WSN05 - Abstracts

Selected abstracts

abstract
number

1^st author

company

country

title

presentation

					Basic understanding
1.06	Keith	Browning	University of Reading	United Kingdom	Nowcasting : A bit of history and some thoughts on the importance of basic understanding	IO
1.02	Sophie	Bastin	NCAR	USA	Numerical investigation of the multi-scale processes inducing convect	O
1.10	Christopher	Davis	National Center for Atmospheric Research	USA	Convection Initiation Near Mesoscale Vortices	O
1.13	Jong-Dao Ben	Jou	National Taiwan University	Taiwan	Nowcasting problem in a subtropical area with complex terrain : lesson learned from a flash flood case	O
1.16	Marek	Kašpar	Institute of Atmospheric Physics ASCR	Czech Republic	Numerical simulations of convective events ¯ the effect of propagating gust fronts	O
1.17	Peter	Lean	Univ. of Reading	United Kingdom	Quantifying error growth during convective initiation in a mesoscale model	O
1.23	C. U.	Okoloye	Nigerian Meteorological Agency	Nigeria	A case study of thunderstorm forecasting in West Africa	O
1.24	Christian	PAGÉ	Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)	Canada	Nonlinear balance at mesoscale : balances vertical motion with respe	O
1.28	Stan	Trier	NCAR	USA	Understanding and Forecasting Elevated Deep Convection	O
1.01	Juma	Al-Maskari	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	A study of orographic convection over the Hajar mountainsin Northern Oman	P
1.03	Renzo	Bechini	ARPA Piemonte	Italy	development of convective cells over Northern Italy observed by polarimetric C-band radar	P
1.04	Thierry	Bergot	Météo-France	France	Single-column high resolution numerical models for fog and low clou	P
1.05	Sigalit	Berkovic	IIBR		The land breeze characteristics in Israel during the summer by the MM5 model.	P
1.07	Mauricio	Carrillo Cruz	Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología	Peru	Influence of sea - land breezes on extreme rainfall in the northern of PERU	P
1.08	Dehui	Chen		China	A flash flooding case study with a HIR GRAPES_Meso at CMA	P
1.09	Roberto	Cremonini	ARPA Piemonte, ISAC-CNR	Italy	Initiation of convective storm over Northern Italy observed by satelitte and polarimetric C-band radar	P
1.12	Wen-don	Hu	Key Laboratory of Met	China	Detail information of mechanism, kinematics and topographic effect o	P
1.14	Fengqin	Kang	Lanzhou Institute of Arid Meteorology	China	Probe the hail formation mechanism on the northeastern border of Qi	P
1.15	Fengqin	Kang	Cold and Arid Regio	China	Validation and development of a new hailstone formation theory. Simu	P
1.18	C.	Liu	Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences	China	A new technique for forecasting the strength of a storm	P
1.19	Dongyan	Mao	National Meteorologi	China	An analysis of mesoscale features in a heavy rainfall process on 10 July 2004 in Beijing	P
1.20	Patrick	Mukunguta	Zimbabwe Meteorological Services	Zimbabwe	Basic Understanding of mesoscale dynamics in 0-6 hour time frame	P
1.21	Minde	Ngakougnon	Direction des ressources en eau et de la Météorologie	Tchad	Résumé succint des travaux sur le vent de sable au Nord du Tchad	P
1.22	Meng-song	Nong	CMA, Guangxi Meteorological Observatory	China	Characteristic analysis of a squall in Huanan region	P
1.25	Ehab Abdel	Razik	Egyptian Meteorological Authority-Egypt	Egypt	Case study: A heavy rain event due to the movement of cloud clusters	P
1.26	Sarfaraz	Sardar	Pakistan Meteorological Department	Pakistan	Nowcasting and Very-short-range Forecasting	P
1.27	Aurora	Stan-Sion	National Administration of Meteorology, Bucharest	Roumania	Severe convection environment in southeastern Romania	P
1.29	Friedrich	Wölfelmaier	ZAMG	Austria	Life cycle of convective cells with rapid scan Satellite and radar data in the eastern alpine region	P
1.30	Zhifang	Wu	Guangzhou Central Observatory	China	The Researches on the Local Very-Short -Range Torrential Rains Occurred in the Warm Sector	P
1.31	Zhang	Xiying	Weather Modification Center of Heilongjiang province	China	Analysis of CINRAD-CC echoes characteristics for local short timem heavy rainfall in Harbin on July 10th	P

