Program

by Luciana

Winter School on Nowcasting Techniques

COURSE PROGRAM
Day - Local Argentina Time Topic Instructor
WEEK 1 Monday 14
8:00 - 8:45
Registration
Monday 14
8:45 - 9:00
Opening Marisa Gassmann
Monday 14
9:00 - 9:15
Welcome - RA III Daniel Vila
Monday 14
9:15 - 9:45
Students Presentations
Monday 14
9:45 - 10:00
What does Nowcasting mean? Paola Salio
Monday 14
10:00 - 13:00
Fundamentals of Remote Sensing: New Generation Geostationary Satellite Information. Lecture. Paola Salio
Monday 14
14:00 - 17:00
Analysis of ABI information channels. Analysis of RGB tools. Supercell and hailstorm Nov 10, 2018. Hands-on Lab. Maite Cancelada
Paola Salio
Tuesday 15
9:00 - 13:00
Fundamentals of Remote Sensing: Radar Information. Local radar networks. Differences between C and S bands. Lecture. Steve Nesbitt
Tuesday 15
14:00 - 17:00
Precipitation microphysics and its linkage with QPE and QPF. Lecture. Gyuwon Lee
Wednesday 16
9:00 - 13:00
Kilometer-scale modeling and microphysics parameterizations. Lecture. Jason Milbrandt
Wednesday 16
13:00
Group photo. Place TBD
Wednesday 16
14:00 - 17:00
Mid-Latitude Local Storms. Organized Convection. Severe Weather. Lecture. Paola Salio
Thursday 17
9:00 - 13:00
Fundamentals of Remote Sensing: Lightning Data GLM and Ground surface networks. Lecture. Joseph Ray Patton (online)
Thursday 17
14:00 - 17:00
Analysis radar information on RELAMPAGO - CACTI information. Supercell and hailstorm Nov 10, 2018

Analysis of WRF simulations using different microphysical parametrizations at Supercell hailstorm Nov 10, 2018. Hands-on Lab.
Maite Cancelada
Lucho Vidal
Vito Galligani
Paola Salio
Friday 18
9:00 - 13:00
Tropical Storms. Organized Convection. Hurricanes. Lecture. Steve Nesbitt
Friday 18
14:00 - 17:00
Multi-sensor analysis of Hurricane Milton. Hands-on Lab. Steve Nesbitt
WEEK 2 Monday 21
9:00 - 13:00
Analysis of LMA, GLM and Earth Networks information on Supercell and hailstorm Nov 10, 2018. Hands-on Lab. Gabriela Nicora
Constanza Villagran
Monday 21
14:00 - 17:00
Quantitative Precipitation Estimations. Comparison between Cascabel and RMA5, S and C band on a hail and rain event. Hands-on Lab. Lucho Vidal
Maite Cancelada
Tuesday 22
9:00 - 13:00
Nowcasting: extrapolation techniques. Lecture. Shigenori Otsuka
Tuesday 22
14:00 - 17:00
Nowcasting Techniques: Analysis of a PREVENIR event Dec 13-14, 2018. Hands-on Lab. Maite Cancelada
Lucho Vidal
Juan Ruiz
Wednesday 23
9:00 - 13:00
Convective Scale Data Assimilation. Lecture. Takemasa Miyoshi
Wednesday 23
14:00 - 17:00
Radar data assimilation impact on very short-range forecast. Hands-on Lab. Juan Ruiz
Thursday 24
9:00 - 13:00
Ensemble and Probabilistic Forecasting in nowcasting and very-short range scale. Lecture. Shigenori Otsuka
Thursday 24
14:00 - 17:00
Ensemble and Probabilistic Forecasting in nowcasting and very-short range scale. Hands-on Lab. Juan Ruiz
Friday 25
9:00 - 13:00
Forecast Verification. Impact-based forecast. Lecture. Ramón D’Elia
Pablo Irurzun
Friday 25
14:00 - 15:30
Quantitative Precipitation Forecast on Nowcasting Techniques and Verification.
Hands-on Lab.
Maite Cancelada
Lucho Vidal
Friday 25
15:30 - 17:00
Closing and wrap-up Paola Salio