Session: Precipitation and Cloud Microphysics (34th Conference on Radar Meteorology (5-9 October 2009))

P2.1

Radar based simultaneous estimates of cloud and rainfall parameters

Sergey Y. Matrosov, CIRES/University of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO

P2.2

Maximum likelihood estimation from a left-truncated distribution

Roger W. Johnson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; and D. Kliche and P. L. Smith

Handout (460.8 kB)

P2.3

Evaluation of Weather Modification by Aircraft in Guangxi by the Use of CINRAD

P2.4

Investigation of microphysical processes occurring in convection during NAME

Angela K. Rowe, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Rutledge

P2.3 has been withdrawn

P2.5

Evaluation of Weather Modification by Aircraft by the Use of CINRAD

Ruibo Zhang, Weather Modification Office of Guangxi, Nanning, Guangxi, China; and X. Zhong and C. Yao

Handout (550.5 kB)

P2.6

Application of Zphi® algorithm on AMMA radar data: description of west african squall lines

Samuel Jolivet, LATMOS, Vélizy, France; and D. Aurelien, V. Nicolas, and E. Le Bouar

Handout (1.6 MB)

P2.7

Attenuation of radar signal in melting hail at C band

Lesya Borowska, Meteorological Institute at the University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; and A. V. Ryzhkov, D. S. Zrnic, P. Zhang, D. Hudak, P. Neilley, M. Knight, R. D. Palmer, B. L. Cheong, A. Battaglia, and C. Simmer

Handout (344.6 kB)

P2.8

Total scan: a full volume scanning strategy

Dominik Jacques, EC, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and I. Zawadzki

Handout (1.0 MB)

P2.9

Snowflake distribution characteristics from HVSD measurements

Wanda Szyrmer, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and E. Jung and I. Zawadzki

Handout (2.6 MB)

P2.10

Three body scattering and hail size

Dusan S. Zrnic, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and G. Zhang, V. Melnikov, and J. Andric

P2.11

The impact of evaporation on polarimetric characteristics of rain: theoretical model and practical implications

Matthew R. Kumjian, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK ; and A. V. Ryzhkov

Handout (805.7 kB)

P2.12

Polarimetric observations of precipitating and non-precipitating clouds

Jelena Andric, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Zrnic and V. Melnikov

Handout (1.0 MB)

P2.13

The variability of the microphysical and radiative properties of tropical ice clouds from CloudSat-CALIPSO and ground-based ARM radar-lidar observations

Alain Protat, Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Melbourne, Australia; and J. Delanoë, P. T. May, and E. O'Connor

P2.14

Comparison of space and ground-based radar reflectivity and derived rainfall

Nick Guy, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. A. Rutledge, R. Cifelli, and T. Lang

P2.15

Spatial structure and time evolution of rain drop size distributions revealed from disdrometer and polarimetric radar observations

Petar Bukovcic, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. S. Zrnic and G. Zhang

Handout (1.0 MB)

P2.16

Drop-Size Distribution Studies in N. Alabama as Applied to Simulated and Observed C-Band Dual-polarimetric Radar Measurements

Walter A. Petersen, NASA/Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA; and L. D. Carey and M. Thurai

P2.17

A precipitation profiler simulator

Christopher R. Williams, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Handout (97.7 kB)

P2.18

Using TRMM to resolve tropical convection for lightning climatology

Anita LeRoy, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen and D. J. Cecil

P2.19

Some precipitation characteristics of an autumn torrential rainfall event in northern Taiwan as determined from dual-polarization radar data

Ya-Chien Feng, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan; and T. C. C. Wang and B. T. Ji

P2.20

Classification of precipitation types during transitional winter weather using the RUC model and polarimetric radar retrievals

Hyang-Suk Park, Korea Meteorological Administration, Jeju-do, Korea, Republic of (South); and A. V. Ryzhkov, H. D. Reeves, and T. J. Schuur

Handout (2.2 MB)

P2.21

Precipitation and cloud microphysics evaluation for a landfalling winter storm using a mesoscale model

Mei Han, GESTAR/Morgan State University, Greenbelt, MD; and S. A. Braun

P2.22

Extended retrievals of precipitation parameters in Niamey, Niger from a 95-GHz Doppler radar

Scott Giangrande, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and E. Luke, M. A. Miller, and P. Kollias

P2.23

Toward decoding the morphology of millimeter wavelength Doppler radar spectra

Edward Luke, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and P. Kollias

P2.24

The characteristics of raindrop size distribution and optimal moment estimator

Min Jang, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, Republic of (South); and D. Lee, C. You, G. J. Seo, S. H. Park, G. O. Lee, and H. Uyeda

P2.25

A framework for the statistical analysis of large radar and lightning datasets

Timothy J. Lang, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and A. Anderson and S. Rutledge

P2.26

Evaluation of networked based attenuation correction in CASA IP1 testbed

S. Lim, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and V. Chandrasekar

Handout (409.7 kB)

P2.27

Orographic Precipitation Enhancement by Boundary-layer Turbulence: a Vertically Pointing Airborne Cloud Radar View

Qun Miao, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and B. Geerts

P2.28

Climatological drop-size distributions and Z-R relations in Southeast Texas