					Nowcasting techniques
2.32	Alan	Seed	Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre	Australia	Short Term Ensemble Prediction System (STEPS): an empirical treatment of forecast unmcertainty	IO
2.42	Isztar	Zawadzki	McGill University	Canada	Nowcasting of Precipitation	IO
2.01	David	Ahijevych	NCAR	USA	Tracking and Forecasting Precipitation Episodes in the NCWF-2 AutoNowcaster	O
2.07	John	Cook	Naval Research Laboratory	USA	The naval research laboratory nowcast system	O
2.13	Thomas	Haiden	Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics	Austria	Prediction of convective cell initiation in mountainous terrain using a high-resolution analysis system	O
2.14	Alessandro	Hering	MeteoSwiss	Switzerland	Nowcasting thunderstorms in complex cases using radar data	O
2.15	Harri	Hohti	Finnish Meteorological Institute	Finland	Radar based ensemble nowcasting of precipitation	O
2.19	Luiz	Machado	CPTEC/INPE	Brazil	Convective system area expansion - High-level wind divergence and v	O
2.22	John	Mecikalski	University of Alabama in Huntsville	USA	Geostationary satellite-based methods for nowcasting total lightning fl	O
2.26	Ralph	Petersen	CIMSS	USA	An Objective Nowcasting Tool that Optimizes the Impact of Frequent Observations in Short-Range Forecasts	O
2.27	Clive	Pierce	Met Office	United Kingdom	Development of A stochastic precipitation nowcast scheme for flood forecasting and warning	O
2.33	Zbynek	Sokol	Institute of Atmospheric Physics AS CR		Comparison of several methods for probabilistic forecasting of locally-	O
2.38	James	Wilson	NCAR	USA	Combining radar echo extrapolation and NWP techniques for 1-6 H convective storm forecasts	O
2.41	Gang	Xu	Colorado State University	USA	radar storm motion estimation and beyond: a spectral algorithm and	O
2.02	Frédéric	Autones	Météo-France	France	Tuning the Rapid Developping Thunderstorm Product for Meteosat Second Generation, and Comparing to GOES-EAST and to Rapid Scan Service	P
2.03	Pierre	Bourgouin	EC/SMC/CMC	Canada	Developpement of an extrapolation component for a nowcasting module for aviation (TAftools) at CMC	P
2.04	John Bjørnar	Bremnes	Norwegian Meteorological Institute	Norway	Probabilistic forecasts of rare visibility events using neural networks	P
2.05	Lawrence	Brown	Meteorological Service	Jamaica	Shprt Range forecast using fluctuations in Geopotential heights	P
2.06	Huaqing	Cai	National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder	USA	Enhancements of the NCAR Auto-Nowcast System by Using ASAP and NRL Satellite Products	P
2.08	Jianhua	Dai	CMA/Shanghai Meteorological Center	China	Application of Doppler Radar and Mesoscale Model Output in Convection Nowcasting	P
2.09	Feddoul	El ouazzany	Direction de la Météorologie Nationale du Maroc	Maroc	Image radar prevue par extrapolation du champ des deplacements (IRAPED)	P
2.10		Endarwin	Meteorological And Geophysical Agency Indonesia	Indonesia	Improvement of Detection Atmosphere Instability in Micro Scale Area by Using Simple Wind Model Analysis	P
2.11	Y.	Feng	Guangdong Meteorological Observatory, CMA	China	On an Algorithm of Convective Weather Potential in the Early Flood Season of the Pear River Delta, China	P
2.12	Neil I.	Fox	University of Missouri – Columbia	USA	Intercomparisons of Nowcasts using different systems	P
2.43	Günther	Haase	Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)	Sweden	Mesoscale cloud analysis for nowcasting using mesan	P
2.16	Rudolf	Kaltenböck	Austrocontrol	Austria	Nowcasting of thunderstorms using mesoscale modified low level wind shear.	P
2.17	Hana	Kyznarova	Czech Hydrometeorological Institute	Czech Republic	Development of cell-tracking algorithm in Czech Hydrometeorological Institute	P
2.18	Pay-Liam	Lin	Institute of Atmosphe	Taiwan	The radar rainfall estimate for different precipitation systems in Taiwan	P
2.20	Roberto	Machado	UNESP	Brazil	Nowcasting with neural network using reflectivity images of meteorological radar	P
2.21	Francisco	Martín León	Instituto Nacional de Meteorología	Spain	Recent Progress in convective phenomena monitoring and forecasting at the INM	P
2.23	Ernani	Nascimento	INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO SIMEPAR	Brazil	Very short range prediction of convective storm motion in Brazil utilizing mesoscale model output	P
2.24	Ahmad Abu	Obeid	Jordan Meteorological Department	Jordania	A software for better management of Offenbach and Meteo-France product	P
2.25	Ramon	Pascual	Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia	Spain	Convective storm initiation in western Catalonia: Characteristics and uncertainties of the methodology used.	P
2.28	Virginia	Poli	ARPA-SIM	Italy	Preliminary results of the comparison of two advection methods	P
2.29	Silvia	Puca	Servizio Meteorologico Aeronautica Militare	Italy	Improvements on numerical "object" detection and Nowcasting of con	P
2.30	Stevie	Roquelaure	Météo-France	France	Predictability of fog and low clouds	P
2.31	Thomas	Saxen	NCAR	USA	Determining key predictors for NCAR's Convective Auto-Nowcast system using climatological analyses	P
2.34	Chien Wan THAM	THAM	The National Environment Agency	Singapore	A prototype system to nowcast weather based on statistics	P
2.35	Ricardo	Valenti		Argentina	Objective short-term alert advising based on signatures of severe weather confirmed cases using radar	P
2.36	Daniel	Vila	INA	France	A techniique of forecasting and tracking of active convective cells : an a	P
2.37	Yingchun	Wang	China Meteorological Administration	China	Joint development of convection nowcast system to support Beijing 2008 Olympics between BMB and NCAR	P
2.39	Tanja	Winterrath	Deutscher Wetterdienst	Germany	A new method for the nowcasting of stratiform precipitation using	P
2.40	Zhifang	Wu	Guangzhou Central Observatory	China	The Nowcasting Method and Results of Very-short-rang Heavy Rain Occurred in The Pearl River Delta Area	P
2.44	Olivier	Liechti	A & K	Switzerland	Short term NWP with mass flux boundary layer models.
2.45	Anna	Ivanova	Hydrometeorological Research Centre of Russia	Russia	Freezing precipitation in the airports in Russia and the Ukraine

