T_NOTE Workshop
Buenos Aires, August 5-16 2013
Downloads

workshop material also available in ftp://ftp.cima.fcen.uba.ar/pub/T-NOTE

  Lectures
  Laboratories
Students who have their personal computers are recommended download all the material for the Storm Extrapolation Lab. from the following ftp:
wget  ftp.rap.ucar.edu/irap/training/nowcast_training.zip
ftp ftp://ftp.cima.fcen.uba.ar/pub/T-NOTE/lab
  Others Links
LECTURES
   Introductions, Forecast Challenges in S.  America. (Campetella, Saulo)
   Radar Basics & Interpretation. (Wilson, Roberts)
   Radar Calibration.
  Storm Detection & Extrapolation Techniques. (Roberts)
   Polarimetric Radar (Zawadzki, Wilson)
  Satellite Basics.  (de Coning, Teleconf)
RGB basics.ppt LEO Satellite.avi
   Satellite Applications & NOAA Products.(Goodman, Teleconf)
GOES-R: Part-1 Overview & ABI    Part-2 GLM
   Part I: Quantitative Precipitation Estimation (QPE). (Zawadzki)
  Part II: QPE Techniques (Zawadzki, Wilson)
   Argentina Radars (INVAP)
   Severe Weather Detection (Joe)
   Lightning Detection & Applications (Morales)
   MCS and severe weather in SESA (Salio)
  CARDS System (Joe)
   Part I: NWP Mesoscale Models & Assimilation. (Ruiz, Saulo)
   Part II:NWP Models, Data Assimilation, &Applications (Jenny Sun via video conf)
  Science of Nowcasting. (Wilson)
   Nowcast Process & Conceptual Models. (Wilson)
   Blended Nowcast Systems. (Wilson, Zawadzki)
   Developing a Heuristic Nowcast System. (Roberts)
  Nowcasting & Role of Forecaster. (Roberts, Joe, Campetella)
   Ensemble and probabilistic forecasting. (Saulo & Ruiz)
  Scale dependence of nowcasting skill by Lagrangian persistence and by NWP.(Zawadzki)
   Hi-res Ensemble Prediction system at AEMET. (García-Moya Zapata)
   Forecast Verification. (Saulo & Ruiz)
  Building & designing nowcasting capabilities in S.America. (all)
   Workshop wrap-up & closing.
LABORATORIES 
 
   Lab: Storm Extrapolation. - Stability and Storms: buoycape.zip skewt.zip (Wilson, Roberts)
   Lab: QPE. & Case study combining polarimetric radar. (Zawadzki, Salio, Mezher)
   Lab: Satellite/NWP Instability Nowcasting. (Joe, de Coning Teleconf)
   Lab: Severe Weather case (Hail,gustfronts, tornadoes, bow echos) & algorithms (Joe)
   Lab: Lightning Applications & severe weather PPT (Morales)
   Lab: Argentina Severe Wx Case using CARDS Functionality (Joe, Campetella)
   Lab: Forecast verification. (Saulo & Ruiz)
OTHER THINGS