F2  Atmospheric and Precipitation Sensing

Thursday, January 4  08:20-12:00  Room 155

Session Chairs:  Chandrasekar V Chandra, Kamal Sarabandi

08:20  F2-1  PASSIVE INFRARED RETREIVAL OF TROPOSPHERIC REFRACTIVITY, TEMPERATURE, AND WATER VAPOR PROFILES

Fredrick S. Solheim*

Dakota Ridge R & D, Boulder CO


08:40  F2-2  ANALYSIS OF RAIN EFFECT ON WIND RETRIEVALS FROM PASSIVE SATELLITE MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS

Hamideh Ebrahimi*

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida


09:00  F2-3  ESTIMATION OF BACKGROUND ERROR COVARIANCE MATRIX FOR PRECIPITATION LOCKING FROM PASSIVE MICROWAVE SATELLITE

Jieying He*1,2, A.j. Gasiewski1, Kun Zhang1

1Center for Environmental Technology (CET),, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder,CO
2Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CHINA


09:20  F2-4  USING GROUND-BASED RADAR OBSERVATIONS TO ESTIMATE PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY ACROSS GPM SATELLITE RADAR FIELD-OF-VIEWS

Christopher R. Williams*1, Walter Petersen2, David Wolff3, V. Chandrasekar4

1University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
2NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
3NASA Wallops Space Flight Center, Wallops Island, VA
4Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO


09:40  F2-5  AN ACTIVE SONDE FOR LOCAL REMOTE SENSING OF CLOUD AND PRECIPITATION DYNAMICS

Soumojit Bose*, Albin J. Gasiewski

NOAA-CU Center for Environmental Technology, University of Colorado, Boulder


10:20  F2-6  NOWCASTING OF AN X-BAND DUAL-POLARIZATION RADAR DURING SOUTHERN CHINA MONSOON RAINFALL FIELD CAMPAIGN

Zhao Shi*1,2, V. Chandrasekar3, Jianxin He1,2, Lijuan Wang1,2

1Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, SC, CHINA
2key laboratory of atmosphere sounding, CMA, Chengdu, SC, CHINA
3colorado state university, fort collins,CO


10:40  F2-7  NEURAL NETWORK RAINFALL ESTIMATION BASED ON GPM DUAL-FREQUENCY PRECIPITATION RADAR MEASUREMENTS

Haiming Tan*, V. Chandrasekar, Haonan Chen

Colorado State University, Fort Collins


11:00  F2-8  EVALUATION OF A KU-BAND RADAR HYDROMETEOR CLASSIFIER BY COMPARISON WITH S-BAND RADAR AND AIRCRAFT DATA

Haonan Chen*, V. Chandrasekar

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado


11:20  F2-9  3D SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION OF WINTER PRECIPITATION PARTICLES BASED ON MULTI-ANGLE IMAGES OBTAINED BY TWO ADVANCED OPTICAL DISDROMETERS

Adam C. Hicks*, Marcus Benzel, V.n. Bringi, Branislav Notaros

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins


11:40  F2-10  SIMULATIONS OF MULTI-STREAM POLARIMETRIC MICROWAVE RADIANCE USING THE UMRT MODEL BASED ON DDSCAT NONSPHERICAL HYDROMETEOR DATABASE

Kun Zhang*, Albin J. Gasiewski

ECEE, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO