32nd Conference on Broadcast Meteorology/31st Conference on Radar Meteorology/Fifth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

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Tuesday, 5 August 2003

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Wednesday, 6 August 2003

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Wednesday, 6 August 2003


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8:30 AM-10:20 AM: Wednesday, 6 August 2003


Joint Session 1
Coastal Weather and Ocean Processes (Joint Between the 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology and the Fifth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology; and the Fifth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes )
Cochairs: Bradley F. Smull, NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory and the University of Washington; Ruth Preller, NRL

Papers:
  8:30 AM
The IMPROVE Experiment: Goals and Program Description
Clifford F. Mass, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

  9:20 AM
Measured anomalous radar propagation and ocean backscatter in the Virginia coastal region
Janet Stapleton, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA; and V. R. Wiss and R. E. Marshall

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)
  9:35 AM
Modeling study of the coastal upwelling system of the Monterey Bay area during 1999 and 2000
Igor Shulman, NRL, Bay St. Louis, MS; and J. D. Paduan, L. K. Rosenfeld, S. R. Ramp, and J. C. Kindle

  9:50 AM
Raindrop size distributions and radar bright bands in California coastal orographic storms
Brooks E. Martner, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and A. B. White and S. Y. Matrosov

Poster PDF (304.8 kB)

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 6 August 2003


Coffee Break

10:05 AM-10:45 AM: Wednesday, 6 August 2003


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Coffee Break

10:30 AM-3:30 PM: Wednesday, 6 August 2003


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Air-Sea Processes and Modeling
Sponsor: Fifth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
Chair: Steven Burk, NRL

Papers:
  10:30 AM
1.1
Sea Breeze Forecasting and Applications along the New Jersey Coast
Louis A. Bowers, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and R. Dunk, J. Kohut, H. Roarty, and S. Glenn

Poster PDF (294.4 kB)
  10:50 AM
1.2
Air-Sea Flux influences on West Florida Shelf water temperatures
Jyotika I. Virmani, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL; and R. He and R. Weisberg

  11:10 AM
1.3
A First Assessment of the Response of a Mesoscale Coastal Ocean Model to Forcing by a Mesoscale Coastal Atmospheric Model
Christopher N. K. Mooers, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and I. Bang and P. Q. Olsson

http://pws-nfs-osri.rsmas.miami.edu

Poster PDF (145.7 kB)
  11:30 AM
1.4
Modelling the generation of Haida Eddies
Emanuele Di Lorenzo, SIO/Univ. of California, LaJolla, CA; and M. Foreman and W. Crawford

  11:50 AM
1.5
Sensitivity of a Navy regional ocean model to high-resolution atmospheric model and scatterometer wind forcing
Henry Jones, NPS, Monterey, CA and U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and M. L. Batteen, C. A. Collins, W. A. Nuss, and D. K. Miller

http://

Poster PDF (44.1 kB)
  12:10 PM
1.6
  12:30 PM
1.7
Sensitivity of coastal jet structure to coastal topography
Douglas K. Miller, NPS, Monterey, CA; and W. A. Nuss and P. S. Cross

Poster PDF (234.6 kB)
 
1.8
Sensitivity of coastal ocean models to variations in bathymetry

  1:10 PM
Conservation Schemes for Sigma Coordinate Ocean Models
Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and C. W. Fan

  1:30 PM
Ocean-atmosphere high resolution modeling of the Adriatic Sea during winter and spring 2001
Julie Pullen, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Doyle, R. Hodur, A. Ogston, J. Book, H. Perkins, and R. Signell

  1:50 PM
High-resolution coastal ocean model and application to coral reef ecosystems in western boundary currents
Jerome Fiechter, Univ. of Miami /RSMAS, Miami, FL; and C. N. K. Mooers

Poster PDF (143.6 kB)
  2:10 PM
Lunch Break

10:45 AM-12:30 PM: Wednesday, 6 August 2003


1A
Microphysics I
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Jacques Testud, CNRS

Papers:
  10:45 AM
Vertically profiles of rain drop size distributions estimated with S-band and W-band profilers
Christopher R. Williams, CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and P. Kollias

Poster PDF (230.2 kB)
  11:15 AM
TRMM precipitation radar algorithm retrieval and parameter N0* characteristic of the particle size distribution
Jacques Testud, CNRS, Vélizy, France; and F. Ferreira, E. Le Bouar, and J. Delanoë

  11:30 AM
Improved radar rainfall estimates: What index to use in the gamma function for the drop spectrum?
Anthony J. Illingworth, University of Reading, UK, Reading, United Kingdom; and D. Bouniol

Poster PDF (147.5 kB)
  11:45 AM
Influence of Embedded Convection on Microphysics of Snowfall
Björn Baschek, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland; and R. Schefold and E. Barthazy

http://www.iac.ethz.ch/staff/bjoern/

Poster PDF (1.0 MB)
  12:00 PM
  12:15 PM
Sequential intensity filtering technique (SIFT): filtering out noise to highlight the physical variability of drop size distribution
GyuWon Lee, J.S. Marshall Radar Observatory, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and I. Zawadzki

Poster PDF (872.0 kB)

1B
MCS/Orographic Precipitation
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: David P. Jorgensen, NOAA/NSSL

Papers:
  10:45 AM
Observations from the Bow Echo and MCV Experiment (BAMEX)
Christopher Davis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and N. Atkins, G. Bryan, W. Cotton, D. Dowell, J. M. Fritsch, B. Jewett, R. Johns, D. Jorgensen, K. Knupp, W. C. Lee, G. McFarquhar, R. Przybylinski, B. Rauber, B. Smull, J. Trapp, S. Trier, R. Wakimoto, M. Weisman, and C. Ziegler

  11:00 AM
Airborne Doppler observations of bow-echo convective systems observed during BAMEX
David P. Jorgensen, NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, CO; and B. F. Smull, C. Ziegler, W. Lee, and R. Wakimoto

  11:15 AM
Profiler and Doppler Radar Observations of Bow Echoes
Kevin R. Knupp, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. T. Walters

  11:45 AM
Orographic modification of baroclinic flows and precipitation: Airborne Doppler perspectives from MAP and IMPROVE-II
Bradley F. Smull, NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory and the University of Washington, Seattle, WA

 
1B.6
Airborne Doppler observations of a cold frontal system encountering the eastern Alps during MAP IOP5

 
1B.7
Dynamic structures of a convective system based on radar and lidar measurements

  12:01 PM
Bow echo embedded within a squall line
Wen-Chau Lee, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Wakimoto and J. F. Gamache

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

12:30 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 6 August 2003


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Lunch Break

1:30 PM-3:30 PM: Wednesday, 6 August 2003


Poster Session 1A
Microphysics Poster
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology

Papers:
 
Multiparametric airborne radar observations of the melting layer during the Wakasa Bay experiment
Simone Tanelli, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and J. Meagher, S. L. Durden, and E. Im

Poster PDF (347.9 kB)
 
Observations of clear-air dumbbell-shaped echo patterns with the CSU-CHILL polarimetric radar
Timothy J. Lang, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Rutledge and J. Stith

Poster PDF (763.1 kB)
 
Radar reflectivity simulated by a 2-D spectral bin and its Sensitivity of cloud-aerosol interaction
Xiaowen Li, GEST, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and W. K. Tao, J. Simpson, A. Khain, and D. Johnson

Poster PDF (27.8 kB)
 
Retrieving rain drop size distribution from Dual-Frequency Wind Profiler
Eastwood Im, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and L. Li and Z. S. Haddad

Poster PDF (235.4 kB)
 
Stratiform precipitation observed by airborne radar at 94 and 10 GHz
Lin Tian, GEST/Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and G. M. Heymsfield and L. Li

Poster PDF (126.1 kB)
 
The Bias in Moment Estimators for Parameters of Drop-Size Distribution Functions
Paul L. Smith, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Rapid City, SD; and D. V. Kliche

Poster PDF (502.1 kB)
 
S- and X-band dual-wavelength radars revisited
Marco A. Perez, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and I. Zawadzki

http://www.radar.mcgill.ca/~marco/thesis.html

Poster PDF (300.7 kB)
 
P1A.9
Evaluating S, X, Ka and W-band radars for observing clouds

 
A general approach to double moment normalization of drop size distribution
GyuWon Lee, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and I. Zawadzki, W. Szyrmer, D. Sempere-Torres, and R. Uijlenhoet

Poster PDF (281.2 kB)
 
A generalization of normalized N0 and its relevance to radar rainfall remote sensing
Toshiaki Kozu, Shimane University, Matsue, Japan; and T. Iguchi and J. Testud

Poster PDF (438.6 kB)
 
Characteristics of vertical profile of raindrop size distribution derived from MST radars in tropics
Toshiaki Kozu, Shimane University, Matsue, Japan; and K. K. Reddy, T. Shimomai, H. Hashiguchi, and G. Viswanathan

Poster PDF (160.0 kB)
 
Dual Frequency Radar DSD Retrievals from CAMEX4
Jonathan Meagher, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and Z. S. Haddad

 
Estimation of effective raindrop shape model from 35 GHz attenuation and differential attenuation
Sean E. A. Daisley, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and K. Aydin

 
Ground radar–based ice cloud microphysical retrievals during the CRYSTAL–FACE field campaign
Sergey Matrosov, CIRES/ University of Colorado and NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and M. Shupe, T. Schneider, and D. Hazen

Poster PDF (239.6 kB)
 
A Simulation Study of the Effects of “Small Sample” Problem in the Use of Disdrometer Data for Power Law Relations involving Radar Measurables
Taiwen Tang, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and V. N. Bringi and V. Chandrasekar

Poster PDF (332.6 kB)

Poster Session 1B
MCS/Orographic Precipitation/Lightning Poster
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology

Papers:
 
Analysis of downburst–producing thunderstorms during the VERTIKATOR field experiment in southern Germany
Nikolai Dotzek, DLR-Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; and K. Friedrich

Poster PDF (335.9 kB)
 
Three-Dimensional Radar and Total Lightning Structure of Mesoscale Convective Systems
Lawrence D. Carey, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and T. McCormick, M. J. Murphy, and N. W. S. Demetriades

 
Comparisons of LDAR network height and density data with WSR-88D echo top and SCIT reflectivity data
Nicholas W. S. Demetriades, Vaisala, Tucson, AZ; and R. L. Holle and M. J. Murphy

Poster PDF (430.9 kB)
 
Comparison between total measured volumes of various types of hydrometeors and total lightning activity during the STERAO 10 July 1996 storm
Wiebke Deierling, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. Petersen, S. M. Ellis, H. J. Christian Jr., J. Latham, and J. E. Dye

Poster PDF (233.7 kB)
 
Anvil evolution from NEXRAD data during CRYSTAL-FACE
Thomas M. Rickenbach, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Belcher, P. Kucera, L. Carey, J. Halverson, and D. Starr

Poster PDF (263.9 kB)
 
A single Doppler analysis of a midwestern quasi-linear mesoscale convective system across central Iowa on 29 June 1998
Jason T. Martinelli, Saint Louis Univ., St. Louis, MO; and R. W. Przybylinski and Y. J. Lin

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)
 
3D lightning mapping observations as a complement to radar observations of storms
Paul Krehbiel, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM; and W. Rison, R. Thomas, T. Hamlin, and J. Harlin

 
Ka-band radar observations of orographic snow clouds and flows across a steep mountain ridge
Kenichi Kusunoki, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and M. Murakami, N. Orikasa, Y. Tanaka, K. Iwanami, M. Maki, P. SangGoon, R. Misumi, K. Hamazu, and H. Kosuge

Poster PDF (563.7 kB)

Poster Session 1C
Radar Data Assimilation Poster
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology

Papers:
 
Error Covariance Estimation for Doppler Wind Data Assimilation
Qin Xu, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and L. Wang and K. Nai

Poster PDF (165.5 kB)
 
