Session 1: Progress in QPE and error structure analysis (I) Monday, 1 Sept., Time 9:45, Hall Werdenfels (plenary) Chair: Dmitri Moisseev, University of Helsinki, Finland 9:45 1.1 KEYNOTE: A close shave with Occam's razor: managing complexity in a radar rainfall estimation system Alan Seed, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia, and Mark Curtis 10:15 Coffee break (sponsored by Baron Services)

10:45 1.2 Optimizing the capabilities of weather radars: The impact of error correction and uncertainty identification on quantitative precipitation estimation for hydrological applications Pieter Hazenberg, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, USA, and Hidde Leijnse, Remko Uijlenhoet 11:00 1.3 Evaluation of a precipitation classification and quantification method using X-band dual polarization radar observation Sanghun Lim, Korea Institute of Construction Technology, Korea, and Dong-Ryul Lee, V. Chandrasekar, Keon-Haeng Lee, Bong-Joo Jang, Haonan Chen 11:15 1.4 Improving radar estimates of rainfall by monitoring the attenuation by the wet radome Robert Thompson, University of Reading, United Kingdom, and Anthony Illingworth, Tim Darlington 11:30 1.5 Quantitative Precipitation Estimation (QPE) from C-Band Dual-polarized radar for the July 08 2013 Flood in Toronto, Canada Sudesh Boodoo, Environment Canada, Canada, and David Hudak, Alexander Ryzhkov, Pengfei Zhang, Norman Donaldson, Janti Reid 11:45 1.6 QPE lessons learnt from the great Colorado Flood of September 2013 Daniel Sempere-Torres, Centre de Recerca Aplicada en Hidrometeorologia, UPC, Spain, and Marc Berenguer, David Gochis, Matthias Steiner

Session 2a: Progress in QPE and error structure analysis (II) Monday, 1 Sept., Time 15:00, Hall Werdenfels (parallel) Chair: Marc Berenguer, CRAHI-UPC, Barcelona, Spain 15:00 2a.1 Evaluation of a scale decomposition-based stochastic ensemble quantitative precipitation estimation scheme Loris Foresti, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Belgium, and Edouard Goudenhoofdt, Maarten Reyniers, Laurent Delobbe, Alan Seed 15:15 2a.2 Spatial interpolation of point measurements of the raindrop size distribution Timothy Raupach, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and Alexis Berne 15:30 2a.3 Improved radar QPE with temporal interpolation using an advection scheme on polar radar data Alrun Jasper-Tönnies, hydro & meteo GmbH & Co. KG, Lübeck, Germany, and Markus Jessen 15:45 2a.4 Rainfall estimation for the first operational S-band polarimetric radar in Korea Cheol-Hwan You, Pukyong National University, Korea, and Dong-In Lee, Mi-Young Kang, Young-Su Bang 16:00 2a.5 A new gauge adjustment procedure for Meteo France QPE radar products Nicolas Gaussiat, Météo France, France, and Daniel Idziorek, Bernard Chapnick, Julien Desplat, David Goutx, Jean-Rémy Regis, Jean-Louis Maridet, Pierre Tabary 16:15 2a.6 Long-term large scale bias-adjusted precipitation estimates at high spatial and temporal resolution derived from the National Mosaic and Multi-sensor QPE (NMQ/Q2) precipitation reanalysis over CONUS Olivier Prat, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites-NC (CICS-NC), NCSU and NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC, USA, and Brian R. Nelson, Scott Stevens, D-J. Seo

