A015
Advances in Radar Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation: Observations, Data Processing, Weather and Water Model Applications

Session ID#: 76481

Session Description:
Radar remote sensing of clouds and precipitation is an active and vibrant field with numerous hydrometeorological applications. Many processing steps are needed to convert raw radar observations into useful geophysical quantities that require the knowledge of radar technology and atmospheric-hydrologic processes. This session focuses on research that converts state-of-the-art radar observations into geophysical quantities that can be used as inputs to weather, water, and/or cloud resolving models. This session will also feature papers devoted to orographic precipitation and extreme natural hazards, ranging from severe weather processes to flash flood monitoring and mitigation with remote sensing and in situ observations.

Topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Scanning and vertically-pointing radars from S- to W-band
  • Identification of hydrometeor phases and microphysical features in radar measurements
  • Network or field campaign observations monitoring clouds and/or precipitation
  • Multi-sensor based products for model applications
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AMS: American Meteorological Society -
  • EGU: European Geosciences Union -
Index Terms:

1840 Hydrometeorology [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
3354 Precipitation [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Primary Convener:  Haonan Chen, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory and Colorado State University, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Robert Cifelli, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Lynn A. McMurdie, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Haonan Chen, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory and Colorado State University, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Using Radar Measurements and In Situ Data Collected During TC4 to Understand Microphysical Features (507686)
Jeana Mascio1, Zhuocan Xu2, Gerald G Mace3 and Sally Benson2, (1)Atmospheric and Environmental Research Lexington, Lexington, MA, United States, (2)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
The Role of X-band Radars in Rainfall Estimation for Complex Terrain Applications (508312)
Robert Cifelli, NOAA Boulder, Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, Haonan Chen, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory and Colorado State University, Boulder, CO, United States and V Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
Integrating multi-scale data for seamless QPE in the AQPI system (508376)
Haonan Chen, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory and Colorado State University, Boulder, CO, United States, Robert Cifelli, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
Analysis of X-Band Dual Polarization Radar Observations over Multiple Complex Terrain Regions (515998)
Yagmur Derin, University of Connecticut, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Groton, CT, United States, Emmanouil N Anagnostou, University of Connecticut, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Storrs, CT, United States, Marios Anagnostou, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Dept. of Water Resources and Env. Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Marousi Athens, Greece and John A Kalogiros, National Observatory of Athens, Institute of Environmental Research & Sustainable Development, Athens, Greece
 
Using Polarimetric Radar Measurements to Estimate Rainfall Rates for Hurricane Harvey, August 2017 (516293)
Molly Margaret Chaney, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, James A Smith, Princeton Univ, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States and Mary Lynn Baeck, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
A composite Analysis of Snowfall Modes from Four Winter Seasons in Marquette, Michigan (516403)
Claire Pettersen1, Mark Kulie2, Larry F Bliven3, Aronne J Merrelli4, Walter Arthur Petersen5, Timothy J. Wagner1, David B Wolff3 and Norman Wood6, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center, Madison, WI, United States, (2)Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (5)NASA MSFC, Science Research and Projects Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)University of Wisconsin, Fitchburg, WI, United States
 
Determining the phase of cloud tops and their heights using combined observations with GOES-R satellite and WSR-88D ground-based radars (517997)
Jiaxi Hu1, Charles Kuster1, Pengfei Zhang1, Alexander Ryzhkov1, Valery Melnikov1 and Daniel Rosenfeld2, (1)Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (2)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
 
Microphysical Process Studies of Severe Storms using C-band Dual-polarization Radar (Invited) (524393)
Lawrence D Carey, Sarah M Stough, Bruno Medina and Corey Amiot, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
: The NASA Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) Earth-Venture Suborbital-3 (EVS-3) field campaign (528967)
Lynn A. McMurdie, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Gerald Heymsfield, Goddard Space Flight Center NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States, John E Yorks, SSAI/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Scott A Braun, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Next-generation cloud radars: Applications of rapid-scan cloud radars for three-dimensional mapping of clouds (539417)
David Joseph Bodine, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, Jorge Salazar-Cerreno, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, Jay McDaniel, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, United States, Cameron R Homeyer, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, Robert Dean Palmer, Univ Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences and School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, Mark B Yeary, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Advanced Radar Research Center, Norman, United States, Greg M McFarquhar, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, Jeff Kelly, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Department of Zoology, Norman, OK, United States, Bradley M. Isom, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Pavlos Kollias, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada and Matthew R Kumjian, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
 
Composite-weighted Precipitation Estimation based on Multiple Polarimetric Estimation Methods Using the WSR-88D Radar Data over Iowa (551099)
Bong Chul Seo and Witold F Krajewski, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
 
An evaluation of rain attenuation correction for the Multi Parameter Phased Array Weather Radar (567337)
Taku Suezawa1, Hiroshi Kikuchi2, Tomoaki Mega1, Eiichi Yoshikawa3, Syugo Hayashi4, DONG Kyun KIM DR.1 and Tomoo Ushio1, (1)Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan, (2)The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan, (3)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Aeronautical Technology Directorate, Tokyo, Japan, (4)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan
 