A high resolution numerical simulation of a linear mesoscale convective system utilizing the MM5-4DVAR system and single WSR-88D data
Jason T. Martinelli, Saint Louis Univ., St. Louis, MO; and R. W. Pasken, Y. J. Lin, C. E. Graves, and R. W. Przybylinski

 
A 3DVAR method for Doppler radar wind analysis with using recursive filters
Jidong Gao, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue, K. Brewster, and K. K. Droegemeier

Poster PDF (283.9 kB)
 
Assimilation of radar data for the detection of aviation weather hazards
Keith Brewster, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. Shapiro, J. Gao, E. M. Kemp, P. Robinson, and K. Thomas

Poster PDF (133.4 kB)
 
Radar Data Assimilation For Real-time Short term Forecasting of Snowbands
Mei Xu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and N. A. Crook, Y. Liu, and R. M. Rasmussen

3:30 PM-3:45 PM: Wednesday, 6 August 2003


Coffee Break

3:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 6 August 2003


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Coffee Break

3:45 PM-5:05 PM: Wednesday, 6 August 2003


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From Air to Sea
Sponsor: Fifth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
Organizer: Ted Fathauer, NOAA/NWS

Papers:
  3:45 PM
2.1
Variability in shelf transport in the Gulf of Alaska, Part I: Diagnosis of air-sea interactions
Nicholas A. Bond, JISAO/Univ. of Washington and NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and R. C. Steed, A. J. Hermann, and P. J. Stabeno

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)
  4:05 PM
2.2
  4:25 PM
2.3
Variability in shelf transports in the Gulf of Alaska, Part III: Observations of the Alaska Coastal Current from a moored buoy array
Nancy B. Kachel, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and N. A. Bond, C. W. Mordy, P. J. Stabeno, and P. Sullivan

  4:45 PM
2.4
Variability in shelf transports in the Gulf of Alaska, Part IV: Response to mesoscale forcing using the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS)
A. J. Hermann, JISAO/Univ. of Washington and NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and E. L. Dobbins, N. A. Bond, R. C. Steed, and P. J. Stabeno

Poster PDF (83.2 kB)

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 6 August 2003


2A
Microphysics II
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Eszter Barthazy, ETH

Papers:
  4:00 PM
Statistical Determination of the Characteristic Time for Precipitation Development in Cumulus Clouds using Radar
Sabine Göke, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and H. T. Ochs and R. M. Rauber

Poster PDF (119.1 kB)
  4:15 PM
Properties of Snowflakes of different Riming Degeree and Crystal Types
Eszter Barthazy, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and R. Schefold

Poster PDF (634.8 kB)
  4:30 PM
Using Radars to Measure Clustering in Clouds and Rain
A. R. Jameson, RJH Scientific, Inc., Arlington, VA

 
2A.4
Stratus cloud microphysics deduced from Ground-based and aircraft FSSP Measurements

  5:00 PM
Enhanced Dual-Wavelength Technique for Remote Detection of Cloud Liquid Water Content
John K. Williams, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Vivekanandan and G. Zhang

Poster PDF (281.7 kB)
  5:15 PM
Evolution of drizzle cells in SE Pacific stratocumulus
Kimberly Comstock, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. Yuter, C. S. Bretherton, and R. Wood

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~kcomstock/papers.html

Poster PDF (122.3 kB)
  5:30 PM
Investigating the density of ice particles using dual-wavelength Doppler radar
Nicolas Gaussiat, University of Reading, Reading, Berks, United Kingdom; and A. J. Illingworth

Poster PDF (359.7 kB)
  5:45 PM
Non-parametric estimation of Z-R relations and normalized raindrop size distributions using Gaussian mixtures
Remko Uijlenhoet, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands; and R. Wòjcik, P. Torfs, D. Sempere Torres, G. Lee, and I. Zawadzki

Poster PDF (257.7 kB)

2B
radar data assimilation
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Juanzhen Sun, NCAR

Papers:
  4:00 PM
Model for Doppler radar radial winds
Kirsti Salonen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and H. Järvinen and M. Lindskog

Poster PDF (105.9 kB)
  4:30 PM
Initialization and Forecasting of Thunderstorms: A Case Study Using STEPS Data
Juanzhen Sun, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. J. Miller

Poster PDF (408.9 kB)
  5:00 PM
Cycle of Assimilation of Radar Data in a Cloud Resolving Model
Chia-Hui Chiang, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and I. Zawadzki

Poster PDF (260.2 kB)
  5:15 PM
Use of doppler radar data for hurricane initialization and prediction
Jin-Luen Lee, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and A. E. MacDonald, Y. -. H. Kuo, W. C. Lee, and W. Wang

Poster PDF (293.1 kB)
  5:30 PM
Assimilation of Doppler Radar Observations with a Regional 3D-Var System: A Heavy Rainfall Case Study
Qingnong Xiao, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Sun, W. C. Lee, E. Lim, Y. R. Guo, D. M. Barker, and Y. H. Kuo

Poster PDF (325.3 kB)
  5:45 PM
Assimilation of radar observations into a high-resolution numerical weather analysis and prediction system at NRL
Qingyun Zhao, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Cook, L. Phegley, K. Sashegyi, Q. Xu, P. Harasti, and M. Frost

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

5:05 PM-5:05 PM: Wednesday, 6 August 2003


Sessions end for the day

Thursday, 7 August 2003

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Thursday, 7 August 2003


THU 7 AUG


THUR 7 AUG

7:00 AM-7:00 AM: Thursday, 7 August 2003


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Thurs 7 Aug

7:30 AM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 7 August 2003


Short Course Registration and Conference Registration

8:00 AM-9:40 AM: Thursday, 7 August 2003


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Waves
Sponsor: Fifth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
Chair: Christopher N. K. Mooers, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS

Papers:
 
3.1
Parameterization functions of the drag coefficient and ocean surface wind stress computation

  8:20 AM
3.2
Evaluation of high resolution model surface winds and their effect on wave model performance over the Southern California bight
Stephen V. Taylor, SIO/Univ. Of California and Hydrologic Research Center, La Jolla, CA; and N. E. Graham

  8:40 AM
3.3
Application of Delft3D in the nearshore zone
James D. Dykes, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and Y. L. Hsu and J. M. Kaihatu

Poster PDF (72.1 kB)
  9:00 AM
3.4
Regional wave modeling in the Southern California bight
Nicholas E. Graham, SIO/Univ. Of California and Hydrologic Research Center, La Jolla, CA; and S. V. Taylor

  9:20 AM
3.5
Tropical Cyclone Forcing of Ocean Surface Waves
Chung-Sheng Wu, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. A. Taylor, J. Chen, and W. A. Shaffer

  9:40 AM
3.6
Effects of Winds, Tides, and Storm Surges on Ocean Surface Waves in the Japan/East Sea
Wei Zhao, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS/MPO, Miami, FL; and S. S. Chen, C. A. Blain, and J. Tian

http://orca.rsmas.miami.edu/jes/

Poster PDF (422.0 kB)

8:00 AM-10:00 AM: Thursday, 7 August 2003


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MM-wave radar observations on cloud and climate - I
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Bruce Albrecht, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS

Papers:
  8:30 AM
3.2
Overview of the use of Doppler spectra from profiling radars for cloud and precipitation studies
Pavlos Kollias, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and B. A. Albrecht

  8:45 AM
3.3
Vertical wind oscillation observed by vertically pointing W-band radar
Yuichi Ohno, Communications Research Laboratory, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)
  9:00 AM
3.4
Radar observations of drizzling stratocumulus with an eye on Cloudsat
Robert Wood, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. Yuter, C. S. Bretherton, and K. Comstock

  9:15 AM
3.5
CloudSat Cloud Detection and Cloud Masking
Roger Marchand, PNNL, Richland, WA; and G. G. Mace and Q. Zhang

http://

  9:30 AM
3.6
MM-Wave Radar Structure and Microphysical Characteristics of Mixed Phase Altocumulus Clouds
Larry R. Belcher, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and L. D. Carey, J. M. Davis, J. A. Kankiewicz, and T. H. Vonder Haar

Poster PDF (570.0 kB)
  9:45 AM
3.7
Observations of fogs with a millimeter-wave Doppler radar
Akihisa Uematsu, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan; and H. Hashiguchi, M. Teshiba, K. Hirashima, T. Hayashi, A. Yamamoto, and S. Fukao

http://

Poster PDF (592.3 kB)

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Thursday, 7 August 2003


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Coffee Break


Coffee Break

10:30 AM-12:10 PM: Thursday, 7 August 2003


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Fog and Rain
Sponsor: Fifth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
Chair: Lance F. Bosart, University at Albany/SUNY

Papers:
  10:30 AM
4.1
A Historical Essay on Sea Fog
John M. Lewis, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV; and D. R. Koracin and K. T. Redmond

Poster PDF (36.9 kB)
  10:50 AM
4.2
Investigation of fog and low clouds associated with a coastally trapped disturbance
William T. Thompson, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. D. Burk and J. Lewis

Poster PDF (1.0 MB)
  11:10 AM
4.3
A New Analysis on Variability and Predictability of Seasonal Rainfall of Central Southern Africa
Davison Mwale, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and T. Y. Gan and S. S. P. Shen

Poster PDF (313.1 kB)
  11:30 AM
4.4
Drizzle-induced mesoscale variability of boundary layer clouds in a regional forecast model
David B. Mechem, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and Y. L. Kogan

Poster PDF (565.6 kB)
  11:50 AM
4.5
Uncertainty analysis of simulated hydrological processes with respect to prescribed model parameters
Mihailo Jankov, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and L. Prochaska and N. Mölders

Poster PDF (246.7 kB)

10:30 AM-12:30 PM: Thursday, 7 August 2003


4A
MM-wave radar observations on cloud and climate - I I
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Pavlos Kollias, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS

Papers:
  10:30 AM
Evolution of 95 GHz Airborne Cloud Radars
Stephen M. Sekelsky, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and G. Stephens

  10:45 AM
Thunderstorm Generated Cirrus Observed From X and W-Band Airborne Radar During CRYSTAL-FACE
Gerald M. Heymsfield, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Li, L. Tian, M. Mcgill, and Z. Wang

Poster PDF (218.3 kB)
  11:00 AM
Compact airborne solid-state 95 GHz FMCW radar system
James B. Mead, ProSensing, Amherst, MA; and I. PopStefanija, P. Kollias, B. A. Albrecht, and R. Bluth

  11:15 AM
Turbulence observations in layer clouds
Bruce A. Albrecht, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami,, FL; and P. Kollias and M. Shupe

  11:30 AM
Deriving turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate within clouds using ground based 94 Ghz radar.
Dominique Bouniol, CNRS, Vélizy, France; and A. J. Illingworth and R. J. Hogan

Poster PDF (3.0 MB)
  11:45 AM
94-GHz Doppler radar observations of mammatus in tropical anvils during CRYSTAL FACE
Ieng Jo, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and B. A. Albrecht and P. Kollias

  12:00 PM
Simultameous observations of Cirrus clouds with a millimeter-wave Doppler radar and the MU radar
Eiko Wada, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan; and H. Hashiguchi, M. Yamamoto, M. Teshiba, and S. Fukao

Poster PDF (3.0 MB)
  12:15 PM
Calibration of a 94 GHz Airborne Cloud Radar Using Measurements from Ocean Surface
Lihua Li, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and G. Heymsfield, P. Racette, and L. Tian

Poster PDF (635.8 kB)

4B
QPE
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: R. Carbone, NCAR

Papers:
  10:30 AM
Rainfall estimation with a polarimetric prototype of the operational WSR-88D radar
Alexander V. Ryzhkov, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Giangrande and T. J. Schuur

Poster PDF (301.4 kB)
  10:45 AM
The 'Area Integrated Z/ZDR' technique for improved rainfall rate estimates with operational polarisation radar
Robert J. Thompson, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and A. J. Illingworth

Poster PDF (96.6 kB)
  11:00 AM
Relative importance of factors degrading quantitative precipitation estimates for heavy rainfall events in coastal and continental locations
Robert Nissen, MSC, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and D. Hudak, L. Neil, N. Donaldson, S. Boodoo, R. P. Ford, and P. Campbell

Poster PDF (248.6 kB)
  11:15 AM
Improving radar rainfall measurement stability using mountain returns in real time
Daniel Sempere-Torres, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; and R. Sanchez-Diezma, M. Berenguer, R. Pascual, and I. Zawadzki

Poster PDF (96.5 kB)
  11:30 AM
Exploring new synergies between radar data and mesoscale model forecasts
Marion P. Mittermaier, Univ. of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and R. Hogan and A. J. Illingworth

Poster PDF (507.0 kB)
  11:45 AM
Error statistics of VPR corrections in stratiform precipitation
Isztar Zawadzki, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada; and A. Bellon

Poster PDF (115.7 kB)
  12:00 PM
Correcting radar derived rainfall rates at the surface using Doppler velocities
Steven A. Lack, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and N. I. Fox

Poster PDF (413.7 kB)
  12:15 PM
Predictability of precipitation as a function of scale from large-scale radar composites
Urs Germann, MeteoSwiss, Locarno-Monti, Switzerland; and I. Zawadzki

Poster PDF (743.5 kB)

12:10 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 7 August 2003


Lunch Break

12:30 PM-12:30 PM: Thursday, 7 August 2003


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:50 PM: Thursday, 7 August 2003


5
Forecast Systems
Sponsor: Fifth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
Chair: Douglas K. Miller, NPS

Papers:
  1:30 PM
5.1
Progress on Improved Operational Forecasting and Inundation Mapping of Pacific Tsunamis for Coastal Communities
Frank I. González, NOAA/PMEL/TIME, Seattle, WA; and V. V. Titov, H. O. Mofjeld, E. N. Bernard, M. C. Eble, A. J. Venturato, and J. C. Newman

Poster PDF (74.4 kB)
  1:50 PM
5.2
An Experimental Real-Time Intra-Americas Sea Ocean Nowcast/Forecast System for Coastal Prediction
Dong S. Ko, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and R. H. Preller and P. J. Martin

http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/IASNFS_WWW/

Poster PDF (306.8 kB)
  2:10 PM
5.3
Verification of Surface Current Predictions from the BIO Ocean Forecasting System
C. L. Tang, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and E. Dunlap

Poster PDF (199.9 kB)
  2:30 PM
5.4
A Nowcast/Forecast Circulation Model of the St. Johns River
Edward P. Myers, NOAA/National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Aikman and A. Zhang

 
5.5
Validation of the coupled atmosphere-ocean model for Ise Bay, Japan

1:30 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 7 August 2003


Poster Session 2A
MM Wave Poster
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology

Papers:
 
A microwave and millimeter wavelength three-frequency airborne radar system for in-flight icing detection
Andrew L. Pazmany, ProSensing Inc., Amherst, MA; and J. B. Mead, E. Emery, and A. Reehorst

 
A High Altitude Solid State Millimeter-wave Cloud Radar
Stephen M. Sekelsky, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and T. Tooman and W. Bolton

 
The Cloud Radar System
Paul Racette, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. M. Heymsfield, L. Li, L. Tian, and E. Zenker

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)
 
On the vertical profile of stratus liquid water flux using a millimeter cloud radar
Shelby Frisch, Colrado State University and NOAA-ETL, Boulder, CO; and P. Zuidema

http://www.etl.noaa.gov/~psuidema/shelby_flux_bw.pdf

Poster PDF (128.9 kB)
 
Radar Study on Variability of Continenytal Low Stratiform clouds
Zena N. Kogan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, ok; and D. B. Mechem and Y. L. Kogan

 
Fog Detection by Ka-band Meteorological Doppler Radar
Hiroshi Sakamaki, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Kamakura-shi, Kanagawa, Japan; and T. Wakayama, H. Tanaka, A. Okamura, H. Hashiguchi, and S. Fukao

Poster PDF (160.1 kB)
 
Cloud measurements by airborne W-band radar and lidar on joint APEX-E3/ECAV experiment
Yuichi Ohno, Communications Research Laboratory, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan; and H. Kuroiwa, A. Kamei, Y. Ohsaki, H. Kumagai, N. Sugimoto, I. Matsui, A. Shimizu, H. Okamoto, and T. Nakajima

Poster PDF (467.6 kB)
 
Status of the IfT semiconductor based 94GHz FM-CW Doppler radar profiler project
Dirk Klugmann, Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany; and J. Weickert


Poster Session 2B
QPE/Climate Poster
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology

Papers:
 
Vertical variability of precipitation as seen by vertically pointing and scanning radars
Anton Kruger, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and B. J. Miriovsky, W. F. Krajewski, R. Goska, C. Williams, and K. S. Gage

 
A multi-year high resolution precipitation product for South Florida using NEXRAD and gauges
Pavlos Kollias, Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and J. Tenerelli, B. A. Albrecht, and P. Trimble

 
Improved polarisation radar rainfall estimates: What index to use in the gamma function for the drop specturm
Anthony J Illingworth, University of Reading, UK, Reading, United Kingdom; and D. Bouniol

 
Polarimetric radar rainfall estimation at X-band: evaluation of attenuation correction
Eugenio Gorgucci, CNR, Roma, Italy; and V. Chandrasekar and L. Baldini

http://

Poster PDF (185.9 kB)
 
Truncation errors in historical WSR-88D rainfall products
Richard A. Fulton, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Ding and D. A. Miller

Poster PDF (338.8 kB)
 
Using RADAR Precipitation to Calculate Snow Water Equivalent
Allyson K. Bingeman, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada; and N. Kouwen and I. Zawadzki

 
Application of the rain profiling algorithm “ZPHI” to the X-band polarimetric radar data observed in Japan
Koyuru Iwanami, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and E. Le Bouar, J. Testud, M. Maki, R. Misumi, S. G. Park, and M. Suto

Poster PDF (278.2 kB)
 
P2B.10
Application experience of attenuation-tuned Z-R relation in radar rainfall measurements

 
Advances in radial basis function neural network algorithm for radar rainfall estimation
Gang Xu, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and V. Chandrasekar and W. Li

Poster PDF (142.9 kB)
 
A Radar Perspective on the Variability of Tropical Convection Characteristics over the Southwest Amazon and East Pacific Regions
L. Gustavo Paiva Pereira, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and S. A. Rutledge

Poster PDF (34.8 kB)
 
A comparative study of different rainfall downscaling processes
Maria Franco, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; and I. Zawadzki and D. Sempere-Torres

Poster PDF (363.1 kB)
 
Evaluation of an Operational Polarimetric Rainfall Algorithm
Robert Cifelli, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and D. Barjenbruch, D. Brunkow, L. Carey, C. Davey, N. Doesken, C. Gimmestad, T. Huse, P. Kennedy, and S. A. Rutledge

Poster PDF (219.5 kB)

Poster Session 2C
Retrieval/Algorithm Poster
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology

Papers:
 
A methodology for attenuation correction based on the minimization of a cost function
Marc Berenguer, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; and G. Lee, D. Sempere-Torres, and I. Zawadzki

Poster PDF (54.6 kB)
 
P2C.2
A simple algorithm for eliminating Doppler velocity aliasing

 
P2C.3
Nonlinear Retrieval of Single Doppler Radar Wind Field Using Wavelet

 
Problems and solutions in real-time Doppler wind retrievals
Shun Liu, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. Zhang, L. Wang, J. Gong, and Q. Xu

Poster PDF (272.3 kB)
 
Improvement of VVP method retrieval 3D wind field
Wei Ming, Nanjing Universtiy, Nanjing, China

 
Detection of rotation and boundaries using two-dimensional, local, linear least squares estimates of velocity derivatives
Travis M. Smith, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. L. Elmore, G. J. Stumpf, and V. Lakshmanan

Poster PDF (405.0 kB)
 
Detection of Dust Storms with a C-Band Doppler Radar
Ronald Hannesen, AMS-Gematronik, Neuss, Germany; and A. Weipert

Poster PDF (161.5 kB)
 
P2C.11
A Solution for Range-Velocity Ambiguity using Hybrid Multi-PRF Dealiasing Algorithm

3:10 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 7 August 2003


Coffee Break

3:30 PM-4:30 PM: Thursday, 7 August 2003


6
Data: Part I
Sponsor: Fifth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
Chair: Melanie A. Wetzel, DRI

Papers:
  3:30 PM
6.1
Puget Sound tidal datums by spatial interpolation
Kurt W. Hess, NOAA/National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD

Poster PDF (629.1 kB)
 
6.2
The impact of coastal boundary layer wind profilers on coastal forecasts

  3:51 PM
6.3
National Data Buoy Center: A Portal for Marine Mesonet Data
David B. Gilhousen, NOAA/NDBC, Stennis Space Center, MS

Poster PDF (193.0 kB)

4:00 PM-5:59 PM: Thursday, 7 August 2003


5A
Retrieval/Algorithm
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Tian-You Yu, University of Oklahoma

Papers:
  4:00 PM
A novel de-aliasing algorithm for radar radial wind velocities
Günther Haase, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden; and T. Landelius and D. B. Michelson

Poster PDF (107.4 kB)
  4:15 PM
Single-Doppler wind retrieval of a squall line during the WET AMC and TRMM LBA field experiment campaign
Augusto J. Pereira F°, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and L. Calvetti

Poster PDF (356.3 kB)
  4:30 PM
Verification of an airborne radar turbulence detection algorithm
Larry B. Cornman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Meymaris, B. Chorbajian, and J. K. Williams

  4:45 PM
A wind profile retrieval method from azimuthal gradients of radial velocity
Jidong Gao, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. K. Droegemeier, J. Gong, and Q. Xu

  5:00 PM
3D Wind Field Retrieval Over Complex Terrain Using the Laroche-Zawadzki Single-Doppler Velocity Retrieval Technique
Yongmei Zhou, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and R. Stull and R. Nissen

Poster PDF (2.3 MB)
  5:15 PM
The impact of the radar scanning rate on the single-Doppler retrieved wind speed
Yu-Chieng Liou, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan

  5:30 PM
Feasibility of earlier tornado detection using Doppler spectra
Tian-You Yu, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Zrnic, A. Shapiro, and M. B. Yeary

Poster PDF (115.8 kB)
 
5A.8
Verification of Wind Field Retrieval of Doppler Radar Velocity-Azimuth Processing Method

  5:45 PM
WSR-88D radar characteristics of Quasi-Linear Convective System tornadoes using the NSSL Severe Storm Analysis Program
Kevin L. Manross, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and R. J. Trapp and G. J. Stumpf

http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~kmanross/QLCS/

Poster PDF (151.3 kB)

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Thursday, 7 August 2003


5B
Climate/QPE
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Isztar Zawadzki, McGill University

Papers:
  4:15 PM
Inter-annual and Semi-diurnal Variations in Summertime Precipitation
R. E. Carbone, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. D. Tuttle and D. A. Ahijevych

Poster PDF (304.4 kB)
  4:30 PM
Regional-scale aspects of the diurnal precipitation cycle
D. A. Ahijevych, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. E. Carbone and C. A. Davis

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)
  4:45 PM
Nocturnal cloud systems and the diurnal cycle of rainfall in Amazonia
Thomas M. Rickenbach, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

Poster PDF (751.6 kB)
  5:00 PM
The quality of rainfall estimation with the polarimetric WSR-88D radar as a function of range
Scott Giangrande, CIMMS/University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. V. Ryzhkov

Poster PDF (213.4 kB)
  5:15 PM
An Analysis of Dual-Polarized Radar Measurables for Rainfall Measurement
Taiwen Tang, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and V. N. Bringi

Poster PDF (1020.2 kB)
  5:30 PM
An analysis of the information contained in the signal fluctuations of a vertically-pointing Doppler radar
Hidde Leijnse, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands; and R. Uijlenhoet and H. Russchenberg

Poster PDF (93.7 kB)
  5:45 PM
Physically-based "Down-to-Earth" modelling of surface precipitation using synergetic radar and multisource information
D. B. Michelson, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden; and C. G. Jones, T. Landelius, C. G. Collier, G. Haase, and M. Heen

Poster PDF (104.1 kB)

4:30 PM-4:30 PM: Thursday, 7 August 2003


Sessions end for the day

6:30 PM-6:30 PM: Thursday, 7 August 2003


Coastal Banquet

Friday, 8 August 2003

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Friday, 8 August 2003


FRI 8 AUG


FRI 8 AUG

7:00 AM-7:00 AM: Friday, 8 August 2003


1
Fri 8 Aug

7:30 AM-7:30 AM: Friday, 8 August 2003


Short Course Registration & Conference Registration

8:00 AM-10:00 AM: Friday, 8 August 2003


6
TRMM/GPM
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Tom Keenan, BMRC

Papers:
  8:00 AM
6.1
Spaceborne precipitation radars in TRMM and GPM
Toshio Iguchi, Communications Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan

  8:45 AM
6.3
  9:00 AM
6.4
Comparison of TRMM Satellite-Based Rainfall with Surface Radar and Gauge Information
T. Keenan, BMRC, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and E. Ebert, V. Chandrasekar, V. Bringi, and M. Whimpey

Poster PDF (552.2 kB)
  9:15 AM
6.5
Shallow rain from the TRMM PR: A five-year climatology
David A. Short, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and W. C. Lambert

  9:30 AM
6.6
An Ensemble Study of Wet Season Convection in the South West Amazon: Kinematics and Implications for Diabatic Heating
Robert Cifelli, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and L. Carey, W. A. Petersen, and S. A. Rutledge

  9:45 AM
6.7
Field-campaign radar data collected in the context of the TRMM climatology: Comparisons of observed storm morphology and validation opportunities
Stephen W. Nesbitt, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and R. Cifelli, S. A. Rutledge, and E. J. Zipser

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Friday, 8 August 2003


7
Data: Part II
Sponsor: Fifth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
Chair: Nicholas A. Bond, JISAO/Univ. of Washington

Papers:
  8:30 AM
7.1
Rocketsonde buoy system observing system simulation experiments
John Spagnol, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and C. Readyhough, M. Stull, J. Mundy, R. Stull, S. Green, and G. Schajer

Poster PDF (1.0 MB)
  8:50 AM
7.2
nowCOAST: A Web Mapping Portal to Real-Time Observations and NOAA Forecasts for the Coastal U.S.
John G. W. Kelley, NOAA/National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD; and E. M. Kennedy, M. Wengren, and M. Westington

Poster PDF (764.3 kB)
  9:10 AM
7.3
Meteorological And Oceanic Instrumentation At Spaceport Florida—Opportunities For Coastal Research
William P. Roeder, U.S. Air Force/45th Weather Squadron, Patrick AFB, FL; and D. L. Hajek, F. C. Flinn, G. A. Maul, and M. E. Fitzpatrick

Poster PDF (649.9 kB)

9:00 AM-9:15 AM: Friday, 8 August 2003


Welcoming Remarks

Papers:
  9:00 AM
Welcoming Remarks

  9:05 AM
Welcome

  9:05 AM
Weather Briefing

9:15 AM-10:15 AM: Friday, 8 August 2003


1
Welcome to the Pacific Northwest
Sponsor: 32nd Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Mike Davis, WBNS-TV

Papers:
  9:15 AM
1.1
Northwest Weather in Pictures
Matt Zaffino, KGW TV, Portland, OR

  9:30 AM
1.2
The Future of Regional Weather Prediction
Clifford F. Mass, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

9:30 AM-12:10 PM: Friday, 8 August 2003


8
Clouds and the Marine Boundary Layer
Sponsor: Fifth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
Chair: David B. Mechem, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma

Papers:
  9:30 AM
8.1
Improving Prediction of the Marine Coastal Clouds Using Satellite and Aircraft Data
Darko Koracin, DRI, Reno, NV; and J. Powers, M. A. Wetzel, S. Chai, and N. Adhikari

Poster PDF (218.9 kB)
  9:50 AM
8.2
Analysis and prediction of microwave refractivity profiles in nocturnal marine cloud layers
N. P. Adhikari, DRI, Reno, NV; and M. A. Wetzel, D. R. Koracin, and S. K. Chai

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)
  10:10 AM
8.3
Refractivity in the coastal atmospheric boundary layer
Stephen D. Burk, NRL, Monterey, CA; and T. Haack

Poster PDF (212.2 kB)
  10:30 AM
8.4
Coastal ocean meteorological processes influencing the marine atmospheric surface layer near the Virginia Eastern Shore
Robert E. Marshall, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA; and E. H. Burgess III and J. R. Rottier

Poster PDF (735.7 kB)
  10:50 AM
8.5
Observed Radiative Cooling in Nocturnal Marine Stratocumulus
Steven K. Chai, DRI, Reno, NV; and M. A. Wetzel and D. Koracin

  11:10 AM
8.6
Impact of temporal SST variations on a stratus-capped marine boundary layer
Tracy Haack, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. D. Burk

Poster PDF (308.3 kB)
  11:30 AM
8.7
Coastal boundary layer influence on pollutant transport in New England
Wayne M. Angevine, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and A. B. White

  11:50 AM
Coffee Break

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Friday, 8 August 2003


1
Coffee Break

10:15 AM-10:30 AM: Friday, 8 August 2003


Coffee Break

10:30 AM-12:30 PM: Friday, 8 August 2003


Joint Session 2
Nowcasting (Joint Between the 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology and the 32nd Conference on Broadcast Meteorology)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology; and the 32nd Conference on Broadcast Meteorology )
Cochairs: Leslie R. Lemon, Basic Commerce & Industries, Inc.; Robin Reed, WDBJ-TV

Papers:
  11:45 AM
  12:00 PM
  12:15 PM
Predictability of storm characteristics based on RUC environmental fields
Cynthia K. Mueller, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Megenhardt and N. Oien

Poster PDF (337.0 kB)

12:10 PM-1:30 PM: Friday, 8 August 2003


Lunch Break

12:30 PM-1:30 PM: Friday, 8 August 2003


1
Lunch Break


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Friday, 8 August 2003


2
The AMS and Congress: How to establish effective communication
Sponsor: 32nd Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Jay Trobec, KELO-TV

Papers:
  1:30 PM
2.1
Know your environment and your congressional leaders
Elbert W. (Joe) Friday, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC

  1:45 PM
2.2
Working With Your Members of Congress
Travis Sines, Seattle-area District Office of Rep. Jennifer Dunn (R-WA), Seattle, WA

  2:00 PM
2.3
Contacting Congress: What, When, How
Doug Stone, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC

  2:15 PM
2.4
AMS & NOAA Budget Campaign
Erik L. Salna, KBMT-TV, Beaumont, TX

1:30 PM-3:10 PM: Friday, 8 August 2003


9
Coastal Orographic Effects
Sponsor: Fifth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
Organizer: Michael Tjernstrom, University of Stockholm

Papers:
  1:30 PM
9.1
The Unusually Intense Coastal front passage of 17–18 April 2002 in eastern New England
Lance F. Bosart, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and W. Drag and A. C. Wasula

http://www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/celeste/9.1Coastal.pdf

  1:50 PM
9.2
  2:10 PM
9.3
  2:30 PM
9.4
Modification of fronts and precipitation by coastal blocking during an intense landfalling winter storm in southern California: Observations during CALJET
Paul J. Neiman, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and P. O. G. Persson, F. M. Ralph, D. P. Jorgensen, A. B. White, and D. E. Kingsmill

 
9.5
Microphysical influences on frontal structure during 2-3 Feb event

  2:51 PM
9.6
Objective analysis on terrain-following surfaces in complex terrain
Xingxiu Deng, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and R. Stull

Poster PDF (227.6 kB)

1:30 PM-3:30 PM: Friday, 8 August 2003


Poster Session 3A
TRMM/GPM Poster
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology

Papers:
 
Relationships between the Microphysics of Precipitating Cloud Systems and Their Radar Reflectivity Patterns
Tristan S. L'Ecuyer, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. Kummerow and H. Masunaga

Poster PDF (325.5 kB)
 
On the Measurement Errors of the Joss-Waldvogel Disdrometer
Ali Tokay, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and K. R. Wolff, P. Bashor, and O. K. Dursun

Poster PDF (98.1 kB)
 
Variable pulse repetition frequency for the GPM dual-frequency radar
Satoru Kobayashi, Communications Research Lab., Japan; and T. Iguchi

Poster PDF (157.1 kB)
 
Validation of Snow Parameters as Derived from Dual-Wavelength Airborne Radar
Liang Liao, Caelum Research Corp., Greenbelt, MD; and R. Meneghini, T. Iguchi, and A. Detwiler

Poster PDF (867.6 kB)
 
The TRMM ground validation effort at NASA-GSFC: validating surface rainfall estimates
David A. Marks, NASA/GSFC and George Mason Univ., Greenbelt, MD; and D. S. Silberstein, D. B. Wolff, E. Amitai, J. L. Pippitt, and R. J. Lawrence

Poster PDF (211.5 kB)
 
CESAR Rainfall Experiment 2002 (C-Rex '02)—Experimental setup and first results
Remko Uijlenhoet, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands; and H. Stricker, S. Heijnen, H. Russchenberg, F. van der Zwan, I. Holleman, W. Hovius, H. Klein Baltink, and J. Warmer

http://

 
Comparisons of raindrop size distributions from the TRMM Precipitation Radar and the C-POL ground radar
Yuxiang Liu, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and V. N. Bringi and T. D. Keenan

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)
 
On small-scale variability of rainfall from radar
Mekonnen Gebremichael, IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering and Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and W. F. Krajewski

Poster PDF (208.9 kB)
 
On the Characteristics of Precipitation in the Florida Keys: The Keys Area Precipitation Project (KAPP)
David B. Wolff, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD and Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD; and J. Gerlach, D. Marks, A. Tokay, B. Fisher, D. Silberstein, and J. Wang

Poster PDF (505.8 kB)
 
Simulated radar characteristics of LBA convective systems: easterly and westerly regimes
Stephen E. Lang, SSAI / NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and W. K. Tao and R. Cifelli

 
Simulated KWAJEX convective systems using a 2D and 3D cloud resolving model and their comparisons with radar observations
Chung-Lin Shie, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD and Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center/UMBC, Baltimore, MD; and W. K. Tao and J. Simpson

Poster PDF (370.1 kB)

Poster Session 3B
Nowcasting Poster
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology

Papers:
 
Radar Rainfall Studies Over Eastern Coast of Northeast Brazil
Ricardo Sarmento Tenório, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil; and L. C. B. Molion, H. Sauvageot, D. D. A. Quintão, and M. D. A. Antonio

Poster PDF (127.0 kB)
 
Applying distributional results of stochastic quantitative precipitation nowcasts
Neil I. Fox, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and C. K. Wikle

Poster PDF (201.0 kB)
 
The Nowcasting of Lightning in Beijing Region
Daren Chen, Beijing Meteorological Observatory, Beijing, China; and H. Guo

Poster PDF (137.2 kB)
 
Convective storm initiation in the Amazon
Maria Andrea Lima, Meteorogical Research Institute, Bauru, SP, Brazil; and J. W. Wilson

Poster PDF (203.8 kB)

Poster Session 3C
Radar Echo Classification/Data Quality Control Poster
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology

Papers:
 