					Data assimilation
3.05	François	Bouttier	Météo-France	France	The potential of data assimilation for nowcasting promises and limits of 3-D variational approach	IO
3.02	Sue	Ballard	Met Office	United Kingdom	Development of 1-4KM resolutation data assimilation for nowcasting at the Met Office	O
3.03	Hans-Stefan	Bauer	Institut für Physik und Meteorologie	Germany	Assimilation of high resolution dial water vapor data into the MM5 mod	O
3.06	Keith	Brewster	Center for Analysis a	USA	Efficient Assimilation of Radar Data at High Resolution or Short-range Numerical Weather Prediction	O
3.08	Shu-Hua	Chen	University of California, Davis	USA	Improvement of short-term severe weather forecasting using high-resolution MODIS satellite data.	O
3.10	Luc	Fillion	Meteorological Service of Canada	Canada	Balanced coupling between vertical motion and diabatic forcing for mesoscale data assimilation	O
3.11	Rod	Frehlich	NCAR	USA	Adaptive Data Assimilation to Include Spatially Variable Observation Error Statistics	O
3.14	Wen-dong	Hu	Key Laboratory of Met	China	A non-linear retrieval-variational assimilation study and experiment on	O
3.15	Geneviève	Jaubert	Météo-France	France	Meso-gamma 3D Var assimilation of surface measurements on heav	O
3.20	Andrea	Rossa	Centro Meteorologico Teolo	Italy	Evaluation of the Latent heat nudging scheme for the rainfall assimilation at the meso-gamma scale	O
3.21	Soichiro	Sugimoto	NCAR	USA	Potential benefits of multiple-doppler radar data to quantative precipita	O
3.01	Qingnong Xiao	Xiao	NCAR	USA	Assimilation of doppler radar observations using wrf/mm5 3d-var system and its impact on short-range QPF	O
3.23	Qingyun	Zhao	US Naval Research Laboratory	USA	Improving very-short-term storm prediction by assimilating radar and	O
3.04	Benedikt	Bica	Department of Meteo	Austria	High Resolution Analysis and Nowcasting over Complex Terrain by using Physical a priori Knowledge	P
3.07	Dong-Eon	Chang	Meteorological Research Institute /KMA	Korea	Application of a diabatic initialization method to the warm season precipitation forecast	P
3.09	N. Andrew	Crook	National Center for Atmospheirc Research	USA	Very short range forecasting of precipitation comparing NWP and extrapolation techniques	P
3.12	Rod	Frehlich	NCAR	USA	The importance of small-scale turbulence for data assimilation	P
3.13	Paul	Harasti	University Corporation for Atmospheric Research	USA	radar data quality control for the Naval Research Laboratory NOWCAST system	P
3.16	Eric	Kemp	Northrop Grumman IT TASC		Enhancements to a three-dimensional cloud analysis scheme	P
3.17	Yaodong	Li	Institute of Atmosphe	China	Very short range numerical simulation with ARPS associated with moisture and adiabatic initialization	P
3.19	Pramod	Mahajan	Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology	India	Improvement in very short range forecast of tropical	P
3.22	Zhongfeng	Zhang	Air Traffic Management Bureau of CAAC	China	Airport weather nowcasting using AMDAR data	P

