F8  RF Propagation Utilizing Numerical Weather Prediction

Saturday, January 6  08:20-11:00  Room 155

Session Chairs:  Tracy Haack, Thomas Hanley, Katherine Horgan

08:20  F8-1  USING CLIMATOLOGY TO SUPPORT EM PROPAGATION MODELING

Thomas R. Hanley*, Jonathan Z. Gehman, Nathaniel S. Winstead

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD


08:40  F8-2  PRELIMINARY STUDY ON USE OF ENSEMBLE WEATHER PREDICTION DATA FOR INVERSELY DETERMINING ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTIVITY IN SURFACE DUCTING CONDITIONS

Daniel P. Greenway1, Tracy Haack2, Erin E. Hackett*3

1Departments of Geography and Computer Science, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
2Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA
3Department of Coastal and Marine Systems Science, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC


09:00  F8-3  AN EVALUATION OF SURFACE LAYER MODELS AND THE EVAPORATION DUCTS USING RADIO FREQUENCY LOSS INVERSIONS

Tracy Haack*1, Andrew Kammerer2, Robert Burkholder3, Qi Wang3, Caglar Yardim3, Luyao Xu3, Paul Frederickson4

1Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory - Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA
2ONR Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program, Wash D.C.
3Electircal and Computer Engineering Department, The Ohio State University, Electroscience Laboratory, Columbus, OH
4Meteorology/Oceanography Department, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA


09:20  F8-4  FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS AND VALIDATION FOR THE NAVY ATMOSPHERIC VERTICAL SURFACE LAYER MODEL (NAVSLAM)

Paul A. Frederickson*

Department of Meteorology, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California


09:40  F8-5  A TECHNIQUE TO ESTIMATE OUTER SCALE OF TURBULENCE FROM NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION IN THE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER

Matt C. Wilbanks*, Victor R. Wiss, William D. Thornton, Katherine Katherine, Jordan McCammon

Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Virginia


10:20  F8-6  OVERVIEW OF CASPER-WEST FIELD CAMPAIGN

Qing Wang*

Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA


10:40  F8-7  COMPRESSIVE TWO DIMENSIONAL BEAMFORMING OF MIMO DATA COLLECTED IN A REFRACTIVE ENVIRONMENT

Mark A. Wagner*, Santosh Nannuru, Peter Gerstoft

Electrical Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla CA