Evaluating the calibrations of radars: A software approach
Jonathan J. Gourley, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. Kaney and R. A. Maddox

Poster PDF (3.0 MB)
 
Range-Velocity Ambiguity Mitigation Schemes for the Enhanced Terminal Doppler Weather Radar
John Y. N. Cho, MIT Lincoln Lab, Lexington, MA; and G. R. Elkin and N. G. Parker

Poster PDF (427.0 kB)
 
Radar-based precipitation classification in the Baltic Sea area
Andi Walther, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany; and R. Bennartz and J. Fischer

http://www.fu-berlin.de/iss/extended_p3c.3_walther.pdf

 
Radar Operations Center Data Quality Initiative
Charles A. Ray, RS Information Systems, Norman, OK; and M. Miller and J. N. Chrisman

Poster PDF (241.9 kB)
 
Real-Time WSR-88D Velocity Data Quality Control on Bird Detection
Pengfei Zhang, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Liu, L. Bi, and Q. Xu

Poster PDF (456.3 kB)
 
Radar-based hail detection: impact of height assignment errors on the measured vertical profiles of reflectivity
Laurent Delobbe, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMI), Brussels, Belgium; and I. Holleman

Poster PDF (440.1 kB)
 
Non-traditional radar method of investigation of cloud environments
Iori F. Kouznetsov, High–Mountain Geophysical Institute, Nalchik, Russia

http://www.meteoradar.narod.ru

Poster PDF (76.2 kB)
 
Radar Calibration Using a Trihedral Corner Reflector
Brooks E. Martner, NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and K. A. Clark and B. W. Bartram

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)
 
Efforts to improve the monitoring of the French radar network
Pierre Tabary, Centre de Météorologie Radar - Météo France, Trappes, France

 
Continuing Enhancement of the WSR-88D Precipitation Processing Subsystem
Tim O'Bannon, NOAA/NWS/Radar Operations Center, Norman, OK; and F. Ding

Poster PDF (29.5 kB)
 
P3C.11
Calibration efforts at Camagüey MRL-5 radar station

 
A solar alignment technique for determining mobile radar pointing angles
Nettie R. Arnott, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and Y. P. Richardson, J. M. Wurman, and J. Lutz

Poster PDF (73.9 kB)

2:30 PM-2:45 PM: Friday, 8 August 2003


Coffee Break

2:45 PM-3:30 PM: Friday, 8 August 2003


3
A new look for the AMS Seal, testing and recertification. Changes on the horizon.
Sponsor: 32nd Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Lisa Spencer, WSMV-TV

Papers:
  2:45 PM
3.1
First International Conference of Broadcast Meteorologists
Claire Martin, Global TV, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and P. H. Gross

  2:50 PM
3.2
AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist Implementation
Jim Jaggers, WHBQ-TV, Memphis, TN

  3:10 PM
3.3

3:10 PM-3:10 PM: Friday, 8 August 2003


Conference Ends

3:30 PM-3:30 PM: Friday, 8 August 2003


Panel Discussion 1
Meet Your AMS Broadcast Board
Sponsor: 32nd Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Moderator: John B. McLaughlin, KCCI-TV
Panelists: Mike Davis, Chief Meteorologist WBNS-TV; Greg Fishel, WRAL-TV; Erik L. Salna, KBMT-TV; Gary Ley, WJAR-TV; Claire Martin, Global TV; Robin Reed, WDBJ-TV; Kathy Orr, KYW-TV; Lisa Spencer, WSMV-TV; David Tillman, KTRK-TV; Jay Trobec, KELO-TV; Jillene Wahl, KAKE-TV

3:30 PM-4:00 PM: Friday, 8 August 2003


1
Lunch Break

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Friday, 8 August 2003


7A
TRMM/GPM II
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Paul I. Joe, MSC

Papers:
  4:00 PM
Spectral processing techniques for measuring Doppler velocity of rainfall from a low-earth orbiting satellite
Simone Tanelli, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and E. Im, S. L. Durden, and L. Facheris

Poster PDF (364.6 kB)
  4:15 PM
Evaluation of TRMM PR estimate using wind profiler measurements of raindrop size distribution
Takahisa Kobayashi, MRI, Tukuba, Ibaaki, Japan; and M. Sasaoka and T. Adachi

Poster PDF (200.5 kB)
  4:30 PM
Fall velocity spectrum in the melting layer at Ku-band
Merhala Thurai, Communications Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan; and H. Hanado and T. Iguchi

Poster PDF (219.0 kB)
  4:45 PM
Comparison of Echo Characteristics Observed during CAMEX4 and CRYSTAL-FACE
Paul A. Kucera, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and P. J. Frank

Poster PDF (128.6 kB)
  5:00 PM
Use of polarimetric radar observations in the evaluation of a TRMM combined radar-radiometer algorithm for estimation of precipitation profiles
Mircea Grecu, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and W. S. Olson

Poster PDF (305.0 kB)
  5:15 PM
Archetypal TRMM radar profiles identified through cluster analysis
Dennis J. Boccippio, NASA/MSFC, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL

http://homepage.mac.com/wxguyinal/Cluster/Cluster.htm

Poster PDF (789.9 kB)
  5:30 PM
Requirements Analysis for Snowfall Measurements over Canada from Space
Paul Joe, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and D. Hudak and P. Rodriguez

Poster PDF (241.5 kB)
  5:45 PM
Evaluating Uncertainties in GPM Oceanic Precipitation Retrievals
Sandra E. Yuter, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. Wood

Poster PDF (156.6 kB)

7B
Radar echo classification and data quality control
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Cathy Kessinger, NCAR

Papers:
  4:00 PM
Quality control of WSR-88D data
V. Lakshmanan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. Hondl, G. Stumpf, and T. Smith

Poster PDF (241.3 kB)
  4:15 PM
Quality of Weather Radar Wind Profiles
Iwan Holleman, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands

  4:30 PM
The AP clutter mitigation scheme for the WSR-88D
Cathy Kessinger, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Ellis, J. Van Andel, and J. Yee

Poster PDF (375.1 kB)
  4:45 PM
  5:00 PM
Vertical reflectivity profile classification and correction in radar composites in Finland
Jarmo Koistinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and H. Pohjola and H. Hohti

Poster PDF (102.2 kB)
  5:15 PM
Automated real-time monitoring of radar sensitivity and antenna pointing accuracy
Tim Darlington, Met Office, Bracknell, United Kingdom; and M. Kitchen, J. Sugier, and J. de Rohan-Truba

Poster PDF (104.0 kB)
  5:30 PM
Non-weather echo identification for conventional operational radar
John C. Nicol, LTHE = Laboratoire d'étude des Transferts en Hydrologie et Environnement, Grenoble, France; and P. Tabary, J. Sugier, J. Parent-du-Chalet, and G. Delrieu

Poster PDF (192.9 kB)
  5:45 PM
Clear-air echo statistics and beam blockage patterns of Taiwan Doppler radar network
Pao-Liang Chang, Central Weather Bureau, Taipei, Taiwan; and B. S. Wang, S. L. Shieh, and B. J. D. Jou

http://

Poster PDF (43.8 kB)

5:00 PM-5:00 PM: Friday, 8 August 2003


Sessions end for the day

6:00 PM-8:00 PM: Friday, 8 August 2003


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Icebreaker Reception/ Exhibits open


Exhibits Open with Ice Breaker Reception

Saturday, 9 August 2003

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Saturday, 9 August 2003


SAT 9 AUG

7:30 AM-7:30 AM: Saturday, 9 August 2003


Short Course Registration & Conference Registration

8:00 AM-5:15 PM: Saturday, 9 August 2003


Short Course on Meteorological Radar Systems: Principles and Applications (Seperate Registation)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM: Saturday, 9 August 2003


Exhibit Hours

Sunday, 10 August 2003

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


SUN 10 AUG

7:00 AM-7:00 AM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


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Sun 10 Aug

7:30 AM-7:30 AM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


Conference Registration Continues Through Tuesday, 12 August

8:00 AM-10:00 AM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


Joint Session 3
Severe weather (Joint Between the 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology and the 32nd Conference on Broadcast Meteorology)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology; and the 32nd Conference on Broadcast Meteorology )
Cochairs: Donald W. Burgess, NOAA/NSSL; Mike Davis, Chief Meteorologist WBNS-TV

Papers:
  8:00 AM
Radar, Tornadoes, and the Broadcast Meteorologist
Greg Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA

  8:45 AM
Some inferences on the visual cloud and the supercell radar echo relationship
Leslie R. Lemon, Basic Commerce & Industries, Inc., Independence,, MO; and E. M. Quoetone

Poster PDF (321.5 kB)
  9:00 AM
The Role of Expert Warning Forecasters: Results of a Cognitive Task Analysis of the Warning Forecaster Task
Elizabeth M. Quoetone, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK; and J. T. Ferree, B. B. Hahn, E. Rall, and D. W. Kolinger

  9:15 AM
The Kellerville tornado during VORTEX: Damage survey and Doppler radar analyses
Roger M. Wakimoto, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and H. V. Murphey, D. C. Dowell, and H. B. Bluestein

Poster PDF (141.5 kB)
  9:30 AM
On the use of Doppler radar in tornado warnings
Donald W. Burgess, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK

10:00 AM-10:15 AM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


Coffee Break

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


1
Coffee Break

10:15 AM-11:15 AM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


4
Over the Pond and into Space: Our Science Around the World and Beyond
Sponsor: 32nd Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Claire Martin, Global TV

Papers:
  10:15 AM
4.1
The history of television weather presentations
Joel N. Myers, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and M. A. Steinberg

  10:30 AM
4.2
The many faces of BBC Weather.
Liz Brown, BBC Weather Centre, London, United Kingdom

  10:45 AM
4.3
BBC Broadcasting—here's to the next 50 years.
Mike Fish, BBC Weather Centre, London, United Kingdom

  11:00 AM
4.4
Mars in the Spotlight: The 2003 Apparition
J. Kelly Beatty, Sky & Telescope magazine, Cambridge, MA

10:30 AM-12:30 PM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


8A
Severe Weather II
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Howie Bluestein, University of Oklahoma

Papers:
  10:30 AM
The vertical structure of the Happy, Texas tornado of 5 May 2002: Mobile, W-band, Doppler-radar observations
Howard B. Bluestein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. C. Weiss and A. L. Pazmany

  10:45 AM
Physical origin of a microburst seen by radar profiler
David Atlas, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. W. Ulbrich and C. R. Williams

Poster PDF (154.2 kB)
  11:00 AM
Severe weather warning application development at NSSL using multiple-radars and multiple-sensors
Gregory J. Stumpf, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and T. M. Smith, K. L. Manross, V. Lakshmanan, and K. D. Hondl

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/wrd/swat/wdssiipoct_ict.html

  11:15 AM
Diagnosed structure of the Mulhall, Oklahoma Tornado
Wen-Chau Lee, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Wurman

Poster PDF (481.4 kB)
  11:30 AM
Preliminary Stability Analyses of the DOW-Observed Mulhall, OK Tornado
Michael T. Montgomery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. Terwey, W. Lee, M. M. Bell, and J. Wurman

 
8A.6
Comparison of single and multiple vortex tornado doppler velocities from the DOWs

  12:00 PM
The "Owl Horn" radar signature in developing Southern-Plains thunderstorms
Matthew R. Kramar, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and H. B. Bluestein, A. L. Pazmany, and J. D. Tuttle

Poster PDF (552.9 kB)
  12:15 PM
Doppler Radar Observation of Winter Tornadoes over the Japan Sea (Formerly paper number, P4a.7)
Fumiaki Kobayashi, National Defense Academy, Yokosuka, Japan

Poster PDF (114.4 kB)

8B
Polarimetric/Particle type identification
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Peter T. May, BMRC

Papers:
  10:30 AM
  10:45 AM
Microphysical characterization of a squall line in TRMM LBA using dual-polarization radar measurements
Marcel R. Rocco, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and A. J. Pereira F° and J. Vivekanandan

  11:00 AM
Ground Truth Verification of the Hail Quadrature Parameter (HQP)
Patrick C. Kennedy, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and T. K. Depue, R. Cifelli, D. Barjenbruch, C. Gimmestad, D. A. Brunkow, and S. A. Rutledge

  11:15 AM
  11:30 AM
An algorithm for estimating the variance of the canting angle distribution using polarimetric covariance matrix data
Gwo-Jong Huang, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and V. N. Bringi and J. Hubbert

  11:45 AM
Transformation of the Polarimetric Covariance Matrix for Improving Hydrometeor Classification
Yanting Wang, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and V. N. Bringi and J. C. Hubbert

  12:15 PM
Improving the Utility of Ordinary Radar Reflectivity Measurements through Enhanced Subscripting
Paul L. Smith, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD

11:15 AM-12:15 PM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


5
Storm Prediction Center Mini Workshop: Some Great Products And How To Use Them
Sponsor: 32nd Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Greg Fishel, WRAL-TV

Papers:
  11:15 AM
5.1
Mini-Workshop on SPC's Probability Outlooks
Daniel W. McCarthy, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and J. T. Schaefer

  11:45 AM
5.2
Improved Tools for Broadcast Meteorologists Using the SPC Web Page
Daniel W. McCarthy, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and J. A. Hart, R. L. Thompson, R. J. Naden, G. W. Carbin, and P. D. Bothwell

12:15 PM-12:30 PM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


AMS Award Presentation for "Outstanding Service by a Broadcast Meteorologist". Presented to Fred Gadomski and Paul G. Knight of WPSX-TV, University Park, Pennsylvania

12:30 PM-1:30 PM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


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Lunch Break


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


6
General Interest to the Broadcast Community
Sponsor: 32nd Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: John B. McLaughlin, KCCI-TV

Papers:
  1:30 PM
6.1
  1:45 PM
6.2
Newspaper weather pages
Kenneth Reeves, AccuWeather, Inc, State College, PA; and S. Homan and M. A. Steinberg

  2:30 PM
6.5
The Decline of the American Emergency Communications System
Bryan Norcross, The Weather Channel, Atlanta , GA

  2:45 PM
6.6
Fact or Fiction: 25 Year Intense Competitiors Join Forces
Harvey Leonard, WCVB-TV, Needham, MA; and D. Albert

1:30 PM-3:30 PM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


Poster Session 4A
Severe Weather Poster
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology

Papers:
 
Multiple-Doppler Observations of tornadoes and tornadogenesis from the ROTATE-2003 project
Joshua Wurman, Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder, CO

 
Doppler-radar observations of dust devils in Texas
Howard B. Bluestein, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. C. Weiss and A. L. Pazmany

 
Mesocyclone in mini supercell—a case study
Junjian Zhu, Weather Office, Jinan, Shandong, China; and X. Diao and X. Huang

http://

Poster PDF (41.3 kB)
 
P4A.4
Time-dependent Burgers-Rott Vortex As Seen by a Simulated Doppler Radar

 
Three hailstorms in Kanto-plane, Japan
Yoshimasa Takaya, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and M. Mori, M. Ishibe, T. Tajiri, and T. Misaki

Poster PDF (234.9 kB)
 
Mesocyclone occurred in different environment
Junjian Zhu, Weather Office, Jinan, Shandong, China; and X. Diao

Poster PDF (51.6 kB)
 
Paper moved to session 8a, New paper number 8a.6a
Marjorie Huntington, AER, boston, MA

 
Terminal Doppler Weather Radar Observations of a Microburst
Daniel J. Miller, NOAA/NWS/Weather Forecast Office, Norman OK, Norman, OK; and D. W. Burgess

Poster PDF (235.6 kB)
 
Summer Severe Weather Occurrence in Southern Ontario—A Climatological Perspective
Sudesh Boodoo, Meteorological Service of Canada, King City, Ontario, Canada; and D. Hudak, N. Donaldson, R. Patterson., and D. Sills

Poster PDF (74.7 kB)

Poster Session 4B
Polarimetric/Particle ID Poster
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology

Papers:
 
Doppler spectra of copolar and cross-polar signals
Valery M. Melnikov, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Zrnic

Poster PDF (513.5 kB)
 
Polarimetric Properties of Chaff
Dusan Zrnic, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and A. V. Ryzhkov

Poster PDF (136.1 kB)
 
Operational uses of polarimetric radar data in severe local storm prediction
Kevin Scharfenberg, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. L. Andra Jr. and M. Foster

http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~kscharf/pol

Poster PDF (75.5 kB)
 
Discrimination between rain and snow with a polarimetric NEXRAD radar
Alexander V. Ryzhkov, CIMMS, Norman, OK; and D. S. Zrnic

Poster PDF (704.3 kB)
 
Operational use of a hydrometeor classification algorithm to detect the snow melting level
Kevin Scharfenberg, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and E. Maxwell

http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~kscharf/pol

Poster PDF (144.7 kB)
 
On Simultaneous Transmission and Reception of Vertical and Horizontal Polarized Weather Radar Signals
Enrico Torlaschi, Univ. of Quebec, Montreal, QC, Canada; and S. Filahi

Poster PDF (1003.7 kB)
 
Mixed-phase cloud retrievals using Doppler radar spectra
Matthew D. Shupe, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and P. Kollias, S. Y. Matrosov, and T. L. Schneider

Poster PDF (596.6 kB)
 
Detection of Graupel in Winter Thunderclouds Using a Dual Polarization Radar in Hokuriku, Japan
Takeshi Maesaka, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan; and H. Uyeda, T. Shinoda, K. Sakashita, K. Kami, and K. Shinjo

Poster PDF (766.8 kB)
 
Cloud ice crystal classification using a 95 GHz polarimetric radar
Kultegin Aydin, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and J. Singh


Poster Session 4C
Hydrology Poster
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology

Papers:
 
The Bauru Flash Flood of 8 February 2001 and Options for Improved Warnings
Gerhard Held, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Bauru, Brazil; and J. L. Gomes

http://www.ipmet.unesp.br/publications/p4c.1_figures.htm

Poster PDF (441.0 kB)
 
Combination of weather radar and raingauges data for small mountainous catchment
Anna Jurczyk, Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, Radar Operational Centre, Poland, Katowice, Poland; and K. Osródka, S. Moszkowicz, C. Mazzetti, and J. Szturc

http://

Poster PDF (198.8 kB)
 
Merging Radar-Raingauge Rainfall estimates: An improved geostatistical approach based in Non Parametric Kriging
Carlos A. Velasco Forero, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; and E. Cassiraga, D. Sempere Torres, R. Sánchez-Diezma, and J. J. Gómez-Hernández

Poster PDF (113.2 kB)
 
Radar-Rain Gauge Adjustment and its Sensitivity to the Method of Comparison
Hatim Sharif, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. A. Brandes

Poster PDF (202.8 kB)
 
Potential application of mobile X-band radar for catchment hydrology
Lisa C. Sieck, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. J. Burges, M. Steiner, and J. A. Smith

Poster PDF (402.9 kB)

Poster Session 4D
Signal Processing Poster
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology

Papers:
 
Range-time sidelobe characterization of the ELDORA radar
Eric Loew, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. C. Lee

Poster PDF (330.7 kB)
 
Phase Coding for Polarimetric Radar
J.C. Hubbert, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and V. Chandrasekar, R. J. Keeler, and N. Bharadwaj

Poster PDF (130.6 kB)
 
Practical Aspects Of Wideband Reception and Processing in Dual-Polarized Weather Radars
Sutanay Choudhury, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Poster PDF (442.8 kB)
 
Development of a digital IF radar transceiver system
Robert J. Watson, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom; and S. Talebi and P. S. Cannon

Poster PDF (352.2 kB)
 
Design and Implementation of a RDA Control Application
Ken Bergeron, Enterprise Electronics Corp., Enterprise, AL; and J. J. Stagliano Jr.

 
A grouping algorithm for estimating wind speed in Doppler spectra
Masahiro Sasaoka, MRI, Tukuba, Japan

http://

Poster PDF (248.5 kB)
 
A radar rain profiler using a MATLAB based DSP system
Dirk Klugmann, Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany; and J. Weickert, P. Holstein, D. Mackenzie, and O. Holinski

 
A radar method to measure turbulence in clouds.
Valery M. Melnikov, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. J. Doviak

2:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


Exhibit Hours

3:00 PM-3:15 PM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


Coffee Break

3:00 PM-5:30 PM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


7
Vendor Sessions: New Ideas, New Technology, New Ways to Spend Money!
Sponsor: 32nd Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Robin Reed, WDBJ-TV

Papers:
  3:00 PM
7.1
The next thing in television weather graphics systems
Kenneth Reeves, AccuWeather, Inc, State College, PA; and M. A. Steinberg and J. Long

  3:15 PM
7.2
:LIVE Real-time Weather Broadcasts
Ben T. Zimmerman, Weather Central, Inc., Madison, WI

  3:30 PM
7.3
Forecasting with Confidence
Maria A. Pirone, AER, Inc., Lexington, MA; and S. M. Leidner

  3:45 PM
7.4
A comprehensive source of numerical model data
Kenneth Reeves, AccuWeather, Inc, State College, PA; and J. T. Candor and M. A. Steinberg

  4:00 PM
7.5
DopplerCastTM: A New Era in Storm Prediction for Broadcast Meteorology
J. William Conway, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK; and M. D. Eilts, D. Chenevert, and J. Block

http://www.wdtinc.com/

Poster PDF (7.1 kB)
  4:15 PM
7.6
An Internet site for professional meteorologists
Kenneth Reeves, AccuWeather, Inc, State College, PA; and M. A. Steinberg and J. T. Candor

  4:30 PM
7.7
Personal MicroCast: Reaching your viewers when you’re not on air.
Jason H. Cali, MyWeather/Weather Central, Madison, WI

  4:45 PM
7.8
3D street-level weather animations
Kenneth Reeves, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and M. A. Steinberg and J. Long

  5:00 PM
7.9
A.D.O.N.I.S. MicroCast™: A Private Sector Mesocale Model
Michal K. Thomas, Weather Central, Inc., Madison, WI

  5:15 PM
TrueView/Vortex: Supercharged for Severe Weather
William Callahan, WSI Corp., Billerica, MA

3:30 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


1
Coffee Break

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


9A
Hydrology
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Matthias Steiner, Princeton University

Papers:
  4:00 PM
A graphical interpretation of cloud microphysical processes and its relevance for radar rainfall measurement
Matthias Steiner, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and J. A. Smith and R. Uijlenhoet

  4:15 PM
Small scale variability of Mediterranean precipitation during HIRE'98
Alexis Berne, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands; and G. Delrieu, J. D. Creutin, and R. Uijlenhoet

  4:30 PM
A Model to Generate Stochastic Nowcasts of Rainfall
Alan W. Seed, BMRC, Melborune, Australia; and N. Bowler

  4:45 PM
Hydrological evaluation of a nowcasting technique applied to flood forecasting
Marc Berenguer, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; and J. Davila, C. Corral, D. Sempere-Torres, and A. W. Seed

Poster PDF (293.8 kB)
  5:00 PM
A test of two distributed hydrologic models with WSR-88D radar precipitation data input in Arizona
Steven Hunter, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and B. Vieux, F. Ogden, J. Niedzialek, C. Downer, J. Addiego, and J. Daraio

http://www.usbr.gov/pmts/rivers/awards/publ/radconf_2003_paper_full.pdf

  5:15 PM
A hydrologic approach to evaluating quantitative precipitation estimates
Jonathan J. Gourley, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. E. Vieux

  5:30 PM
  5:45 PM
Meteorological Radar and Flood Forecasting
Mario T. L Barros Sr., University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and F. M. Goncalves