Session 2b: Millimeter-wave cloud radars Monday, 1 Sept., Time 15:00, Hall Zugspitze (parallel) Chair: Stefan Kneifel, McGill University, Montreal, Canada 15:00 2b.1 Utilization of the covariance matrix in cloud radars Alexander Myagkov, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Leipzig, Germany, and Matthias Bauer-Pfundstein, Patric Seifert, Ulla Wandinger 15:15 2b.2 G-band atmospheric radars: new frontiers in cloud physics Alessandro Battaglia, University of Leicester, United Kingdom, and C. D. Westbrook, S. Kneifel, P. Kollias, N. Humpage, U. Löhnert, J. Tyynelä, G.W. Petty, 15:30 2b.3 Bin DSD and dynamics retrievals in rain with the ARM Ka-W-band radars dual wavelength Doppler spectra Frederic Tridon, University of Leicester, United Kingdom, and Alessandro Battaglia, Pavlos Kollias 15:45 2b.4 Utilising multiple radar frequencies for deriving microphysical properties of liquid water clouds Ewan O'Connor, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland, and Ed Luke 16:00 2b.5 Comparison of Eddy Dissipation Rate Retrievals using Vertically Pointing ARM Cloud Radar Observations Paloma Borque, McGill University, Canada, and Pavlos Kollias, Edward Luke 16:15 2b.6 BAECC SNEX: Comprehensive snowfall experiment during DOE ARM AMF2 deployment in Finland Dmitri Moisseev, University of Helsinki, Finland, and Annakaisa von Lerber, Matti Leskinen, V. Chandrasekar, Larry Bliven, Walt Petersen

Session 3: Hydrological studies employing weather radars Monday, 1 Sept., Time 17:00, Hall Werdenfels (plenary) Chair: Christopher Collier, University of Leeds, United Kingdom 17:00 3.1 Areal rainfall depth statistics based on a 10-year reanalysis of volumetric radar observations Edouard Goudenhoofdt, Royal Meteorological Institute, Belgium, and Laurent Delobbe 17:15 3.2 Investigating local extreme value statistics based on 10 years of radar observations Thomas Einfalt, hydro & meteo GmbH & Co. KG, Lübeck, Germany, and Marc Scheibel 17:30 3.3 Propagation of radar rainfall uncertainty through urban hydraulic models Miguel Angel Rico-Ramirez, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, and Sara Liguori 17:45 3.4 Improving hydrological modeling with radar data Marc Scheibel, Water Resources Management & Flood Protection, Wupperverband, Germany 18:00 3.5 Some challenges of QPE in snow Elena Saltikoff, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland, and Harri Hohti, Philippe Lopez 18:15 3.6 High-resolution X-band polarimetric radar Observations during the HyMeX Special Observation Period in North-East Italian Alpine Region: a Hydrologic Support Tool Marios Anagnostou, IERSD, National Observatory of Athens, Greece, and J. Kalogiros, E.I. Nikolopoulos, E.N. Anagnostou, F. Marra, M. Borga, E. Mair, G. Bertoldi, U. Tappeiner

Session 4: Radar networking (I) Tuesday, 2 Sept., Time 8:30, Hall Werdenfels (plenary) Chair: Elena Saltikoff, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland 8:30 4.1 KEYNOTE: WMO Activities for the Global Exchange of Radar Data Daniel Michelson, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden, and Paul Joe, Stuart Goldstraw, Dean Lockett 9:00 4.2 Odyssey: a regional solution for weather radar data exchange and radar products generation. Maud Martet, Meteo France, France, and Nicolas Gaussiat, Daniel Idziorek, Stuart Matthews, Robert Scovell, Bernard Urban, Pierre Tabary 9:15 4.3 Beyond Radars: Designing a Network for Diverse Services Aurora Bell, WPB, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia, and Alan Seed, Aoife Murphy 9:30 4.4 DWDs new radar network and postprocessing algorithm chain Kathleen Helmert, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany, and Patrick Tracksdorf, Jörg Steinert, Manuel Werner, Michael Frech, Nils Rathmann, Thomas Hengstebeck, Michael Mott, Sybille Schumann, Theodor Mammen 9:45 4.5 Design and first results of the new fourth generation Swiss radar network Urs Germann, MeteoSwiss, Locarno-Monti, Switzerland, and Marco Boscacci, Lorenzo Clementi, Jordi Figueras i Ventura, Marco Gabella, Alessandro Hering, Maurizio Sartori, Ioannis Sideris 10:00 4.6 The French operational weather radar network: achievements, current situation and outlook Pierre Tabary, Météo France, France

Session 5: Microphysics of cloud and precipitation (I) Tuesday, 2 Sept., Time 10:45, Hall Werdenfels (plenary) Chair: Anthony Illingworth, University of Reading, United Kingdom 10:45 5.1 Microphysical interpretation of coincident simultaneous and fast alternating horizontal and vertical polarization transmit data John Hubbert, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA, and Scott Ellis 11:00 5.2 A semi-supervised hydrometeor classification method for dual-polarization radar applications Renzo Bechini, Colorado State University, Fort Collins CO, USA, and V. Chandrasekar 11:15 5.3 Polarimetric radar observations of winter clouds and precipitation in the Alps - CLACE2014 Jacopo Grazioli, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory (LTE), Switzerland, and Daniel Wolfensberger, Timothy Raupach, Alexis Berne 11:30 5.4 Fingerprinting of microphysical processes in Arctic clouds by tracking Doppler radar spectra features Stefan Kneifel, McGill University, Canada, and Heike Kalesse, Pavlos Kollias, Ed Luke 11:45 5.5 A close insight into precipitation microphysics and dynamics in Switzerland by means of two nearby X-band polarimetric radars, radar wind profilers and atmospheric modeling Marc Schneebeli, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Locarno Monti, Switzerland, and Andreas Leuenberger, Jordi Figueras i Ventura, Samuel Monhart, Marco Gabella 12:00 5.6 Characterization of convective updraft cells during MC3E using S- and C-band polarimetric radars and tri-Doppler vector wind retrievals Marcus van Lier-Walqui, Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies, USA, and Ann Fridlind, Andrew Ackerman, Derek Posselt, Scott Collis, Jonathan Helmus, Kirk North

Session 6a: Microphysics of cloud and precipitation (II) Tuesday, 2 Sept., Time 15:00, Hall Werdenfels (parallel) Chair: Jarmo Koistinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland 15:00 6a.1 A 3D + time stochastic simulator of raindrop size distributions Marc Schleiss, Princeton University, USA, and James Smith 15:15 6a.2 Radar and aircraft observations made during COPE of convective clouds forced by convergence lines in SW of England Alan Blyth, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, and Lindsay Bennett, Chris Collier, Yahui Huang, David Dufton, Jeff French, Phil Brown, Tom Choularton, Humphrey Lean 15:30 6a.3 Very large rain drops from 2D video disdrometers and concomitant polarimetric radar observations Merhala Thurai, Colorado State University, USA, and Patrick Gatlin, Viswanathan Bringi, Larry Carey 15:45 6a.4 The anatomy and physics of ZDR columns Matthew Kumjian, Penn State University, USA, and Alexander Khain, Nir BenMoshe , Eyal Ilotoviz, Alexander Ryzhkov 16:00 6a.5 Comparison of measured and radar-equivalent gamma DSDs to investigate the effect of gamma raindrop size distribution assumption on the rain rates Elisa Adirosi, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, CNR, Rome and Department of Civil, Constructional and Environmental Engineeering, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, and Eugenio Gorgucci, Luca Baldini, Ali Tokay 16:15 6a.6 Investigation of melting layer model assumptions through comparison to radar and in situ observations carried out during GPM GV campaigns Annakaisa von Lerber, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland, and Dmitri Moisseev, Andrew Heymsfield, Aaron Bansemer, V. Chandrasekar, Ari-Matti Harri

Session 6b: Radar networking (II) Tuesday, 2 Sept., Time 15:00, Hall Zugspitze (parallel) Chair: Kathleen Helmert, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany 15:00 6b.1 Inter-radar comparison accounting for partially overlapping volumes Zlatko Vukovic, Environment Canada, Canada, and M.C. Jim Young, Norman Donaldson 15:15 6b.2 Optimal placement of weather radar network in complex terrain using swarm intelligence Redouane Boudjemaa, University M’hamed Bougara of Boumerdes, Bourmerdes, Algeria 15:30 6b.3 Urban High-Resolution Precipitation Product: Combining C-Band and Local X-Band Radar Data Katharina Lengfeld, Meteorological Institute, University of Hamburg, Germany, and Marco Clemens, Hans Münster, Felix Ament 15:45 6b.4 Radar Networking over the Tyrrhenian sea Andrea Antonini, Consorzio LaMMA, Italy, and Samantha Melani, Manuela Corongiu, Alessandro Mazza, Alberto Ortolani 16:00 6b.5 Upgrade of the Swedish weather radar network Günther Haase, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Sweden, and Chatrine Gyllander, Daniel Johnson, Daniel Michelson 16:15 6b.6 The dual-polarization processing chain V2 Abdel-Amin BOUMAHMOUD, Météo France, France, and Béatrice Fradon, Hassan Al- Sakkah, Nicolas Gaussiat, Pierre Tabary

Session 7: Nowcasting techniques Tuesday, 2 Sept., Time 17:00, Hall Werdenfels (plenary) Chair: Stephen Nesbitt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 17:00 7.1 The Colorado Flood of 2013: Radar rainfall estimation, mesoscale wind analysis and nowcasting implications Jim Wilson, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA, and Jenny Sun, Rita Roberts 17:15 7.2 Hazard assessment nowcasting based on European radar mosaics Marc Berenguer, Centre de Recerca Aplicada en Hidrometeorologia, UPC, Barcelona, Spain, and Daniel Sempere-Torres 17:30 7.3 The Radar-based Precipitation Nowcasting System RADVOR of Deutscher Wetterdienst for the support of meteorological and hydrological alert systems Tanja Winterrath, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany, and Wolfgang Rosenow 17:45 7.4 Scale characterization and correction of diurnal cycle errors in MAPLE Aitor Atencia, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, and Isztar Zawadzki, Marc Berenguer, Frédéric Fabry 18:00 7.5 Recent Modifications to a new Surface-based Polarimetric Hydrometeor Classification Algorithm for the WSR-88D Network Terry Schuur, University of Oklahoma/CIMMS and NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, USA, and Alexander V. Ryzhkov, Heather D. Reeves, John Krause, Kimberly L. Elmore, Kiel L. Ortega 18:15 7.6 Developments in echo tracking - enhancing TITAN Michael Dixon, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA, and Alan Seed

Session 8: Data quality and calibration (I) Wednesday, 3 Sept., Time 8:30, Hall Werdenfels (plenary) Chair: Urs German, MeteoSwiss, Locarno, Switzerland 8:30 8.1 KEYNOTE: Challenges of Polarimetric Weather Radar Calibration Richard Ice, US Air Force, WSR-88D Radar Operations Center, USA, and Adam Heck, Jeffrey Cunningham, W. David Zittel 9:00 8.2 Operational monitoring of absolute calibration and differential moments: longterm stabilty and specific examples Michael Frech, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Observatorium Hohenpeißenberg, Germany, and Theo Mammen 9:15 8.3 Stepwise inter-comparison of radar rainfall products: Effects of quality controls, radar calibration, estimators, QPE methods, and gage adjustment GyuWon Lee, Dept. of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences, Research and Training Team for Future Creative Astrophysicists and Cosmologists, Kyungpook National University / Center for Atmospheric REmote sensing (CARE), Kyungpook National University, Korea, and Soohyun Kwon 9:30 8.4 Weather radar online sun-monitoring in presence of leverage outliers: five or three parameter model inversion? Patricia Altube, Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya (Meteocat), Barcelona / Dep. of Astronomy and Meteorology, University of Barcelona, Spain, and Joan Bech, Oriol Argemí, Tomeu Rigo, Nicolau Pineda 9:45 8.5 Spectral Dual-Polarization Characteristics of Wind Turbine Clutter and a Wind Turbine Clutter Suppression Technique Robert M. Beauchamp, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, and V. Chandrasekar, Margaret Cheney 10:00 8.6 The German radar composite RX: qualitative performance analysis for a precipitation climatology Andreas Wagner, Institute of Geography, University of Augsburg, Germany, and Jörg Seltmann, Harald Kunstmann 10:15 8.7 Polarimetric WSR-88D network, observation highlights Dusan Zrnic, NOAA/NSSL, USA, and Robert Lee, Jami B. Boettcher

