| FIFTH
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TROPOSPHERIC PROFILING: |
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| NEEDS AND TECHNOLOGY |
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| 4 - 8 December 2000 |
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| MONDAY 4 DECEMBER
2000 |
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| REGISTRATION AND
INTRODUCTION 8:30 - 9:00 |
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| Humidity and
Temperature Profiling |
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| CHAIRPERSON Ulla Wandinger |
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Time |
Paper Title |
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| Bill Smith |
09:00 |
Satellite Interferometric
Sounding at Very High Resolution |
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| Wayne Feltz |
09:30 |
Near Continuous Profiling Of
Temperature, Moisture, And Atmospheric Stability Using The Atmospheric
Emitted Radiance Interferometer (Aeri) |
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| Ben B. Balsley |
09:45 |
In Situ Profiling of Wind,
Temperature, Water Vapor, Turbulence, and Trace Gases in the Lower
Troposphere: The TLS Technology |
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| Jim Liljegren |
10:00 |
Initial Evaluation of Profiles
of Temperature, Water Vapor and Cloud Liquid Water from a New Profiling
Microwave Profiling Radiometer |
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| MORNING BREAK 10:15 - 10:45 MONDAY |
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| Rob Kursinski |
10:45 |
GPS and low Earth orbiting
satellite humidity measurements |
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| Ulla Wandinger |
11:15 |
Raman Lidar studies of water
vapour: A review |
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| Jun-ichi Furumoto |
11:45 |
Continuous Estimation of
Humidity Profiles with the MU radar-RASS Measurements |
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| Volker Wulfmeyer |
12:00 |
Design and expected performance
of a multi-platform, scanning water vapor remote sensing system |
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| Dietrich Althausen |
12:15 |
Temperature
Profiling in the Troposphere Using a Pure Rotational Raman Lidar |
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| LUNCH 12:30 - 14:00 MONDAY |
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| Wind Measurements
and Operational Applications |
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| CHAIRPERSON Peter May |
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Paper Title |
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| Richard Jardine |
14:00 |
Use of Boundary Layer Profiler
Data for Aviation Forecasting |
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| Tim Oakley |
14:30 |
COST76
Experience - Networking of European Profilers 1997 - 2000 |
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| Greg Holland |
15:00 |
The Aerosonde: A Flexible
Atmospheric Monitoring Tool |
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| AFTERNOON BREAK 15:15 - 15:45 MONDAY |
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| Siegfried Vogt |
15:45 |
The Use of Tropospheric
Profiling in describing Foehn Events during the MAP-Field Experiment |
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| Y Jaya Rao |
16:00 |
High
resolution measurements of winds using Indian MST radar |
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| Christopher Lucas |
16:15 |
An
Algorithm for the Detection of Fronts in Wind Profiler Data |
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| INTRODUCTION
TO POSTER SESSION 16:30-17:00 MONDAY |
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| POSTER SESSION 17:00 - 19:00 MONDAY |
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| William Brown |
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MAPR: An Advanced
UHF Spaced Antenna Wind Profiler |
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| Ulrich Gorsdorf |
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Composite
vertical profiles of wind, temperature and humidity for use in numerical
modelling |
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| Hiroyuki Hashiguchi |
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Development
of a Transportable L-band Lower Troposphere Radar |
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| Michel Crochet |
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Simultaneous DBS and SAD
investigations of the Boundary Layer at VHF and UHF |
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| David Holdsworth |
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The Wakkanai VHF radar - summary
of initial results |
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| Kiyoshi Igarashi |
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A new atmospheric sounding radar
system at Wakkanai (45 N, 141E), developed for the MVL (Multimedia Virtual
Laboratory) experiment |
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| Ben Balsley |
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Tethered Lifting Systems and
Lightweight Instrumentation for Multi-level In Situ Turbulence Sensing |
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| William Neff |
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First
Tests of a Buoy-mounted 915-MHz Radar Wind Profiler |
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| Noriyuki Kawano |
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Investigation
on wind estimation errors with the Spaced Antenna technique ; A case study
for the MU radar |
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| Vladislav Klaus |
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The
Météo-France Wind Profiler in la Ferté-Vidame. Present State and Future
Applications |
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| Vladislav Klaus |
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Using
Prony Modeling for Advanced RASS Signal Processing |
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| David Low |
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Humidity
profiling with wind profiler and RASS alone? |
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| Christopher Lucas |
