Airborne and Spaceborne Radar

Monday, 28 August 2023: 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Boundary Waters (Hyatt Regency Minneapolis)
Host: 40th Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair:

Single or multi-sensor analyses using radar systems aboard airborne platforms or current/future Earth-orbiting satellites from both scientific and commercial missions; emerging airborne/spaceborne instrument and technology demonstration radar concepts.

Sponsored by EWR Radar Systems

Papers:
1
Evaluation of Version 7 products from GPM/DPR
Nobuhiro Takahashi, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan; and T. Masaki and T. Kubota

Handout (6.3 MB)

3
SOLID STATE TRANSMITTER UPGRADES FOR NASA GSFC HIGH-ALTITUDE AIRBORNE WEATHER RADARS
Lihua Li, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Walker McLinden and G. Heymsfield

4
Retrieving atmospheric pressure with airborne or spaceborne radar: Design considerations of V-band differential absorption radar
Matthew Walker McLinden, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. Heymsfield, B. Lin, L. Li, S. Harrah, N. Prive, J. Carswell, X. Cai, K. Horgan, E. Ford, S. Hoffert, and P. Pantina

5
Impact of Non-Uniform Beam Filling on Satellite Radar Path Integrated Attenuation
Christopher R. Williams, University of Colorado Boulder, Denver, CO

6
Global Assessments of Doppler Velocity Measurement Errors of EarthCARE Cloud Profiling Radar Using Global Storm-Resolving Simulation
Yuichiro Hagihara, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan; and Y. Ohno, H. Horie, W. Roh, M. Satoh, and T. Kubota

Handout (583.0 kB)

7
Upgraded Capabilities of the Wyoming Cloud Radar and the Ka-band Probe Radar
Coltin Grasmick, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and B. N. Geerts, S. Haimov, M. Guignes, J. R. French, M. Burkhart, and A. Pazmany

Handout (2.7 MB)

8
Radar Forward Modeling for the NASA Investigation of Convective Updrafts Mission
Derek J. Posselt, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and R. L. Storer, S. Tanelli, R. Beauchamp, S. Durden, A. Umeyama, S. C. Van Den Heever, and O. Sy

9
Ice Microphysical Retrievals Using W-band Airborne Radar Polarimetric Observations
Cuong Nguyen, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and M. Wolde, L. Nichman, N. Bliankinshtein, K. Ranjbar, K. Bala, J. R. Minder, and J. R. French

10
Airborne Radar Instrumentation for the Hurricane Hunter Aircraft
Bradley M. Isom, NORMAN, OK; and C. Bjorland, J. Carswell, R. Roy, and R. Engelbrecht

Handout (3.5 MB)

11
Vertical Air Motion Retrievals from Airborne W-band Cloud Radar
Haonan Chen, Colorado State University, Boulder, CO; and C. W. Fairall, C. R. Williams, and E. Thompson

11A
The Potential of the W-Band Polarization Diversity Doppler Radar Envisaged for the Wivern Mission for Sampling Tropical Cyclones
Frédéric Tridon, DIATI, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy; and A. Battaglia, A. J. Illingworth, A. Rizik, P. Martire, F. Scarsi, and M. Tossaint

11B
Assessment of Vertical Profile Correction for Quantitative Precipitation Estimation using S-band Radar in Northern Taiwan
Chien-Yu Liu, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan; and W. Y. Chang

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