					Observational needs
4.32	Silas	Michaelides	Meteorological Service, Nicosia	Cyprus	Activities on short-range forecasting methods of fog, visibility and low clouds in EU Cost action 722	IO
4.33	G. K.	Ramothwa	Meteorological Service	Botswana	Nowcasting and very short range forecasting issues in Africa	IO
4.04	Geoff	Austin	Atmospheric Physics Group, University of Auckland	New Zealand	Nowcasting orographic rainfall : the effects of microphysical processes	O
4.08	Walter	Dabberdt	Vaisala, CIRES, and Univ. Oklahoma	USA	Multi-functional mesoscale observing networks in support of integrated forecasting system	O
4.12	Steve	Goodman	NASA Marshall Space Flight Center	USA	PRE-launch GOES-R Risk Reduction activities for the geostationary lightning mapper	O
4.14	Julie	Haggerty	NCAR	USA	Integration of advanced satellite cloud products into an icing nowcasting system	O
4.15	O.	Kryvobok	Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Research Institute	Ukraine	Using Meteosat second generation high resolution visible data for the	O
4.17	Daniel	Leuenberger	MeteoSwiss	Switzerland	next generation NWP AT meteoswiss AND potential contributions OF Weather radars	O
4.25	Scott	Swerdlin	NCAR	USA	Combining mesoscale, nowcast, and CFD model output in near real-t	O
4.26	Pierre	Tabary	Météo France	France	The new french operational convetional radar products	O
4.28	Steven	Vasiloff	U.S. Dept. of Comme	USA	The National Mosaic and Quantitative precipitation estimation (NMQ) s	O
4.29	Tammy	Weckwerth	NCAR	USA	Scales of features influencing convection initiation on 12 June 2002 during IHOP_2002	O
4.03	Bogdan	Antonescu	National Administration of Meteorology, Bucharest	Roumania	Some operational aspects of using lightning data in forecasting of severe storms	P
4.05	Mamoudou	Ba	NOAA	USA	Monitoring the storm environment using goes derived products for op	P
4.06	Perapol	BEGKHUNTOD	Thai Meteorological Department	Thailand	Comparisons of Gauge and Satellite Rain Estimates for Thailand During September 1998	P
4.07	Hector	Chikoore	Meteorological Services Department	Zimbawe	Towards more effective monitoring and prediction of high impact weather systems in Southern Africa	P
4.01	Michael	Coniglio	NCAR	USA	Impact of in-situ surface observations and multiple doppler radar obs	P
4.09	Nicholas	Demetriades	Vaisala Inc.		Long-range lightning nowcasting applications for aviation and meteorology	P
4.10	Rod	Frehlich	NCAR	USA	Lidar derived profiles of boundary layer winds and turbulence for assi	P
4.11	Uta	Gjertsen	Norwegian Meteorological Institute	Norway	Radar data quality the challenge of beam blockages and propagation changes	P
4.13	Jonathan	Gourley	Météo-France, DSO, Centre de Météorologie Radar	France	Particle identification using the Meteo-France C-Band polarimetric radar	P
4.16	Dong-Kyou	Lee	Seoul National University	Korea	An observational study of heavy rainfall with mesoscale convective systems over the Korean Peninsula	P
4.18	Jean-Francois	Mahfouf	Meteorological Service of Canada	Canada	Development of a Canadian Precipitation Analysis (CaPA)	P
4.19	Patrick	Minnis	NASA Langley Research Center	USA	Near Real-Time Satellite Cloud Products for Nowcasting Applications	P
4.20	Marcia Cristina da Silva	Moraes	R. S.Tenório2, L. C. B. Molion3	Brazil	Z-R Relationship for eastern coast of northeastern Brazil	P
4.21	Martin	Murphy	Vaisala Inc		The role of total lightning in thunderstorm nowcasting	P
4.22	Jani	Poutiainen	Finnish Meteorological Institute	Finland	Helsinki testbed : a four season mesoscale research and development facility	P
4.23	Tomeu	Rigo	Meteocat	Spain	Combining lightning and radar data to improve the nowcasting of summer thunderstorms	P
4.24	Vladimir A	Shutov	Valday Branch of the State Hydrological Institute	Russia	Special Processing of the Radar Precipitation Data for Hydrological Forecasting	P
4.27	Ricardo Sarmento	Tenório	Sistema de Radar Meteorológico de Alagoas	Brazil	Raindrop size distribution over eastern coast of northeastern Brazil	P
4.30	Andreas	Wirth	ZAMG	Austria	Day/night-time low cloud detection using different spectral	P
4.02	Volker	Wulfmeyer	Institute of Physics and Meteorology	Germany	The role of future field campaigns for advancing short-range weather forecasting	P
4.31	Yong Jun	Zhu	Tianshui Weather Bureau	China	Astudy of distinguishing hail cloud	P