Session 9a: Innovative Applications of Weather Radar Wednesday, 3 Sept., Time 11:00, Hall Werdenfels (parallel) Chair: Daniel Michelson, SMHI, Sweden 11:00 9a.1 Tactical use of WX Radar in ATM Thomas Wetter, Systems and Operations of the Aeronautical Meteorological Service, DWD, Germany, and Dirk Zinkhan 11:15 9a.2 A High Resolution 3D Radar Reflectivity Prototype for SESAR Robert Scovell, Met Office, United Kingdom, and Hassan al-Sakka, Nicolas Gaussiat, Pierre Tabary 11:30 9a.3 Analysis and nowcast of Available Airspace for ATM Rudolf Kaltenboeck, Austro Control, Austria, and G. Croonen, H. Ganster, T. Gärtner, K. Hennermann, M. Kerschbaum, G. Löscher, S. Mayer, C. Nowak, M. Steinheimer, M. Uray 11:45 9a.4 The European Network for the Radar Surveillance of Animal Movement Hidde Leijnse, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), The Netherlands, and Adriaan Dokter, Günther Haase, Przemysław Jacewicz, Matti Leskinen, Alessio Balleri, Judy Shamoun-Baranes, Jose A. Alves, Silke Bauer, Ommo Hüppop, Jarmo Koistinen, Felix Liechti, Hans van Gasteren, Jason W. Chapman 12:00 9a.5 Intepretation of polarimetric radar measurements at X band for volcanic plume monitoring. Mario Montopoli, DIET, Sapienza University of Rome & CETEMPS, University of L’Aquila, Italy, and Gianfranco Vulpiani, Frank Marzano, Errico Picciotti, Saverio Di Fabio 12:15 9a.6 Polarimetric C-band radar imagery of a volcanic eruption in New Zealand John Crouch, Meteorological Service of New Zealand (MetService), New Zealand

Session 9b: Airborne and spaceborne radars Wednesday, 3 Sept., Time 11:00, Hall Zugspitze (parallel) Chair: Frank Marzano, DIET Sapienza University of Rome, Italy 11:00 9b.1 Intercomparisons of 3D wind fields derived from airborne and operational ground- based radars during HyMeX Olivier Bousquet, LACy, UMR 8105, Météo-France / CNRS / Université de La Réunion, Reunion, and Julien Delanoe 11:15 9b.2 Airborne remote sensing of cloud properties with the German research aircraft HALO Martin Hagen, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, and Lutz Hirsch, Heike Konow, Felix Ament, Mario Mech, Emiliano Orlandi, Susanne Crewell, Silke Groß, Andreas Fix, Martin Wirth 11:30 9b.3 Evaluation of CloudSat rainfall retrievals over land using operational WSR-88D radar data Sergey Matrosov, CIRES, University of Colorado and NOAA ESRL, USA 11:45 9b.4 Early result of Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) onboard GPM core satellite Nobuhiro Takahashi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan, and Hiroshi Hanado, Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Toshio Iguchi 12:00 9b.5 A spaceborne conically scanning 94GHz radar to provide global observations of winds rain and clouds. Anthony Illingworth, University of Reading, United Kingdom, and Alessandro Battaglia 12:15 9b.6 High-resolution spatial analysis of a hurricane structure by means of X-band and Ka- band satellite synthetic aperture radar Saverio Mori, DIET University of Rome & CETEMPS, University of L’Aquila, Italy, and Federica Polverari, Luca Pulvirenti, Mario Montopoli, Frank Marzano

