Orals OSA1.12

OSA1.12

Ground-based profiling networks for improving weather forecasts: COST Action ES1303
Convener: Anthony Illingworth  | Co-Convener: Domenico Cimini 
Orals
 / Tue, 05 Sep, 09:45–18:00  / Room Business school 1
Posters
 / Attendance Mon, 04 Sep, 18:30–19:30  / Display Mon, 04 Sep, 09:00–Tue, 05 Sep, 12:00  / Poster area

Tuesday, 5 September 2017
Room Business school 1
Chairperson: Anthony Illingworth
Field Experiments

09:45–10:00
EMS2017-341
Recent advances in processing of ground-based remote sensing observations and their application for NWP model evaluation. (solicited)
James M. Wilczak, Robert Banta, Laura Bianco, Tim Bonin, Aditya Choukulkar, Joel Cline, Irina Djalalova, Jaymes Kenyon, Julie Lundquist, Katherine McCaffrey, Joseph Olson, Yelena Pichugina, and Will Shaw
10:00–10:15
EMS2017-368
Real-time data assimilation of ground-based microwave radiometer network for short-range rainfall forecast in Tokyo (solicited)
Shingo Shimizu, Ryohei Kato, Yasushi Uji, Ken-ichi Shimose, Koyuru Iwanami, Takeshi Maesaka, and Shin-ichi Suzuki
10:15–10:30
EMS2017-527
The international ceilometer inter-comparison campaign CeiLinEx2015 - uncertainties and artefacts of aerosol profiles -
Ina Mattis, Margit Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Robert Begbie, Juan Antonio Bravo-Aranda, Mike Brettle, Jan Cermak, Marc-Antoine Drouin, Alexander Geiss, Ulrich Görsdorf, Alexander Haefele, Martial Haeffelin, Maxime Hervo, Kateřina Komínková, Ronny Leinweber, Gerhard Müller, Christoph Münkel, Kornelia Pönitz, Frank Wagner, and Matthias Wiegner
10:30–10:45
EMS2017-261 | presentation
1D variational retrievals of boundary layer temperature profiles from ground-based microwave radiometers in an Alpine valley
Pauline Martinet, Domenico Cimini, Francesco De Angelis, Guylaine Canut, Alexandre Paci, and Vinciane Unger
Coffee break
Thermodynamical Profiling

11:15–11:30
EMS2017-838 | presentation
Calibration and standardization efforts for a network operation of ground-based microwave radiometers
Bernhard Pospichal, Ulrich Löhnert, Nils Küchler, and Harald Czekala
11:30–11:45
EMS2017-508
Microwave temperature profiles from ground to the stratopause
Francisco Navas-Guzmán, Niklaus Kämpfer, and Alexander Haefele
11:45–12:00
EMS2017-599
Application of Coherent Doppler Lidar in Boundary Layer Observation (solicited)
Kohin Hirano, Sue Grimmond, Shinzo Shimizu, Takeshi Maesaka, Shinichi Suzuki, Koyuru Iwanami, and Ryohei Misumi
12:00–12:15
EMS2017-775
Marine wind profiles measured by a wind-lidar – ability of WRF predict marine wind profiles
Ekaterina Batchvarova and Sven-Erik Gryning
12:15–12:30
EMS2017-514 | presentation
Turbulence classification of the atmospheric boundary-layer for Doppler wind lidar networks
Tobias Marke, Susanne Crewell, Ulrich Löhnert, and Ewan O'Connor
12:30–12:45
EMS2017-768
Comparison and Synergy of MWR and Doppler lidar for ABL retrievals
Umar Saeed and Ewan O'Connor
12:45–13:00
EMS2017-794 | presentation
An uncertainty estimate for windprofilers in a turbulent atmosphere
Jan H. Schween
Lunch break
Cloud and Aerosol Profiling

