Session 3A Precipitation and Cloud Microphysics I

Monday, 5 October 2009: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Auditorium (Williamsburg Marriott)
Host: 34th Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair:
Alexis Berne, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Laboratoire de Teledetection Environnementale, Lausanne

Papers:
10:30 AM
3A.1
Water-phase dynamics in winter snowstorms as observed by microwave profiling radiometry and vertically-pointing radar
Edwin F. Campos, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and R. Ware, P. Joe, and D. Hudak
Recorded presentation

10:45 AM
3A.2
The vertical characteristics of raindrop size distributions and horizontal divergence in the stratiform regions of Hurricane Gustav
Dong-Kyun Kim, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and K. R. Knupp

11:00 AM
3A.3
Cloud liquid water content and particle size retrievals using dual-wavelength radar measurements
Scott Ellis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Vivekanandan
Recorded presentation

11:15 AM
3A.4
A network of disdrometers to quantify the small scale variability of the microstructure of precipitation
Joël Jaffrain, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland; and A. Berne, A. Studzinski, and F. Pantillon
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (1.5 MB)

11:30 AM
3A.5
Implications of a λ - µ relationship for Z-R relationships
Paul L. Smith, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (200.3 kB)

11:45 AM
3A.6
Searching for the equilibrium raindrop size distribution: Observations and simulations
Xiaowen Li, GESTAR/Morgan State University and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and W. K. Tao, A. Tokay, and C. R. Williams

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