Session 12B Airborne and Spaceborne Radars III: Spaceborne Radar Observations and Emerging Platforms

Thursday, 31 August 2023: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Great Lakes A (Hyatt Regency Minneapolis)
Host: 40th Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chairs:
Alain Jean Francois Protat, BoM, Research, Melbourne, VIC and Alfonso Ladino, Univ. of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL

Papers:
8:00 AM
12B.1
Quantitative Analysis of the Delta-t Approach for Estimating Convective Mass Flux Using Ground Radar Observations
Brenda Dolan, Colorado State University, Longmont, CO; and J. Bukowski, R. Chase, L. D. Grant, Z. Haddad, P. Kollias, P. J. Marinescu, M. Oue, D. J. Posselt, PhD, K. L. Rasmussen, Ph.D., R. Schulte, I. Singh, R. Storer, and G. R. Leung

8:15 AM
12B.2
GPM KaPR Deep Convection Observations: Insight for Future Spaceborne Radar Missions
Randy Chase, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and B. Dolan, P. Kollias, K. L. Rasmussen, G. L. Stephens, and G. R. Leung

8:30 AM
12B.3
CloudCube: A Compact, Low-Cost Radar for Vertical Profiling of Clouds and Precipitation
Raquel Rodriguez Monje, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA; and J. Socuellamos, K. B. Cooper, S. P. M. Nagaraja, C. Parashare, J. V. Siles, M. D. Lebsock, R. Beauchamp, and S. Tanelli

8:45 AM
12B.4
Application of NASA Multi-Frequency Airborne Doppler Radar for Estimates of Hydrometeor Microphysical Properties
Liang Liao, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; Morgan State University, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Meneghini and G. Heymsfield

9:00 AM
12B.5
Next Generation Spaceborne Doppler Radars for Cloud and Precipitation Studies: Lessons Learned during the NASA AOS Mission Architecture Study
Pavlos Kollias, Stony Brook Univ., Stony Brook, NY; and A. Battaglia, S. A. Braun, V. Chandrasekar, A. M. da Silva, M. D. Lebsock, G. G. Mace, M. Walker McLinden, and D. J. Posselt

9:15 AM
12B.6
WIVERN: A Mission to Observe Global in-cloud Winds, Clouds and Precipitation as part of the ESA Earth Explorer Programme EE11
Anthony J. Illingworth, University of Reading; and A. Battaglia, M. Pourshamsi, M. Borderies, J. Delanoë, S. Hagelin, P. Kollias, V. Lehmann, M. Maahn, M. Montopoli, M. Rennie, and M. Wolde

9:30 AM
12B.7
Commercial Weather Radar from Space: The Tomorrow.Io Pathfinder Mission and Ka-Band Radar Satellite Constellation
Richard Roy, Tomorrow.io, Bourne, MA; and J. Carswell, M. Sanchez-Barbetty, T. Maese, E. Mazzola, S. J. Munchak, and J. Springmann

9:45 AM
12B.8
Prototype Precipitation Profiling Algorithms for the Tomorrow-R1 and Tomorrow-R2 Radars
Stephen J. Munchak, Tomorrow.io, Boston, MA; and E. Nelson and R. Roy

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