					Applications
5.14	Roman	Krzysztofowicz	University of Virginia	USA	Probabilistic hydrological forecasting for short range	IO
5.36	Willi	Schmid	Meteoradar GMBH	Switzerland	New approaches for nowcasting winter road weather over a complex	IO
5.05	Katia	Chancibault	Météo-France	France	evaluation of a non hydrostatic mesoscale model for discharge forecasting.	O
5.06	J. William	Conway	Weather Decision Technologies		Applications of the McGill algorithm for precipitation nowcasting using	O
5.10	Neil I.	Fox	University of Missouri – Columbia	USA	Forecasting storm duration	O
5.13	George	Isaac	Meteorological Service of Canada	Canada	Nowcasting ariport winter weather : avisa tests during airs	O
5.15	Robert	Kuligowski	NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Research and Applications	USA	The Hydro-Nowcaster: Recent Improvements and Future Plans	O
5.20	Ryohei	Misumi	National Research In	Japan	Realtime forecasting of shallow landslides using radar-derived rainfall	O
5.26	James	Pinto	NCAR/RAL	USA	Toward developing a new operational system for the short term predic	O
5.28	Robert	Sharman	NCAR	USA	The operational prediction of mountain wave turbulence using a multi-nested nonhydrostatic mesoscale model	O
5.30	Nathan	Uhlenbrock	University of Wisconsin - Madison	USA	The Use of Satellite Water Vapor Imagery and Model Data to Diagnos	O
5.31	Steve	Weygandt	NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory	USA	Hourly ruc convective probability forecasts using ensembles and radar assimilation	O
5.33	Cory	Wolff	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)	USA	Nowcasting aircraft icing conditions using goes-derived satellite products	O
5.34	M.	Wolfson	MIT Lincoln Laboratory	USA	Tactical 0-2 Hour Convective Weather Forecasts for FAA	O
5.02	Alan Peixoto	Calheiros	Dept. de Meteorologia/Universidade Federal de Alagoas	Brazil	Severe weather events over northeastern Brasil : the January 2004 event	P
5.03	Regina	Cepaityte	Aviation Institute of th	Lithuania	Thunderstorms and other convective phenomena in terminal maneuv	P
5.04	Jan	Cermak	Univ. of Marburg, Lab. for Climatology and Remote Sensing	Germany	Satellite-Based Nowcasting of Fog and Low Stratus	P
5.07	F.	Elizaga	Instituto Nacional Meteorología	Spain	Nowcasting Applications for aeronautical purposes	P
5.08	Wayne	Feltz	University of Wisconsin-Madison	USA	Overview of ASAP Satellite Derived Aviation Hazard Products at the Uni	P
5.09	Klara	Finkele	BMRC	Australia	High resolution forecasting of forest fire danger in Australia	P
5.11	Ludmila	Geyko	State Hydrometeorological Service of Ukraine	Ukraine	The Forecasting of Hazardous Weather Conditions in Ukraine Caused by Southern Cyclones	P
5.12	John	Henderson	AER, Inc.; Meteognosis, SA	USA	Verification of Hellenic National Meteorological Service high resolution	P
5.16	Wolfgang	Linder	METEOTEST	Switzerland	Swiss severe weather cycle	P
5.17	John	Mecikalski	University of Alabama in Huntsville	USA	The Advanced Satellite Aviation Weather Products (ASAP) initiative for i	P
5.18	John	Mecikalski	University of Alabama in Huntsville	USA	Detection of convective clouds and volcanic ash in satellite imagery us	P
5.21	Cynthia	Mueller	National Center for Atmospheric Research	USA	Observation-based 0-6hr probalistic forecasts	P
5.22	Thi Tan Thanh	Nguyen	National Hydro - Meteorological Service of S.R. Vietnam	Vietnam	Some Result of test Nowcasting the Widespread Heavy Rainfall over	P
5.23	Michael	Pavolonis	University of Wisconsin - Madison	USA	Towards operational satellite-based detection and short term nowcasting of volcanic ash	P
5.24	Margaret	Peace	Auckland University	New Zealand	The prediction of air pollution using a site optimised model and mesoscale wind forecasts	P
5.25	Alessandro	Pezzoli	DITIC-Politecnico di Torino	Italy	Nowcasting of strong Etesian wind in the Saroniko Gulf	P
5.35	Roy	Rasmussen	NCAR	USA	Winter weather nowcasting at airports	P
5.27	Farahnaz Fazel	Rastgar	IRIMO	Iran	Flood in the northern part of Iran, Golestan province, 11 aug 2001	P
5.29	Peter	Sousounis	WSI Corporation	USA	Short Term Turbulence Forecasts over the Atlantic Ocean Using WRF	P
5.32	Anthony	Wimmers	University of Wisonsin - Madison	USA	Estimating regions of tropopause folding and clear-air turbulence with the GOES water vapor channel	P
5.36	Abdollah	Tarbali	IRIMO	Isl. rep. of Iran	Severe weather phenomena over hormozgan Provinic Iran, 8-11 August 2005	P