Session 10: Mesoscale and Severe weather studies (I) Thursday, 4 Sept., Time 8:30, Hall Werdenfels (plenary) Chair: Aurora Bell, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia 8:30 10.1 KEYNOTE: Convergence zone development in complex terrain during the Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS) Tracy Hertneky, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA, and Tammy M. Weckwerth 9:00 10.2 A climatology of mesoscale motions of precipitation patterns Isztar Zawadzki, McGill University, Canada, and Bernat Puigdomènech 9:15 10.3 Polarimetric X-band radar measurements of the development of precipitation observed during COPE Chris Collier, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, and Alan Blyth, Lindsay Bennett, David Dufton, J. French 9:30 10.4 Polarimetric signatures of Mediterranean storms retrieved by an operational polarimetric X-band radar system Gianfranco Vulpiani, Department of Civil Protection, Italy, and Luca Baldini, Elisa Adirosi, Nicoletta Roberto 9:45 10.5 Hailstorm distribution in the Alpine area: a long-term, radar-based analysis over complex orography Luca Nisi, 1) Oeschger Centre, University of Bern, Bern, 2) MeteoSwiss, Radar, Satellite, Nowcasting division, Locarno, Switzerland, and Olivia Martius, Alessandro Hering, Urs Germann 10:00 10.6 Recent observations of tornadoes using a mobile, rapid-scan, polarimetric, X-band, Doppler radar Howard Bluestein, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA, and Jeffrey C. Snyder, Kyle J. Thiem, Zachary B. Wienhoff, Jana B. Houser, Vivek N. Mahale

Session 11: Advances in weather radar technology and signal processing (I) Thursday, 4 Sept., Time 10:45, Hall Werdenfels (plenary) Chair: Alexis Berne, EPFL-LTE, Lausanne, Switzerland 10:45 11.1 Pulse Compression Waveform Design Considerations for Extreme Weather Observations James Kurdzo, Advanced Radar Research Center, University of Oklahoma, USA, and Boon Leng Cheong, Robert Palmer 11:00 11.2 Use of the dual-wavelength dual-polarization CSU-Chill radar to estimate rainfall from attenuation Francesc Junyent, Colorado State University, USA, and V. Chandrasekar 11:15 11.3 Measurements of Circular Depolarization Ratio with the Radar with Simultaneous Transmission / Reception Alexander Ryzhkov, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA, and Pengfei Zhang, Qing Cao, Sergey Matrosov, Valery Melnikov, Michael Knight 11:30 11.4 Shortening the update time of a phased array weather radar Valery Melnikov, University of Oklahoma, USA, and Richard Doviak, Dusan Zrnic 11:45 11.5 Dual polarisation technique to improve the identification of RLAN interference Nawal Husnoo, Met Office, United Kingdom, and Jacqueline Sugier 12:00 11.6 New Doppler Spectral Processing Technique for Identifying Atmospheric Signals from Radar Wind Profilers Jonathan Helmus, Argonne National Laboratory, USA, and Virendra P. Ghate, Richard Coulter, Scott Collis, Karen L. Johnson, Scott Giangrande, Pavlos Kollias

