Session: Moving Platforms. Vehicle, Airborne, Shipborne and Spaceborne 2: Satellite. (38th Conference on Radar Meteorology)

Monday, 28 August 2017: 4:00 PM-5:30 PM

St. Gallen (Swissotel Chicago)

Host: 38th Conference on Radar Meteorology

Cochairs:

Walter A. Petersen, NASA, MSFC, Huntsville, AL and Brenda Dolan, Colorado State Univ., Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO

Second session on the study of atmospheric phenomena from moving platforms including manned and unmanned aircraft, current and future spaceborne platforms and shipboard radar systems. This covers technological aspects, case studies and ground validation exercises. Focus on Satellites.

Papers:

4:00 PM

7B.1

Cloud and Precipitation Imaging Radar Technology Development for Future Spaceborne Missions

Lihua Li, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. Heymsfield, P. Racette, M. McLinden, M. E. Cooley, P. A. Stenger, and T. Spence

4:15 PM

7B.2

Performance of the New Version of the GPM/DPR Rain Retrieval Algorithm

Toshio Iguchi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Koganei, Japan; and S. Seto, R. Meneghini, T. Masaki, N. Yoshida, J. Awaka, M. Le, V. Chandasekar, J. Kwiatkowski, and T. Kubota

4:30 PM

7B.3

Precipitation Variability Across Satellite Field-of-Views Derived from Ground-Based Polarimetric Scanning Radar Observations

Christopher R. Williams, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and W. A. Petersen, D. B. Wolff, and V. Chandrasekar

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

7B.4

Polarimetric Radar Verification of GPM Satellite-Based Retrievals of the Raindrop Size Distribution

Walter A. Petersen, NASA, Huntsville, AL; and A. Tokay, K. R. Morris, L. P. D'Adderio, D. B. Wolff, and P. N. Gatlin

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

7B.5