					High-resolution NWP
6.18	Ko	Koizumi	Japan Meteorological Agency	Japan	Assimilation of various observational data using JMA meso 4D-Var an	IO
6.05	Stan	Benjamin	NOAA Forecast Ssytems Laboratory	USA	The NOAA rapid update cycle 1-H assimilation cycle in support of aviat	O
6.06	Thierry	Bergot	Météo-France	France	Improved site-specific numerical prediction of fog and low clouds	O
6.10	David	Dowell	Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies	USA	Assimilating Reflectivity Observations of Convective Storms into Convection-Permitting NWP Models	O
6.11	Véronique	Ducrocq	Meteo-France	France	High-resolution non-hydrostatic Numerical Weather Prediction of Mediterranean torrential rain events	O
6.19	Ying-Hwa	KUO	NCAR	USA	Prediction of the 10 July 2004 Beijing Flood with a High-Resolution NWP Mode	O
6.20	Humphrey	Lean	Met Office	United Kingdom	Trials of a 1km version of the Unified Model for short range forecasting of convective events	O
6.21	Dong-Kyou	Lee	Seoul National University	Korea	Heavy rainfall prediction over East Asia using the high resolution WRF model	O
6.22	Charles	Lin	McGill University	Canada	Quantitative evaluation of precipitation from numerical weather predicti	O
6.26	Mathias	Müller	University of Basel	Switzerland	fog prediction in a 3D model with parameterized microphysics	O
6.27	Mathieu	Nuret	Météo-France	France	Initialization of convection for the 3D-VAR Aladin mesoscale analysis based on the RDT product	O
6.34	Morris L	Weisman	NCAR	USA	Experiences with 0-36 Hour Explicit Convective Forecasting with the WRF-EM Model	O
6.35	Jishan	Xue		China	GRAPES_Based Nowcasting Design and Progress at CMA	O
6.02	Kwang-Deuk	Ahn	Meteorological Rese	Rep. of Korea	The effect of grid size and terrain resolution on mesoscale model simulation over Korean peninsula	P
6.03	Chris	Anderson	Iowa State University	USA	Development of a stochastic trigger function to represent subgrid varia	P
6.04	Michael	Baldauf	Deutscher Wetterdienst	Germany	LMK - Development of a very short-range forecast model	P
6.07	Sigalit	Berkovic	IIBR		The sea and land breeze simulation with data assimilation in urban area by the MM5 model	P
6.08	J.	Bornemann	Met Office	United Kingdom	A new high resolution operational model for the UK	P
6.09	Zuohao	Cao	Environment Canada	Canada	High-resolution Mesoscale Modeling and Diagnosing of a Severe Fog Event	P
6.12	Marcelo	Félix Alonso	Master's in Meteorologia - UFPEL	Brazil	Simulation of a squall line occured in January 18, 2005	P
6.14	Akos	Horvath	Hungarian Meteorological Service	Hungary	Nowcasting system of the Hungarian Meteorological Service	P
6.15	Simon	Jackson	The Met Office	United Kingdom	Use of High Resolution NWP in Nowcasting at the Met	P
6.16	Jack	Katzfey	CSIRO Atmospheric Research	Australia	High-resolution weather predictions for the America's cup in AUCKLA	P
6.17	Yong-Sang	Kim	Korea Meteorological Administration	Korea	A Three Dimensional Cloud Analysis for Diabatic Initialization of Mesoscale Model and its Impact Study	P
6.01	A.	Männik	University of Tartu	Estonia	Nonhydrostatic HIRLAM with semi-Lagrangian semi-implicit dynamic	P
6.23	Jaci	Maria Bilhalva Saraiva	Sistema de Proteção da Amazônia (SIPAM)	Brazil	Comparison between the simulations of a squall line occured in January 17, 2005	P
6.24	Matthieu	Masbou	Meteorological Institute - University BONN	Germany	Fog Forecasting at High Resolution with the Lokal Modell	P
6.25	Parthasarathi	Mukhopadhyay	Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology	India	Simulation of Nor'westers over Kolkata using RAMS and validation wit	P
6.28	Claus	Petersen	Danish Meteorological Institute	Denmark	Improving of Road weather forecasting by using high resolution satellite data.	P
6.29	Chunyan	Sheng	Institute of Atmospheric Physics	China	A Three-dimensional cloud analysis system with doppler radar reflecti	P
6.30	Reinaldo	Silveira	INMET	Brazil	The use of a High-Resolution NWP model for short range forecasting in Brazil	P
6.31	Myoung-Seok	Suh	Kongju National University	South Korea	Impacts of Land Surface Conditions on the MM5 Simulation of Heavy Rainfalls over Korean Peninsula	P
6.32	Jeffrey	Tilley	Regional Weather Inf	USA	Application of Very High Resolution Multi-Model Ensemble Simulation	P
6.33	Lloyd	Treinish	IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center	USA	A Meso-Gamma-Scale Numerical Modelling and Visualization System	P
6.36	Wei	Yu	Recherche en Prévision Numérique, Environment Canada	Canada	High resolution wind forecasting using statistical-dynamical downscaling techniques	P

