:15 [Session 7B-02]
Impact of Phased Array Radar on Convective-scale Data Assimilation and Forecasting: An OSSE Study

*Juanzhen Sun1, Zhuming Ying1, Robert Jeff Keeler1
1. NCAR

15:30 [Session 7B-03]
Assimilation impact of high-temporal-resolution volume scans on quantitative precipitation forecasts in a severe storm; Evidence from nudging data assimilation experiments with a thermodynamical retrieval method.

*Shingo Shimizu1, Koyuru Iwanami1, Ryohei Kato1, Namiko Sakurai1, Takeshi Maesaka1, Kaori Kieda1, Yukari Shusse1, Shin-ichi Suzuki1
1. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience

15:45 [Session 7B-04]
Assimilation impact of cloud radar on quantitative precipitation forecast for localized heavy rainfall: Evidence from water vapor nudging data assimilation experiments

*Ryohei Kato1, Shingo Shimizu1, Tadayasu Ohigashi1, Takeshi Maesaka1, Koyuru Iwanami1
1. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED)

[Session 8A] 16:30-18:00 @NH
Spaceborne Radar and Its Observation

16:30 [Session 8A-01]
History and future plan about the solver module of the DPR standard algorithm

*Shinta Seto1
1. Nagasaki University

16:45 [Session 8A-02]
GROUPEL AND HAIL IDENTIFICATION ALGORITHM FOR GPM

Minda Le1, *V. Chandrasekar1
1. Colorado State University

17:00 [Session 8A-03]
GPM Satellite Radar Observations of Precipitation Mechanisms in Atmospheric Rivers

*Forest Cannon1, Jason M Cordeira2, Marty Ralph1
1. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 2. Plymouth State University

17:15 [Session 8A-04]
Global Detection of Mesoscale Convective Systems and Surprise Findings over High-latitudes from the GPM Ku-band Spaceborne Radar

*Jingyu Wang1, Robert Houze2, Jiwen Fan1, Stacy Brodzik2, Zhe Feng1, Joseph Hardin1
1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2. University of Washington

17:30 [Session 8A-05]
The Latitudinal Variability of Raindrop Size Distribution Properties And the Implication for GPM Rainfall Algorithms

*Alain Protat1, Christian Klepp2, Valentin Louf3, Walter Petersen4, Simon Alexander5, Ana Barros6, Jussi Leinonen7, Gerald Mace8
1. Australian Bureau of Meteorology, 2. Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, 3. Monash University, 4. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, 5. Duke University, 6. Australian Antarctic Division, 7. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 8. University of Utah

17:45 [Session 8A-06]
A radar-only combined radar-radiometer precipitation algorithm by the spaceborne precipitation radar

*Kaya Kanemaru1, Toshio Iguchi1, Atsushi Hamada2
1. NICT, 2. University of Toyama

[Session 8B] 16:30-18:00 @RH1
Microphysical Studies with Radars

16:30 [Session 8B-01]
Fully Polarimetric Ka-Band Radar Observations of Ice Pellet Formation

*Matthew R Kumjian1, Dana M Tobin1, Mariko Oue2, Pavlos Kollias2,3
1. Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, The Pennsylvania State University, 2. School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, 3. Brookhaven National Laboratory

16:45 [Session 8B-02]
Ka-band Radar Polarimetric and Doppler Spectrum Measurements for Snowbands Along the U.S. Northeast Coast

*Mariko Oue1, Pavlos Kollias1,2, Brian A. Colle1, Alexander Ryzhkov3, James Mead4
1. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA, 2. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA, 3. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma and National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK, USA, 4. ProSensing, Amherst, MA, USA

17:00 [Session 8B-03]
Polarimetric radar signatures of oriented aggregates

*Robert Schrom1, S Joseph Munchak2, Ian S Adams2
1. NASA GSFC/USRA, 2. NASA GSFC

17:15 [Session 8B-04]
Retrieval of Ice Microphysics using Simultaneous Measurements at C- and Ka-Band

*Martin Hagen1, Florian Ewald1, Silke Groß1, Christoph Knote2, Qiang Li1, Bernhard Mayer2, Gregor Möller2, Eleni Tetoni1, Tobias Zinner2
1. DLR Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere, 2. LMU Meteorologisches Institut

17:30 [Session 8B-05]
Microphysics and polarimetric features of snowfall associated with a warm conveyor belt during the ICE-POP 2018 campaign

*Josue Gehring1, Alfonso Ferrone1, Nikola Besic2, Etienne Vignon1, Annika Oertel3, Alexis Berne1
1. EPF Lausanne, 2. Meteo France, 3. ETH Zurich

17:45 [Session 8B-06]
Microphysical processes identified by QVP-based hierarchical clustering of polarised X-band Doppler radar observations

*Maryna Lukach1,2, Ryan R. III Neely1,2, David Dufton1,2, Joshua Hampton1, Lindsay Bennett1,2
1. National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, LEEDS, United Kingdom , 2. School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, LEEDS, United Kingdom

   

WEDNESDAY, SEP. 18

[Session 9A] 9:00-10:30 @NH
Radar Networks, Quality Control, Processing and Software

9:00 [Session 9A-01]
A comparison of KDP retrieval algorithms in an idealized known-truth environment

*Karly Jackson Reimel1, Matthew R Kumjian1
1. Pennsylvania State University

9:15 [Session 9A-02]
Should interpolation of reflectivity data be performed in Z or dBZ?

Robert A Warren1, *Valentin Louf1, Joshua S Soderholm2, Alain Protat2, Scott M Collis3, Robert C Jackon3, Zachary S Sherman3
1. Monash University, 2. Bureau of Meteorology, 3. Argonne National Laboratory

9:30 [Session 9A-03]
Application of Geodesy for Meteorological Multi-Instrument Campaigns

*Freya Ione Addison1, Ryan Reynolds Neely1, Jonathan Crosier5, Chris Westbrook6, Stephanie Evan8, Jérome Briode8, Chris Walden4,3, Axel Wellpott2, Graeme Nott2, Darcy Ladd3,4, James Dorsey5, Mark Fortescue3, Steven Abel7, Steven Best7, Sebastian O'Shea5, Chris Reed2
1. University of Leeds, 2. FAAM, 3. Chilbolton Observatory, 4. STFC, 5. University of Manchester, 6. University of Reading, 7. Met Office, 8. University of Réunion

9:45 [Session 9A-04]
1-year evaluation of non-meteorological echo removal for two C-band radars using dual-pol fuzzy logic

*Aart Overeem1,2, Hidde Leijnse1, Remko Uijlenhoet2
1. Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, 2. Wageningen University & Research

10:00 [Session 9A-05]
Withdrawn: Quality Control of Sea Clutter and Constant Power Function Artifacts for Operational U.S. Navy Shipboard Radar Data Assimilation

*Paul Robert Harasti1
1. U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division

10:15 [Session 9A-06]
Monitoring the impacts of weather radar data quality control at the continental scale

*Daniel Michelson1, Bjarne Hansen1, Dominik Jacques1, François Lemay1
1. Environment and Climate Change Canada

[Session 9B] 9:00-10:30 @RH1
Use of Radar Data for Nowcasting and Numerical Models

9:00 [Session 9B-01]
Time and Space Observation Error Correlation of Doppler Radar Radial Winds

*Tadashi Fujita1, Hiromu Seko1, Takuya Kawabata1, Daisuke Hotta1, Ken Sawada1, Yasutaka Ikuta2, Masaru Kunii2, Toru Tsukamoto2, Ginga Akimoto2
1. Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, 2. Numerical Prediction Division, Japan Meteorological Agency

9:15 [Session 9B-02]
Effect of Vertical Error Correlation on the Assimilation of GPM/DPR Spectral Latent Heating

*Yasutaka Ikuta1
1. Japan Meteorological Agency

9:30 [Session 9B-03]
A Non-Gaussian approach for assimilating North-American reflectivity measurements

*Dominik Jacques1, Mark Buehner1
1. Environment Canada

9:45 [Session 9B-04]
Statistical comparison of convection permitting model simulations with radar observations over the Western Ghats of India

*Sachin Deshpande1, Utsav Bhowmik1, Medha Deshpande1, Subrata Das1, Govindan Pandithurai1
1. Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology

10:00 [Session 9B-05]
Using Polarimetric Doppler Radar Observations to Probabilistically Inform a New Class of Particle-Property Predicting Bulk Ice Microphysics Schemes

*Matthew R Kumjian1, Marcus van Lier-Walqui2,3, Jerry Y. Harrington1, Robert S. Schrom5, Anders A. Jensen4, Edwin L. Dunnavan1
1. Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, The Pennsylvania State University, 2. Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, 3. NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 4. National Center for Atmospheric Research, 5. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

10:15 [Session 9B-06]
Using EnKF radar data assimilation to analyze the impact of microphysical processes on the evolution of the 31 March 2016 Southeast-U.S. tornado outbreak during VORTEX-SE

*Daniel T Dawson II1, Robin Lynn Tanamachi1, Youngsun Jung2,3, Jonathan Labriola2,3, Bryan J Putnam2,3, Ming Xue2,3, Pamela Heinselman4, Kent Knopfmeier5, Edward R Mansell4, Louis J Wicker4
1. Purdue University, 2. Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, 3. University of Oklahoma, 4. NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, 5. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies

[Session 10A] 11:00-12:00 @NH
Quantitative Precipitation Estimation and Hydrology

11:00 [Session 10A-01]
Enhancing Specific Attenuation Rainfall Estimates in Stratiform and Convective Rain Regimes

*Stephen Cocks1, Lin Tang1, Jian Zhang2, Alexander Ryzhkov1, Pengfei Zhang1, Kenneth Howard2
1. CIMMS/NSSL, 2. NSSL

11:15 [Session 10A-02]
How high the resolution can we prefer for the X-band radar precipitation measurement in urban regions?

