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Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, An Meso-scale/micro-scale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations (translates to lightning fla in Spanish and Portuguese)
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Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, An Meso-scale/micro-scale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations (translates to lightning fla in Spanish and Portuguese)
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June 201
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, where multiscale models suffer , where multiscale models suffer
RELAMPAGO 2018-20 with CACTI) is an inte
convective systems in subt South America
with local and regional with local and regional meteorology, aerosols, topography, and land-atmo interactions
prediction
convection in context with r and global climate
2019 (working closely ternational project...
tal btropical ctions
hazard ntal h regional
Denver • Córdoba •
¿Why Argentina?
Mendoza •
Severe hail near Mendoza Severe h Tornado Flash Fl Sierras d
High frequency of initiation
Vidal (2014) PhD Dissertation e hail/ does/ Flooding near s de Córdoba
RELAMPAGO + CACTI Contributions
NSF (US)
Soundings + Expendables, 5 sounding DOE (US) CACTI AMF-1 (cloud/pro suite, aero measurem C-SAPR2 NASA (US) Disdrometers Rain gauges sounding vehicles
vehicles
LIDAR
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
TBD soundings Enhancement
radiosondes Distrometers + rainfall Lightning mapping array Sticknet S-Band DP radars downstream
tornadoes, flooding)
flooding
societal impacts
ve lifecycle
cation eather (winds, hail, eather (winds, hail, eteorology/land surface, ng and forecasting,
RELAMPAGO-HYDRO CACTI-EOP RELAMPAGO-IOPs CACTI-IOPs Jun 2018 Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan 2019 Feb Mar Apr May
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
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
How will S-PolKa and the D accomplish these s
(volume scanning, 5 minute refresh)
phase effects, amount of real-time scan control
drops, and heavy precipitation
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
m development for C-Band radars, critical in hail, larg water/water vapor retrievals water/water vapor retrievals
Mobile sampling strategies – Under er the umbrella of fixed observations
cale growth/backbuilding
hardest for the longest”
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?
(recommendation that GOES-R becomes GOES-E)
information for nowcasting
environments, allowing investigati link between pre-storm environme and subsequent electrification (e.g anomalous/inverted charge structu common in dry, high-cloud-base environments)
thunderstorm electrification model ience htning ation of ent e.g., ctures els
Courtesy S. Goodman
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
Carcarañá Basin’s terrestrial syste ity cover) cal and here gy? affected n ce times r in the tem?
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
University of Illinois snesbitt@illinois.edu
UBA/CIMA/CONICET salio@cima.fcen.uba.ar