					Operational systems
7.35	Brian	Golding	Met Office	United Kingdom	A new approach to nowcasting at the Met Office	IO
7.03	Klaus	Bähnke	Deutscher Wetterdienst	Germany	Nowcasting and warnings at Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)	O
7.04	Tony	Bannister	Australian Bureau of Meteorology	Australia	An end-to-end Severe Thunderstorm Forecasting System in Australia: Overview and Training Issues.	O
7.05	Cesar	Beneti	SIMEPAR Technological Institute	Brazil	Severe weather analysis and forecasting with the integration of lightni	O
7.08	Pascal	Brovelli	Météo-France	France	Nowcasting thunderstorms with sigoons - a significant weather object oriented nowcasting system	O
7.13	Paul	Joe	Meteorological Service of Canada	Canada	Severe Weather Forecasting Tools in NinJo	O
7.17	Ping-Wah	Li	Hong Kong Observatory	China	RAPIDS - A New Rainstorm Nowcasting System in Hong Kong	O
7.23	Augusto José	Pereira Filho	University of São Paulo	Brazil	a Hydrometeorological ForEcast SYSTEM FOR the Metropolitan area of São Paulo	O
7.24	Ales	Poredos	Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia (EARS)	Slovenia	Development of common nowcastins tools in central european national weather services	O
7.26	Rita	Roberts	NCAR	USA	The NWS/NCAR Man-In-The-Loop (MITL) Demonstration : Forecaster I	O
7.27	David	Sills	Environment Canada	Canada	Development and use of a prototype nowcasting system focused on optimization of the human-machine mix	O
7.28	Iori	Sugiura	Japan Meteorological Agency	Japan	Very-Short-Range Forecast of Precipitation in Japan	O
7.29	Arnold	Tafferner	DLR-Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute for Atmospheric Physics	Germany	DONAR – Detection of severe weather objects, nowcasting and areal r	O
7.34	Xiaoding	Yu	China Meteorological Administration	China	Overview of Beijing 2008 Olympics WWRP Nowcast FDP and implementation plan	O
7.01	A.K	Abdalla	Sudan Met. Authority	Sudan	Simple synoptocal approach for short range forecasting of dust-storm at Khartoum airport	P
7.02	Rosario	Alfaro	Instituto Meteorologico Nacional de Costa Rica	Costa Rica	The Flash Flood Guidance System for Central America and very short range forecasting	P
7.06	Martin	Benko	Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute	Slovakia	Development of nowcasting techniques at SHMÚ	P
7.07	Pierre	Bourgouin	CMC/SMC/EC	Canada	Pubtools and taftools : txo statistically-based nowcasting modules	P
7.09	Corinne	Chabaud	Université Toulouse 3-IRIT CSC	France	Ergonomical design of a tool dedicated to nowcasting forecast	P
7.10	Wen-dong	HU	Ningxia Meteorological Observatory, Yinchuan	China	Development Strategies and Technical Measures of Short-term Forec	P
7.11	Ata	Hussain	Pakistan Meteorological Department	Pakistan	Capturing of Storms and Extreme Events from Modified Surface Weather Charts	P
7.12	Xi	Jing	Yulin Meteorological Office	China	The forecast system of the strony convective storm during six hours in the north of Shaan xi	P
7.14	S.R.	Kalsi	India Meteorological Department	India	Short-range forecasting capacities in IMD	P
7.16	Claude	Landry		Canada	Scribe Nowcasting - AN Integrated nowcasting SUB-System	P
7.18	Y.	Liu	Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences	China	A brief introducing to EWSSWE	P
7.19	David	Matthews	Hydromet DSS, LLC	USA	Hydrometeorological analysis and short range forecasting needs of w	P
7.20	Peter	Neilley	Weather Services International	USA	A Real-Time System to Estimate Weather Conditions at High-Resolution	P
7.21	Jacques	Parent du Chatelet	Météo-France	France	Aprenrad : A tool for forecasters training on radar images, usefulness and limits	P
7.22	Enrique Cesar	Peñarrieta Gómez	Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología	Bolivia	Predicción a muy corto plazo en Bolivia	P
7.25	Sarath	Premalal	Department of Meteorology	Sri Lanka	Difficulties and Importance of developing very short-range weather for	P
7.30	Ricardo Sarmento	Tenório	Sistema de Radar Meteorológico de Alagoas	Brazil	Weather radar monitoring system in the eastern coast of Northeast Brazil	P
7.31	Simon	Tschannett	Department of Meteo	Austria	Vera as an operational nowcasting tool	P
7.32	Getahun	Yeshitila	National Meteorological Services Agency	Ethiopia	Nowcasting and very short range forecasting in Ethiopia	P

