3rd Calibration and Monitoring Workshop 17-19 November 2021
Centre International de Conférences - Météo-France - Toulouse - France

 
presentations/recordings - posters
  CIC meetings
 
 
         
Wednesday, November 17
 
  session 1Introduction
 
  9:00-9:40 Welcome address and introduction to the workshop.
Isabelle Donet, Axel Deloncle and Nicolas Gaussiat, Jordi Figueras
 
 
  session 2Software
 
  9:40-10:00 Perspicacious radar polarimetric spectral filtering: Adaptive thresholding using the copolar correlation
Albert Oude Nijhuis
 
 
  10:00-10:20 Monitoring the Quality of Quality-controlled Radar Moments
Annette Boehm
 
 
  session 3Monitoring of threats to radar networks
 
  11:00-11:20 RF - interference mitigation process
Maximilian Schaper
 
 
  11:20-11:40 Testing the influcence of wind turbines on weather radars by generating virtual Doppler-RCS signatures
Marc Schneebeli
 
 
  11:40-1200 Wind Turbine Clutter detection in real-time Weather Radar Signals, developments for the DWD C-Band Weather Radar Network
Simon Gerhards
 
 
  12:00-12:20 Insights into wind turbine reflectivity and radar cross-section (RCS) and their variability using X-band weather radar observations
Martin Lainer
 
 
  session 4Hardware monitoring and maintenance
 
  14:00-14:20 Comparison of three methods used for radar reflectivity calibration
Tom Nicolau, Nan Yu
 
 
  14:20-14:40 Mitigation of the ZDR Bias Temperature Dependence
Frank Gekat
 
 
  14:40-15:00 Trying to understand the antenna pointing variability at X-band
Béatrice Fradon
 
 
  session 5Reflectivity calibration and monitoring procedures
 
  15:30-15:50 Monitoring of radar reflectivity for operational S-band weather radar network
Jeong-Eun Lee
 
 
  15:50-16:10 Monitoring Z calibration to 0.5dB using a co-located disdrometer and very high resolution gauges
Robert Thompson
 
 
  16:10-16:30 Benefits of automated receiver reflectivity calibration monitoring
Timothy Darlington
 
 
  session 6Poster session
 
 
Thursday, November 18
 
  session 7Phase measurements
 
  9:00-9:25 On the use of unique targets for assessing and monitoring the accuracy and stability of phase measurement and dual-polarization measurables: the example of two Bright Scatterers complemented by a Mountainous Scatterer
Marco Gabella
 
 
  9:25-9:50 Installation and adjustment of a phase shifter at the DWD Hohenpeißenberg research radar
Michael Frech
 
 
  9:50-10:15 Measurements of the radar differential phases upon transmission and reception on WSR-88Ds
Valery Melnikov
 
 
 
  session 8Reflectivity and ZDR calibration and monitoring procedures
 
  11:00-11:20 Offset correction on radar differential reflectivity using quasi-vertical profiles
Daniel Sanchez-Rivas
 
 
  11:20-11:40 Z and ZDR calibration using natural target and self-consistency methods
Jacques Testud
 
 
  11:40-12:00 ZDR Calibrations and Monitoring - ECCC's new S-Band Radars
Stephen Holden
 
 
  12:00-12:20 Weather Radar Calibration, Recent progress and sharing experiences calibrating, shipborne, spaceborne and ground based systems
Chandra V Chandrasekar
 
   
  session 9Cost and benefits of SSPA radar systems
 
  14:00-14:20 The characteristics of observation using solid-state dual-polarization radar
Sumida Yasuhiko
 
 
  14:20-14:40 Overview of solid-state weather radar and related operational experience
Soshi Okamoto
 
 
  14:40-15:00 Calibration Of Reflectivity And Differential Reflectivity From Sspa X-Band Weather Radar
Jeong-Eun Lee
 
 
  15:00-15:20 Reflectivity calibration of complex waveforms with Vaisala WRS400 X-band weather radar
Pekka Puhakka
 
 
  session 10Monitoring challenges
 
  16:00-16:20 Evaluation of DWD radar calibration based on collocated spectral polarimetric observations from W-band cloud radar
Alexander Myagkov
 
 
  16:20-16:40 Characterization of background noise during dry and wet radome conditions
Philipp Schmid
 
 
  16:40-17:00 Electrical and Sun calibration: what to trust when they disagree?
Marco Gabella
 
 
 
  17:00-17:45 Homage to Asko Huuskonen
 
 
 
Friday, November 19
 
  session 11Data quality of weather radar networks and products
 
  9:00-9:20 Long-term evaluation of the Météo-France QPE product
Nicolas Gaussiat
 
 
  9:20-9:40 The interaction of data quality monitoring and operational surveillance of weather radar networks
Hassan Al Sakka
 
 
  9:40-10:00 The Argentinian Meteorological Radar: Solar Calibration and Monitoring
Federico Renolfi
 
 
  10:30-12:00 Summary of workshop and discussion
 
 
 
Posters
  Update on Monitoring and Calibration of Slovak Weather Radar Network
Luboslav Okon
   
  Application of OPENCV in RADAR system monitoring
Sun-Jin Mo
   
  Feasability analysis of monitoring a C-band weather radar reflectivity calibration using a K-band Doppler radar profiler
A. Garcia-Benadi
   
  Using Data-based Calibration to Harmonize Swedish Weather Radar Network
Qing Cao
   
  Pieuvre - Monitoring the french radar network and the quality of the final products
Isabelle Sanchez
   
  The use of Pyrad for data quality monitoring
Daniel Wolfensberger
   
  DWD Radar Monitoring with Grafana
Jan Petersen
   
  Development of integrated and easy-to-understand radar monitoring system
Jimwoo Park
   
  Comparison between SSPA and Magnetron X-band radars in maintenance field
Sun-Jin Mo
   
  Comparisons of Solid-State C-Band vs. Klystron S-Band Weather Radar Observations over the Southeastern United States
Richard Stedronsky
   
 
 
 
 
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