Session 3 Space Borne Radar

Monday, 6 August 2007: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Hall A (Cairns Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair:
Toshio Iguchi, NICT, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Koganei, Tokyo

Papers:
4:00 PM
3.1
Keynote: Weather regimes and extreme events: Extracting information from TRMM's 9-Year database
Edward Zipser, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

4:30 PM
3.2
Keynote: Spaceborne radar observations of clouds and precipitation from space: A new A-Train perspective
Graeme Stephens, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and D. G. Vane

5:00 PM
3.3
The Canadian CloudSat CALIPSO Validation Project: Evaluation of sensitivity and sub-pixel variability of CloudSat data products
David Hudak, EC, King City, ON, Canada; and H. W. Barker, K. B. Strawbridge, M. Wolde, A. Kankiewicz, and J. W. Strapp

Presentation PDF (1.2 MB)

5:15 PM
3.4
CloudSat's View of the Global Distribution of Light Precipitation
Tristan S. L'Ecuyer, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. M. Haynes, C. Mitrescu, F. J. Turk, S. D. Miller, and C. Kummerow

Presentation PDF (676.6 kB)

5:30 PM
3.5
Performance and data processing of Cloudsat's Cloud Profiling Radar in the first year in orbit
Simone Tanelli, JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and E. Im, S. L. Durden, and K. Pak

5:45 PM
3.6
Development of Cloud Profiling Radar for EarthCARE
Yuichi Ohno, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and H. Horie, K. Sato, H. Kumagai, T. Kimura, K. Okada, Y. Iida, and M. Kojima

Presentation PDF (258.5 kB)

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