					Verification
8.10	Elizabeth	Ebert	Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre (BMRC)	Australia	Verification of Nowcasts and Very Short Range Forecasts	IO
8.18	Jeffrey K.	Lazo	NCAR	USA	Societal Impacts and Economic Benefits of Improving Short-Range Weather Forecasts	IO
8.03	Barbara	Brown	NCAR	USA	Object-based verification of convective nowcasts	O
8.04	Barbara	Casati	Meteorological Service of Canada	Canada	A new spatial scale decomposition of the Brier score for the verification of probabilistic lightning forecasts	O
8.05	Olivier	Caumont	Météo-France	France	A radar simulator as a validation tool for every short-term forecasts	O
8.34	Michael	Kay	Cooperative Institute	USA	Near Real-Time Verification at Forecast Systems Laboratory: An Operational Perspective.	O
8.12	Tom	Keenan	Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre	Australia	Verification of operational thunderstorm nowcasts	O
8.16	Christian	Keil	Institute of Atmospheric Physics	Germany	Forecast Quality Control applying an Object-Oriented Approach using Remote Sensing Information	O
8.20	Marion	Mittermaier	Met Office	United Kingdom	The use of an intensity-scale technique for assessing operational mesoscale precipitation forecasts	O
8.21	Lucy	Mtilatila	Department of Meteorological Services	Malawi	Multidimensional applications of Nowcasting	O
8.22	PERTTI	NURMI	FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE	Finland	Probabilistic forecasts and their verification as decision-making tools f	O
8.26	Daniela	Rezacova	Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Academy of Sciences	Czech Republic	The use of radar data in the verification of a high resolution quantitativ	O
8.27	Nigel	Roberts	Met Office	United Kingdom	Assessment of the ability of a storm scale NWP model to predict flood-producing rainfall	O
8.33	Christoph	Zingerle	Finnish Meteorological Institute	Finland	Adaptation of an entity based verification method for short-range cloud forecasts utilizing satellite data	O
8.01	Francis	Araniador	PAGASA	Philippines	Rainfall forecast using NCAR MM5 associated with tropical cyclone in the Philippines	P
8.02	Hayat	Azmat	Pakistan Meteorological Department	Pakistan	Economic and societal impacts of very short range forecasting in deve	P
8.35	Marc	Berenguer	Grup de Recerca Apli	Spain	Validation of a radar-based advection algorithm from the perspective of flow forecasting	P
8.06	Mike	Chapman	NCAR	USA	A verification of aviation icing algorithms from the second alliance icing research study	P
8.07	Laurent	Delobbe	Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium	Belgium	Verification of radar-based hail detection product	P
8.08	Manfred	Dorninger	Department of Meteo	Austria	Real-time verification of mesoscale model products over complex terrain	P
8.09	Christian	Doyle	Environment Canada	Canada	Mesoscale Surface Observing Network for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games	P
8.11	Elizabeth	Ebert	Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre (BMRC)	Australia	A Real Time Forecast Verification System	P
8.13	Niels Einar	Jensen	DHI Water & Environment	Denmark	Automated short term forecast from LAwr x-band radar systems. Resu	P
8.14	Shalaby A.	Kamal	Egyptian Meteorological Authority-Egypt	Egypt	Performance and Efficiency of Non-hydrostatic Eta Model for Now-casting	P
8.15	Laura	Karklina	Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Agency	Latvia	particularities of very short-range forecasting in Latvia	P
8.17	Paul	Kucera	University of North Dakota	USA	Precipitation verification studies of the weather Research and Forecas	P
8.19	Gary	Love	Naval Research Laboratory	USA	Monitoring Coamps® Surface forecast quality	P
8.23	Katarzyna	Osrodka	Institute of Meteorology and Water Management	Poland	Quality evaluation of NIMROD rainfall nowcasting	P
8.24	Monika	Pfeifer	DLR Institute for Atmospheric Physics	Germany	Precipitation forecast evaluation by polarimetric radar	P
8.25	Zahid	Rafi	Pakistan Meteorological Department	Pakistan	Flood operational system in Pakistan and role of mass media and as	P
8.28	Vincent N.	Sakwa	Kenya Meteorological Department	Kenya	Numerical short-range Weather Forecasting in Kenya	P
8.29	Ismael	San Ambrosio	Instituto Nacional de Meteorología	Spain	Objective Verification of a radar-based operational tool for identification of hailstorms	P
8.30	Umayra	Taghiyeva	National Hydrometeorological Department	Azerbaijan	Problems of forecasting: the key natural hydrometeorological phenom	P
8.31	Reinhard	Teschl	Graz University of Te	Austria	A method to enhanse 3D radar rainrate data by interpolating over adjacent grid data	P
8.32	Lamin Mai	Touray	Department of Water Resources	Gambia	ARPEGE model evaluation over the Gambia	P