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RELAMPA PAGO Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, An nd Meso-scale/micro-scale Processes with Adaptive ive Ground Observations (translates to lightning fla lash in Spanish and Portuguese) June 201 14 South American countr South


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RELAMPA

Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, An Meso-scale/micro-scale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations (translates to lightning fla in Spanish and Portuguese)

PAGO

nd ive lash

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June 201

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  • bserving and forecast
  • bserving and forecast

infrastructure to suppor infrastructure to suppor and economies, yet fun and economies, yet fun lacking about the regio lacking about the regio and required observatio and required observatio approaches. approaches. The high frequency of co The high frequency of co upscale growth in Subt upscale growth in Subt it an ideal natural labor it an ideal natural labor near complex terrain, w near complex terrain, w in skill. in skill.

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  • rt their growing populations
  • rt their growing populations

undamental knowledge is undamental knowledge is ional meteorology, prediction, ional meteorology, prediction, tional, prediction, and modeling tional, prediction, and modeling f convective initiation and f convective initiation and btropical South America makes btropical South America makes

  • ratory to study these processes
  • ratory to study these processes

, where multiscale models suffer , where multiscale models suffer

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RELAMPAGO 2018-20 with CACTI) is an inte

  • to study intense continenta

convective systems in subt South America

  • to understand their interact

with local and regional with local and regional meteorology, aerosols, topography, and land-atmo interactions

  • to improve severe storm ha

prediction

  • to place extreme continent

convection in context with r and global climate

2019 (working closely ternational project...

tal btropical ctions

  • sphere

hazard ntal h regional

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Denver • Córdoba •

¿Why Argentina?

Mendoza •

  • Urbana-Champaign
  • Santa Fé
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Severe hail near Mendoza Severe h Tornado Flash Fl Sierras d

High frequency of initiation

  • f organized convection

Vidal (2014) PhD Dissertation e hail/ does/ Flooding near s de Córdoba

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RELAMPAGO + CACTI Contributions

NSF (US)

  • S-PolKa
  • 3 DOWs
  • 1200

Soundings + Expendables, 5 sounding DOE (US) CACTI AMF-1 (cloud/pro suite, aero measurem C-SAPR2 NASA (US) Disdrometers Rain gauges sounding vehicles

  • 3 Mesonet

vehicles

  • Pods
  • WV-DIAL

LIDAR

  • 15 ISFS/

meteorological stations/disdro meters C-SAPR2 G-I (microphy and aeros aircraft) T NOAA (US) Lightning mapping array Field mills S-Band/449 Profilers (Proposed) S) rofiling rosol ements) 2 SMN (Argentina) C-Band DP op network Mobile soundings INPE/FAPESP (Brazil) Mobile X-Band DP radar Precip/profiling supersite Lightning 2 hysical

  • sol

TBD soundings Enhancement

  • f operational

radiosondes Distrometers + rainfall Lightning mapping array Sticknet S-Band DP radars downstream

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Science Fo

  • Theme 1: Convective
  • Theme 2: Microphysics
  • Theme 3: Electrification
  • Theme 4: Severe weat
  • Theme 4: Severe weat

tornadoes, flooding)

  • Theme 5: Hydrometeor

flooding

  • Theme 6: Nowcasting

societal impacts

  • cus Areas

ve lifecycle

  • physics and aerosols

cation eather (winds, hail, eather (winds, hail, eteorology/land surface, ng and forecasting,

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RELAMPAGO Timeline

RELAMPAGO-HYDRO CACTI-EOP RELAMPAGO-IOPs CACTI-IOPs Jun 2018 Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan 2019 Feb Mar Apr May

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Operational Radar Net

C Sa Es San Martín (S/X Band) Ang San Rafael Tunuyán C-Band Dual-pol C-Band Doppler 0.5° beam blockage for existing rad Doppler on Wh Mobile Radars

etwork

Córdoba antiago del stero Paraná Concordia Santiago (BR) Resistencia Bernardo de Irigoyen Ezeiza Pergamino nguil d er S-Band Doppler S-Band non-Doppler dars indicated by white areas within range rings heels rs

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Córdoba Salta Mendoza Antofogasta

RELAMPAGO + CACT

AMF-1 DOE WEST Chile PODS + Mesonet P RAOBs Surface stations: SMN surface stations Board of Cereals, Córdoba Province Universidad de La Punta DACC, Mendoza Province Santo Domingo Sa AMF-1 Mesonet Resistencia Uruguaiana

CTI Surface and Upper-Air Network

Pilar Ezeiza Santa Rosa

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How will S-PolKa and the D accomplish these s

  • DOWS will provide dual polarization data, but b

(volume scanning, 5 minute refresh)

  • C-band Argentinian radars (and C-SAPR2) will

phase effects, amount of real-time scan control

  • S-PolKa can help with calibration and algorithm

drops, and heavy precipitation

  • Provide RHIs, QPE, µphys and cloud liquid w
  • Provide RHIs, QPE, µphys and cloud liquid w

Example of a squall line in Parana. Strong C- Band attenuation case.

DOW radars be operated to science objectives?

t be operated primarily in dual-Doppler scanning modes ill suffer from attenuation and backscatter differential

  • l?

m development for C-Band radars, critical in hail, larg water/water vapor retrievals water/water vapor retrievals

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Mobile sampling strategies – Under er the umbrella of fixed observations

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cale growth/backbuilding

  • ding happens where it rains

hardest for the longest”

  • r. Chuck Doswell, Retired NSSL

stem propagation important for ding hazard, in addition to antaneous precipitation rates rm mode, convective core rm mode, convective core pagation, as well as preferred tions of new updrafts important d pools are important forcing chanisms for convective intenance, propagation, and gering of new convective cores at environmental factors bine for heavy precipitation duction?

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Lightning in RELAMPAGO

  • GOES-R GLM validation and scie

(recommendation that GOES-R becomes GOES-E)

  • Demonstrate use of real time light

information for nowcasting

  • Documents thunderstorm

environments, allowing investigati link between pre-storm environme and subsequent electrification (e.g anomalous/inverted charge structu common in dry, high-cloud-base environments)

  • Provides validation dataset for

thunderstorm electrification model ience htning ation of ent e.g., ctures els

Courtesy S. Goodman

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How does land cover heterogeneit (including human-modified land co impact initiation and growth of convective precipitation at the loca mesoscale through land-atmosphe exchanges of moisture and energy How have changes in land cover a the partitioning of rainfall between infiltration/runoff and the residenc

  • f soil moisture and groundwater i

Carcarañá Basin’s terrestrial syste ity cover) cal and here gy? affected n ce times r in the tem?

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e Hydrometeorology Team will fo F - Flux Towers (latent and sensible heat flux) B - Basic Meteorological Stations (precipitation, focus on the Carcarañá Watershe Stations (precipitation, temperature, soil moisture, soil temperature) S - Streamflow Measurements

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  • Prof. Steve Nesbitt

University of Illinois snesbitt@illinois.edu

  • Prof. Paola Salio

UBA/CIMA/CONICET salio@cima.fcen.uba.ar