13:20  F2-1  VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION OF GPS RADIO-OCCULTATION OBSERVATIONS IN RAINY CONDITIONS

Francois C. Vandenberghe*¹, Michel Aidonidis²

¹National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder CO
²Meteo France, Brest, FRANCE

13:40  F2-2  EVAPORATION AND ELEVATED DUCT PROPERTIES OVER THE SUBTROPICAL EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN REGION USING MAGIC DATA

Denny P. Alappattu*, Qing Wang

Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California

14:00  F2-3  CASPER PILOT EXPERIMENT RESULTS: ESTIMATION OF ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTIVITY USING PROPAGATION LOSS

Caglar Yardim*¹, Jon Pozderac¹, Robert Burkholder¹, Qing Wang²

¹ElectroScience Laboratory, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH
²Department of Meteorology, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA

14:20  F2-4  THE DESIGN OF CASPER FIELD PROGRAM FOR EM DUCTING RESEARCH

Qing Wang*¹, Robert Burkholder², Tony DePaolo³, Harindra J. Fernando⁴, Tracy Haack⁵, Thomas Hanley⁶, Teddy Holt⁵, Katherine Horgan⁷, Haflidi Jonsson¹, Djamal Khelif⁸, Wendell Nuss¹, Ted Rogers⁹, Ivan Savelyev¹⁰, Kipp Shearman¹¹, Lian Shen¹², Caglar Yardim²

¹Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey,CA
²Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
³Scripps Institution of Oceanography,, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA
⁴University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
⁵Naval Research Lab, Monterey, CA
⁶John Hopkins University, Laurel, MD
⁷Dahlgren Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA
⁸University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
⁹SPAWAR SSC Pacific, San Diego, CA
¹⁰Naval Research Lab, DC
¹¹Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
¹²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

14:40  F2-5  CASPER MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN, OCTOBER 2015, DUCK, NORTH CAROLINA, USA

Edward Bertot*, Ted Rogers

Atmospheric Propagation, SSC Pacific, San Diego, CA

15:20  F2-6  In-Situ Observation of Surface Layer Scalar Profiles for Characterizing Evaporative Duct Properties

Denny P. Alappattu*¹, Qing Wang¹, Rich Rainer¹, Ryan Yamaguchi², Dick Lind¹

¹Meteorology, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
²Mechanical and Aerospace Engr, 2University of California Irvine, Irvine, California

15:40  F2-7  X-BAND BEACON-RECEIVER PHASED ARRAY EVAPORATION DUCT HEIGHT ESTIMATION

Jonathan M. Pozderac*¹, Joel T. Johnson¹, Caglar Yardim¹, Thomas C. Fu², Craig F. Merrill², Tom Cook³, Tony de Paolo³, Myles Syverud³, Eric Terrill³, Evan Walsh³, Eric Gallimore³

¹ElectroScience Laboratory, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
²Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
³Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA

16:00  F2-8  VERSATILE X-BAND RECEIVING ARRAY FOR EM PROPAGATION MEASUREMENTS IN THE MARINE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER

Qi Wang*, Robert Burkholder, Caglar Yardim, Jon Pozderac

Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

16:20  F2-9  ULTRA WIDE BAND LOWER ATMOSPHERIC PROPAGATION (LATPROP) SYSTEM

Luyao Xu*¹, Caglar Yardim¹, Swagato Mukherjee¹, Robert Burkholder¹, Jon Pozderac¹, Qing Wang²

¹The Ohio State University, Columbus, OHIO
²Department of Meteorology, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA

16:40  F2-10  W-BAND PROPAGATION IN THE MARITIME ENVIRONMENT

Thomas R. Hanley*, Ian M. Hughes

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD