RADCAL 2001

Links to Presentations


Number
Presentation Title
Link to PDF file
1
Introduction (Paul Joe, MSC, Canada)
 HTML
2
Basic Concepts of Weather Radar System Calibration and Performance Monitoring (Paul Smith, USDMT, USA)
PDF
3
NEXRAD Calibration - Changes and New Approaches (Tim Crum, ROC/NOAA, USA)
PDF
4
Clutter Targets for Operational Weather Radar Calibration (Chris Clarke UKMO, United Kingdom)
HTML,PDF
5
Weather Radar Calibration (Jeff Keeler, NCAR, USA)
PDF
6
FAA/TDWR's Automated Calibration Procedure (Fran Hartwitz and Ian Harris, Raytheon, USA)
PDF
7
NEXRAD WSR-88D Engineering Projects (Rex Reed, ROC/NOAA, USA)
PDF
8
Transmitter Issues in the UK Operational Weather Radar Network (Chris Clarke, UKMO, United Kingdom)
HTML,PDF
9
Considerations of Narrow Filters in Weather Radar (Gene Mueller, Aeromet, USA)
PDF
10
Receiver - Signal Processing: Distinction and Implications for Calibration (Dusan Zrnic, NSSL/NOAA, USA)
PDF
11
Radome Influence on Weather Radar Systems: Principles and Calibration Issues (Alexander Manz, Gematronix, Germany)
PDF
12
Antenna Calibration Using the 10.7 cm Solar Flux (Ken Tapping, HIA/NRC, Canada)
PS, PDF
13
Antenna Measurements: Dihedrals, Ground Targets and Antenna Beam Patterns (Ron Rinehart, UND, USA)
PPS, PDF
14
Antenna Measurements for Calibrations and SPOL Calibration Overview (John Lutz, NCAR, USA)
PDF
15
Sphere Calibrations (Dave Brunkow, CSU, USA)
PDF
16
Polarimetric Upgrades to Improve Rainfall Measurements (Dick Doviak, NSSL/NOAA, USA)
PS, PDF
17
CSU-CHILL Polarization Calibration (John Hubbert, CSU, USA)
PDF
18
Radar Reflectivity Calibration using Propagation Phase Measurements (Vivekanandan, NCAR, USA)
PDF
19
Wind Profiler Calibration (Dick Strauch, ETL/NOAA, USA) 
PDF
20
Calibration of the NCAR Electra Doppler Radar (ELDORA) (Craig Walther, NCAR, USA)
PDF
21
Calibration Techniques for the TRMM PR (Bob Meneghini, GSFC/NASA, USA)
PDF
22
Radar Receiver Calibration by Radiometry (Fred Fabry, McGill University, CANADA)
PDF
23
Wind Profiler Validation (Douglas van de Kamp, FSL/NOAA, USA)
PDF
24
Validation Efforts NEXRAD Radar Operations Center (Andy White, ROC/NOAA, USA) 
PDF
25
Normalizing a Heterogeneous Radar Network for BALTEX (Daniel Michelson, SMHI, SWEDEN)
PDF
26
How to Calibrate a Radar Network? (Asko Huuskonen, FMI, FINLAND)
PDF
27
The Truth About Coherence and Clutter Suppression (Larry Alford and Larry Collins, USA)
PDF1,PDF2
28
Errors in Radar Calibration by Gauge and by Disdrometer Associated with Variability of Drop Size Distributions (DSDs) (Isztar Zawadzki, McGill University, CANADA)
PDF
29
Radar - Rain Gauge Comparison (Remko Uijlenhoet, Princeton, USA)
PDF
30
Radar Calibration - Some Simpe Approaches (David Atlas, GSFC, NASA)
PDF
31
Spatial Correlation of Rain Gauge Measuremenst (Witold Krajewski, UI)
PDF