9B
Signal processing
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Andrew L. Pazmany, ProSensing

Papers:
  4:00 PM
  4:15 PM
Airborne Doppler radar clutter and range sidelobe suppression
R. Jeffrey Keeler, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and H. Cai and W. C. Lee

  4:30 PM
Digital IF receiver—capabilities, tests and evaluation
Igor Ivic, CIMMS/University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. Zahrai and D. Zrnic

  4:45 PM
Experimental studies of the corrections applied to the observed spectral width for turbulence studies
G. D. Nastrom, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN; and T. E. VanZandt, W. L. Clark, T. Tsuda, and J. -. I. Furumoto

  5:00 PM
Radar observations of turbulence and wind shear
Valery M. Melnikov, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. J. Doviak and M. Fang

  5:15 PM
Single antenna interferometry to measure wind
Guifu Zhang, NCAR/RAP, Boulder, CO; and R. J. Doviak, J. Vivekanandan, and T. Y. Yu

  5:45 PM
Processing of staggered PRT sequences on the KOUN research radar
Sebastian M. Torres, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


Sessions end for the day

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


Exhibit Hours

6:00 PM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


Joint Radar/Broadcast Museum of Flight Event/Buffet

6:30 PM-8:30 PM: Sunday, 10 August 2003


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Museum of Flight

Monday, 11 August 2003

7:00 AM-7:00 AM: Monday, 11 August 2003


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Mon 11 Aug

8:00 AM-10:00 AM: Monday, 11 August 2003


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Integrated observations of water cycle using radar, lidar, and other instruments
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Peter H. Hildebrand, NASA

Papers:
  8:00 AM
Integrated observations of water vapor during IHOP_2002
Tammy M. Weckwerth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. B. Parsons

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)
  8:30 AM
An evaluation of the radar refractivity retrieval during IHOP_2002
Crystalyne R. Pettet, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. M. Weckwerth, F. Fabry, and J. W. Wilson

Poster PDF (513.0 kB)
  8:45 AM
Observing the Global Water Cycle from Space
Peter H. Hildebrand, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. Houser and C. A. Schlosser

  9:00 AM
Uniting space, ground and underwater measurements for better estimation of rain rates
E. Amitai, NASA/GSFC Greenbelt, MD and George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and J. A. Nystuen and L. Liao

  9:15 AM
Verification of multisensor precipitation estimation techniques in Arizona
Steven V. Vasiloff, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and B. Clarke and C. Dempsey

  9:30 AM
The precipitation mechanisms of typhoon Nari(2001) revealed by Doppler radars, ISS and disdrometer observation
Tai-Chi Chen Wang, National Central Univ., Chung-Li, Taiwan; and W. Y. Chang, K. S. Chung, S. H. Lin, and J. H. Teng

  9:45 AM
Results and applications of long-term cloud liquid water profiling by an integrated profiling technique
Ulrich Loehnert, University of Bonn, Germany, Bonn, Germany; and S. Crewell and E. Van Meijgaard

8:30 AM-8:45 AM: Monday, 11 August 2003


MON 11 AUG

Papers:
  8:30 AM
Welcoming Remarks

8:45 AM-8:45 AM: Monday, 11 August 2003


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Special Workshop: Health Issues in a Changing Weather and Climate Environment—A Perspective from Watersheds to Airsheds
Sponsor: 32nd Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Organizer: H. Michael Mogil, StormCenter Communications

9:40 AM-9:55 AM: Monday, 11 August 2003


Coffee Break

9:55 AM-9:55 AM: Monday, 11 August 2003


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Special Workshop: Health Issues in a Changing Weather and Climate Environment—A Perspective from Watersheds to Airsheds (Continued)
Sponsor: 32nd Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Facilitator: H. Michael Mogil, StormCenter Communications

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 11 August 2003


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Coffee Break

10:30 AM-12:30 PM: Monday, 11 August 2003


11A
IHOP
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Yvette P. Richardson, The Pennsylvania State University

Papers:
  10:30 AM
Initiation of deep convection on May 24 and June 19, 2002 during IHOP
Hanne V. Murphey, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and R. M. Wakimoto, E. V. Browell, D. E. Kingsmill, and C. N. Flamant

Poster PDF (297.8 kB)
  10:45 AM
A multi-Doppler analysis of convective initiation on 10 June 2002 during IHOP_2002
Nettie R. Arnott, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and Y. P. Richardson and J. Wurman

  11:00 AM
A multiple-Doppler radar analysis of intersecting mesoscale boundaries during IHOP
Christina Hannon, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and P. Markowski

  11:15 AM
Mobile Doppler radar observations of a front during IHOP
Paul Markowski, Penn State University, University Park, PA

  11:30 AM
The Kinematic and Thermodynamic Effects of Vorticies Within a Dryline
Michael S. Buban, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK OK; and C. L. Ziegler and E. N. Rasmussen

  11:45 AM
Multi-Doppler Analysis of Convective Initiation on 19 June 2002 During IHOP_2002
Yvette P. Richardson, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and J. M. Wurman and C. Hartman

  12:00 PM
Relation of radar-derived kinematic features and in-situ moisture to cumulus development on 24 May 2002 during IHOP
Conrad L. Ziegler, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and E. N. Rasmussen, Y. P. Richardson, R. M. Rabin, and M. S. Buban

  12:15 PM
Relationship of cumulus locations with kinematic features derived from multi-Doppler analysis on 24 May 2002
Erik N. Rasmussen, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. L. Ziegler and Y. P. Richardson


11B
Radar Systems/Network
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Joshua Wurman, Center for Severe Weather Research

Papers:
  10:30 AM
  10:45 AM
Quantitative applications of broadcast media weather radar data
Neil I. Fox, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

Poster PDF (116.2 kB)
  11:00 AM
The PANTHERE Project of Meteo-France: extension and upgrade of the French radar network
Jacques Parent du Chatelet, Météo-France, 78195 Trappes, France; and M. Guimera

Poster PDF (255.1 kB)
  11:15 AM
Test of polarimetric based retrieval algorithms at X-band
Marielle gosset, LTHE / IRD, France, 38041 Grenoble cedex 9, Isere, France; and F. Cazenave

Poster PDF (167.2 kB)
  11:30 AM
An X-band Phased Array Doppler Weather Radar
Ivan PopStefanija, ProSensing, Amherst, MA; and A. Pazmany and R. Bluth

Poster PDF (158.2 kB)
  11:45 AM
Linearity and Calibration of Linear Radar Receivers
Frank Gekat, AMS-Gematronik, Neuss, Germany; and J. Mehl, D. Rühl, and C. Verstappen

Poster PDF (159.2 kB)
  12:00 PM
Use of Weather Radar to Support America's Space Program—Past, Present, and Future
B. F. Boyd, 45th Weather Squadron, U.S. Airforce, Patrick AFB, FL; and J. W. Weems, W. P. Roeder, C. S. Pinder, and T. M. McNamara

Poster PDF (240.5 kB)
  12:15 PM
Considerations for the Detection of Low Lying Winter Weather in the Canadian Weather Radar Network
Norman Donaldson, EC, King City, ON, Canada; and P. I. Joe and J. Scott

Poster PDF (237.1 kB)

12:00 PM-1:00 PM: Monday, 11 August 2003


Lunch Break

12:00 PM-2:00 PM: Monday, 11 August 2003


Exhibit Hours

12:30 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 11 August 2003


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Lunch Break

1:00 PM-1:44 PM: Monday, 11 August 2003


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Becoming the station scientist. What resources are available?
Sponsor: 32nd Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: David Tillman, KTRK-TV

Papers:
 
9.1
A Southern New Hampshire Survey on Watersheds

  1:01 PM
9.2
  1:16 PM
9.3
Major Skywatching Events in 2003-2004
J. Kelly Beatty, Sky & Telescope magazine, Cambridge, MA

  1:31 PM
Lightning Safety Public Education—A Mandate For Broadcast Meteorologists (Formerly Paper 9.4)
William P. Roeder, U.S. Air Force/45th Weather Squadron, Patrick AFB, FL; and T. C. Skilling, B. B. Sussman, J. D. Jones, M. A. Lozano, and G. S. Forbes

1:30 PM-3:30 PM: Monday, 11 August 2003


Poster Session 5A
IHOP/Boundary Layer/Integrated observation Poster
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology

Papers:
 
Mantle echoes associated with deep convection during IHOP: Observations and numerical simulations
Roger M. Wakimoto, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and H. V. Murphey, R. G. Fovell, and W. C. Lee

Poster PDF (310.9 kB)
 
A Radar/Radiometer Instrument for Mapping Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity
Peter H. Hildebrand, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Hilliard, R. Rincon, D. Le Vine, and J. B. Mead

Poster PDF (70.2 kB)
 
Observations of the Finescale Structure of 11 June Dryline during IHOP 2002
Huaqing Cai, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. C. Lee

Poster PDF (756.4 kB)
 
Vertically pointing profilers used to calibrate and monitor the reflectivity estimated by scanning radars
Christopher R. Williams, University of Colorado and NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and P. E. Johnston, W. L. Clark, K. S. Gage, D. A. Carter, and P. A. Kucera

Poster PDF (135.0 kB)
 
Fine-Scale Vertical Structure of a Cold Front as Revealed by Airborne 95 GHz Radar
Bart Geerts, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and D. Leon

http://www-das.uwyo.edu/wcr/projects/ihop02/

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)
 
Cloning radar cells at outer ranges: a test with the Bauru radar
Roberto Machado, Meteorological Research Institute/UNESP, Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil; and R. V. Calheiros

Poster PDF (212.3 kB)
 
Fine-scale radar observations of a dryline during the International H2O Project
Christopher C. Weiss, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and H. B. Bluestein and A. L. Pazmany

Poster PDF (184.4 kB)

Poster Session 5B
Radar Systems/Network Poster
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology

Papers:
 
NEXRAD Product Improvement—Implementing New Science
Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Elvander, R. Saffle, and J. Roe

Poster PDF (47.6 kB)
 
A new programme of weather radars at METEO-FRANCE: focus on the definition of optimal siting
Jean-Luc Chèze, METEO-FRANCE, Toulouse, France; and M. Guiméra

 
Quantitative Rain Measurements with a Mobile, X-Band, Polarimetric Doppler Radar
Andrew L. Pazmany, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and F. Junyent Lopez and H. B. Bluestein

Poster PDF (306.5 kB)
 
Observations of plumes of particles and water released from aircraft
Joshua Wurman, Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder, CO

 
Fires observed by mobile radar
Joshua Wurman, Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder, CO; and S. Weygandt

 
Negative Scanning From A High Elevation Radar: Operational Examples
Robert Nissen, MSC, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and D. E. Dudley and L. Funk

Poster PDF (310.7 kB)
 
X-port, a new X-band polarimetric system for hydrometeorological applications
Marielle gosset, LTHE / IRD, France, 38041 Grenoble cedex 9, Isere, France; and F. Cazenave

 
Development of a new C-band bistatic polarimetric radar and observation of typhoon events
Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Communications Research Laboratory, Okinawa, Japan; and H. Hanado, S. Satoh, N. Takahashi, T. Iguhchi, and K. Fukutani

Poster PDF (860.9 kB)
 
An Eye-Safety Radar for Lidar Operations
Grant R. Gray, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Pratte

Poster PDF (75.9 kB)
 
Airborne proximity radar for laser eye safety: design and development
Frank Pratte, UCAR/NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. R. Gray and J. Fox

 
Doppler wind analysis of the airflow in a stratiform frontal rainband in the Pacific Northwest using a bistatic radar network
Mark T. Stoelinga, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. D. Locatelli, P. V. Hobbs, and J. Vivekanandan

Poster PDF (603.2 kB)
 
The U.S. national weather radar testbed (phased array): Potential impact on aviation
Leslie R. Lemon, Basic Commerce & Industries, Inc., Independence,, MO; and E. M. Quoetone and N. Milian