14:00–14:15
EMS2017-662
The E-PROFILE/TOPROF network of automatic lidars and ceilometers for cloud and aerosol/ash profiling
Maxime Hervo, Alexander Haefele, Myles Turp, Martial Haeffelin, Marc-Antoine Druoin, Emma Hopkin, Simone Kotthaus, Ina Mattis, Frank Wagner, Matthias Wiegner, Werner Thomas, Jean-Luc Lampin, Christoph Münkel, and Holger Wille
14:15–14:30
EMS2017-163
Ceilometer Firmware Intercomparison at the Met Office, UK
Cristina Charlton-Perez, Mariana Adam, Sue Ballard, Joelle Buxmann, Bernie Ryley, Jacqueline Sugier, Simone Kotthaus, Christoph Muenkel, Holger Wille, Emma Hopkin, and Tim Allott
14:30–14:45
EMS2017-174
The influence of water vapor absorption on ceilometer measurements: Relevance for aerosol retrievals
Matthias Wiegner, Josef Gasteiger, Robert Begbie, Neda Boyouk, Mike Brettle, Jan Cermak, Marc-Antoine Drouin, Alexander Geiß, Ulrich Görsdorf, Alexander Haefele, Martial Haeffelin, Maxime Hervo, Katerina Kominkova, Ronny Leinweber, Ina Mattis, Gerhard Müller, Christoph Münkel, Margit Pattantyus-Abraham, Kornelia Pönitz, and Frank Wagner
14:45–15:00
EMS2017-294 | presentation
A model-assisted retrieval of aerosol properties from elastic backscatter lidar and ceilometer measurements
Davide Dionisi, Francesca Barnaba, Henri Dièmoz, Luca Di Liberto, and Gian Paolo Gobbi
15:00–15:15
EMS2017-481
Automatic Ceilometer-based Backscatter Coefficient Retrieval – Improving Network Capabilities by combining Ceilometer Networks and AERONET
Birgit Heese, Christoph Böhm, and Patric Seifert
15:15–15:30
EMS2017-539
ALC profiling: valuable information to support the radiation fog forecasting in the airports
Quentin Laffineur, Martial Haeffelin, Juan-Antonio Bravo-Aranda, Marc-Antoine Drouin, Aude Lhuisset, Jean-Charles Dupont, and Hugo De Backer
15:30–15:45
EMS2017-560
Characterising the atmospheric boundary layer based on ceilometer observations
Simone Kotthaus, Sue Grimmond, Juan-Antonio Bravo-Aranda, Martial Haeffelin, Maxime Hervo, and Alexander Haefele
15:45–16:00
EMS2017-616 | presentation
Calibration of the Met Office Ceilometer Network using the Cloud Method
Emma Hopkin, Anthony Illingworth, Cristina Charlton-Perez, Chris Westbrook, and Sue Ballard
Coffee break
Networks and Synergy

16:30–16:45
EMS2017-737
A Ground-based Network of Boundary Layer Thermodynamic Profilers: The Infrared Option (solicited)
David D. Turner
16:45–17:00
EMS2017-787
Towards using a ground-based network of microwave radiometers and water vapor lidars for improving short-term weather forecasts
Ulrich Löhnert, Maria Toporov, Domenico Cimini, and Potthast Roland
17:00–17:15
EMS2017-745
An emerging European Doppler lidar network for meteorological applications
Ewan O'Connor, Anne Hirsikko, Christos Halios, Sven-Erik Gryning, Ronny Leinweber, Antti Manninen, Tobias Marke, Nína Petersen, Jana Preissler, Eileen Päschke, Umar Saeed, Jan Schween, Yang Shu, Irene Suomi, Minttu Tuononen, Ville Vakkari, Ludovic Thobois, Guy Pearson, Alain Dabas, and Johannes Buehl
17:15–17:30
EMS2017-683
A better understanding of the atmospheric boundary layer structure using ALCs, MWRs and Doppler lidars in the framework of TOPROF
Juan Antonio Bravo Aranda, Dominico Cimini, Martine Collaud-Coen, Juan Luis Guerrer-Rascado, Martial Haeffelin, Maxime Hervo, Simone Kotthaus, Ewan O'Connor, María João Costa, Jan Schween, Umar Saeed, Lucia Mona, Marc-Antoine Drouin, Alex Geiss, Mathias Wiegner, and Lucas Alados-Arboledas
17:30–17:45
EMS2017-827
Towards an European continental-scale network of ground-based microwave radiometers
Domenico Cimini, Ulrich Löhnert, and Pauline Martinet and the TOPROF WG3
17:45–18:00
Final Discussion