*Yaoyao Zheng1, Jan Handwerker1, Norbert Kalthoff1
1. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

11:30 [Session 10A-03]
Improved small scale QPE in Seoul metropolitan area by combining X-band and S-band dual-polarimetric radar networks

*GyuWon Lee1,4, DaeHyung Lee1, GwangSeob Kim2, Alexander Ryzhkov3, GeunSu Lyu4, Wonbae Bang4, Hong-Mok Park4
1. Department of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea, 2. Department of Architectural, Civil, Environmental, and Energy Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea, 3. University of Oklahoma, and NOAA/OAR/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma, USA, 4. Center for Atmospheric Remote Sensing, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea

11:45 [Session 10A-04]
OPERATIONAL QPE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT FOR CANADA S-BAND DUAL-POLARIZATION RADAR NETWORK.

*Sudesh Boodoo1, David Hudak1, Norman Donaldson1, Daniel Michelson1, Janti Reid1
1. Environment and Climate Change Canada

[Session 10B] 11:00-12:00 @RH1
Organized Convection and Severe Phenomena

11:00 [Session 10B-01]
Overview of RELAMPAGO mobile radar observations

*Karen Ann Kosiba1, Joshua Wurman1, Robert Jeffrey Trapp2, Matthew Kumjian 3, Steve Nesbitt2
1. The Center for Severe Weather Research, 2. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3. The Pennsylvania State University

11:15 [Session 10B-02]
Radar Observations of the Discrete Propagation of a Mesoscale Convective System During RELAMPAGO-CACTI

*Kelly Lombardo1, Matthew R Kumjian2
1. University of Connecticut, 2. The Pennsylvania State Univerisity

11:30 [Session 10B-03]
Characteristics of deep convection observed near the Sierras de Cordoba in Argentina

*Angela Rowe1, Clayton Sasaki1, Lynn McMurdie1, Stacy Brodzik1, Kristen Rasmussen2
1. University of Washington, 2. Colorado State University

11:45 [Session 10B-04]
Prediction of Rainfall Extremes Campaign In the Pacific: PRECIP 2020

*Michael M. Bell1, Kristen Rasmussen1
1. Colorado State University

   

THURSDAY, SEP. 19

[Session 11A] 9:00-10:30 @NH
Spaceborne Radar and Its Observation

9:00 [Session 11A-01]
EarthCARE products and challenges for climate change studies

*Hajime Okamoto1, Kentaroh Suzuki2, Masaki Satoh2, Tomoaki Nishizawa3, Takashi Nakajima4, Kaori Sato1, Eiji Oikawa1, Hiroshi Ishimoto5, Maki Kikuchi6, Takuji Kubota6, Riko Oki6, Toshio Iguchi7, Yuichi Ohno7, Hiroaki Horie7, Shoken Ishii7
1. Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, 2. AORI, University of Tokyo, 3. National Institute for Environmental Studies, 4. Tokai University, 5. Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, 6. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 7. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

9:15 [Session 11A-02]
Intercomparisons of CloudSat and ground-based radar measurements during satellite overpasses

*Sergey Y Matrosov1, Alexander Ryzhkov2, Joseph Hardin3, Matthew Shupe1, Maximilian Maahn1, Gijs de Boer1, Taneil Uttal4
1. CIRES, Universty of Colorado and NOAA ESRL, 2. CIMMS, University of Oklahoma and NOAA NSSL, 3. PNNL, 4. NOAA ESRL

9:30 [Session 11A-03]
Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Estimates with Space-based Radars

*Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter1
1. University of Oklahoma - NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory

9:45 [Session 11A-04]
A triple-frequency radar for cloud and precipitation microphysical profiling

*Alessandro Battaglia1, Pavlos Kollias2, Frederic Tridon3
1. University of Leicester, Leicester, UK, 2. University of Stonybrook, NY, US, 3. University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

10:00 [Session 11A-05]
Impact Assessment of Next Generation Rainfall Measuring Satellite on NWP: An Observing System Simulation Experiment for a Typhoon Case

*Atsushi Okazaki1,2, Takumi Honda1, Shunji Kotsuki1, James Taylor1, Takemasa Miyoshi1
1. RIKEN Center for Computational Science, 2. Pennsylvania State University

10:15 [Session 11A-06]
The Melting Layer Observation using a Dual Ka-band Radar System

*Kenji Nakamura1, Yuki Kaneko2, Katsuhiro Nakagawa3, Hiroshi Hanado3, Masanori Nishikawa
1. Dokkyo University, 2. JAXA/EORC, Japan, 3. NICT, Japan

[Session 11B] 9:00-10:30 @RH1
Organized Convection and Severe Phenomena

9:00 [Session 11B-01]
High-order azimuthal wavenumber asymmetries in rapidly intensifying Hurricane Michael (2018)

*Ting-Yu Cha1, Michael M. Bell1, Wen-Chau Lee2
1. Colorado State University, 2. National Center for Atmospheric Research

9:15 [Session 11B-02]
Dramatic changes in the inner-core structure of Typhoon Jebi (2018) at landfall and relationship between a mesovortex, heavy rainfall, and strong wind gusts

*Udai Shimada1, Ryo Oyama1, Akihito Umehara1, Shingo Shimizu2
1. Meteorological Research Institute, 2. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention

9:30 [Session 11B-03]
Asymmetric aspects of secondary eyewalls and their formation in tropical cyclones

*Anthony Didlake, Jr.1, Matthew Kumjian1, Robert Rogers2, Paul Reasor2
1. Penn State University, 2. NOAA/AOML/HRD

9:45 [Session 11B-04]
Polarimetric Radar Observations of Size Sorting in the Asymmetric Eyewall of Hurricane Matthew (2016)

*Chelsey N. Laurencin1, Anthony C. Didlake, Jr.1
1. The Pennsylvania State University

10:00 [Session 11B-05]
Damaging wind fields associated with Typhoon Jebi in the Kansai region in Japan on the 4th September 2018 derived from multiple-Doppler wind synthesis over complex terrain

*Yoshinori Yamada1
1. Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agnecy

10:15 [Session 11B-06]
Are outer tropical cyclone rainbands similar to squall lines?

*Cheng-Ku Yu1, Che-Yu Lin1, Jhang-Shuo Luo1, Lin-Wen Cheng1
1. Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University

[Session 12A] 11:00-12:00 @NH
Phased Array Radar Technology and Its Observation

11:00 [Session 12A-01]
Shanghai Urban Array Weather Radar Network Experiment

*Haojun Chen1, Haizhen Mu1, Qindian Wang1, Xiaoping Xu2, Chunguang Yin1, Jie Zheng1, Hao Xue1, Chao Liu1, Yunshi Li2
1. Shanghai Meteorological Information and Technology Support Center, Shanghai City, China, 2. Hunan Eastone Washon Science and Technology Ltd., Changsha City, China

11:15 [Session 12A-02]
High-Temporal Resolution Observations of Tornadogenesis Using the Atmospheric Imaging Radar

*Casey Griffin1, David Bodine1,2, Andrew Mahre1,2, James Kurdzo2, Robert Palmer1,2
1. University of Oklahoma, 2. Advanced Radar Research Center

11:30 [Session 12A-03]
Development of Convective Cells Embedded in Widespread Rainfall Observed by Kobe PAWR in July 2018

*Shinsuke Satoh1, Hiroshi Hanado1, Yasumitsu Maejima2, Shigenori Otsuka2, Takemasa Miyoshi2
1. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 2. RIKEN Center for Computational Science

