ERAD 20127th European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology CIC meetings

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday  

         
  Introduction
         
  10:00 0.1   Welcome address
Olivier Gupta, Deputy Head of Météo-France
 
  10:20 0.2   Overview of the Conference
Olivier Bousquet, Météo-France

         
  session 1 Quantitative Precipitation Estimation (Part I)
  plenary chair : Alexander Ryzhkov, CIMMS/NSSL
         
  10:30 1.1   To provide accurate rainfall rates with quantified errors. (keynote)
Anthony Illingworth, University of Reading
 
  11:00 1.2   Rainfall estimation from an operational S-band dual-polarization radar in the monsoon dominant environment
Gyuwon Lee, Dept. Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu,
Soohyun Kwon, Choong-Ke Lee
 
  11:15 1.3  
The new French Operational Polarimetric Radar Rainfall Product.
Jordi Figueras i Ventura, Météo France,
Fadela Kabeche, Béatrice Fradon, Abdel-Amin Boumahmoud, Pierre Tabary

young scientist
 
  11:30 1.4   Comparison of polarimetric techniques for operational precipitation estimation in complex orography scenarios.
Gianfranco Vulpiani, Presidency of the Council of Ministers - Department of Civil Protection,
M. Montopoli, A. Gioia, P. Giordano, F.S. Marzano
 
  11:45 1.5  
VPR Correction of Brightband Effects in Radar QPEs Using Polarimetric Radar Observations.
Youcun Qi, National Severe Storms Laboratory (NOAA/NSSL),
Pengfei Zhang, Jian Zhang

student
 
  12:00 1.6   Rainfall estimation in mountainous regions using X-band polarimetric weather radar.
PC Shakti, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention,
M. Maki, S. Shimizu, T. Maesaka, D.-S. Kim, D.-I. Lee, H. Iida
 
  12:15 1.7   X-band polarimetric radar based QPE and Rainfall statistics in West African Precipitation for Hydrological Applications and Satellite Validation : overview of the objectives and issues.
Marielle Gosset, GET-IRD,
Frédéric Cazenave, Modeste Kacou
 
         
  12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break

         
    Poster session - Group I P
         
  13:30 - 15:00   Quantitative Precipitation Estimation - Data Quality - Microphysics - Nowcasting
Spaceborne Radar - Air Traffic Management - Cloud Radars

         
  session 2 MICrophysics (Part I)
  plenary chair : Alexis Berne, Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne
         
  15:00 2.1   Polarimetric signatures of dry and melting hail at different radar wavelengths.
Alexander Ryzhkov, CIMMS/NSSL
S. Ganson, M. Kumjian, R. Kaltenboeck
 
  15:15 2.2   C-Band dual polarimetric observations of snow events in southern Canada.
Sudesh Boodoo, Environment Canada,
D. Hudak, V. N. Bringi, L. Bliven, G. J. Huang, N. Donaldson, M. Leduc
 
  15:30 2.3   Precipitation type assessment using polarimentric C-band radar and limited area model.
Roberto Cremonini, Arpa Piemonte, Italy,
R. Bechini, V. Chandrasekar, V. Campana
 
  15:45 2.4   Identification of snow and rain at the surface using polarimetric radar.
Martin Hagen, Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen,
Alice Dalphinet
 
  16:00 2.5  
Hydrometeor classification using polarimetric radars : intercomparison and hail detection.
Hassan Al-Sakka, Météo France,
Magalie Buguet, Stephen Frasier, Karine Bouyer, Béatrice Fradon, Abdel-Amin Boumahmoud and Pierre Tabary

young scientist
 
  16:15 2.6   BALTRAD dual polarization hydrometeor classifier.
Rashpal S Gill, Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI),
Martin B. Soerensen, Thomas Boevith, Jarmo Koistinen, Markus Peura, Daniel Michelson, Roberto Cremonini
 
         
  16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break offered by EEC

         
  session 3A Quantitative Precipitation Estimation (Part II)
  parallel chair : Daniel Sempere-Torres, UPC/CRAHI
         
  17:00 3A.1   The Radar Quality Control and Quantitative Precipitation Estimation Inter-comparison Project.
Paul Joe, Environment Canada
 
  17:15 3A.2   On Characterizing the Errors in Quantitative Precipitation Estimates.
Alan Seed, Bureau of Meteorology,
Sandy Dance
 
  17:30 3A.3   Close-range radar rainfall estimation and error analysis.
Remco van de Beek, Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management, Wageningen University,
Hidde Leijnse, Pieter Hazenberg, and Remko Uijlenhoet
 
  17:45 3A.4   Radar-gauge combination by ordinary and external drift kriging: A systematic application for hourly QPE in Switzerland.
Rebekka Erdin, MeteoSwiss,
Christoph Frei, Reinhard Schiemann, Ioannis Sideris, Hans R. Künsch
 
  18:00 3A.5   Comparison of gauge-radar merging methods for obtaining UK rainfall.
Alan Hewitt, UK Met Office,
Selena Georgiou, Nicolas Gaussiat, Shona Hogg, Martyn Sunter
 
  18:15 3A.6   Real-time spatiotemporal merging of radar and raingauge measurements in Switzerland.
Ioannis Sideris, MeteoSwiss,
Marco Gabella, Rebekka Erdin, Urs Germann
 
         
  session 3B Cloud Radar
  parallel chair : Pavlos Kollias, McGill University
         
  17:00 3B.1   Radar detection of cloud properties in a monsoon environment.
Peter May, Centre for AustralianWeather and Climate Research, A pertnership between the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO
A. Protat, G. Penide, V. Kumar, V.N. Bringi and M. Thurai
 
  17:15 3B.2   Capability of scanning polarimetric cloud radar measurements for identifying ice hydrometeor habits and shapes.
Sergey Matrosov, CIRES, University of Colorado and NOAA ESRL,
G.G. Mace, R. Marchand, M.D. Shupe, A.G. Hallar, and I. McCubbin
 
  17:30 3B.3   New insights into orographic precipitation using an airborne profiling Doppler cloud radar.
Bart Geerts, University of Wyoming,
Qun Miao, Yang Yang, Xia Chu
 
  17:45 3B.4   A CDR-based rain rate estimation algorithm for zenith-pointing cloud radars at Ka band.
Michele Galletti, Brookhaven National Laboratory,
Dong Huang, Pavlos Kollias
 
  18:00 3B.5   Collocated UHF and Ka band radar measurements for rain profile retrievals at ARM SGP facility.
Frederic Tridon, Earth Observation Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester,
Alessandro Battaglia, Pavlos Kollias, Edward P. Luke
 
  18:15 3B.6   A method for extraction of cloud microphysical properties using a continuous wavelet transform of cloud radar spectra.
Guo Yu, Pennsylvania State University,
Johannes Verlinde, Eugene E. Clothiaux, Giovanni Botta, Kultegin Aydin, Alexander Avramov, Andrew S. Ackerman, and Ann M. Fridlind
 
         
  18:30 - 20:30 Icebreaker offered by VAISALA

 
 
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