Quantitative Precipitation Estimation based on X-band Marine Radar (572672)
Junmo Jo, Pukyong National University, Division of Earth Environmental System Science (Major of Environmental Atmosphere Sciences), Busan, Korea, Republic of (South), Byung Hyuk Kwon, Pukyong National University, Environmental Atmospheric Sciences, Busan, South Korea, Park Sa Kim, Geo-Sciences Institute, Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea and Min Seong Kim, Pukyong National University, Department of Environment Atmospheric Science, Busan, South Korea
 
Simulating Polarimetric Parameters of Ice Crystals and Retrieving Ice Water Content in Stratus in Northern China (574020)
Tiantian Yu1,2, Hui Xiao1,2, Huiling Yang1, Minsong Huang1 and Yue Sun1,2, (1)Key Laboratory of Cloud Precipitation Physics and Severe Storms (LACS), & Center of Disaster Reduction, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
International Collaborative Experiments for Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic winter games (ICE-POP 2018) (579526)
Gyuwon Lee, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, Republic of (South) and Kwonil KIM, Kyungpook National University, Dept. of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences, Daegu, Bukgu, South Korea
 
Freezing-Level Estimation with a C-band Dual-Polarization Weather Radar (589367)
Miguel Angel Rico-Ramirez and Daniel Sanchez-Rivas, University of Bristol, Civil Engineering, Bristol, United Kingdom
 
Advancing flash flood early warnings using a proxy of polarimetric PAR observations (604912)
Yixin Berry Wen1, James Kurdzo2, Charles Kuster1, Humberto J Vergara1 and Terry James Schuur1, (1)Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (2)MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, United States
 
Evaluation of Z-R relationships for rain events using disdrometer-based data in Mexico City (617980)
Roberta Karinne Mocva-Kurek, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Program of Master and Doctorate in Engineering, Ciudad DE Armería, Mexico, Ricardo Javier Elizalde Bernardo, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Faculty of Engineering, Degree in Civil Engineering, Mexico City, Mexico and Adrian Pedrozo-Acuña, Mexican Institute of Water Technology, Jiutepec, Mexico
 
Scientific Data Services for Field Campaigns: 62 years and counting - NCAR's Earth Observing Laboratory (623202)
Greg Stossmeister1, John Allison2, Carol Costanza1, Linda E Cully2, Linda Echo-Hawk1, Scot M Loehrer3, Janet Scannell1, C. Brooks Snyder2 and Don Stott2, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Earth Observing Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NCAR/EOL, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Benefits of Deploying a Mesh Network of Small Polarimetric Radars (623338)
Lacy Gruen, Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States and Kevin Shoemaker, StormQuant, Campbell, CA, United States
 
Flash Flood Generated Short term Precipitation Forecast System in Heterogeneous Urban Landscape using Weather RADAR (625835)
Anjaneyulu Akkimi1, Subashisa Dutta1 and Kamaljit Ray2, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India, (2)Ministry of Earth Sciences India, Atmospheric Sciences, New Delhi, India
 
Extreme Changes in Atmospheric Snow Level Observed by FM-CW Snow Level Radars During California Storms (628570)
Tashiana C. Osborne1, Joel R Norris2, Brian Henn1, Benjamin Hatchett3, Anna Maria Wilson1 and Marty Ralph1, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States
 
Comparing and Correcting Precipitation Data from Polarimetric Ka/Ku band Radars, Micro Rain Radar and Microwave Radiometer (631860)
Qiong Li1, Jiahua Wei2 and Shenglian Jia1, (1)State Key Laboratory of Plateau Ecology and Agriculture，Qinghai University, Xining, China, (2)State Key Laboratory of Hydro Science and Engineering，Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
 
The GPM Precipitation Vertical Structure in South China (631886)
Donghai Wang, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
 
Adjustment of Radar–gauge Rainfall Discrepancy Due to Raindrop Microphysical Processes (494522)
Qiang Dai, Qiqi Yang and Jingxuan Zhu, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
 
Ground Validation of GPM DPR Algorithms by Hydrometeor Measurement and Polarimetric Radar Observations of Winter Snow Clouds in the Case of 4 February 2018 (504465)
Rimpei Kamamoto1, Kenji Suzuki2, Hiroshi Hanado3, Katsuhiro Nakagawa3 and Yuki Kaneko4, (1)Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan, (2)Yamaguchi Univ, Yamaguchi, Japan, (3)National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Koganei, Japan, (4)JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, EORC, Tsukuba, Japan
 
In Quest for Rainfall Estimation Adequate for Real-Time Streamflow Forecasting (Invited) (502394)
Witold F Krajewski, Bong Chul Seo, Ganesh Ghimire and Felipe Quintero, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
 
Observation and forecast verification of cloud fraction over Reunion Island (21°S, 55.5°E) using a 95 GHz cloud radar (498199)
Jonathan Durand, Laboratoire de l'Atmosphère et des Cyclones (LACy), UMR 8105 (Météo-France, Reunion University, CNRS), Saint-Denis, Reunion, Olivier Bousquet, METEO-FRANCE, Saint-Denis, Réunion, Reunion, Julien Delanoë, LATMOS, UVSQ, IPSL, CNRS, Guyancourt, France and Soline Bielli, Laboratoire de l'Atmosphère et des Cyclones (LACy), UMR 8105 (Météo-France, Reunion University, CNRS), Saint Denis, Reunion
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