Session 15B Precipitation & Hydrologic Applications (Operational): Nowcasting

Friday, 20 September 2013: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Colorado Ballroom (Peak 5, 3rd Floor) (Beaver Run Resort and Conference Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Radar Meteorology (16-20 September, 2013)
Cochairs:
Aurora D. Bell, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne and Wen-Chau Lee, NCAR/EOL, Boulder, CO

Papers:
8:30 AM
15B.1
Radar rainfall estimates and nowcasts: the challenging road from research to warnings
Aurora Bell, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia; and A. Seed and R. Bunn
9:00 AM
15B.3
Radar-based rainfall nowcasting at European scale: long-term evaluation and performance assessment
Marc Berenguer, Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; and D. Sempere-Torres
Manuscript (4.9 MB)

Handout (34.5 MB)

9:15 AM
15B.4
Development of Nowcasting Method Based on Spatial Scale Analysis of Precipitation Distribution Observed by X-band Polarimetric Radar
Nozomu Takada, Meteorological Engineering Center, Inc., Osaka, Japan; and Y. Tanaka, S. Ikebuchi, and E. Nakakita
9:30 AM
15B.5
Rainfall attractors and predictability
Aitor Atencia, McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada; and I. Zawadzki and F. Fabry
Manuscript (10.4 MB)

Handout (9.3 MB)

9:45 AM
15B.6
Meteorological Risks Mitigation and Nowcasting at Airports: the RIVONA Project
Franco Prodi, National Research Council, Bologna, Italy; and G. P. Marra, F. Pasqualucci, A. C. Marra, and G. Trivellone
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