F6  Computational Electromagnetics for Hydrometeors

Friday, January 10  08:20-10:00  Room 1B28

Session Chairs:  Jani Tyynela, Kultegin Aydin

08:20  F6-1  PERFORMANCE OF IDEALIZED SNOW PARTICLE MODELS FOR SIMULATING W-BAND REFLECTIVITY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL SNOWFALL RETRIEVALS

Norman B. Wood*1, Tristan S. L'Ecuyer2

1Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI
2Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI


08:40  F6-2  CLOUD WATER CONTENT CHARACTERIZATION BY MULTIFREQUENCY WEATHER RADAR OBSERVATIONS AND NUMERICAL SCATTERING SIMULATIONS

Anna C. Marra*1, Franco Prodi2, Gian P. Marra1

1Italian National Research Council, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Lecce, ITALY
2Italian National Research Council, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Bologna, ITALY


09:00  F6-3  EXPLORING RADAR OBSERVABLES FOR ICE WATER CONTENT RETRIEVAL USING AN ICE CRYSTAL SCATTERING DATABASE

Yinghui Lu1, Kultegin Aydin*2, Eugene E. Clothiaux1, Johannes Verlinde1

1Department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2Department of Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA


09:20  F6-4  RETRIEVAL OF SNOWFLAKE TYPES FROM MULTI-FREQUENCY DUAL-POLARIZATION MEASUREMENTS

Jani Tyynela*, V. Chandrasekar

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO


09:40  F6-5  AN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INVARIANT IMBEDDING T-MATRIX SOLUTION TO ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING

J. Ashley Alford1, Kwo-Sen Kuo*2,3, Thomas L. Clune2

1Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, Maryland
2NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
3Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland