89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Session 14: Radar Applications - Session III

Thursday, 15 January 2009: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Room 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center)
Cochairs:  Timothy Crum, NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center; Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL; Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc. and Julian Wang, NOAA/ARL
Papers:
  1:30 PM
  1:45 PM
Sea Surface Clutter Velocity Estimation and Its Affect on Clutter Filtering Performance
Chuck Reed, BCI, Moorestown, NJ; and H. S. Owen and T. Maese

  2:00 PM
Evaluation of a new multiple-Doppler tornado detection and characterization technique using real radar observations
Corey K. Potvin, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. M. Shapiro, T. Y. Yu, J. Gao, and M. Xue

  2:15 PM
Application of a new vorticity-equation based dual-Doppler radar wind analysis technique to a tornadic supercell storm
Alan Shapiro, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. K. Potvin, M. R. Kumjian, K. Donner, and J. Gao

  2:30 PM
Effects of convective boundary layer inhomogeneities on radar measurements of mean wind and turbulence
Danny E. Scipion, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. D. Palmer, P. B. Chilson, E. Fedorovich, and A. M. Botnick

  2:45 PM
Radar refractivity applications for convective initiation forecasting and observations of the convective boundary layer
David Bodine, Atmospheric Radar Research Center, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. L. Cheong, P. L. Heinselman, R. D. Palmer, and D. S. Michaud