Major Scientific Achievements

Table of Contents

 

A. In-flight Icing

1. Background
2. Remote Sensing of Icing Conditions by Dual-wavelength Radar and Radiometer
3. A physically-based statistical retrieval for determining a mixed-phase cloud condition
4. Icing detection using AVHRR observations
5.
Improvements in Numerical Modeling for Icing
6. Forecasting Icing Severity - Initial Steps
7. Alaska In-flight Digagnostic Icing Product (AK-CIP)
8. An Inferred Climatology Of The Size of Supercooled Large Droplet Icing Events Over North America   

B. Snowfall and Freezing Precipitation

1. Background
2. Northeast Corridor Ceiling and Visibility Initiative
3. Evaluation of Snow Forecasts from the RUC Operational Model
4. Precipitation Ground Truth for the 2002 MM5 Verification
5. A Multi-Sensor Approach to Detecting Drizzle on ASOS
6. The NCAR Snow Machine
7. The Hotplate Snowgauge


C. Convective Weather Forecasting

1. Background
2. FAA Regional Convective Weather Forecast Demonstration
3. Variational Doppler Ananlysis System (VDRAS)
4. Stability
5. Utility of Satellite toward 0-2hr forecasts


D. Atmospheric Turbulence

1. Background
2. In-situ measurement and reporting system
3. Remote Sensing of Turbulence
4. Turbulence forecasting
5. Turbulence characterization
6. Juneau Terrain-Induced Turbulence Project

E. Numerical Weather Prediction

1. Background
2. Modeling system development for the Army Cold Regions Test Center, Alaska
3. Modeling support for airborne toxic-hazard prediction at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics
4. Mesogamma-scale model validation
5. Modeling support for a Navy missile test in the Pacific
6. Modeling support for ground-operations in Afghanistan
7. Modeling the near-surface flow over the Southern California Bite
8. Modeling support for wildfire management in Colorado


F. Water Resources

1. Background
2. Surface Hydrology in Urban Flood Assessment
3. Benefits of Rainfall Enhancement - UAE
4. Hydrologic Aspects of Land-Atmosphere interactions


G. Land-Surface/Atmospheric Interactions and Their Modeling

1. Background
2. IHOP/NCAR Soil Moisture, Soil Temperature, and Vegetation Observation Network
3. Land Surface Model Development for mesoscale weather models
4. High resolution land data assimilation system


H. Remote Sensing

1. Background
2. Raindrop distribution retrieval from polarimetric radar measurements
a. Verification of the m-L relation
b. Retrieval verification
3. Wind field retrieval
a. Cross-Correlation Ratio (CCR) method to estimate transverse wind components
4. UCAR-STARS


I. Precipitation Physics

1. Background
2. Feasibility Study for Rainfall Enhancement in the UAE
a. Cloud and Precipitation Studies
b. Aerosols and Trace Gases
3. Hygroscopic Flare Characteristics


J. Ceiling and Visibility

1. Background
2. National Ceiling and Visibility System
3. Feasibility Study on Visibility Nowcasting Using Radar
4. Northeast Corridor Field Study
5. Northeast Terminal Ceiling and Visibilit
6. San Francisco Airport Ceiling and Visibility


K. Oceanic Weather

1. Background
2. Survey of Issues and Techniques
3. Continuing Steps Toward a Convective Nowcast Product
4. Initial Steps Toward an Integrated Oceanic Turbulence Product
5. Volcanic Ash

L. Surface Transportation Weather

1. Background
2. Winter Road Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS)
3. US Army - Meteorological Measuring System
4. Dynamic, Integrated Weather Forecast System (DICAST)
5. Rail Weather

M. Statistics applications and forecast verification

1. Background
2. Workshop on "Making Verification More Meaningful"
3. New verification approaches for precipitation and convective weather
4. Detecting inhomogeneities in precipitation observations


N. Technology Transfer Activities

1. Background
2. Taiwan - Advanced Operational Aviation Weather System (AOAWS)
3.
Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDs)
4. FY02 technology transfer accomplishments in 4DWX program
5. Current Icing Potential (CIP)
6. Winter Road Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS)


O. Contributions to NCAR Initiatives

1. Water cycle Across Scales
2. Wildfire
3. Weather & climate

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