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