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1st COPS Workshop 13 - 14 September 2004, University of Hohenheim Program List of participants Protocol Working groups Presentations

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Working groups

1. Initiation of convection, Protocol (pdf, 13 KB)
2. Aerosols and cloud microphysics, Protocol (pdf, 6 KB)
3. Precipitation processes, Protocol (pdf, 12 KB)
4. Data assimilation and weather forecast, Protocol (pdf, 10 KB)

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Presentations

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Monday, September 13, 2004

First session: Introduction and Motivation (Chair: Andreas Behrendt)

10:15-10:30   PP 1167 "QPF", Andreas Hense, Meteorological Institute, Bonn University

              Presentation (pdf, 0.1 MB)

10:30-10:45   Requirements stemming from QPF user community,Werner Schulz, State Institute for Environmental Protection, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

              Presentation (pdf, 3.7 MB)

10:45-11:00   Role and goals of COPS within PP 1167, Volker Wulfmeyer, Institute of Physics and Meteorology (IPM), University of Hohenheim, Germany

              Presentation (pdf, 8.4 MB)

11:00-11:15   Characterization of the COPS experimental region - orography, warm season precipitation systems and LM performance, Christoph Kottmeier, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK), Karlsruhe, Germany

              Presentation (pdf, 4.4 MB)

Second session, Part I: Key Processes (Chair: Hartmut Graßl)

11:15-11:30   Boundary layer structure and turbulence in heterogeneous terrain, Ken Davis, Pennsylvania State University, USA

              Presentation (pdf, 1.5 MB)

11:30-11:45   Orographically-induced initiation of convection, Evelyne Richard, Laboratoire d'Aerologie, Toulouse, France

              Presentation (pdf, 0.9 MB)

11:45-12:00   Role of aerosol microphysics and chemistry in cloud formation, Karoline Diehl, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

              Presentation (pdf, 0.3 MB)

Second session, Part II: Key Processes (Chair: Hartmut Graßl)

13:30-13:45   Cloud physics: nice to have in cloud physics modeling, Klaus Dieter Beheng, IMK

               Presentation (pdf, 1.2 MB)

13:45-14.00   The precipitation process in NWP: Skills, problems, and data requirements, Erdmann Heise, German Meteorological Service (DWD)

               Presentation (pdf, 1.9 MB)

14:00-14.15   Predictability, George Craig, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

              Presentation (pdf, 2.9 MB)

Third session: Experience with and Links to Related International Programs (Chair: Herman Russchenberg)

14:45-14:55   MAP, Hans Volkert, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

               Presentation (pdf, 1.9 MB)

14:55-15:05   MAP FDP, Mathias Rotach, Meteo-Swiss, Switzerland

               Presentation (pdf, 1.5 MB)

15:05-15:20   IHOP, Tammy Weckwerth, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Atmospheric Technology Division (ATD), USA

               Presentation (pdf, 1.7 MB)

               CSIP, Alan Blyth, University of Leeds, UK

>             Slides (pdf, 8.2 MB), not held at the workshop but kindly provided later and added here for further information

15:20-15:35   TRACKS, Christoph Kottmeier, IMK, Germany

               Presentation (pdf, 3.3 MB)

15:35-15:50   THORPEX, Ulrich Schumann, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

               Presentation (pdf, 1.0 MB)

15:50-16:05   GEWEX, Hartmut Graßl, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), Hamburg, Germany

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Forth session, Part I: Methods for Reaching the Science Goals (Chair: Ulrich Schumann)

08:30-08:55   Parameterization (fluxes, convection), Heinke Schlünzen, Meteorological Institute, Hamburg University

               Presentation (pdf, 3.0 MB)

08:55-09:20   Data assimilation techniques, first water vapor lidar data assimilation during IHOP_2002, Stefan Bauer, IPM

               Presentation (pdf, 5.7 MB)

09:20-10:00   Key instrumentation I:

