<p> WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION CIMO/MG-10/Doc. 6(3) ______(15. X.2012) ______COMMISSION FOR INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS OF OBSERVATION</p><p>CIMO MANAGEMENT GROUP ITEM: 6 Tenth Session</p><p>Brussels, Belgium Original: ENGLISH 19 – 20 October 2012</p><p>INTERCOMPARISONS PROGRESS REPORT ON RQQI </p><p>(Submitted by Paul Joe)</p><p>Summary and purpose of document</p><p>This document provides information on the progress of the RQQI Intercomparison.</p><p>ACTION PROPOSED</p><p>The Meeting is invited to take note of the progress and to recommend any action as may be needed.</p><p>______CIMO/MG-10/Doc. 6(3), p. 2</p><p>PROGRESS REPORT ON RQQI </p><p>1. INTRODUCTION</p><p>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. </p><p>The project conducted a kick off meeting in April of 2011 and an International Organizing Committee was formed. A project team was also formed.</p><p>A data protocol document was developed and approved by the IOC. [?]</p><p>Invitation to WMO members was issued in late 2011.</p><p>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</p><p>The following table lists the preliminary list of participants.</p><p>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</p><p>USA NCAR Yes Yes Jian Zhang [email protected]</p><p>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</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Risk: Project lead took on a additional/managerial responsibilities and was unable to meet the deadlines. Situation will ease in January.</p><p>______</p>