11:45 [Session 12A-04]
An Update on the “Horus” All-Digital Polarimetric Phased Array Weather Radar

*Robert Palmer1, Caleb Fulton1, Jorge Salazar1, Hjalti Sigmarsson1, Mark Yeary1
1. Univ. of Oklahoma/ARRC

[Session 12B] 11:00-12:00 @RH1
Use of Radar Data for Nowcasting and Numerical Models

11:00 [Session 12B-01]
Comprehensive Evaluation of Mesoscale Convective Systems Simulated in Convection-permitting WRF Models during the MC3E Field Experiment

*Zhe Feng1, Jingjing Tian2, Jiwen Fan1, William I Gustafson1, Die Wang3, Scott Giangrande3, Joseph Hardin1, Nitin Bharadwaj1, Laura Riihimaki1
1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2. University of Arizona, 3. Brookhaven National Laboratory

11:15 [Session 12B-02]
Utilizing the Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor Rotation Track product as a verification data set for convection allowing models

*Anthony E Reinhart1,2, Patrick S Skinner1,2, Skylar Williams1,2, Travis M Smith1,2
1. OU/CIMMS , 2. NOAA/OAR/NSSL

11:30 [Session 12B-03]
An optimized radar-derived cloud ice mass model for nowcasting lightning

*Evan Ruzanski1, V. Chandrasekar2
1. Vaisala, 2. Colorado State University

11:45 [Session 12B-04]
Introduction for Radar Nowcasting of Severe weather events over Lake Victoria Basin in East Africa

*Pascal Felix Waniha1, Rita Roberts2, James Wilson2, Agnes Kijazi1, Benedicto Katole1
1. Tanzania Meteorological Agency, 2. National Center for Atmospheric Research

[Poster3] 13:30-15:00 @CR1-2 & CR3-4
Wind Profiler, Cloud Radar, and NonHydrometeorological Radar

13:30 [Poster3-01]
Cloud macro physical characteristics in Beijing based on Ka-radar data during 2014-2017

*Juan HUO1
1. Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

13:30 [Poster3-02]
Development of next-generation 1.3 GHz wind profiler radar

*Masayuki Yamamoto1, Seiji Kawamura1, Koji Nishimura2, Makoto Aoki1, Hironori Iwai1, Kosei Yamaguchi3, Eiichi Nakakita3
1. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), 2. National Institute of Polar Research, 3. Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto Univeristy

13:30 [Poster3-03]
Special application of polarimetric phased array weather surveillance radar

*Dusan Zrnic1, S. Koch1, V. Melnikov2, R. Rabin1, P. Zhang2
1. NOAA/NSSL, 2. CIMMS/OU

13:30 [Poster3-04]
Study on adaptive clutter rejection system using external receiving antennas for the MU radar

*Hiroyuki Hashiguchi1, Mamoru Yamamoto1
1. RISH, Kyoto University

13:30 [Poster3-05]
Application of Parametric Speakers to RASS

*Ahoro ADACHI1, Hiroyuki Hashiguchi2
1. MRI, 2. RISH

13:30 [Poster3-06]
Comparison of Vertical Velocities in Ice Clouds from Millimeter-Wavelength Radar Measurements

*Bo-Young Ye1, Eunsil Jung2, Sun-yeong Moon3, GyuWon Lee1,3
1. Center for Atmospheric REsmote sensing, Kyungpook National University, 2. School of Disaster Prevention and Environmental Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 3. Department of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences, Research and Training Team for Future Creative Astrophysicists and Cosmologists, Kyungpook National University

13:30 [Poster3-07]
Exploring the Spatial Variability of Cloud Structures from the ARM CACTI Campaign

*Bradley Isom1, Nitin Bharadwaj1, Adam Varble1
1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

13:30 [Poster3-08]
Updraft and Downdraft Core Kinematics of Mesoscale Convective Systems as Revealed by Radar Wind Profilers

*Die Wang1, Scott Giangrande1, Zhe Feng2, Joseph Hardin2, Andreas Prein3
1. Brookhaven National Lab, 2. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 3. National Center for Atmospheric Research

13:30 [Poster3-09]
Some Discoveries of Cloud Processes by Ground-Air Joint Detection

*Chen Daren1
1. Meteorological Observation Center of CMA

13:30 [Poster3-10]
The Influence of Large Scale Weather Systems to Atmospheric Refractive Index and Turbulence Intensity in Clear Air

*Ruiyi Li1, Lei Wu1
1. China Meteorological Administration Meteorological Observation Center

13:30 [Poster3-11]
Nonlinear Three-dimensional Wind Field Retrieval of Typhoon Based on Modified VAD Analysis

*Jiaqi Hu1, Zewei Zhao1, Cheng Hu1,2
1. Beijing Institute of Technology, 2. The Key Laboratory of Electronic and Information Technology in Satellite Navigation

13:30 [Poster3-12]
Cloud Radar and Thermodynamic Profiling to Investigate Bulk Entrainment for Tropical Deep Convective Clouds

*Scott Giangrande1, Die Wang1, Michael P Jensen1, Jennifer D’Iorio2, Gina Jozef3, Karen L Johnson1, Johnny Luo4, Mariusz Starzec5, Gretchen Mullendore5
1. Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2. The Pennsylvania State University, 3. Colorado College, 4. City College of New York, 5. University of North Dakota

13:30 [Poster3-13]
Two simple methods to monitor the calibration of a 35 GHz cloud radar

*Ulrich Goersdorf1, Volker Lehmann1
1. Deutscher Wetterdienst, Meteorologisches Observatorium Lindenberg

13:30 [Poster3-14]
Weather radar detection of tropical mixed-layer top capping forest-fire smog over maritime-continent peatland

*Muhammad Arif Rahman1, Manabu D. Yamanaka2,4, Masahiro Kawasaki2,5, Devis Styo Nugroho1, Yutaka Matsumi6, Masafumi Ohashi7, Hiroyuki Hashiguchi5, Shuichi Mori4, Osamu Kozan2,5
1. Indonesian Meteorological, Climatological, and Geophysical Agency (BMKG), 2. Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RHIN), 3. Kobe University, 4. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 5. Kyoto University, 6. Nagoya University, 7. Kagoshima University

13:30 [Poster3-15]
A 35-GHz FMCW Radar for Long-Term Observations of Cloud Parameters in Tibet Plateau

*Yongheng BI1, Shu Duan1, Congzheng HAN1, Daren LYU1
1. Institute of Atmospheric Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences

13:30 [Poster3-16]
Research and development for practical use of next-generation wind profiler radar

*Hiroshi Yamaguchi1, Koji Saito1, Takayuki Hamada1, Masayuki Yamamoto2, Seiji Kawamura2, Katsuyuki Imai1
1. SUMITOMO DENSETSU CO., LTD., 2. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

13:30 [Poster3-17]
Cloud Type Identification Based on Millimeter-Wave Radar RHI Data

*Zhoujie Cheng1, Xiangneng Zeng1
1. Beijing Institute of Aviation Meteorology

13:30 [Poster3-18]
Planning for LOTOS: A New LOwer Tropospheric Observing System

Terry Hock1, Steve Oncley1, Tammy Weckwerth1, Britton Stephens1, William Brown1, Alison Rockwell1, *Wen-Chau Lee1, Vanda Grubišić1
1. NCAR/EOL

13:30 [Poster3-19]
Interaction between Cloud Particles and Winds observed with W-band Cloud Profiling Doppler Radar FALCON-I and Wind Profiler

*Toshiaki TAKANO1, Ryo FUEDA1, Hyuga MORITA1, Keisuke HIKAWA1, Tomohiro ARAI1, Yohei KAWAMURA1, Hiroyo OHYA1, Hiroyuki NAKATA1, Masayuki YAMAMOTO2, Seiji KAWAMURA2
1. Chiba University, 2. National Institute of Information and Communications Tecnology

[Poster3] 13:30-15:00 @CR1-2 & CR3-4
Radar Networks, Quality Control, Processing and Software

13:30 [Poster3-20]
A Less-Tapered Signal Processing Window for Polarimetric Variables

*Lindsey Richardson1, Igor Ivić2
1. NEXRAD Radar Operations Center, Norman, Oklahoma, 2. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, and NOAA/OAR/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma

13:30 [Poster3-21]
An Improved Technique for Estimating ZDR Bias from Light Rain on Radars that Cannot Vertically Point

*Lindsey Richardson1, Robert Lee1
1. NEXRAD Radar Operations Center

13:30 [Poster3-22]
The X-band Teaching and Research RAdar (XTRRA) at Purdue University, U.S.A.: Updates and new initiatives

*Robin L Tanamachi1, Lauren Warner1, Milind Sharma1, Allison T LaFleur1, Daniel T Dawson1
1. Purdue University

13:30 [Poster3-23]
A reliable and flexible real time base data distribution framework for weather radar network

*Zhaoping Sun1, Jian Sun1, Chi'an Zhang1
1. Bejing Metstar Radar Commany CO LTD

13:30 [Poster3-24]
A standard operating procedure (SOP) for Weather Radars operation, monitoring, maintenance and calibration.