• NCAR ATD instrumentation, Tammy Weckwerth, NCAR, Presentation (pdf, 3.0 MB)
• WCR, Bart Geerts, University of Wyoming, USA (presented by Tammy Weckwerth), Presentation (pdf, 0.9 MB)
• NOAA instrumentation, Mike Hardesty, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, USA, Presentation (pdf, 1.1 MB)
  • Related presentation at Lidar Expert Workshop:
    Recent NOAA Wind and Water Vapor Lidar Activities, Mike Hardesty, NOAA, Boulder, USA, Presentation (pdf, 1.9 MB)
• CNRS instrumentation, Cyrille Flamant, CNRS, Paris, France, Presentation (pdf, 1.6 MB)
• NASA LASE Observations of Convective Events, Syed Ismail, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, USA, Presentation (pdf, 1.5 MB)
  • Related presentation at Lidar Expert Workshop:
    NASA LASE System as a Reference, Syed Ismail, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, USA, Presentation (pdf, 0.7 MB)

Forth session, Part II: Methods for Reaching the Science Goals (Chair: Ken Davis)

10:30-11:50 Key instrumentation II:

• Falcon Instrumentation and targeted observations during THORPEX, Andreas Dörnbrack, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Presentation (pdf, 6.5 MB)
• NASA GSFC ground-based instrumentation, David Whiteman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, USA, Presentation (pdf, 1.5 MB)
• Related presentation at Lidar Expert Workshop:
  Mesoscale Raman Water Vapor Lidar Network Concept, David Whiteman, NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, USA, Presentation (pdf, 1.2 MB)
• Cloud radar and mobile instrumentation in The Netherlands, Herman Russchenberg, TU Delft, The Netherlands, Presentation (pdf, 1.1 MB)
• Weather radar, Martin Hagen, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Presentation (pdf, 2.1 MB)
• Key satellite measurements (MSG, IASI, AIRS), Franz Berger, DWD, Presentation (pdf, 9.8 MB)
• Micro-satellite for precipitation measurements, Maria Schönermark, University of Stuttgart, Germany, Presentation (pdf, 0.7 MB)
• Advanced in-situ measurements, Ulrich Corsmeier, IMK, Presentation (pdf, 5.5 MB)
• Sensor synergy and ground-based passive remote sensing, Susanne Crewell, Meteorological Institute, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, Presentation (pdf, 3.0 MB)
• Supersites, Andreas Behrendt, IPM, Presentation (pdf, 3.4 MB)

Related presentations at Lidar Expert Workshop:

• End-to-end model for DIAL systems, Paolo Di Girolamo, Universit? degli Studi della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy, Presentation (pdf, 1.2 MB)
• Lidar synergy: Combined lidars for water vapor, temperature, and aerosol measurements, Andreas Behrendt, IPM, Presentation (pdf, 0.6 MB)
• Recent results using the DLR 2-mm-wind and water vapor lidars, Andreas Fix, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, Presentation (pdf, 7.1 MB)
• DFG Water Vapor DIAL Reference System, Volker Wulfmeyer, IPM, Presentation (pdf, 1.5 MB)
• Karlsruhe Doppler Lidar, Andreas Wieser, FZK, Presentation (pdf, 2.3 MB)
• DWD Raman Lidar, Alexander Meister, Kayser-Threde, M?nchen, Germany, Presentation (pdf, 2.0 MB)
• Advanced in-situ measurements, Ulrich Corsmeier, IMK, Presentation (pdf, 5.5 MB)

Fifth session: Data Issues (Chair: Susanne Crewell)

11:50-12:05   COPS: Planning, Field Operations, Logistics and Data Management, Richard Dirks, JOSS UCAR, Boulder, USA

               Presentation (pdf, 2.1 MB)

12:05-12:20   Data format for real-time data assimilation, Luis Kornblueh, MPI-M, Hamburg, Germany

               Presentation (pdf, 44 KB)

Working groups (Chair: Christoph Kottmeier)

1. Initiation of convection, Protocol (pdf, 13 KB)
2. Aerosols and cloud microphysics, Protocol (pdf, 6 KB)
3. Precipitation processes, Protocol (pdf, 12 KB)
4. Data assimilation and weather forecast, Protocol (pdf, 10 KB)

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