88th Annual Meeting (20-24 January 2008)

Poster Session 1: Recent Developments in Atmospheric Applications of Radar and lidar

Tuesday, 22 January 2008: 9:45 AM-11:00 AM
Exhibit Hall B (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
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Cochairs:  Belay B. Demoz, NASA/GSFC; Tammy M. Weckwerth, NCAR; Gelsomina Pappalardo, CNR/IMAA and Howard B. Bluestein, Univ. of Oklahoma
Papers:
 
P1.1
Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar (REAL): Scanning, eye-safe, aerosol lidar at 1.5 microns
Shane D. Mayor, California State University Chico, Chico, CA; and S. M. Spuler and B. M. Morley

 
P1.2
Using a low-order model to detect and characterize tornadoes in multiple-Doppler radar data
Corey K. Potvin, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. M. Shapiro, T. Y. Yu, M. Xue, and J. Gao

Poster PDF (834.9 kB)
 
P1.3
Simulation testbed for atmospheric LIDAR: application to CO2 measurements
J. Stewart Hager, AER, Inc., Lexington, MA; and H. E. Snell, T. S. Zaccheo, J. Dobler, and M. E. Dobbs

 
P1.4
Development of high resolution and fast scanning radar
Katsuyuki Imai, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, Japan; and T. Ushio and Z. I. Kawasaki

 
P1.5
Cloud occurrence, layering and overlap from combined cloudsat and calipso data
G. Mace, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

 
P1.6
High resolution assimilation of CASA radar data from a tornadic convective system
Alexander D. Schenkman, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. M. Shapiro, K. Brewster, M. Xue, J. Gao, and N. Snook

Poster PDF (719.2 kB)
 
P1.7
Observing Systems Simulation Experiments at NCEP -OSSEs for realistic adaptive targeted DWL, Uniform Observation and AIRS
Michiko Masutani, EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. S. Woollen, H. Sun, G. D. Emmitt, Y. Song, Y. Xie, S. J. Lord, and Z. Toth

http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/OSSE/AMS2008/NCEP_OSSE_DWL_UniObs_AIRS_P1-7.pdf

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)
 
P1.8
Development of a modular wind profiling network (MPN)
William O. J. Brown, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. B. Chilson, S. A. Cohn, T. Hock, J. R. Jordan, D. Law, B. Lindseth, R. D. Palmer, M. K. Politovich, and T. Y. Yu

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)
 
P1.9
CloudSat precipitation profiling algorithm—model description
Cristian Mitrescu, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. M. Haynes, T. S. L'Ecuyer, J. Turk, and S. D. Miller

 
P1.10
Oxygen band radar for sea surface air pressure measurements: Applications for tropical storm forecasts
Bing Lin, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and Y. Hu, S. Harrah, D. Fralick, and R. Lawrence

 
P1.11
A new application utilizing Google Earth to project vertical information of clouds and aerosols obtained by CALIPSO
Paul Thomas Ewing, Pennsylvania State University, Huntingtown, MD; and N. A. Gasperoni, T. N. Hillyer, B. S. Hughes, J. W. Carpenter, and J. Gleason

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)
 
P1.12
Multi-patterns to Reduce Sidelobe Effects on the National Weather Radar Testbed
Guifu Zhang, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. J. Doviak, C. Curtis, and Q. Cao

Poster PDF (374.4 kB)
 
P1.13
Characterization of the vertical profiles of snow clouds by CloudSat radar data
Guosheng Liu, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

 
P1.14
VORTRAC—A Utitility to Deduce Central Pressure and Radius of maximum wind of Landfalling Tropical Cyclones Using WSR-88D data
Wen-Chau Lee, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. R. Harasti and M. M. Bell

 
P1.15
High resolution weather radar through pulse compression
Timothy A. Alberts, Univeristy of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. B. Chilson, B. L. Cheong, R. D. Palmer, and M. Xue

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)
 
P1.16
Surface backscatter observed by CloudSat's CPR: interpretation and correction
Simone Tanelli, JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and S. V. Nghiem, S. L. Durden, and E. Im

 
P1.17
New combined lidar and radar measurement capability from Wyoming King Air
Zhien Wang, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and P. Wechsler, J. R. French, A. Rodi, S. Haimov, and W. Kuestner

Poster PDF (297.0 kB)
 
P1.18
Use of airborne Doppler Wind Lidar to optimize the utility of UAV and space-based systems
George D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and S. A. Wood, S. Greco, C. O'Handley, and H. Jonsson

 
P1.19
Nexrad-In-Space (NIS): Anticipated advances in hurricane monitoring & track-intensity predictions
Eric A. Smith, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and V. Chandrasekar, S. S. Chen, G. J. Holland, E. Im, R. Kakar, W. E. Lewis, F. D. Marks Jr., S. Tanelli, and G. J. Tripoli

 
P1.20
Cloud Climatology from CALIPSO: Algorithm Theoretical Basis, Performance and Global Cloud Statistics
Yongxiang Hu, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and B. Lin

 
P1.21
The global distribution of drizzle in marine stratocumulus observed by CloudSat and CALIPSO
Zhien Wang, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and D. Leon, G. L. Stephens, D. M. Winker, D. G. Vane, and D. Liu

 
P1.22
Studies of the lifecycle of tropical cloud systems using CloudSat/CALIPSO
Brian J. Soden, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL

 
P1.23
Use of coincident CloudSat & TRMM radar reflectivity cross-sections to investigate diurnal cycle of precipitation within marine stratocumulus cloud environments
Eric A. Smith, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt,, MD; and H. M. Carty, K. S. Kuo, and S. Yang

 
P1.24
Use of active remote sensors to improve the accuracy of cloud top heights derived from thermal satellite observations
Christopher Rogers Yost, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, S. Sun-Mack, Y. Chen, and M. J. McGill

http://www-pm.larc.nasa.gov/

Poster PDF (246.0 kB)
 
P1.25
Cirrus production by tropical mesoscale convective systems as seen by CloudSat and CALIPSO

 
P1.26
Application of the NASA A-Train to evaluate clouds simulated by the Weather Research and Forecast Model
Andrew L. Molthan, University of Alabama Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and G. J. Jedlovec and W. M. Lapenta

http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/sport

Poster PDF (702.0 kB)
 
P1.27
CALIPSO data and tools available from NASA's Atmospheric Science Data Center
Linda A. Hunt, SSAI/NASA Langley Atmospheric Science Data Center, Hampton, VA

http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov

Poster PDF (126.7 kB)
 
P1.28
Using A-train to establish the effects of Saharan Dust on the development and intensity of tropical cyclones
Thomas A. Kovacs, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI

Poster PDF (1.9 MB)
 
P1.29
A preliminary arctic cloud climatology and heat budget from CloudSat and CALIPSO
Aaron J. Schwartz, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and T. H. Vonder Haar

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