*Ljubov Joanna Liman1, Mikko Kurri1, Timo Posio1
1. Finnish Meteorological Institute

13:30 [Poster3-25]
Improving Doppler Velocity Coverage on the WSR-88D By Using Low PRFs with 2DVDA

*Autumn Losey-Bailor1, Walter David Zittel1, Zhongqi Jing2,1
1. Radar Operations Center, 2. Centuria Corporation

13:30 [Poster3-26]
The impact of the radar differential phase upon transmission on the polarimetric variables

*Valery V Melnikov1
1. Oklahoma University

13:30 [Poster3-27]
GPU acceleration for operational consumer-facing radar mosaics and nowcasting

*Sarvesh Garimella1
1. MyRadar

13:30 [Poster3-28]
Sensitivity Analysis of Polarimetric Observations by Two Different Pulse Lengths of Dual-Polarization Weather Radar

*Jeong-Eun Lee1, Sung-Hwa Jung1, Jong-Seong Kim1, KunIl Jang1
1. Weather Radar Center, Korea Meteorological Administration, South Korea

13:30 [Poster3-29]
Partial Beam Blockage Area Identification and Estimation in an X-band Networked Radar Environment

*Rui Li1, JianXin He1, Shunxian Tang1
1. Chengdu University of Information Technology

13:30 [Poster3-30]
Current Status of the Lidar Radar Open Software Environment (LROSE)

*Michael M. Bell1, Michael Dixon2, Wen-Chau Lee2, Ting-Yu Cha1, Jennifer DeHart1, Ya-Chien Feng1,2, Brenda Javornik2, Bruno Melli1
1. Colorado State University, 2. National Center for Atmospheric Research

13:30 [Poster3-31]
Radar-based Hail Size Prediction using Machine Learning

*Skylar S Williams1, Kiel L Ortega1
1. OU/CIMMS & NOAA/OAR/NSSL

13:30 [Poster3-32]
A study of the Partial Beam Blockage Effect Using a Dual-Pol Radar in the Complex Terrain of Southern Taiwan

*Hsin-Hao Liao1, Chih-Chien Tsai1, Chi-Huei Tseng2
1. National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, 2. Taiwan Ocean Research Institute, National Applied Research Laboratories

13:30 [Poster3-33]
Computing Vorticity from Airborne Doppler Radar VAD Profiles

*Charles N Helms1,2
1. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 2. Universities Space Research Association

13:30 [Poster3-34]
Networking observations with rapid-scanning radars and dual-pol radars for the applications of snow retrieval and cloud development

*Ayano Ueki1, Michihiro S. Teshiba1, David J. Bodine2, Tian-You Yu2, Boon Leng Cheong2, Robert D. Palmer2
1. Weathernews Inc., 2. University of Oklahoma

13:30 [Poster3-35]
Beyond weather data … key figures for radar monitoring and calibrations!

*Hassan AL SAKKA1, André Weipert1
1. Leonardo Germany GmbH

13:30 [Poster3-36]
Analysis of Radar Visibility for Proposed Canadian Weather Radars

*Norman R Donaldson1, Ingrid Wong2, Qian Li2, Peter Leibiuk2, Steven Brady2
1. Environment and Climate Change Canada, OBRS/MRD/STB, 2. Environment and Climate Change Canada, CWRRP/MSC

13:30 [Poster3-37]
Verification of the retrieval of calibration bias estimates from spaceborne radars using ground radar overlaps

*Irene Crisologo1,2, Maik Heistermann2
1. Northwestern University, 2. University of Potsdam

13:30 [Poster3-38]
X-band Doppler Weather Radar Velocity Unfolding Using Convolutional Neural Network

Hyeri Kim1,2, *Boon-Leng Cheong1,2, Tian-You Yu1,3
1. Advanced Radar Research Center, University of Oklahoma, 2. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 3. School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma

13:30 [Poster3-39]
Testing a new scan pattern for the German weather radar network to provide a better surveillance of rapid cell development at a one minute resolution

Jörg Seltmann1, Thomas Hohmann1, *Michael Frech1
1. Deutscher Wetterdienst

13:30 [Poster3-40]
China Weather Radar Network

*Yuchun Gao1
1. Meteorological Observation Center, CMA,China

13:30 [Poster3-41]
A Novel Feature Matching Technique Based on Multiple Textures for Cloud Images

*Hong Jiang1, Boon Leng Cheong1, Tian-You Yu1
1. The University of Oklahoma

13:30 [Poster3-42]
pysteps - an open-source Python library for radar-based precipitation nowcasting

*Seppo Pulkkinen1,2, Daniele Nerini3,4, Andrés Pérez Hortal5, Carlos Velasco-Forero6, Alan Seed6, Urs Germann3, Loris Foresti3, V. Chandrasekar1,2, Ari-Matti Harri2
1. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States, 2. Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, 3. Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Locarno, Switzerland, 4. Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 5. Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 6. Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia

13:30 [Poster3-43]
Identifying Non-meteorological Radar Signal Using Modified Fuzzy-logic Algorithm with Objectively Derived Weighting Matrix

*Wei-Yu Chang1, Ju-Yu Chen2
1. National Central University, 2. University of Bonn

13:30 [Poster3-44]
Sea clutter characteristic and rejection of CINRAD weather radar

*Zhao Shi1, Jianxin He1
1. Chengdu University of Information Technology

13:30 [Poster3-45]
Use of Space-borne Radar Observations in Evaluating Ground Radar Non-precipitation Echo Identification Algorithm

*Shuai Zhang1
1. Shanghai typhoon institute, CMA

13:30 [Poster3-46]
Establishment of the SSPA X-band Dual-polarization Radar Network over the Seoul Metropolitan Area

*Ji-Young Gu1, Sunjin Mo1, Jinwoo Park1, Sung-Hwa Jung1, Kyung-Yeub Nam1, Kunil Jang1
1. Weather Radar Center of the Korea Meteorological Administration

13:30 [Poster3-47]
Case Studies on the Benefit of the X-band Radar Network in Korea: Waterspout Phenomenon and Snow

*Sunjin Mo1, JinWoo Park1, Ji-Young Gu1, Sung-Hwa Jung1
1. Weather Radar Center, Korea Meteorological Administration, South Korea

13:30 [Poster3-48]
Taranis: Advanced Precipitation and Cloud Radar Products

*Nitin Bharadwaj1, Joseph Hardin1, Scott Giangrande2, Adam Varble1
1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2. Brookhaven National Laboratory

13:30 [Poster3-49]
A first glance at a radar processing pipeline leveraging cloud computing, non-uniform grid techniques and massive parallelization

*Scott M Ganson1, Nick Guy1
1. Verisk Weather Solutions

13:30 [Poster3-50]
Standing on the shoulders of giants: Bridging the divide of weather radar processing through open-source software, academic research and pragmatic application of private sector development

*Nick Guy1, Scott M Ganson1
1. Verisk Weather Solutions

13:30 [Poster3-51]
Impact of Rapid-Scan Radar Data on Vertical Velocity Retrievals from Dual-Doppler Analysis

*Joshua G Gebauer1, Alan Shapiro1,2, Corey Potvin4,5, Nathan Dahl4, David Bodine3, Andrew Mahre1, Michael Biggerstaff1, Addison Alford1
1. School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, 2. Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, 3. Advanced Radar Research Center, 4. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, 5. National Severe Storms Laboratory

13:30 [Poster3-52]
Three-Dimensional Spatially Variable Advection Correction: Concept and Potential Uses

*Joshua G Gebauer1, Alan Shapiro1,2, Corey Potvin3,4, Nathan Dahl3
1. School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, 2. Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, 3. Cooperative Institue for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, 4. National Severe Storms Laboratory

13:30 [Poster3-53]
Multi-source fusion precipitation technique based on machine learning

*Lejian Zhang1
1. Meteorological Observation Centre of China Meteorological Administration

13:30 [Poster3-54]
Radial Interference Echo Identification Algorithm Based on Fuzzy Logic for Chinese Single-Polarization Weather Radar

*Hao Wen1, Lejian Zhang1, Haihe Liang1, Yang Zhang2
1. Meteorological Observation Centre Of China Meteorological Administration, 2. State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences

13:30 [Poster3-55]
Rain Attenuation Correction of Reflectivity for X-Band Dual-Polarization Radar