Session 12a: Mesoscale and Severe weather studies (II) Thursday, 4 Sept., Time 15:00, Hall Werdenfels (parallel) Chair: Olivier Bousquet, Météo-France / LACy, Saint Denis de La Réunion 15:00 12a.1 A macrophysical life cycle description for precipitating systems Raquel Evaristo, Meteorological Institute at the University of Bonn, Germany, and Xinxin Xie, Silke Troemel, Malte Diederich, Jürgen Simon, Clemens Simmer 15:15 12a.2 Trigger and Evolution of the Mesoscale Convection: A Case Study over Pearl River Delta in South China Xingchao Chen, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, and Xingchao Chen 15:30 12a.3 Fine-scale X-Band Mobile Radar Observations of Small-scale Circulations in Intense Lake-effect Snow Bands Karen Kosiba, Center for Severe Weather Research, USA, and Joshua Wurman 15:45 12a.4 Hurricane boundary layer: rolls, Low level winds , and building shadows Joshua Wurman, Center for Severe Weather Research, USA, and Karen Kosiba, Paul Robinson 16:00 12a.5 Radar-derived Thermodynamics in Tropical Cyclones Annette Foerster, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, and Michael M. Bell 16:15 12a.6 A Radar-Cross-Section Database Driven Radar Time-Series Simulator Boon Leng Cheong, University of Oklahoma, USA, and B. L. Cheong, D. Bodine, T. Maruyama, C. Fulton, Sebastian Torres, R. D. Palmer

Session 12b: Advances in weather radar technology and signal processing (II) Thursday, 4 Sept., Time 15:00, Hall Zugspitze (parallel) Chair: John Hubbert, NCAR, Boulder, USA 15:00 12b.1 Cylindrical Polarimetric Phased Array Radar for Weather Observation John Meier, Advanced Radar Research Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA, and Redmond Kelley, Shaya Karimkashi, Matt McCord, Isaac Meier, Guifu Zhang, Robert Palmer, Allen Zahrai, Damon Schmidt, Richard J. Doviak, Dusan S. Zrnic, Caleb Fulton 15:15 12b.2 A new method to identify and correct range sidelobes from pulse compression Chris Westbrook, University of Reading, United Kingdom, and John Nicol 15:30 12b.3 Does Range Oversampling Help or Hurt NEXRAD’s Ability to Detect Tornados? Sebastian Torres, University of Oklahoma/CIMMS and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, Oklahoma, USA, and Christopher Curtis 15:45 12b.4 Detection of electric fields using full polarimetric C-Band radar data Jens Reimann, Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik und Radarsysteme, DLR, Germany, and Martin Hagen 16:00 12b.5 Developing a low cost C-band FMCW microwave areal rain gauge – MARG Ferenc Dombai, MET-ENV, Hungary, and H. Paulitsch, R. Cremonini, R. Bechini, M. Budai 16:15 12b.6 Optimization of turbulence measurements for radar, lidar and sonic anemometers. Albert Oude Nijhuis, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, and Oleg Krasnov, Christine Unal, Herman Russchenberg, Alexander Yarovoy

Session 13: Data quality and calibration (II) Thursday, 4 Sept., Time 17:00, Hall Werdenfels (plenary) Chair: Remko Uijlenhoet, Wageningen University, The Netherlands 17:00 13.1 Classification of meteorological and non-meteorological targets with new statistical methods applying polarimetric moments and their texture Jarmo Koistinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland, and Teemu Mäkinen, Seppo Pulkkinen 17:15 13.2 Quality of clear-air radar radial velocity data: Do insects matter? Ronald Hannesen, Selex ES GmbH, Germany, and Sebastian Kauczok, André Weipert 17:30 13.3 A new method for clutter detection and removal Remco van de Beek, Meteo Group, The Netherlands, and Daniel van Dijke, Hugo Hartmann, Floris Bijlsma 17:45 13.4 Effects of wind turbines on the use of meteorological radar based products Tim Böhme, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany 18:00 13.5 Weather Radar with Abundant Wind Farming – Impacts on Data Quality and Mitigation by Doppler Dual-Polarization Reino Keränen, Vaisala Oyj, Finland, and Alberto Pettazzi, Laura Alku Catalina, Salsón Santiago 18:15 13.6 Study of radar signatures of hail in the Basque Country Mercedes Maruri, (1) Basque Meteorology Agency (EUSKALMET), Miñano, Alava; (2) TECNALIA-Energy and Environment Division-Meteo Area, Miñano, Alava; (3) Department of Applied Mathematics, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Faculty of Engineering of Bilbao, Spain, and Arkaitz Etxezarreta, Jose Antonio Aranda, Maialen Martija, Eugenia Iturritxa, Iñaki Eguiara, Jesus Torres, Joseba Egaña, Pedro Anitua, Santiago Gaztelumendi

