A161
Advances in Radar Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation: Observations, Data Processing, Weather, and Water Model Applications I

Monday, 14 December 2020: 10:00-11:00
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Haonan Chen, Colorado State University and NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Robert Cifelli, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Haonan Chen, Colorado State University and NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Haonan Chen, Colorado State University and NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Robert Cifelli, NOAA/ESRL Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Haonan Chen, Colorado State University and NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
10:00
Introductory Remarks
10:03
Perspectives on deep convective updraft modes using multi-sensor remote sensing data from RELAMPAGO-CACTI (Invited) (755807)
Stephen W Nesbitt1, Lina Esther Rivelli-Zea2, Maxwell Grover1, Robert Jeffrey Trapp3, Adam Varble4, V. V Chandrasekar5, Ivan H Arias6, Timothy J Lang7 and Kristopher M Bedka8, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)Dept Earth & Atmospheric Scien, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (6)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (7)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (8)NASA Langley Research Center, Climate Science Branch, Hampton, VA, United States
10:05
Large-scale dynamics, dry katabatic winds and snowfall microphysics: two contrasted precipitation events over Davis, East Antarctica (Invited) (695239)
Alexis Berne1, Josué Gehring2, Alfonso Ferrone2, Etienne Vignon3 and Simon Alexander4, (1)Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland, (2)Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, (3)EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, LTE, ENAC, Lausanne, Switzerland, (4)Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, TAS, Australia
10:07
Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS): Preliminary results from the first deployment in winter 2020 (757875)
Lynn A. McMurdie, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Gerald M Heymsfield, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Scott A Braun, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, John E Yorks, SSAI/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Joseph Finlon, University of Washington, Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States and Victoria McDonald, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States
10:09
Comparison of Aircraft Measured Microphysics with Down-looking Multifrequency Radar During IMPACTS (758748)
Gerald M Heymsfield, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Andrew Heymsfield, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
10:11
Investigation of Microphysical Properties within Regions of Enhanced Dual-Frequency Ratio During the IMPACTS Field Campaign (764337)
Joseph Finlon, University of Washington, Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States and Lynn A. McMurdie, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
10:13
Ground-based Radar Validation Networks for GPM satellite products (750681)
Patrick N Gatlin, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences and School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, Walter Arthur Petersen, NASA MSFC, Science Research and Projects Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, Todd Berendes, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, Sarah M. Stough, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, David A Marks, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, Jason L Pippitt, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Code 612, Lanham, MD, United States and David B Wolff, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
10:15
Polarimetric radar signatures branched planar crystal aggregates (681171)
Robert Schrom1, Stephen Joseph Munchak2 and Ian S Adams1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
10:17
Using Doppler Spectra from a Vertically Pointing Polarimetric Weather Radar to Characterize Precipitation Processes (669155)
Mathias Gergely1, Maximilian Schaper1, Matthias Toussaint2, Manuel Moser3, Christiane Voigt3 and Michael Frech1, (1)Deutscher Wetterdienst Meteorological Observatory Hohenpeissenberg, Hohenpeissenberg, Germany, (2)GAMIC Weather Radar and Signal Processing, Aachen, Germany, (3)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
10:19
Cloud and Drizzle Separation for Vertical Pointing W-band Radar Data (716823)
Shashank Srinivas Joshil, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Christine Chiu, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
10:21
Linking rain into ice microphysics across the melting layer instratiform rain: a closure study (691918)
Kamil Mroz1, Alessandro Battaglia2, Stefan Kneifel3, Leonie von Terzi4, Markus Karrer4 and Davide Ori4, (1)National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, (2)Earth Observation Science Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, Leicester, United Kingdom, (3)University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, (4)University of Cologne, Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, Cologne, Germany
10:23
Radar-based ensemble nowcasting: predictability analysis (692047)
Ricardo Reinoso-Rondinel, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Silke Troemel, Meteorological Institute, Bonn, Germany, Clemens Simmer, University Bonn, Bonn, Germany and Martin Rempel, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Offenbach am Main, Germany
10:25
Discussion
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