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Characteristics of South
Australian Fronts |
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| Peter May |
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The Australian Bureau of
Meteorology 1275 MHz wind profiler |
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| Tim Oakley |
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Trial of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) 78.2GHz Cloud Radar |
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| Donna Riordan |
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Detecting Clouds with an
Infra-Red Sensor |
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| Alan Sharp |
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Comparison of Winds Derived from
Atmospheric Profiler and from Balloon Tracked by Wind Finding Radar |
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| Richard Worthington |
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Use of VHF wind
profilers to study mountain waves |
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| Volker Wulfmeyer |
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Investigation of the structure
of the tropical marine boundary layer using shipborne Doppler lidar |
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| TUESDAY 5 DECEMBER
2000 |
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| Model Requirements
and Applications |
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| CHAIRPERSON Bob Vincent |
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Time |
Paper Title |
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| John McGinley |
08:30 |
The
LAPS Water in All Phases Analysis: the Approach and Impacts on Numerical
Prediction |
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| Andrew Crook |
09:00 |
Assimilating Surface, Radar and
Profiler Data for the Sydney 2000 Forecast Demonstration Project |
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| John Le Marshall |
09:30 |
High Spatial, Temporal and
Spectral Resolution Satellite Observations - Improving Weather Forecasts |
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| R Latteck |
09:45 |
Observations of the tropopause
region above Andenes, Norway during the winters 1998/99 and 1999/2000 with
the ALWIN MST radar |
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| Susan Avery |
10:00 |
A Comparison of Wind Profiler
Measurements and the NCEP/NCAR Re-analysis over the Equatorial Pacific. |
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| MORNING BREAK 10:15 - 10:45 TUESDAY |
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| Robert Schafer |
10:45 |
Observation of Mixed Rossby
Gravity Waves over the central equatorial Pacific, using wind profilers and
the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis. |
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| D Narayana Rao |
11:00 |
Wind
Climatology over a Tropical Station, Gadanki (13.5°N, 79.2°E), India |
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| Michihiro Teshiba |
11:15 |
Study on
mesoscale convective system in the Baiu season |
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| Dominique Ruffieux |
11:30 |
Extreme Weather Events Measured
by Ground-Based Remote Sensing Systems at the Crest of the Swiss Alps |
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| Tim Oakley |
11:45 |
Horizontal structures in severe
winds observed from the European Profiler Network (CWINDE) – Feb 1997 and Dec
1999. |
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| LUNCH 12:00 - 13:45 TUESDAY |
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| Other parameters,
other instruments or combination of intruments |
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| CHAIRPERSON George Frederick |
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Paper Title |
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| Wim A Monna |
13:45 |
Future Wind Profiler Radar
Network and Integrated Ground-Based Profiling in Europe |
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| Bill Neff |
14:00 |
Comparison of a flash flood in
adjacent coastal watersheds using wind profilers and NEXRAD |
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| Dave Parsons |
14:15 |
A Proposed Hypothesis for the
Diurnal Cycle of Rainfall over the Tropical Pacific and the Profiling
Instrumentation Needed to Validate This Concept |
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| Tammy M. Weckwerth |
14:30 |
The Need for Improved Water
Vapor Measurements for Understanding Thunderstorm Initiation |
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| AFTERNOON BREAK 15:00 - 15:30 TUESDAY |
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| PANEL DISCUSSION ON
WATER VAPOUR NEEDS AND TECHNIQUES |
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| 15:30 - 17:00 TUESDAY |
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| Panel Chair |
B. Ryan |
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| Panel Members |
D. Parsons |
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J. McGinley |
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T. Weckwerth |
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W. Smith |
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| WEDNESDAY 6
DECEMBER 2000 |
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| Clouds and Radiation |
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| CHAIRPERSON Tammy Weckwerth |
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Time |
Paper Title |
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| Tom Ackerman |
08:30 |
Cloud radars and radiometers for
atmospheric radiation measurements |
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| Martin Platt |
09:00 |
Multi-frequency
profiling of tropical cirrus clouds |
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| Gerhard Peters |
09:15 |
Simultaneous Cloud Observations
with K-Band Radar and LIDAR |
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| Sergey Matrosov |
09:30 |
Cloud Radar Retrieval of the
Effective Radius in Continental Stratus Clouds |
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| Graeme Stephens |
09:45 |
Profiling Hydrometeors from