Session 14: Synergetic use of weather radar and other sensors Friday, 5 Sept., Time 8:30, Hall Werdenfels (plenary) Chair: Pierre Tabary, Météo France, Toulouse, France 8:45 14.1 KEYNOTE: Long-term country-wide rainfall mapping employing cellular communication networks Aart Overeem, Wageningen University / Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, The Netherlands, and Hidde Leijnse, Remko Uijlenhoet, Manuel F. Rios Gaona 9:00 14.2 Using microwave backhaul links to optimize the performance of radar-based rainfall estimation and attenuation correction Silke Trömel, Hans-Ertel Centre for Weather Research, Atmospheric Dynamics and Predictability Branch, University of Bonn, Germany, and Michael Ziegert, Alexander V. Ryzhkov, Christian Chwala, Clemens Simmer 9:15 14.3 Melting layer attenuation as observed by polarimetric radar-radiometer synergetic approach Pablo Saavedra Garfias, University of Bonn, Germany, and Alessandro Battaglia, Clemens Simmer 9:30 14.4 Multi-sensor field studies of thunderstorms and lightning Hartmut Höller, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, DLR, Germany, and Hans-Dieter Betz, Carlos Morales, Richard J. Blakeslee, Jeffrey C. Bailey, Rachel I. Albrecht, Margot Leitner 9:45 14.5 Inter-comparison of X-band radar and lidar low-level wind measurement for air traffic control (ATC) Thomas Ernsdorf, German Weather Service, Aeronautical Meteorology Department, Germany, and Bernd Stiller, Björn-Rüdiger Beckmann, André Weipert, Sebastian Kauczok, Ronald Hannesen 10:00 14.6 On the meteorological circumstances of the occurence of clear air echoes Jan Handwerker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Germany, and Norbert Kalthoff, Bianca Adler

Session 15: Use of weather radars in NWP systems Friday, 5 Sept., Time 10:45, Hall Werdenfels (plenary) Chair: Hidde Leijnse, KNMI, De Bilt, the Netherlands 10:45 15.1 Comparisons between S, C, and X band polarimetric radar observations and convective-scale simulations of HyMeX first special observing period Clotilde Augros, Radar Center and CNRM-GAME, Météo France, France, and Olivier Caumont, Pierre Tabary, Nicolas Gaussiat, Véronique Ducrocq 11:00 15.2 Use of Radar Observations to Evaluate WRF Cloud Microphysics Scheme Ki-Hong Min, Kyungpook National University, Korea, and Sunhee Choo, Daehyung Lee, Gyuwon Lee 11:15 15.3 Multiple Doppler radar data assimilation with WRF 3D-Var: IOP4 of HyMeX campaign retrospective studies Ida Maiello, Centre of Excellence CETEMPS, Department of Physics and Chemistry - University of L’Aquila, Italy, and Rossella Ferretti, Luca Baldini, Nicoletta Roberto, Errico Picciotti, Sabrina Gentile, Pier Paolo Alberoni, Frank Silvio Marzano 11:30 15.4 Assimilating radar volume data into the COSMO model using an LETKF approach Yuefei Zeng, DWD, Germany, and Ulrich Blahak, Theresa Bick, Virginia Poli, Klaus Stephan 11:45 15.5 Towards the operational assimilation of radar refractivity retrievals in the United Kingdom John Nicol, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading, United Kingdom, and David Simonin, Anthony Illingworth, Susan Ballard 12:00 15.6 Assimilation of multinational radar data using HARMONIE Martin Ridal, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Sweden, and Mats Dahlbom, Günther Haase, Daniel Michelson