Session: Wind Profilers / Operational Needs Worldwide, Networks and End to End Forecast Systems I (Parallel with 13A) (33rd Conference on Radar Meteorology (6

Friday, 10 August 2007: 10:30 AM-12:30 PM

Meeting Room 2 (Cairns Convention Center)

Host: 33rd Conference on Radar Meteorology

Chair:

Peter T. May, Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Melbourne, Vic.

Papers:

10:30 AM

13B.1

A VHF Windprofiler Network in Ontario and Quebec, Canada: Design Details and Capabilities

Wayne Hocking, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and P. A. Taylor, P. S. Argall, I. Zawadzki, F. Fabry, G. Mcbean, R. Sica, H. Hangan, G. Klaassen, J. Barron, and R. Mercer

Presentation PDF (356.9 kB)

10:45 AM

13B.2

Cirriform cloud observation in the tropics by VHF wind profiler and 95-GHz cloud radar

Masayuki Yamamoto, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere / Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan; and Y. Ohno, H. Okamoto, H. Horie, K. Sato, N. Nishi, H. Kumagai, H. Nagata, M. Yamamoto, H. Hashiguchi, and S. Fukao

Presentation PDF (2.7 MB)

11:00 AM

13B.3

Structure of a daytime convective boundary layer revealed by a virtual radar based on large eddy simulation

Danny E. Scipion, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Switzerland; and R. D. Palmer, E. Fedorovich, P. B. Chilson, and A. M. Botnick

Presentation PDF (785.5 kB)

11:15 AM

13B.4

Wind profiler observations of mountain waves and rotors at T-REX

S.A. Cohn, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. O. J. Brown

Presentation PDF (1.6 MB)

11:30 AM

13B.5

Operational multiple-Doppler wind synthesis over France

Olivier Bousquet, Meteo France, Toulouse, France; and P. Tabary and J. Parent

Presentation PDF (2.0 MB)

11:45 AM