*Liang Feng1,3, Hui Xiao1,3
1. Key Laboratory of Cloud Precipitation Physics and Severe Storms (LACS), & Center of Disaster Reduction, 2. Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)

13:30 [Poster3-56]
DOW radar and adaptive ground observation network

*Joshua Wurman1, Karen Ann Kosiba1
1. The Center for Severe Weather Research

13:30 [Poster3-57]
Toward Improved Meteorological Estimates for Polarimetric Weather Radars

*David A Warde1,2, Christopher Curtis1,2, David Schvartzman1,2, Sebastian Torres1,2
1. CIMMS/University of Oklahoma, 2. NOAA/OAR/NSSL

13:30 [Poster3-58]
Statistical analyses of strong X-band weather radar returns from wind turbines

*Martin Lainer1, Jacopo Grazioli1, Jordi Figueras i Ventura1, Zaira Schauwecker1, Marco Gabella1
1. Radar, Satellite and Nowcasting Department, MeteoSwiss, Locarno, Switzerland

13:30 [Poster3-59]
Towards a new Canadian weather radar network and the roll-out of modern operational radar products for end-users

*Ahmed Mahidjiba1, Corinne Simard1, Yacine Bouzid1, Rabah Hachelaf1, Ilyass Hajji1
1. Meteorological Service of Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada / Government of Canada

13:30 [Poster3-60]
New Techniques for Segmentation of Radar into Independent Storm Objects

*Patrick Adrian Campbell1,2, Kiel L. Ortega1,2, Travis M. Smith1,2
1. CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, 2. NOAA/OAR/NSSL

13:30 [Poster3-61]
De-aliasing with Self-Organizing Maps

*Brenda Javornik1, Wen-Chau Lee1, Michael Dixon1
1. UCAR/NCAR

13:30 [Poster3-62]
A statistical method for estimation of wind farm influence on radar data and its mitigation

*Zlatko R Vukovic1, Norman Donaldson1
1. Environment and Climate Change Canada

13:30 [Poster3-63]
Differential reflectivity calibration from vertically pointing radar observations of hydrometeors in the solid phase

Alfonso Ferrone1, *Josué Gehring1, Etienne Vignon1, Alexis Berne1
1. Remote Sensing Laboratory (LTE), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

13:30 [Poster3-64]
Open-source code for correction of dual-PRF velocity dealiasing errors

*Patricia Altube1, Tomeu Rigo1, Joan Bech2
1. Meteorological Service of Catalonia, Barcelona, 2. Universitat de Barcelona

13:30 [Poster3-65]
The quality assurance challenge of a modest weather radar network in a complex territory

*Patricia Altube1, Tomeu Rigo1, Nicolau Pineda1, Helen San Segundo1
1. Meteorological Service of Catalonia, Barcelona

13:30 [Poster3-66]
Examples of frequency sharing with other systems in X band weather radars, in Japan

*Hiroshi HANADO1, Katsuhiro NAKAGAWA1, Shoichiro KOJIMA1
1. NICT

13:30 [Poster3-67]
Quality control of the Doppler on Wheels (DOW) mobile radar data

*Karen Ann Kosiba1, Josh Wurman1
1. The Center for Severe Weather Research

[Poster3] 13:30-15:00 @CR1-2 & CR3-4
Quantitative Precipitation Estimation and Hydrology

13:30 [Poster3-68]
Improving Estimates of Flood Magnitude using better Information on Spatial and Temporal Variability of Rainfall

*Giulia Giani1, Miguel Angel Rico-Ramirez1, Ross Woods1
1. University of Bristol

13:30 [Poster3-69]
Bright Band Delineation and Radial-Dependent AVPR Corrections for QPE Improvements in MRMS

*Wolfgang Hanft1, Jian Zhang2
1. CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, 2. NOAA/OAR/NSSL

13:30 [Poster3-70]
Dual-Polarization Radar Snow QPE in MRMS

*Wolfgang Hanft1, Jian Zhang2, Petar Bukovčić1, Alexander V. Ryzhkov1, Stephen B. Cocks1, Steven M. Martinaitis1, Kenneth W. Howard2
1. CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, 2. NOAA/OAR/NSSL

13:30 [Poster3-71]
Assessment of operational polarimetric radar data for freezing-level height estimation

*Daniel Sanchez-Rivas1, Miguel Angel Rico-Ramirez1
1. University of Bristol

13:30 [Poster3-72]
Estimation of shape parameter from C-band polarimetric radar measurements

*Ahoro ADACHI1, Takahisa Kobayashi2,1
1. MRI, 2. CRIEPI

13:30 [Poster3-73]
Optimized Specific-Attenuation-Based Algorithm for Radar Quantitative Precipitation Estimation at C-band in Germany

*JuYu Chen1, Clemens Simmer1, Alexander Ryzhkov2, Silke Trömel1
1. Institute for Geosciences and Meteorology, University of Bonn, Germany, 2. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

13:30 [Poster3-74]
Radar-Derived Climatology of Precipitation Intensities in Czechia: improvement due to daily totals from rain gauges

*Vojtech Bliznak1, Marek Kaspar1, Miloslav Müller1,2, Petr Zacharov1
1. Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, 2. Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague

13:30 [Poster3-75]
Radar QPE for Hydrological Applications in Southern Brazil: PMM Parameterized ZR and Polarimetric Relationships

*Roberto V. Calheiros1, Cesar Beneti1, Nicole Rozin1, Leonardo Calvetti2
1. SIMEPAR - Parana Meteorological Service, 2. UFPel - Federal University of Pelotas

13:30 [Poster3-76]
QPE by Compact Radar Network of Kochi University

*Akira Nishii1, Koji Sassa1
1. Kochi University

13:30 [Poster3-77]
Improving Quantitative Precipitation Estimation in Complex Terrain over the San Francisco Bay Area Using a Gap-Filling Radar Network

*Robert Cifelli1, Haonan Chen2, V. Chandrasekar2
1. NOAA ESRL Physical Sciences Division, 2. Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere

13:30 [Poster3-78]
Improvements of Specific Attenuation-Based Radar QPE in Different Precipitation Regimes

*Pengfei Zhang1, Alexander Ryzhkov1, Lin Tang1, Stephen Cocks1
1. CIMMS/NSSL, University of Oklahoma

13:30 [Poster3-79]
Validation of polarimetric relations for snow estimation on radar data

Petar Bukovcic1, *Alexander Ryzhkov2, Dusan Zrnic3
1. CIMMS/NSSL, The University of Oklahoma, 2. CIMMS, The University of Oklahoma, 3. NSSL, Norman, Oklahoma

13:30 [Poster3-80]
Fractal analysis of space-time rainfall variability: limitations of rain gauge networks and applicability of dual-polarized weather radars

*IGOR PAZ1,2, IOULIA TCHIGUIRINSKAIA2, DANIEL SCHERTZER2
1. Instituto Militar de Engenharia, IME, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2. HMCO, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, University of Paris-Est, Champs-sur-Marne, France

13:30 [Poster3-81]
The urban effect on precipitation investigated by a 20-year C-band radar dataset

*Yaoyao Zheng1, Jan Handwerker1, Norbert Kalthoff1
1. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

13:30 [Poster3-82]
Merging Radar, Satelltie and Rain Gauge for Precipitation Estimation

*Parichat Wetchayont1
1. Srinakharinwirote University

13:30 [Poster3-83]
Quantitative Precipitation Estimates Using Machine Learning Approaches with Dual-Polarimetric Radar Data

*Kyuhee Shin1, Joon Jin Song2, Geunsu Lyu3, GyuWon Lee1,3
1. Department of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences, Research and Training Team for Future Creative Astrophysicists and Cosmologists, Kyungpook National University, 2. Department of Statistical Science, Baylor University, 3. Center for Atmospheric Remote sensing, Kyungpook National University

13:30 [Poster3-84]
Inter-comparison of Pricipitation Estimates from Radar, Satellite and Gauge during Yancheng Tornado over Eastern China

*Chaoying Huang1, Asi Zhang2, Zhenqing Liang1, Liusi Xiao2, Sheng Chen2, Baoqing Hu1
1. Nanning Normal University, 2. School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University

13:30 [Poster3-85]
Improved Quantitative Precipitation Estimation using pseudo KDP by Improving Spatial Continuity

*Hong-Mok Park1, Sung-Hwa Jung2, Alexander Ryzhkov3, Daejin Yeom4, GyuWon Lee4,1
1. Center for Atmospheric REmote sensing (CARE), Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea, 2. Radar Analysis Division, Weather Radar Center (WRC), Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), 3. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, The University of Oklahoma, and NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma, USA, 4. Dept. of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea

13:30 [Poster3-86]
Raingauge-Adjusted Radar Rainfall Estimation at Hybrid Surface of Dual-pol. Radar Network

*Mi-Kyung Suk1, Sangmi Lee1, Young-A Oh1, Sung-Hwa Jung1, Kun-Il Jang1
1. Korea Meteorological Administration

13:30 [Poster3-87]
Parameter Estimation of Z-R Relationship Focusing on the Target Value

*Minseok Kang1, Wooyoung Na1, Gildo Kim1, Chulsang Yoo1
1. Korea University

13:30 [Poster3-88]
An optimal averaging of MAPLE forecasts for ensemble rainfall forecasting

*Wooyoung Na1, Minseok Kang1, Gildo Kim1, Chulsang Yoo1
1. Korea University

13:30 [Poster3-89]
Estimation of flood risk considering topographic and hydrological factors for immediate flood response

*Narae Kang1, Seokhwan Hwang1, Jungsoo Yoon1
1. Department of Land, Water and Enviroment Research, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology

13:30 [Poster3-90]
Improved QPE by mitigating partial beam blocking in Seoul metropolitan area: Use of radar reflectivity statistics

*DaeHyung Lee1, Alexander Ryzhkov2, Geunsu Lyu3, Cheong-lyong Lee3, Wonbae Bang3, Hong-Mok Park3, Gyuwon Lee1,3
1. Department of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, 2. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, and NOAA/OAR/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma, USA, 3. Center for Atmospheric Remote sensing, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

13:30 [Poster3-91]
Improved QPE with Multi-Angle PPIs Measurement

*Daejin Yeom1, Soohyun Kwon2, Wonbae Bang3, GyuWon Lee1,3
1. Department of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences, Kyungpook National University, 2. Weather Radar Center, Korea Meteorological Administration, 3. Center for Atmospheric Remote Sensing, Kyungpook National University

13:30 [Poster3-92]
Zh-R relations of solid precipitation derived by direct comparison of observations in the Niigata area

*Sento Nakai1, Katsuya Yamashita1, Hiroki Motoyoshi1, Toshiro Kumakura2, Shigeki Murakami3,4, Takafumi Katsushima3
1. Snow and Ice Research Center, NIED, 2. Nagaoka University of Technology, 3. Tohkamachi Experimental Station, FFPRI, 4. (Current Affiliation) Kyushu Research Center, FFPRI

13:30 [Poster3-93]
Utilization of radar rainfall for flash flood prevention

*Jungsoo Yoon1, Seok-Hwan Hwang1, Na-Rae Kang1, Byunghwa Oh2, Jeongha Lee2
1. Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, 2. University of Science and Technology

13:30 [Poster3-94]
Development of Web Crawler for Evaluating of Flood

*Seokhwan Hwang1, Narae Kang1, Jungsoo Yoon1
1. Department of Land, Water and Environment Research, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology

13:30 [Poster3-95]
Automatic Identification of Potential Severe Hydrogeological Disaster Areas through Radar Observations

*Zhe Zhang1, Youcun Qi1
1. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences

13:30 [Poster3-96]
Establishing Radar Reflectivity - Rainfall Rate Relationship in terms of Spectral Width thresholds

*Anjaneyulu Akkimi1, Subashisa Dutta1, Kamaljit Ray2
1. Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, 2. Atmospheric Sciences, Ministry of Earth Sciences, New Delhi, India

13:30 [Poster3-97]
Evaluation of Rainfall Rate Estimated by Specific Differential Phase of Ku-band Broadband Radar

*Keitaro Asai1, Yoshitaka Nakamura1, Eiichi Yoshikawa2, Hiroshi Kikuchi3, Tomoaki Mega4, Tomoo Ushio4, Takeshi Morimoto5
1. Kobe City College of Technology, 2. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 3. The University of Electro-Communications, 4. Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., 5. Kindai Univ.

13:30 [Poster3-98]
Effect of wind field on rainfall value of Doppler radar

*Hai Qiu1, Yitong Lin
1. Nanning Meteorological Service, Guangxi, China

13:30 [Poster3-100]
Precipitation Retrievals from Millimeter-Wave Communications Satellite Links with Deep Generative Adversarial Networks

*Kumar Vijay Mishra2, Bhavani Shankar Mysore1, Ahmad Gharanjik3, Bjorn Ottersten1
1. SnT, University of Luxembourg, 2. IIHR - Hydroscience & Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA, 3. Databourg s.a.r.l S

13:30 [Poster3-101]
Effect of spatial resolution of radar rainfall on hydrological simulation of urbanized river basin in Japan

*Shakti P. C.1, Tsuyoshi Nakatani2, Ryohei Misumi1
1. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience(NIED), Tsukuba, Japan, 2. Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan

13:30 [Poster3-102]
The upsampling technique for the GSMaP by the new generation IR images of geostationary satellites

*Tomoaki Mega1, Tomoo Ushio1
1. Tokyo Metropolitan University

13:30 [Poster3-103]
River Basin Precipitation Database based on the GSMaP

*Yasushi Suzuki1, Sumiko Harasawa1, Tomohiko Abe1, Hideshige Iida1, Koumei Yamaguchi1
1. Japan Weather Association

13:30 [Poster3-104]
Polarimetric Retrieval of Precipitation Rate in Cold Season using data from ICE-POP 2018

*Kwonil Kim1, Alexander Ryzhkov2, Petar Bukovcic2, Wonbae Bang3, GyuWon Lee1,3
1. Department of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences, Research and Training Team for Future Creative Astrophysicists and Cosmologists, Kyungpook National University, 2. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, and NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, 3. Center of Atmospheric Remote sensing, Kyungpook National University

13:30 [Poster3-105]
Performance of Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation estimate over northern Vietnam

*Masato I. Nodzu1, Jun Matsumoto1,2, Long Trinh-Tuan3, Thanh Ngo-Duc3, Tri Truong-Duc4
1. Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2. JAMSTEC, 3. University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, 4. Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in Vietnam

13:30 [Poster3-106]
X-MP Radar for Debris Flow Debris Flow Hazard Estimation in Volcanic Area in Indonesia

*Ratih Indri Hapsari1, Ratna Ika Putri1, Rosa Andrie Asmara1, Satoru Oishi2
1. State Polytechnic of Malang, 2. Kobe University

13:30 [Poster3-107]
The Quality Control and Gauge Adjustment of C-band weather RADAR in Southern Thailand

*Parinya Intaracharoen1, Sarawut Arthayakun1, Chanti Detyothin1, Pakdee Chantraket1, Sukrit Kirtsaeng2
1. Department of Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation (DRRAA), 2. Thai Meteorological Department (TMD)

13:30 [Poster3-108]
DROUGHT MONITORING USING QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION OVER NORTHEASTERN ARIZONA

*Delbert D Willie1, Haonan Chen2, Robert Cifelli2
1. Northern Arizona University, 2. NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory

13:30 [Poster3-109]
Evaluation of hydro-climatology drought using the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) in the High Ziz river Basin, Central High Atlas, Morocco

*Khadija DIANI1, ILIAS Kacimi1, Mahmoud Zemzami 2, Hassan Tabyaoui3, Ali Torabi Haghighi4
1. LO3G Laboratory, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V-Agdal University, Rabat, Morocco, 2. Ministry Delegate to the Minister of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment, in charge of water, Rabat, Morocco., 3. Natural Resources and Environment Laboratory, Polydisciplinary Faculty of Taza, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdullah University, Fez, Morocco., 4. Water Resources and Environmental Engineering Research Group, University of Oulu, PO Box 4300, FIN-90014, Finland.

13:30 [Poster3-110]
Rainfall estimation for Central Vietnam by using the DongHa radar reflectivity

*Thanh Ngo-Duc1, Tran Dai2
1. University of Science & Technology of Hanoi, 2. Vietnam Meteorological Hydrological Administration

13:30 [Poster3-111]
Removing Interference Echoes in Philippine Radars Using a Fuzzy Logic Approach

*Lester Kim M. Lagrimas1, Pin-Fang Lin2, Jung-Bin Wang2, Pao-Liang Chang2, Wei-Ting Fang2, John Grender C. Almario1, Esperanza O. Cayanan1
1. Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, 2. Central Weather Bureau

13:30 [Poster3-112]
DOST - PAGASA Radar Network Today and Beyond

*John Grender C. Almario1
1. PAGASA Radar Network

13:30 [Poster3-113]
RADAR-BASED QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION IN VIET NAM

*Hoang Minh Toan1, Bui Thi Khanh Hoa1, Nguyen Vinh Thu1, Nguyen Minh Cuong1, Nguyen Viet Hung1
1. Aero-Meteorology Observatory,Viet Nam Meteorological and Hydrological Administration

[Session 13A] 15:00-16:00 @NH
Wind Profiler, Cloud Radar, and NonHydrometeorological Radar

15:00 [Session 13A-01]
Review on Application of Wind Profiler Radar in Weather Monitoring and nowcasting

*Wen Xiao Zhang1
1. National Meteorological Center, Beijing

15:15 [Session 13A-02]
The characteristics and application of radar refractivity in tropical coastal region

*Ya-Chien Feng1,3, Hsiu-Wei Hsu2, Pay-Liam Lin2, Yu-Chieng Liou2, Tammy Weckwerth3
1. Colorado State University, USA, 2. National Central University, Taiwan, 3. National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA

15:30 [Session 13A-03]
Characteristics of a heavy rain event observed by a 1290-MHz wind profiler in the southern coast of Korea on 25 August 2014

*Dong-Kyun Kim1, Tomoo Ushio1
1. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University

15:45 [Session 13A-04]
Clutter suppression and signal separation techniques developped for the Program of the Antarctic Syowa MST/IS radar (PANSY)

*Taishi Hashimoto1, Koji Nishimura1, Akinori Saito2, Masaki Tsutsumi1, Toru Sato2, Kaoru Sato3
1. National Institute of Polar Research, 2. Kyoto University, 3. The University of Tokyo

[Session 13B] 15:00-16:00 @CR5-6 -> @RH1
Quantitative Precipitation Estimation and Hydrology

15:00 [Session 13B-01]
Direct validation of TRMM/PR over the northeastern Indian Subcontinent using a tipping bucket raingauge network and disdrometers

Toru Terao1, *FUMIE MURATA2, Kaustav Chakravarty3, Yusuke Yamane4, Masashi Kiguchi5, Azusa Fukushima6, Masahiro Tanoue7, Shamsuddin Ahmed8, Sayeed Ahmed Choudhury8, Hiambok Jones Syiemlieh9, Laitpharlang Cajee9, Prasanta Bhattacharya10, Subashisa Dutta11, Rahul Mahanta12, Taiichi Hayashi13
1. Faculty of Education, Kagawa University, 2. Faculty of Science and Technology, Kochi University, 3. Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, 4. Faculty of Education, Tokoha University, 5. Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 6. Faculty of Humanity, Kobe Gakuin University, 7. Shibaura Institute of Technology, 8. Bangladesh Meteorological Department, 9. Department of Geography, North Eastern Hill University, 10. Department of Geography, Gauhati University, 11. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 12. Department of Physics, Cotton University, 13. Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

15:15 [Session 13B-02]
Statistical analysis of (extreme) precipitation events in Germany from an 18-year climatological radar data set

*Katharina Lengfeld1, Ewelina Walawender1, Tanja Winterrath1, Andreas Becker1
1. German Weather Service

15:30 [Session 13B-03]
5-year Verification of Radar-derived Surface Precipitation Type

*Ben Pickering1,3, Ryan Neely III1,3, Steven Best2
1. ICAS, University of Leeds, 2. UK Met Office, 3. NCAS

15:45 [Session 13B-04]
The accuracy of operational radar in heavy rain: A comparative study for Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland and Sweden

*Marc Schleiss1, Tero Niemi2,5, Teemu Kokkonen2, Soren Thorndahl3, Rasmus Nielsen3, Peter Berg4, Jonas Olsson4
1. Department of Geoscience & Remote Sensing, Delft University of Technology, 2. Department of Built Environment, Aalto University, 3. Department of Civil Engineering, Aalborg University, 4. Department of Hydrology, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute SMHI, 5. Finish Meteorological Institute FMI

[Session 14A] 16:30-17:30 @NH
New and Emerging Radar Technology

16:30 [Session 14A-01]
Development of a low noise RASS speaker using a parametric array

*Koki Muguruma1, Hiroyuki Hashiguchi1
1. Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University

16:45 [Session 14A-02]
"Invisible" volcanic eruption plume/cloud observation with polarimetric weather radar

*Eiichi Sato1, Keiichi Fukui2, Toshiki Shimbori1, Masayuki Maki3
1. Meteorological Research Institute, 2. Japan Meteorological Agency, 3. Kagoshima University

17:00 [Session 14A-03]
Rainfall estimation from commercial DVB-S2 receivers for interactive broadcast applications

Elisa Adirosi1, *Luca Baldini1, Luca Facheris2, Filippo Giannetti3, Andrea Antonini4,5, Samantha Melani4,5, Alberto Ortolani4,5, Attilio Vaccaro6, Antonio Petrolino6
1. CNR - Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Rome, Italy, 2. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy, 3. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy, 4. LaMMA Consortium, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy, 5. CN - Institute of Biometeorology, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy, 6. MBI Srl, Pisa, Italy

17:15 [Session 14A-04]
Whole Atmosphere Observation over Tibet with APSOS System

*Daren Lyu1,2, Weilin Pan1,2, Yinan Wang2,1, Yufang Tian2,1
1. Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China, 2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

[Session 14B] 16:30-17:30 @CR5-6 -> @RH1
Microphysical Studies with Radars

16:30 [Session 14B-01]
Investigating Raindrop Evaporation, Breakup, and Coalescence in Stratiform Rain

*Christopher Williams1
1. University of Colorado Boulder

16:45 [Session 14B-02]
How adequate is gamma model for representing raindrop size distributions?

*Christos Gatidis1, Marc Schleiss1, Christine Unal1, Herman Russchenberg1
1. Delft University of Technology

17:00 [Session 14B-03]
How much can we learn about rain microphysics from polarimetric radar observations?An investigation of information content and parameter estimation using the Bayesian Observationally-constrained Statistical-physical Scheme (BOSS)

*Karly Jackson Reimel1, Marcus van Lier-Walqui2, Matthew R Kumjian1, Hugh Morrison3, Olivier P Prat4
1. Pennsylvania State University, 2. CCSR, Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 3. National Center for Atmospheric Research, 4. North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, NCSU

17:15 [Session 14B-04]
Estimation of Liquid Droplet Size and Liquid Water Content in Clouds and Drizzle Using Remote Sensing Measurements

*Jothiram Vivekanandan1, Virendra P Ghate2, Scott N Ellis1, Christian Schwartz3, Jorgen Jensen1
1. NCAR/EOL, Boulder, CO, USA, 2. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne IL 60439, USA, 3. Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State University, Salt Lake City, USA

   

FRIDAY, SEP. 20

[Session 15A] 9:00-10:30 @NH
Phased Array Radar Technology and Its Observation

9:00 [Session 15A-01]
Increasing Observing Capabilities of the NWS with Agile-Beam Polarimetric Phased Array Radar

*Dusan Zrnic1, V. Melnikov2, P. Zhang2, S. Koch1, R. Palmer3, M. Weber2, K. Hondle1, G. McFarquhar2, M. Jain1 1. NOAA/NSSL, 2. CIMMS/OU, 3. ARRC/OU

9:15 [Session 15A-02]
Design of Practical Pulse Compression Waveforms for Polarimetric Phased Array Radar

*David Schvartzman1, Sebastián M. Torres1 1. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, and NOAA/OAR /National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma

9:30 [Session 15A-03]
Research Sampling Strategies with a Dual-pol X-band Phased Array Radar

*Edward Luke1, Pavlos Kollias1,2, Michael Jensen1
1. Department of Environmental and Climate Sciences, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2. School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University

9:45 [Session 15A-04]
Pattern Synthesis for Conformal Phased Array Antenna using A Multi-Objective Optimization

*Mohammad-Hossein Golbon-Haghighi1,2, Hadi Saeidi-Manesh1,2, Guifu Zhang1,3
1. Advanced Radar Research Center, University of OKlahoma, 2. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 3. School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma

10:00 [Session 15A-05]
Streaming data processing for Multi-Parameter Phased Array Weather Radar (MP-PAWR) data

*Takeshi Maesaka1, Kaori Kieda1, Koyuru Iwanami1, Nobuhiro Takahashi2, Hiroshi Hanado3, Katsuhiro Nakagawa3, Fumihiko Mizutani4, Tomoo Ushio5, Masahiko Osada6
1. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, 2. Nagoya University, 3. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 4. Toshiba Infrastructure Systems and Solutions Corporation, 5. Tokyo Metropolitan University, 6. Saitama University

10:15 [Session 15A-06]
Demonstration Experiment using the Multi-Parameter Phased-Array Weather Radar

*Kazuhiro Yoshimi1, Fumihiko Mizutani1, Masakazu Wada1, Tomoo Ushio2, Yoshimasa Morooka3, Tadashi Yamada3
1. Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions, 2. Tokyo Metropolitan University, 3. Chuo University

[Session 15B] 9:00-10:30 @RH1
Organized Convection and Severe Phenomena

9:00 [Session 15B-01]
Nocturnal Moisture Patterns Observed in the S-Pol Radar Refractivity Field During the PECAN 2015 Experiment

*Rita Roberts1, Tammy Weckwerth1, Ya-Chien Feng2
1. NCAR, 2. CSU

9:15 [Session 15B-02]
Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Large-scale Environments of Mesoscale Convective Systems East of the Rocky Mountains

*Zhe Feng1, Fengfei Song1, Ruby Leung1, Robbert A. Houze, Jr.1, Joseph Hardin1, Jingyu Wang1, Cameron R. Homeyer2
1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2. University of Oklahoma

9:30 [Session 15B-03]
Relating spectrum-width-derived eddy dissipation rate to lightning characteristics

*Wiebke Deierling1, Lawrence Carey2, Timohty Lang3, Gregory Meymaris4, John Williams5
1. NCAR/RAL & CU Boulder, 2. UAH, 3. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, 4. NCAR/RAL, 5. The Weather Company

9:45 [Session 15B-04]
Polarimetric radar characteristics of lightning initiation and propagating channels

*Jordi Figueras i Ventura1, Nicolau Pineda2,3, Nikola Besic1, Jacopo Grazioli1, Alessandro Hering1, Oscar A. van der Velde3, David Romero3, Antonio Sunjerga4, Amirhossein Mostajabi4, Mohammad Azadifar5, Marcos Rubinstein5, Joan Montanyà3, Urs Germann1, Farhad Rachidi4
1. MeteoSwiss, 2. Meteorological Service of Catalonia, 3. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya UPC, 4. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, 5. Haute Ecole Spécialisée de Suisse occidentale HES-SO

10:00 [Session 15B-05]
Kinematic and Microphysics Structure of Hailstorms in Southeast U.S.A. Using Aircraftr Multi-frequency Radar Measurements

*Gerald M Heymsfield1, Stephen Guimond1,2, Stephen D Nicholls1,2, Matthew L Mclinden1, Lihua Li1
1. Goddard Space Flight Center, 2. University of Maryland/JCET

10:15 [Session 15B-06]
Relationship between Zdr columns, updraft intensity and hail growth deduced from Dual-Doppler retrievals and Polarimetric radar

*Raquel M Evaristo1, Mari Schmidt1, Silke Trömel1, Clemens Simmer1
1. Institute for Geoscience and Meteorology, University of Bonn

[Session 16A] 11:00-12:00 @NH
Wind Profiler, Cloud Radar, and NonHydrometeorological Radar

11:00 [Session 16A-01]
Polarimetric radar measurements of a large-scale smoke plume from distant Canadian wildfires

*Robert Schrom1
1. NASA GSFC/USRA

11:15 [Session 16A-02]
Statistics of upper cloud vertical velocity measured by JMA wind profiler network (WINDAS) for calibration of EarthCARE cloud profiling radar

*Yuichi Ohno1, Hiroaki Horie1, Seiji Kawamura1, Masayuki Yamamoto1
1. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

11:30 [Session 16A-03]
UHF wind-profiler detection of the boundary layer characteristics on cloudless days in Beijing

*Yufang Tian1,2, Daren Lyu1,2, Yongheng Bi1,2
1. Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China, 2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

11:45 [Session 16A-04]
Parameter-retrieval of aircraft wake vortices under different weather conditions

*Jianbing Li1, Chun Shen1, Jianan Chen1, Kunlong Yang1, Shiqi Xing1, Xuesong Wang1
1. National University of Defense Technology

[Session 16B] 11:00-12:00 @RH1
Microphysical Studies with Radars

11:00 [Session 16B-01]
Observations from the 2018 Spring ARM Southern Great Plains X-band Polarimetric Radar Network Experiment: Insights into Thunderstorm Updraft Microphysics & Kinematics

*Marcus van Lier-Walqui1,2, Sara Elizabeth Lytle3, Scott Collis4, Andrei Iosif Lindenmaier5
1. Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, 2. NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 3. Earth & Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, 4. Argonne National Laboratory, 5. Pacific Northwestern National Laboratory

11:15 [Session 16B-02]
The microphysical structures of asymmetric hurricane eyewalls

*Ya-Chien Feng1, Michael Bell1
1. Colorado State University

11:30 [Session 16B-03]
Investigation of the Olympic Peninsula rain shadow using radar and in situ observations from the Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX)

*Angela Rowe1, Lynn McMurdie1, Joe Zagrodnik1, Jamin Rader1, Andrew DeLaFrance1
1. University of Washington

11:45 [Session 16B-04]
X-band Marine Radar Detection of Ejected Lapilli and Volcanic Blocks

*Masayuki Maki1, Yasushi Fujiyoshi2, Hidehiko Tokushima3, Masato Iguchi4
1. Kagoshima University, 2. Hokkaido University, 3. Field Researchers Corporation, 4. Kyoto University

[Session 17A] 13:30-15:00 @NH
Radar Networks, Quality Control, Processing and Software

13:30 [Session 17A-01]
NEXRAD Radar Product Improvement – Update 2019

*Michael J. Istok1
1. USA/NOAA/National Weather Service/Radar Operations Center

13:45 [Session 17A-02]
Decades of weather radar data: Global availability, preservation challenges and success stories

*Joshua S Soderholm3, Elena Saltikoff1, Katja Friedrich2, Katharina Lengfeld4, Brian Nelson5, Andreas Becker4, Rainer Hollmann4, Bernard Urban6, Maik Heistermann7, Caterina Tassone8
1. Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, 2. Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 3. Meteorological Institute, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 4. Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach am Main, Germany, 5. NOAA/National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, North Carolina, 6. Météo-France, Toulouse, France, 7. Institute of Environmental Sciences and Geography, University of Potsdam, Germany, 8. GCOS Secretariat, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

14:00 [Session 17A-03]
Spatially variable advection correction of Doppler radial velocity data

*Alan Shapiro1,5, Joshua G. Gebauer1, Nathan A. Dahl4,6, David J. Bodine2, Andrew Mahre1,2, Corey K. Potvin1,3
1. School of Meteorology (SoM), University of Oklahoma (OU), 2. Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC), University of Oklahoma (OU), 3. NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), University of Oklahoma (OU), 4. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS), University of Oklahoma (OU), 5. Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS), University of Oklahoma (OU), 6. NOAA National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center (SPC)

14:15 [Session 17A-04]
Application of Clutter Polygons in Terminal Doppler Weather Radar for Improving the Detection of Terrain-induced Windshear in Hong Kong

*Shuk Mei Tse1, Ying Wa Chan1
1. Hong Kong Observatory

14:30 [Session 17A-05]
Recent progresses in dealiasing Doppler velocities collected by new scan modes with small Nyquist velocities to increase clear-air data coverage for wind analysis

*Qin Xu2, Kang Nai1,2, Valery Melnikov1,2
1. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA , 2. NOAA/OAR/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma, USA

14:45 [Session 17A-06]
The influences of Extremely Strong Wind on Radar Observations

*Pao-Liang Chang1, Wei-Ting Fang1, Pin-Fang Lin1, Yu-Shuang Tang1
1. Central Weather Bureau

[Session 17B] 13:30-15:00 @RH1
Use of Radar Data for Nowcasting and Numerical Models

13:30 [Session 17B-01]
NowPrecip: Localized precipitation nowcasting in the complex terrain of Switzerland.

*Ioannis V Sideris1, Loris Foresti1, Daniele Nerini1,2, Urs Germann1
1. Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss, Switzerland, 2. Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland

13:45 [Session 17B-02]
Improved nowcasting of convective rainfall using vertically integrated liquid

*Seppo Pulkkinen1,2, V. Chandrasekar1,2, Annakaisa von Lerber2, Ari-Matti Harri2
1. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States, 2. Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland

14:00 [Session 17B-03]
An Optical Flow Derived Nowcasting Approach with Fuzzy Logic and Model Wind Field Vectors

*Joseph A Olden1, Yadong Wang1
1. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

14:15 [Session 17B-04]
Stochastic multiscale nowcasting with high resolution radar data

*Daniel Schertzer1, Ioulia Tchiguirinskaia1
1. Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Hydrology Meteorology and Complexity lab

14:30 [Session 17B-05]
Blending of radar extrapolation and NWP for 1 and 2 hour rainfall nowcasts

*Jim W Wilson1, Daniel Megenhardt1
1. National Center for Atmospheric Research

14:45 [Session 17B-06]
Selective ensemble nowcast for short-term precipitation prediction system combining both radar echo extrapolation and NWP

*Yasutaka Wakazuki1
1. Ibaraki University

   

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