Session 4B |
| | QPE |
| | Chair: R. Carbone, NCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 10:30 AM | 4B.1 | 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 |
| 10:45 AM | 4B.2 | 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 |
| 11:00 AM | 4B.3 | 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 |
| 11:15 AM | 4B.4 | 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 |
| 11:30 AM | 4B.5 | 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 |
| 11:45 AM | 4B.6 | Error statistics of VPR corrections in stratiform precipitation
Isztar Zawadzki, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada; and A. Bellon |
| 12:00 PM | 4B.7 | Correcting radar derived rainfall rates at the surface using Doppler velocities
Steven A. Lack, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and N. I. Fox |
| 12:15 PM | 4B.8 | Predictability of precipitation as a function of scale from large-scale radar composites
Urs Germann, MeteoSwiss, Locarno-Monti, Switzerland; and I. Zawadzki |