Session: Quantitative precipitation estimation and validation (32nd Conference on Radar Meteorology/11th Conference on Mesoscale Processes)

Tuesday, 25 October 2005: 6:30 PM-8:30 PM

Alvarado F and Atria (Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town)

Host: 32nd Conference on Radar Meteorology

Papers:

P6R.1

Development of a High Resolution Precipitation Research Facility in the Northern Plains

Paul A. Kucera, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and C. R. Williams and K. S. Gage

Handout (466.6 kB)

P6R.2

The Front Range Pilot Project for GPM: An instrument and concept test

Steven A. Rutledge, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and R. Cifelli, T. Lang, S. Nesbitt, K. S. Gage, C. R. Williams, B. Martner, S. Matrosov, V. Bringi, and P. C. Kennedy

Handout (851.2 kB)

P6R.3

Multi-Sensor Measurements of Raindrop Size Distribution at NASA Wallops Island

Jordi Rosich Sanchez, GRAHI, Barcelona, Spain; and A. Tokay, B. Sheppard, K. Wu, and P. Joe

P6R.4

Comsiderations for Comparing Volumetric Reflectivity Observation between Space-borne and Ground-based Radars

Wanyu Li, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and V. Chandrasekar

Handout (2.4 MB)

P6R.5

Systematic variations of raindrop size spectra with altitude derived from wind profiler: Measurements for TRMM PR evaluation

Takahisa Kobayashi, MRI, Tukuba, Ibaaki, Japan; and A. Adachi and S. Sekizawa

Handout (191.6 kB)

P6R.6

Reflectivity dependence of reflectivity gradients observed by radar profilers

Wallace L. Clark, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and C. R. Williams, P. E. Johnston, K. S. Gage, and A. Tokay

Handout (364.5 kB)

P6R.7

Revisiting "Ground Truth"—Assessment of Wind and Out-of-Level Collector Funnel Effects on Rain Gague Catch

Matthias Steiner, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and L. C. Sieck and S. J. Burges

Handout (65.8 kB)

P6R.8

Ground and Airborne Validation Plans for GPM in the Central State of São Paulo, Brazil

Roberto Vicente Calheiros, MRI/IPMet/UNESP, Bauru, Brazil; and G. Held, V. Mitev, C. A. D. A. Antonio, G. Martucci, and R. Matthey

Handout (308.0 kB)

P6R.9

Assessing Sensor Resolution Impact through Gabor Filtering

Roberto Machado, Meteorological Research Institute/UNESP, Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil; and R. V. Calheiros and C. A. F. Thompson Leite

P6R.10

Contemporary measurements of a ground-based weather radar and balloon-borne lidar at Bauru during the HIBISCUS campaigns: a powerful synergy in cloud physics studies

Guido Di Donfrancesco, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Environment, Frascati, Italy; and F. Cairo, G. Held, and F. Fierli

Handout (289.7 kB)

P6R.11

Using medium term reflectivity statistics in radar QPE

Norman Donaldson, EC, King City, ON, Canada

Handout (284.3 kB)

P6R.12

Conditional evaluation of conventional vs. polarimetric QPE at C-band

Wiwiana Szalinska, Météo France, Trappes, France; and P. Tabary and H. Andrieu

Handout (1.4 MB)

P6R.13

Radar Rainfall Estimation and Rain Gauge Comparison Studies at Wallops Island, Virginia

MiKayla Taffe, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and P. A. Kucera