National Severe Storms Laboratory Colloquium presents...
Rain heterogeneity and precipitation studies with an X band and a micro rain radar at Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand
Joël Van Baelen
Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand, France
24 November 2008, 3:30 PM
National Weather Center, Room 1350
120 David L. Boren Blvd.
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK
Directions to the NWC (.pdf, 60 kb)
The first goal of this talk is to present the LaMP/OPGC laboratory in general and the research being carried out. That includes in situ cloud microphysics measurements with an airborne platform, ground-based aerosol and cloud particles monitoring, radiative transfer studies, precipitating cloud lifecycle modeling and radar precipitation studies.
The later topic will then be developed to focus on the rain heterogeneity and adapted Z-R relationship studies we are currently undertaking with a high-resolution, X-band radar and a K-band, vertically-looking Micro Rain Radar, in particular in the framework of the COPS campaign (Convective Orographycally induced Precipitations Study) which was carried out in the Vosges and Black Forest region across the Rhine valley in summer 2007 and with data collected at our home institute in Clermont Ferrand.