PPT-OLYMPEX Airborne Data Applied to Development of Snowfall Rate-Reflectivity Relationships

Andrew Heymsfield and Aaron Bansemer NCAR Contributors Mike Poellot Simone Tanelli Guosheng Liu Chuntao Liu Norm Wood Objectives Using Citation aircraft data from OLYMPEX develop relationships between snowfall rainfall rate and radar reflectivity that apply to W . The first snowfall snowfallsnowfallsnowfall Manyofthecross-countryskitrailstakeyouupthefell.Thewell-maintainedcross-countryOctober.The first snowfall trail is opened in October.In addition Klondike Gold Rush NHP, Glacier Bay NP&P, Sitka NHP. Glacier Bay and Chichagof . Island:. dust and smoke from . fires in . Eurasia . Southeast Alaska Network. Inventory and Monitoring Program. . Thomas E. Workoff. 1,2. , Faye E. Barthold. 1,3. , Michael J. Bodner. 1. , Brad Ferrier. 3,4. , Ellen Sukovich. 5. , Benjamin J. Moore. 5±. , David R. Novak. 1. , . Ligia. Bernardet. 5. , . Tom . Hamill. Verification . Method using ArcGIS: Zone-Based Verification & Bias Maps. Joe Villani. Ian Lee. Vasil Koleci. NWS Albany, NY. Motivation. Utilize Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology for a gridded and more representative snowfall verification method. Thomas E. Workoff. 1,2. , Faye E. Barthold. 1,3. , Michael J. Bodner. 1. , David R. Novak. 1. , Brad Ferrier. 3,4. , and Wallace A. . Hogsett. 1*. . 1. NOAA/NWS/Weather Prediction Center, College Park, MD. RADEX. Jay Mace, . Roj. Marchand, . Tristan . L'Ecuyer. Objectives:. Collect datasets suitable for retrieval case studies. M. ulti-instrument . synergy . Cloud vertical motion with . cloud and precipitation . Testbed. (COAST):. Early Results. L. Guild. 1. , J. Dungan. 1. , M. Edwards. 1. , P. Russell. 1. , J. Morrow. 2. , S. Hooker. 3. , J. Myers. 4. , R. Kudela. 5. , S. Dunagan. 1. , M. Soulage. 6. , J. Livingston. High-altitude Imaging Rain and Wind. Airborne Profiler (HIWRAP) . Ku- and . Ka. -Band. Cloud Radar System (CRS) . W-Band. ER-2 X-band Radar (EXRAD) . X-Band. G. Heymsfield/GSFC. March 21, 2017. Quality Control of . OLYMPEX sounding data. Steven Rutledge and Paul E. Ciesielski . . Colorado State University. Data was collected for the period 29 October to 16 January from 5 sites (red dots shown on map).. Experiment. 25 January – 19 February 2016. Why Do We Have The Winter Weather Experiment (WWE)?. The WWE is not World Wrestling Entertainment, although winter weather is always entertaining. For 5 years, we have brought together WFO forecasters, researchers, and the academic community to discuss improvements to winter forecasting. Ali . Zahraei. Shayesteh. . Mahani. , Cecilia Hernandez, and Reza . Khanbilvardi. NOAA-CREST and CCNY. Crest Symposium 2013, 6th June 2013. Outline:. . SnowFall. Rate . Estimation (. SFRE) Goals. Nirmala Shenoy. Lab for Wireless Networking and Security. Rochester Institute of Technology. 1. AN . comprises of . heterogeneous . subnetworks. . (UAV networks, . . ground . troops…) . that are located at distances geographically. . Specular reflectivity. Quantitative information of thickness and SLD in Z direction. Ѳ. refl. =. Ѳ. incident. Footprint, Critical angle. q. -4. decay, roughness. 7 to 8 orders of magnitude drop in intensity. GeoTASO. Status of trace gas retrievals: Caroline . Nowlan. , Scott . Janz. Status of aerosol retrievals: Jun Wang. Relevance to satellite product validation: Laura Judd. Other activities and summary: Jay Al-Saadi.