Session: drop size distributions and lightning (32nd Conference on Radar Meteorology/11th Conference on Mesoscale Processes)

Friday, 28 October 2005: 1:15 PM-3:00 PM

Alvarado F and Atria (Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town)

Host: 32nd Conference on Radar Meteorology

Organizer:

V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State Univ., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO

Papers:

P14R.1

On the equivalence of the dual-wavelength and polarimetric equations for estimation of the raindrop size distribution

Robert Meneghini, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Liao

Handout (1013.1 kB)

P14R.2

V-CHILL Radar Operations in Classrooms: Courseware and Research Applications

Patrick C. Kennedy, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and V. Chandrasekar, D. Brunkow, J. Deyke, S. A. Rutledge, P. L. Smith, S. E. Yuter, R. E. Orville, L. D. Carey, W. A. Petersen, A. G. Detwiler, and M. Cech

Handout (601.2 kB)

P14R.3

A comparative study of drop size distribution retrieval using two video disdrometers and a UHF wind profiling radar

Laura M. Kanofsky, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma; and P. B. Chilson, T. J. Schuur, G. Zhang, and E. A. Brandes

Handout (981.0 kB)

P14R.4

Z-R Relations from raindrop disdrometers: Sensitivity to regression methods and DSD data refinements

Brooks E. Martner, NOAA/ETL and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and V. Dubovskiy and S. Y. Matrosov

Handout (1.2 MB)

P14R.5

A simulation approach to sampling effects in raindrop size distribution measurements in non-stationary rain

Alexis Berne, Wageningen Univ., Wageningen, Netherlands; and R. Uijlenhoet

Handout (106.5 kB)

P14R.6

Experimental Investigation of X-band Polarimetric Algorithm for Drop Size Distribution Retrieval

Marios Anagnostou, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and E. N. Anagnostou and J. Vivekanandan

Handout (288.9 kB)

P14R.7

Radar observations of a negative cloud-to-ground storm observed during STEPS

Sarah A. Tessendorf, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Rutledge

Handout (277.9 kB)

P14R.8

The role of storm dynamics on lightning activity for the 19 June 2004 Mesoscale Convective System during TELEX

Nicholas S. Biermann, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. I. Biggerstaff, G. Carrie, N. Ramig, T. L. Wiegman, M. L. Sessing, D. MacGorman, D. Rust, L. Carey, P. Krehbiel, W. Rison, and T. Hamlin

Handout (534.2 kB)

P14R.9

Polarimetric radar and electrical structure of a multicell storm

E. Bruning, Univ. Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and W. D. Rust, D. R. MacGorman, T. J. Schuur, J. M. Straka, P. R. Krehbiel, W. Rison, and T. Hamlin

P14R.10

Radar, Lidar, and In-situ Observations of Tropical Cirrus Clouds

Larry Belcher, SSAI, Lanham, MD; and G. M. Heymsfield

Handout (236.6 kB)

P14R.11

Inference of mean raindrop shapes from dual-polarization Doppler spectra observations

D. N. Moisseev, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and V. Chandrasekar

Handout (323.3 kB)