space using combined active and passive measurement techniques: A CloudSat
Perspective |
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| MORNING BREAK 10:00 - 10:30 WEDNESDAY |
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| Ulla Wandinger |
10:30 |
Characterization
of tropospheric aerosol particles from multiwavelength lidar measurements |
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| Sergey Matrosov |
11:00 |
Comparisons of Remote and in
situ Measurements of Cloud Microphysical Profiles in Arctic Ice Clouds |
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| Wynn L Eberhard |
11:15 |
Results
of Lidar Backscatter and Depolarization Measurements in the Arctic |
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| James Pinto |
11:30 |
Advection profiles inferred from
radiosonde data for use in Single Column Model (SCM) simulations at SHEBA |
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| Richard Austin |
11:45 |
Radar/visible optical depth
retrieval of stratus microphysics in preparation for CloudSat |
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| Nikolai P Krasnenko |
12:00 |
Correlation of Aerosol and Gas
Concentration with Characteristics of Atmospheric Stratification Based on
Lidar-Acoustic Sensing Results |
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| LUNCH 12:15 WEDNESDAY |
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| 12:45 TOUR TO BAROSSA VALLEY AND CONFERENCE
DINNER |
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| THURSDAY 7 DECEMBER
2000 |
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| Profiler Techniques
and Hardware |
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| CHAIRPERSON Bill Brown |
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Time |
Paper Title |
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| Gerhard Peters |
08:30 |
RASS, present state, prospects
and open questions |
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| Vladislav Klaus |
09:00 |
Extended Capabilities of the VHF
Radar at CNRM New Developments and Experimental Results with RASS |
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| Daniel Law |
09:15 |
A
Multi-Element Electronically-Stabilized Antenna Wind Profiler Part 1: Antenna
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| Daniel Law |
09:30 |
An
Advanced Signal Processing System for Radar Wind Profilers |
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| Dirk Klugmann |
09:45 |
A Semiconductor
Based 94-GHz Doppler Radar Profiler |
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| Michel Crochet |
10:00 |
VHF and UHF Imaging of the
Boundary Layer |
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| Lydi Smaini |
10:15 |
Range Imaging by pulse
compression with Frequency Hopping technique |
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| MORNING BREAK 10:30 - 11:00 THURSDAY |
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| Mike Hardesty |
11:00 |
Recent Developments in Doppler
Lidar for Atmospheric Profiling |
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| Henk Klein Baltink |
11:30 |
CaPRIX: an intercomparison of a
VHF and UHF lower tropospheric windprofiler. |
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| Paul E. Johnston |
11:45 |
Location
Errors in Wind Profiling Caused by Strong Reflectivity Gradients |
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| George Frederick |
12:00 |
Long Range Sodar |
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| Gerry Allen |
12:15 |
Wind Profiler Performance
Prediction |
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| LUNCH 12:30 - 14:00 THURSDAY |
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| Turbulence |
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| CHAIRPERSON Wayne Angevine |
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Time |
Paper Title |
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| Larry Cornman |
14:00 |
A Review of Ongoing Research
Regarding the Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Turbulence |
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| Larry Cornman |
14:15 |
Development of a Turbulence and
Wind Shear Warning System for Juneau, Alaska: Measurement Needs and
Technologies. |
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| Jun-ichi Furumoto |
14:30 |
A
Dual-Beamwidth Method for Observing Atmospheric Turbulence Intensity with
Radar |
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| Andreas Muschinski |
14:45 |
The difference between Doppler
and real radial velocity in single volume scattering from refractive index
fluctuations |
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| AFTERNOON BREAK 15:00 - 15:30 THURSDAY |
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| Andreas Muschinski |
15:30 |
The
Profiler-HELIPOD Intercomparison Experiment (PHELIX) |
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| Robert Vincent |
15:45 |
Combined VHF Radar and Aircraft
Studies of Lower Atmosphere Structure |
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| David Low |
16:00 |
Testing an
Integrated Boundary Layer Profiling System |
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| Ben Balsley |
16:15 |
Turbulent Structures Associated
with Interfaces in the Nocturnal Boundary Layer Observed with the CIRES
Tethered Lifting System |
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16:45 |
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| INTRODUCTION TO
POSTER SESSION 16:30-17:00 THURSDAY |
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| POSTER SESSION 17:00 - 19:00 THURSDAY |
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| Wayne Angevine |
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Observations
of the Morning Transition of the Convective Boundary Layer |
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| Susan Avery |
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A Comparison of Two Techniques
for the Retrieval of Rainfall Distributions from Dual Frequency Wind Profiler
Observations |
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| William Brown |
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Nauru99: RASS
Island Heating and Other Observations. |
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| Gopa Dutta |
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First Observation of Convection Waves
by Indian MST Radar |
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| Gopa Dutta |
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Gravity
Wave Generation by Solar Eclipse as Observed with MST Radar |
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| ETL |
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Cloud Radar Polarization
Measurements for Evaluating Stratus Cloud and Insect Echoes |
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| Tri W. Hadi |
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Observations of Sea-Breeze
Circulation and Diurnal Variations of Boundary-Layer Structure over Jakarta,
Indonesia |
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| John Hermann |
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Atmospheric effects on microwave
sensors |
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| John Hermann |
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Atmospheric Turbulence and the
Evaporative Duct |
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| Nikolai P Krasnenko |
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Study of the Structure and
Dynamics of the Meteorological State of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer |
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| Daniel Law |
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A
Multi-Element Electronically-Stabilized Antenna for a UHF Wind Profiler Part
2: The Motion Control and Monitor System |
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| Sergey Matrosov |
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Estimation
of Stratus Cloud Microphysical Parameters Based on Measurements of Radar
Reflectivity Profiles |
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| Andreas Muschinski |
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In situ, Fine-Wire Turbulence
Measurements in the Night-Time Lower Troposphere: Connection between Energy Dissipation Rate and Temperature
Structure Parameter |
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| James Pinto |
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Vertical Mixing in Complex
Terrain under Stably-Stratified Conditions |
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| Victor Prior |
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Boundary
Layer Characteristics in the Portuguese Coast |
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| Pi-Huan Wang |
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A Further Study of the Method
for Estimation of Sage II Cloud Occurrence |
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| FRIDAY 8 DECEMBER
2000 |
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| Boundary Layer |
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| CHAIRPERSON Andreas Muschinski |
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Time |
Paper Title |
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| Dirk A. M Engelbart |
08:30 |
The Use of Profiling
Instrumentation for Boundary-Layer Observations |
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| William Brown |
09:00 |
NCAR
Measurements for the Vertical Transport and Mixing Program |
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| Wayne Angevine |
09:15 |
Variations in the behaviour of
the convective boundary layer during the afternoon transition |
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| Wayne Angevine |
09:30 |
Urban domes and cloud-topped
continental boundary layers: Profiler and ceilometer observations from
Nashville 1999 |
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| Bruce G Doddridge |
09:45 |
Regional Measurements Over the
US Mid-Atlantic: Towards Improved Prediction of Severe Pollution Episodes |
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| William Neff |
10:00 |
A Year-Long Study of Mesoscale
Transport and Boundary Layer Processes in the Central Valley of California
using an Array of Boundary Layer Profilers and Sodars |
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| MORNING BREAK 10:15 - 10:45 FRIDAY |
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| Christoph Senff |
10:45 |
Application of Lidar Profiling
in Air Quality Research: Examples from the 1999 Nashville Field Study |
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| Marie Lothon |
11:00 |
Clear
Air Boundary Layer Profiling with a C-Band Meteorological Doppler Radar |
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| Precipitation |
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| CHAIRPERSON Susan Avery |
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Paper Title |
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| Christopher Lucas |
11:15 |
Rainfall and Drop Size
Distribution Retrievals from a VHF Boundary Layer Radar |
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| Shixuan Pang |
11:30 |
Single Board Sodar Precipitation
Retrieval by Deconvolution of Doppler Spectra |
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| Christopher Williams |
11:45 |
Comparison of Raindrop Size
Distributions Retrieved from Surface Disdrometers and UHF and S-band
Profilers |
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| Krishna Reddy |
12:00 |
Combined
use of Wind profilers and Disdrometer for Monsoon Precipitation |
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| D Narayana Rao |
12:15 |
Classification of Precipitating
Systems Using MST Radar, Lower Atmospheric Wind Profiler and Disdrometer |
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| LUNCH 12:30 - 13:30 FRIDAY |
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| Toshi Iguchi |
13:30 |
TRMM: Examples and Lessons
Learned |
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| Kenneth S. Gage |
14:00 |
Profiler Observations of
Tropical Precipitating Cloud Systems during TRMM Ground Validation Field
Campaigns |
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| Monique Petitdidier |
14:15 |
Convective systems at
different scales |
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| Peter May |
14:30 |
Wind
Profiler/RASS Observations of Deep Convection |
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| WRAP UP 14:45 - 16:00 FRIDAY |
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