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