Current Year (draft)

2004 (IA #16)

  • Improve utilization of Doppler Radar - Visitor Dr. Deng (Shiow-ming) and Steve Albers
    • Reflectivity QC (polar data - helps QPE and QPF)
      • Continuous Line Reflectivity Deleting [Oct 03 - ]
      • Ignore gates near the radar for 3-D remapping (provide improved benefits along lines of hybrid reflectivity scan)
      • Ground Clutter removal (RCCG radar, via velocity)?
    • Velocity De-aliasing [Feb 04 - Mar 04]
      • polar radar remapper module
    • Reflectivity QC (cartesian mosaic - helps QPE and QPF)
      • Vertical Profile of Reflectivity (VPR) algorithm?
    • Typhoon Radar Derived Wind Observations [Mar 04 - Jul 04]
      • via VAD algorithm (called from remap or wind)?
      • Satellite
        • Check improved navigation of GOES9 imagery
      • Precip Accumulation (helps QPE)
        • rain gauges (inside/outside radar coverage) [May 04 - Oct 04]
        • satellite (outside radar coverage) [Feb 04 - Jul 04]
        • model background (outside radar coverage) [Jan 04 - Dec 04]
        • lightning (outside radar coverage)?
      • Interface/Compare to NSSL 3-D Reflectivity Mosaic (via VRZ file - could help QPE and QPF)?
      • Interface/Compare to NSSL 2-D QPE product (could only help QPE, not QPF nor LAPS in general)?

    • Verification for LAPS/MM5 System
      • State Variables (also QPF, QPE)?

    • Thermodynamic Constraint?
      • Diabatic heating from radar reflectivity (Shiow-Ming Deng, Feb 04 - Dec 04)

2005-2009