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SAAWSO PROJECT SUMMARY AND ITS GOALS

SAAWSO PROJECT SUMMARY AND ITS GOALS. Ismail Gultepe EC, Cloud Physics and Severe Weather Research Section Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T4, Canada. SAAWSO PROJECT. Satellite Application for Arctic Weather and SAR Operations SAR: Search and Rescue Main goal:

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SAAWSO PROJECT SUMMARY AND ITS GOALS

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  1. SAAWSO PROJECT SUMMARY AND ITS GOALS Ismail Gultepe EC, Cloud Physics and Severe Weather Research Section Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T4, Canada

  2. SAAWSO PROJECT • Satellite Application for Arctic Weather and SAR Operations • SAR: Search and Rescue • Main goal: Validate satellite based nowcasting products using observations over northern latitudes

  3. SUMMARY • Project sites • IOPs • Instruments • Measurements • Weather conditions

  4. PROJECT SITES MOUNT PEARL SITE (MAIN SITE) HOLYROOD SITE (SW) BAY BULLS SITE(SE) FLATROCK SITE (NE)

  5. MAP FOR THE PROJECT REGION FLATROCK HOLYROOD ST. JOHN’S BAY BULLS

  6. MOUNT PEARL SITE VISIBILITY-PRECIP-TURB MICROPHYSICS [03-100 MICRON] REFERENCE PRECIP

  7. REMOTE SENSING PLATFORMS • McGill x-band radar (McGill University) • CL-51 Ceilometer (Vaisala) • 3027A PMWR (Radiometrics) • IR sensors

  8. REMOTE SENSING PLATFORMS TP3017A

  9. Microphysical platform

  10. REFERENCE PRECIP MEASUREMENTS

  11. PRECIP SENSOR

  12. VIS/FOG AND PRESENT WEATHER SENSORS

  13. ICING-TURBULENCE-RADIATION

  14. T & RH MEASUREMENTS HMP 45C IRTu;d MP102 HMP 45C212 DSC101 MP102 WXT50

  15. HOLYROOD SITE

  16. FLAT ROCK SITE

  17. BAY BULLS SITE

  18. IOPs IOP1:Winter cold clouds/snow[St. John’s] Jan 7-Feb 7, 2013 IOP2:Mixed phase clouds/fog[St. John’s] April 2-May 1, 2013 IOP3:Arctic ice clouds and snow[Goose Bay] Jan 15-Feb 28, 2014

  19. MEASUREMENTS Microphysics: PR, PA, Precip type, fog, visibility, reflectivity, cloud ceiling, snow crystals, aerosol and fog from 0.3 micron to cm size range), icing, LWP Radiation: Direct and diffiuse solar radiation as well as SW up(down) and IR up (down) Dynamics: Doppler velocity, turbulence, wind speed Profiling: Ceiling, reflectivity, T, LWC, qv, RH, Doppler velocity Satellite based products

  20. CASE SUMMARIES/EXAMPLES SIGNIFICANT PRECIP EVENTS (SN(RN) DEPTH> 1 cm/day (5 mm/day) Jan 3 Jan 5 Jan 10 Jan 11 Jan 18 Jan 22 Jan 23 Jan 24 Jan 31 Feb 2 Feb 4 Feb 6 Feb 8 Feb 9 Feb 20-22 Mar 14 Mar 15 Mar 17 Mar 25 Mar 28 Mar 29 Mar 30 Apr 2 Apr 6 Apr 12

  21. PMWR-April 10

  22. JAN 10 2013-SNOW STORM

  23. JAN-10/11 SNOW STORM

  24. APRIL 2

  25. RADIOMETRIC-PMWR PROFILES

  26. FEBRUARY 4 FOG CASE

  27. SNOW TYPES APRIL 10

  28. APRIL 12 APRIL 10 FEBRUARY 2 FEBRUARY 2

  29. FEBRUARY 6 2013

  30. JANUARY 22 2013

  31. FUTURE WORK • Snow type prediction using LPM • Improve Fog/precipitation Vis parameterizations • Develop algorithms for satellite retrievals of cold cloud microphysics • Improve snow precipitation measurements for satellite applications • Collaborations……………….

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