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Week 1 - Basic Observations and Applications |
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Classes will start at 9:00 and end at 17:30. Lunch break will be from 12:45 to 13:45. |
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Monday 5 August |
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Se.1 |
Introductions, Forecast Challenges in S. America. (Campetella, Saulo) |
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Se.2 |
Radar Basics & Interpretation. (Wilson, Roberts) |
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PM |
Se.1 |
Storm Detection & Extrapolation Techniques. (Roberts) |
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Se.2 |
Sounding Review & Analysis. (COMET module)
Lab 1: Storm Extrapolation. Lab 2: Stability and Storms. (Wilson, Roberts) |
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Tuesday 6 August |
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AM |
Se.1 |
Polarimetric Radar (Zawadzki, Wilson) |
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Se.2 |
Polarimetric Radar (Zawadzki, Wilson) |
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PM |
Se.1 |
Satellite Basics. (de Coning, Teleconf) |
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Se.2 |
Satellite Applications & NOAA Products.(Goodman, Teleconf) |
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Wednesday 7 August |
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AM |
Se.1 |
Part I: Quantitative Precipitation Estimation (QPE).
(Zawadzki) |
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Se.2 |
Lab: QPE. (Zawadzki, Salio) |
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PM |
Se.1 |
Lab: Satellite/NWP Instability Nowcasting. (Joe, de Coning Teleconf) |
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Se.2 |
Argentina Radars (INVAP) |
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Thursday 8 August |
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AM |
Se.1 |
Severe Weather Detection (Joe) |
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Se.2 |
Lab: Case study combining polarimetric radar (Zawadzki, Mezher) |
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PM |
Se.1 |
Lightning Detection & Applications (Morales) |
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Se.2 |
Lab: Lightning Applications & severe weather
(Morales) |
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Friday 9 August |
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AM |
Se.1 |
Part II: QPE Techniques (Zawadzki, Wilson) |
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Se.2 |
MCS and severe weather in SESA (Salio) |
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PM |
Se.1 |
CARDS System (Joe) |
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Se.2 |
Lab: Argentina Severe Wx Case using CARDS (Joe, Campetella) |
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Week 2
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Nowcasting
Concepts, Applications and Systems |
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Monday 12 August |
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AM |
Se.1 |
Science of Nowcasting. (Wilson) |
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Se.2 |
Lab: Nowcasting Thunderstorms, Case I. (Wilson, Roberts) |
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PM |
Se.1 |
Lab: Severe Weather case (Hail, gustfronts, tornadoes, bow echoes) & algorithms (Joe) |
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Se.2 |
Part I: NWP Mesoscale Models &
Assimilation. (Ruiz, Saulo) |
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Tuesday 13 August |
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AM |
Se.1 |
Nowcast Process & Conceptual Models.
(Wilson) |
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Se.2 |
Lab: Nowcasting Thunderstorms, Case II. (Wilson, Roberts) |
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PM |
Se.1 |
Part II: NWP Models, Data Assimilation, &
Applications (Jenny Sun via video conf) |
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Se.2 |
Blended Nowcast Systems. (Wilson, Zawadzki) |
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Wednesday 14 August |
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AM |
Se.1 |
Developing a Heuristic Nowcast System. (Roberts) |
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Se.2 |
Nowcasting Using Heuristic Rules (Wilson, Roberts) |
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PM |
Se.1 |
FREE |
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Se.2 |
FREE |
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Thursday 15 August |
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AM |
Se.1 |
Nowcasting for heavy rainfall over complex
terrain. (Wilson, Roberts, Joe) |
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Se.2 |
Ensemble and probabilistic forecasting.
(Saulo & Ruiz) |
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PM |
Se.1 |
Scale dependence of nowcasting skill by
Lagrangian persistence and by NWP. (Zawadzki) |
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Se.2 |
Hi-res Ensemble Prediction system at AEMET. (García-Moya Zapata) |
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Friday 16 August |
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AM |
Se.1 |
Forecast Verification. (Saulo & Ruiz) |
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Se.2 |
Lab: Forecast verification. (Saulo
& Ruiz) |
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PM |
Se.1 |
Building & designing nowcasting
capabilities in S. America. (all) |
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Se.2 |
Workshop wrap-up & closing. |
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