Poster PDF (133.2 kB)

Poster Session 5C
Winter Storms Poster
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology

Papers:
 
Radar Observations of a Freezing Drizzle Case in Colorado
Kyoko Ikeda, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Rasmussen

http://

Poster PDF (682.5 kB)
 
Analysis of a strong snowstorm in Catalonia on December 2001
Ramon Pascual, Instituto Nacional de Meteorología, Barcelona, Spain; and A. Callado and M. Berenguer

Poster PDF (245.8 kB)
 
Structure and maintenance process of stationary snowbands along coastal region observed by Doppler and dual-polarization radars
Tadayasu Ohigashi, Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan; and K. Tsuboki

Poster PDF (867.3 kB)

Poster Session 5D
Profiler Poster
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology

Papers:
 
P5D.1
The Precipitating Cloud System Studies using UHF Radar/Integrated Sounding System in Taiwan

 
A method for improving upper-level wind estimates from archived wind profiler velocity spectra.
Robert Schafer, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. K. Avery

Poster PDF (154.7 kB)
 
Evaluation of Ice Crystal Riming with Wind Profiler and in-situ Measurements from the ISPA Experiment
Stephen A. Cohn, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. H. Lowenthal, R. D. Borys, W. O. J. Brown, and J. O. Pinto

Poster PDF (203.9 kB)
 
The wind profiler network of the Japan Meteorology Agency
Masahito Ishihara, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan; and Y. Kato, T. Abo, Y. Asami, K. Kobayashi, Y. Izumikawa, J. Yamashita, and H. Yamamoto

Poster PDF (347.3 kB)

Poster Session 5E
Tropical Cyclone Poster
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology

Papers:
 
Concentric eyewall structure of typhoon Lekima: An investigation of Doppler radar reflectivity and radial wind data.
TsaiWen Deng, Kenting Weather Radar Station, Central Weather bureau, PingTung Sheng, Taiwan; and -. H. L. Chin, W. H. Chen, Y. W. Ko, C. H. Tseng, C. K. Chang, C. Y. Lee, and C. P. Li

Poster PDF (118.8 kB)
 
Doppler Profiler and Radar Observations of Tropical Storm Gabrielle During Landfall
Justin T. Walters, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and K. R. Knupp

 
The Seminole Hurricane Hunter
Peter S. Ray, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL


Poster Session 5F
Data Management/distribution Poster
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology

Papers:
 
A History for WSR-88D Level II Data Services at the National Climatic Data Center
Stephen A. Del Greco, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC

Poster PDF (393.2 kB)
 
Comparison of objective analysis schemes for the WSR-88D radar data
Jian Zhang, CIMMS, Norman, OK; and K. Howard, W. Xia, and J. J. Gourley

Poster PDF (2.5 MB)
 
Distribution of real-time digitized weather radar signal over high bandwidth network
Yoong-Goog Cho, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and V. Chandrasekar

Poster PDF (60.1 kB)
 
Management of field campaign data at NCAR/ATD
Susan Stringer, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. A. Rilling, M. M. Bell, and R. Oye

Poster PDF (50.0 kB)

2:00 PM-2:45 PM: Monday, 11 August 2003


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Educating Ourselves and the Public
Sponsor: 32nd Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Gary Ley, WJAR-TV

Papers:
  2:00 PM
In Honor of Two Centuries of Cloud Naming
H. Michael Mogil, StormCenter Communications, Ellicott City, MD

  2:15 PM
Educating the Aspiring Broadcast Meteorologist at the Undergraduate Level
Chad M. Kauffman, California Univ. of Pennsylvania, California, PA

  2:30 PM
Continuing education resources for 21st century meteorologists
Timothy C. Spangler, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and W. Schreiber-Abshire

2:45 PM-3:00 PM: Monday, 11 August 2003


Coffee Break

3:00 PM-5:00 PM: Monday, 11 August 2003


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Climate Prediction Center: A Mini-Workshop
Sponsor: 32nd Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Kathy Orr, KYW-TV

Papers:
  3:00 PM
The need for a climate products terminology workshop
Robert J. Leffler, NOAA/NWS Climate Services Division, Silver Spring, MD; and B. E. Mayes

  3:05 PM
CPC outlook terminology
Edward O'Lenic, NOAA/NWS/CPC, Camp Springs, MD

  3:40 PM
  4:40 PM
Your turn! Feedback and requirements for CPC outlook presentation from the media community
Barbara E. Mayes, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. J. Leffler

3:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 11 August 2003


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Coffee Break

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Monday, 11 August 2003


12A
IHOP/Boundary Layer
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Frédéric Fabry, McGill University

Papers:
  4:00 PM
Predictability of Convective Storm Initiation
James W. Wilson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Roberts

  4:30 PM
MIPS and Radar Observations of Boundaries during IHOP-2002
Haldun Karan, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and K. R. Knupp

Poster PDF (355.4 kB)
  4:45 PM
Vertical velocity and buoyancy characteristics of echo plumes detected by an airborne mm-wave radar in the convective boundary layer
Bart Geerts, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and Q. Miao

http://www-das.uwyo.edu/wcr/projects/ihop02/

Poster PDF (251.1 kB)
  5:00 PM
Highlights of refractivity observations during IHOP
Frédéric Fabry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and S. Park

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)
  5:15 PM
The Characteristics of Bores and Gravity Waves Associated with Nocturnal Convection during IHOP_2002
David B. Parsons, NCAR/ATD, Boulder, CO; and C. R. Pettet and T. M. Weckwerth

  5:30 PM
An observational study of atmospheric bore formation from colliding density currents
David E. Kingsmill, DRI, Reno, NV; and N. A. Crook

http://www.dri.edu/Projects/Radar/Collision.html

Poster PDF (730.0 kB)
  5:45 PM
Radar Characteristics of Convection Along Colliding Outflow Boundaries Observed During CRYSTAL-FACE
Paul J. Frank, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and P. A. Kucera

Poster PDF (130.7 kB)

12B
Radar Systems/Network II
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Timothy Crum, NOAA/NEXRAD

Papers:
  4:00 PM
  4:15 PM
Planned WSR-88D improvements
J. Rex Reed, NOAA/NWS/NEXRAD Operations Center, Norman, OK; and D. Evancho and R. Fehlen

  4:30 PM
Progress in implementing near-real time collection, distribution, and archive of WSR-88D level II data
Timothy Crum, NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center, Norman, OK; and K. Kelleher, P. Cragg, J. Barna, F. Toepfer, W. Blanchard, T. Sandman, K. Droegemeier, G. Almes, and L. Miller

  4:45 PM
  5:00 PM
The Joint Polarization Experiment—An Operational Demonstration of the Polarimetric KOUN WSR-88D Radar
Terry J. Schuur, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. W. Burgess and A. V. Ryzhkov

  5:15 PM
NEXRAD Product Improvement—Expanding Science Horizons
Robert E. Saffle, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. C. Elvander and M. J. Istok

  5:30 PM
A new WSR-88D scanning strategy: Results of field tests
Rodger A. Brown, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and R. M. Steadham, B. A. Flickinger, and V. T. Wood

  5:45 PM
High-resolution WSR-88D base data on the KOUN research radar
Christopher D. Curtis, CIMMS/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. M. Torres and E. Forren

5:00 PM-5:00 PM: Monday, 11 August 2003


Sessions end for the day

6:00 PM-6:00 PM: Monday, 11 August 2003


Seattle Mariners Baseball Game

Tuesday, 12 August 2003

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Tuesday, 12 August 2003


TUE 12 AUG

7:00 AM-7:00 AM: Tuesday, 12 August 2003


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Tue 12 Aug

8:00 AM-10:30 AM: Tuesday, 12 August 2003


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Winter Storms
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Roy Rasmussen, National Center for Atmosheric Research

Papers:
  8:00 AM
Hazardous winter weather – a radar perspective
Robert M. Rauber, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

  8:30 AM
An Observational Study Of Cold Season Mesoscale Band Formation In The Northeast United States
David R. Novak, NOAA/NWS, Bohemia, NY; and J. S. Waldstreicher, L. F. Bosart, and D. Keyser

http://www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/celeste/13.4 Radar.pdf

  8:45 AM
Radar signatures of winter clouds from aircraft in-situ data and ground-based radar observations
Mengistu Wolde, Institute for Aerospace Research, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and D. Hudak, B. Currie, S. G. Cober, P. Rodriguez, I. Zawadzki, G. A. Isaac, and D. Marcotte

Poster PDF (203.0 kB)
  9:00 AM
  9:30 AM
Winter Weather Nowcasting
Roy M. Rasmussen, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado

  10:00 AM

8:45 AM-9:00 AM: Tuesday, 12 August 2003


Welcoming Remarks

Papers:
  8:45 AM
Welcoming Remarks

  8:50 AM
Weather Briefing

9:00 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 12 August 2003


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Career Development Workshop: It's What We Do... Now How Do We Keep Doing It?
Sponsor: 32nd Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Chair: Erik L. Salna, KBMT-TV

Papers:
  9:00 AM
Contract Negotiating
Curtis Wilson, Herzog, Crebs & McGhee, St. Louis, MO

  9:20 AM
To Compete or Non-Compete
Ed and Anne Phillips, KTAR Radio/ Law Office of Anne Phillips, Phoenix, AZ; and A. Phillips

  9:40 AM
Life After Television—What do I do now?
Bill Boss, Weather Central, Inc., Madision, WI

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Tuesday, 12 August 2003


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Coffee Break

10:15 AM-10:25 AM: Tuesday, 12 August 2003


Coffee Break

10:30 AM-10:30 AM: Tuesday, 12 August 2003


Panel Discussion 2
Panel Discussion: Agents, News Directors and Consultants
Sponsor: 32nd Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Panelists: Stephanie Rickel, The Broadcast Image Group; Larry Rickel, The Broadcast Image Group; Keith Westerlage, The Weather Channel; Curtis Wilson, Herzog, Crebs & McGhee; Steve Swienckowski, The David Crane Agency, Inc.

11:00 AM-11:58 AM: Tuesday, 12 August 2003


14B
Tropical Cyclone
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Shirley T. Murillo, NOAA/AOML

Papers:
  11:00 AM
The Hurricane Volume Velocity Processing Method
Paul R. Harasti, UCAR Visiting Scientist Programs at the Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA

http://

 
14B.3
Implementing improved Doppler radar techniques for tropical cyclones and integrating radar-derived wind fields into H*Wind surface analyses

  11:30 AM
Temporal and Spatial Variations of Precipitation of Landfalling Typhoons in the Taiwan Area
Ben Jong-Dao Jou, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and C. W. Yen and Y. C. Kao

Poster PDF (51.4 kB)
 
14B.5
Evolution of the coastal windfield during the landfall of Hurricane Floyd (1999) from airborne Doppler radar

  11:45 AM
The relationship between environmental wind shear and the distribution of vertical velocities and precipitation in the hurricane eyewall
Michael L. Black, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and L. K. Shay, F. Marks Jr., B. A. Albrecht, and H. E. Willoughby

11:00 AM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 12 August 2003


14A
Radar Wind Profiler
Sponsor: 31st International Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair: Steve A. Cohn, NCAR

Papers:
  11:15 AM
  11:45 AM
Cloud Detection using Radar Wind Profiler Output
Paul Michael, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and M. A. Miller and E. Clothiaux

Poster PDF (380.7 kB)
  12:00 PM
The Trans-Pacific Profiler Network: A comparison of profiler and NCEP/NCAR reanalysis winds.
Robert Schafer, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. K. Avery and K. Gage

Poster PDF (679.5 kB)

11:45 AM-11:45 AM: Tuesday, 12 August 2003


Closing Remarks

12:00 PM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 12 August 2003


Conference Ends

12:30 PM-12:30 PM: Tuesday, 12 August 2003


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Conference Ends