F5  Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction in Support of Wave Propagation Modeling I

Friday, January 10  08:20-12:00  Room 1B12

Session Chairs:  tracy haack, Katherine Horgan

08:20  F5-1  FORECASTING RF SCINTILLATION AND IR BEAM SPREADING DUE TO TURBULENCE FROM NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION BASED CALCULATIONS OF REFRACTIVE INDEX STRUCTURE CONSTANT

Robert E. Marshall*

NSWCDD, Dahlgren, VA


08:40  F5-2  PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR DERIVING REFRACTIVITY FOR PARABOLIC WAVE PROPAGATION MODELS

Ian Will*

Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC


09:00  F5-3  ASSESSMENT OF PUBLIC DOMAIN FORECAST PRODUCTS FOR PREDICTING ANOMALOUS RF PROPAGATION

Thomas R. Hanley*, Jonathan Z. Gehman, Richard M. Giannola

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD


09:20  F5-4  THE SENSITIVITY OF THE MET OFFICE EVAPORATION DUCT MODEL TO INPUT PARAMETERS

Martin J. Veasey, Damian Wilson, Warren Lewis*

UK Met Office, Exeter, Devon, UNITED KINGDOM


09:40  F5-5  CHARACTERIZING THE MARINE REFRACTIVITY ENVIRONMENT FROM NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION DATA FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPAGATION MODELING

Paul A. Frederickson*

Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California


10:20  F5-6  COASTAL MEASUREMENTS COMPARED TO NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION DURING A FOGGY SUB-REFRACTIVE ENVIRONMENT

Isha M. Renta*, Victor R. Wiss, Katherine L. Horgan, Robert E. Marshall, William D. Thornton

Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, VA


10:40  F5-7  A REANALYSIS OF THE PREDEM CAMPAIGN WITH A COUPLED ATMOSPHERIC-WAVE MODELING SYSTEM

Francois C. Vandenberghe*1, Eric Mandine2, Michel Aidonidis3

1National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder CO
2C-S, Toulon, FRANCE
3Meteo France, Brest, FRANCE


11:00  F5-8  ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPAGATION ENVIRONMENT IN TROPICAL DISTURBANCES USING DROPSONDE MEASUREMENTS

Qing Wang*1, David Ziemba1, Patrick Harr1, Junhong Wang2

1Department of Meteorology, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
2Department of Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences, University at Albany, SUNY, Monterey


11:20  F5-9  FIRST RESULTS FROM THE TROPICAL AIR-SEA PROPAGATION STUDY (TAPS) CAMPAIGN

Andy S. Kulessa*, Jorg M. Hacker

Defence Science & Technology Organisation, Edinburgh, SA, AUSTRALIA


11:40  F5-10  EXPLOITING FIELD INTENSITY AND SIGNAL FILTERING IN IMAGING THROUGH RANDOM CLOUD-LIKE MEDIA WITH SHORT PULSES

Elizabeth Bleszynski*, Marek Bleszynski, Thomas Jaroszewiczn

Monopole Research, Thousand Oaks, CXa91360