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WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION CIMO/MG-10/Doc. 6(3) ______(15. X.2012) ______COMMISSION FOR INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS OF OBSERVATION

CIMO MANAGEMENT GROUP ITEM: 6 Tenth Session

Brussels, Belgium Original: ENGLISH 19 – 20 October 2012

INTERCOMPARISONS PROGRESS REPORT ON RQQI

(Submitted by Paul Joe)

Summary and purpose of document

This document provides information on the progress of the RQQI Intercomparison.

ACTION PROPOSED

The Meeting is invited to take note of the progress and to recommend any action as may be needed.

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PROGRESS REPORT ON RQQI

1. INTRODUCTION

The goal of the RQQI project is to intercompare software algorithms that quality control radar data to remove the detrimental effects of environmental factors for quantitative precipitation estimation.

The project conducted a kick off meeting in April of 2011 and an International Organizing Committee was formed. A project team was also formed.

A data protocol document was developed and approved by the IOC. [?]

Invitation to WMO members was issued in late 2011.

Responses were received in early 2012 and a list of data providers, data processors and an analysis team (aka project team).. CIMO/MG-10/Doc. 6(3), p. 3

The following table lists the preliminary list of participants.

Country Met Services, etc Test Data Data Contact person e-mail Protocol Comments Provider Processor Argentina Servicio Luciano Vidal [email protected] Will send more Meteorologico info in Feb. National Australia CACWR Yes Yes Alan Seed [email protected] Brazil IPMET Yes Roberto [email protected] Calheiros Canada Env. Canada Yes Yes Norman [email protected] Signed Donaldson China CMA Yes Yes Liping LIU [email protected] Signed China Cma Xianghua XU Finland FMI Yes Tuomo Lauri [email protected] Signed Germany Deutscher Yes Kathleen Helmert [email protected] Signed Wetterdienst Iran Islamic Rep. Iran Yes Mohsen Ghasemi [email protected] Signed Meteo Org. approx Ireland Met Eireann Yes Kieran Commins [email protected] Signed Japan JMA Yes Yoshihisa Kimata [email protected] Signed Korea KMA Yes Yes CHA Joo Wan [email protected] Signed Poland IMWM-NRI Yes Jan Szturc [email protected] Romania National Yes Sorin Burcea [email protected] Signed Meteorological Administration Singapore Meteorological Yes Ang Chieng Hai [email protected] Signed Service Singapore South Africa South African Yes Estelle de Coning [email protected] Signed Weather Service a Spain CRAHI Yes Daniel Sempere [email protected] Sweden SMHI Yes Daniel Michelson [email protected] Signed USA NOAA Yes Tim Crum [email protected] Signed USA NCAR Yes Yes John Hubbert [email protected] USA NCAR Yes Yes Mike Dixon [email protected] CIMO/MG-10/Doc. 6(3), p. 4

USA NCAR Yes Yes Jian Zhang [email protected]

Companies USA EEC Yes Ross Trafford [email protected] Signed IRAM Yes Will install a Selex radar in spring 2012 in St. Petersburg Germany Selex Yes Ronald [email protected] Signed Decription of 2 Hannesen algorithms Finland Vaisala Yes Yes Heikki Pohjola [email protected] Signed CIMO/MG-10/Doc. 6(3), p. 5

The Bureau of Meteorology has confirmed that it will host the data and reprocess data to the ODIM_H5 radar format. All radar processors participating in RQQI have indicated that they can process the ODIM_H5 file format which is a HDF5 format.

Still to do:  Review the submission for completeness of data processing algorithms  Review the submission for comprehensiveness of scan strategies and artifacts  Issue requests for data sets  Convert data to ODIM_H5 and post on BOM pass-word protected web site  Have data processing team process the data  Analysis  Write final report.

Risk: Project lead took on a additional/managerial responsibilities and was unable to meet the deadlines. Situation will ease in January.

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