Thursday program
| Plenary session
Schouwburg Chair: Urs Germann Thursday, 5 July 2018 | |
| 8:30–9:00 | Keynote on Synergetic Use Of Weather Radars And Other Sensors |
| 9:00–9:30 | Keynote on New And Emerging Radar Technologies |
| 9:30–10:00 | Keynote on Nowcasting And Blending Techniques |
| Coffee, poster viewing, and exhibition- 10:00–10:30, New York
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| Quantitative Precipitation Estimation
Schouwburg Thursday, 5 July 2018 Chair: Daniel Michelson | |
| 10:30–10:45 |
RADAR REMOTE SENSING FOR RAIN/SNOW ESTIMATION IN AN ALPINE CONTEXT: THE
GRENOBLE EXPERIMENT |
| 10:45–11:00 | QUANTIFICATION OF MEASUREMENT ERROR OF POLARIMETRIC X-BAND RADARS IN
MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS |
| 11:00–11:15 | ON THE USE OF NWP MODEL OUTPUTS TO PRODUCE RADAR VPR CORRECTIONS |
| 11:15–11:30 | POLARIMETRIC RADAR AND MACHINE LEARNING: FROM THE SOLID PHASE
HYDROMETEOR STATISTICS TO THE PRECIPITATION INTENSITY AT THE GROUND |
| 11:30–11:45 | RADAR-DERIVED QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION BASED ON
VERTICAL-RAINCLOUD TRAJECTORY PROFILES |
| 11:45–12:00 | COMMERCIAL MICROWAVE LINKS FOR RAINFALL MONITORING: A NATION-WIDE
VALIDATION STUDY IN THE NETHERLANDS |
| Radar Calibration And Monitoring
Cerise Thursday, 5 July 2018 Chair: Martin Hagen | |
| 10:30–10:45 |
THE OPERATIONAL REALITY OF WEATHER RADARS WORLDWIDE – A TRAVEL REPORT |
| 10:45–11:00 | WEATHER RADARS AND RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCES |
| 11:00–11:15 | WIND TURBINES SEEN IN RADAR DATA WITH THE BIG DIFFERENCE METHOD |
| 11:15–11:30 | MONITORING DOPPLER DUAL-POLARIZATION RADAR USING AN INDIVIDUAL AND
SINGULAR GROUND CLUTTER CELL |
| 11:30–11:45 | THE STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ZDR IN DRY SNOW, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR ZDR
CALIBRATION |
| 11:45–12:00 | ASSESSING ZDR VARIABILITY USING DEDICATED SOLAR BOX SCANS AND
OPERATIONAL ZDR MONITORING RESULTS |
| Lunch, poster viewing, and exhibition- 12:00–13:00, New York
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| Airborne And Spaceborne Radars
Schouwburg Thursday, 5 July 2018 Chair: Walter Petersen | |
| 13:00–13:15 |
AIRBORNE IMPLEMENTATION OF PDPP TECHNIQUE ON THE NRC W-BAND RADAR |
| 13:15–13:30 | VERIFICATION OF CLOUDSAT INSTANTANEOUS SNOWFALL RATE RETRIEVALS WITH
GROUND-BASED RADAR MEASUREMENTS |
| 13:30–13:45 | A RADAR-BASED EVALUATION OF GPM RETRIEVALS OF THE RAIN DROP SIZE
DISTRIBUTION |
| 13:45–14:00 | COMPARISON OF THE GPM DPR SINGLE- AND DOUBLE-FREQUENCY PRODUCTS OVER
THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA |
| Millimeter Wavelength Radars
Cerise Thursday, 5 July 2018 Chair: Alexis Berne | |
| 13:00–13:15 |
VERTICAL AIR MOTION IN PRECIPITATING CLOUDS FROM AN AIRBORNE MILLIMETER
WAVELENGTH RADAR |
| 13:15–13:30 | USING TRIPLE-FREQUENCY RADAR DOPPLER SPECTRA TO CONSTRAIN SNOW
PARTICLE SCATTERING MODELS |
| 13:30–13:45 | HOW MUCH ATTENUATION AT W AND KA BANDS IS CAUSED BY MELTING LAYER? AN
ANSWER FROM MULTI-FREQUENCY RADAR DOPPLER SPECTRA. |
| 13:45–14:00 | HOW ACCURATE IS THE DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION FOR MODELING THE
SINGLE SCATTERING PROPERTIES OF PARTIALLY MELTED SNOWFLAKES |
| Coffee, poster viewing, and exhibition- 14:00–16:00, New York
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| Nowcasting And Blending Techniques
Schouwburg Thursday, 5 July 2018 Chair: Alan Seed | |
| 16:00–16:15 |
DERIVING AND COMPOSITING MOTION FIELDS – SPEED AND QUALITY CHALLENGES |
| 16:15–16:30 | IMPROVED RAINFALL NOWCASTING BY NON-STATIONARY MOTION VECTOR FROM
BURGERS EQUATION |
| 16:30–16:45 | BLENDING FIELD-BASED AND CELL TRACKING METHODS FOR IMPROVED
PRECIPITATION NOWCASTING |
| 16:45–17:00 | NOWPRECIP: AN ALGORITHM FOR LOCALIZED PROBABILISTIC PRECIPITATION
NOWCASTING IN THE COMPLEX TERRAIN OF SWITZERLAND |
| 17:00–17:15 | THE NOWCASTING POTENTIAL OF LIGHTNING-JUMPS IN CONVECTIVE CELLS
TRACKED BY RADAR IN COMPLEX OROGRAPHY |
| 17:15–17:30 | FROM QUALITATIVE TO QUANTITATIVE HAIL NOWCASTING |
| 17:30–17:45 | LOCALIZED VARIATIONAL BLENDING FROM INCA AND AROME-RUC |
| 17:45–18:00 | A BAYESIAN COMBINATION OF RADAR-BASED NOWCASTS WITH COSMO-E
PRECIPITATION FORECASTS |
| Synergetic Use Of Weather Radars And Other Sensors
Cerise Thursday, 5 July 2018 Chair: Lotte de Vos | |
| 16:00–16:15 |
WHEN IS RADAR DATA CALIBRATION BY IN-SITU NETWORKS MISLEADING? |
| 16:15–16:30 | REAL-TIME RAINFALL FROM A COUNTRY-WIDE NETWORK OF COMMERCIAL
MICROWAVE LINKS IN GERMANY |
| 16:30–16:45 | RAIN-RATE ESTIMATION FROM CEILOMETER MEASUREMENTS: A COMPARATIVE CASE
STUDY USING S-BAND RADAR AND DISDROMETER RETRIEVALS |
| 16:45–17:00 | REAL TIME DETECTION OF LIGHTNING ACTIVITY USING A LOW-COST AND PORTABLE
X-BAND RADAR AND A CLUSTER ANALYSIS APPROACH |
| 17:00–17:15 | EVALUATION OF MULTIPLE DOPPLER RETRIEVALS OF CONVECTION IN DARWIN |
| 17:15–17:30 | OBSERVATIONS OF THE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER FROM A VERTICALLY
POINTING, S-BAND, FMCW RADAR IN NORTHERN ALABAMA, U.S.A. DURING
VORTEX-SOUTHEAST (2016-2017) |
| 17:30–17:45 | RETRIEVING VOLCANIC MASS ERUPTION RATE FROM GROUND-BASED X-BAND AND
L-BAND MICROWAVE RADARS DURING MT. ETNA EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION |
| 17:45–18:00 | EUROPE-WIDE PATTERNS OF NOCTURNAL AVIAN MIGRATION FROM WEATHER
RADAR DATA |