Buenos Aires, August 5-16 2013
Program

         Updated: August 12, 2013

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Week 1 - Basic Observations and Applications
       Classes will start at 9:00 and end at 17:30. Lunch break will be from 12:45 to 13:45.
 Monday 5 August
AM  Se.1 Introductions, Forecast Challenges in S. America. (Campetella, Saulo)
Se.2 

Radar Basics & Interpretation. (Wilson, Roberts)

PM  Se.1

Storm Detection & Extrapolation Techniques. (Roberts)

Se.2

Sounding Review & Analysis. (COMET module)
Lab 1: Storm Extrapolation. Lab 2: Stability and Storms. (Wilson, Roberts)

 Tuesday 6 August
AM  Se.1

Polarimetric Radar (Zawadzki, Wilson)

Se.2 

Polarimetric Radar (Zawadzki, Wilson)

PM  Se.1

Satellite Basics. (de Coning, Teleconf)

Se.2

Satellite Applications & NOAA Products.(Goodman, Teleconf)

 Wednesday 7 August
AM  Se.1

Part I: Quantitative Precipitation Estimation (QPE). (Zawadzki)

Se.2 

Lab: QPE. (Zawadzki, Salio)

PM  Se.1

Lab: Satellite/NWP Instability Nowcasting. (Joe, de Coning Teleconf)

Se.2

Argentina Radars (INVAP)

 Thursday 8 August
AM  Se.1

Severe Weather Detection (Joe)

Se.2 

Lab: Case study combining polarimetric radar (Zawadzki, Mezher)

PM  Se.1

Lightning Detection & Applications (Morales)

Se.2

Lab: Lightning Applications & severe weather (Morales)

 Friday 9 August
AM  Se.1

Part II: QPE Techniques (Zawadzki, Wilson)

Se.2 

MCS and severe weather in SESA (Salio)

PM  Se.1

CARDS System (Joe)

Se.2

Lab: Argentina Severe Wx Case using CARDS  (Joe, Campetella)

Week 2  -  Nowcasting Concepts, Applications and Systems
 Monday 12 August
AM  Se.1

Science of Nowcasting. (Wilson)

Se.2 

Lab: Nowcasting Thunderstorms, Case I. (Wilson, Roberts)

PM  Se.1

Lab: Severe Weather case (Hail, gustfronts, tornadoes, bow echoes) & algorithms (Joe)

Se.2

Part I: NWP Mesoscale Models & Assimilation. (Ruiz, Saulo)

 Tuesday 13 August
AM  Se.1

Nowcast Process & Conceptual Models. (Wilson)

Se.2 

Lab: Nowcasting Thunderstorms, Case II. (Wilson, Roberts)

PM  Se.1

Part II: NWP Models, Data Assimilation, & Applications (Jenny Sun via video conf)

Se.2

Blended Nowcast Systems. (Wilson, Zawadzki)

 Wednesday 14 August
AM  Se.1

Developing a Heuristic Nowcast System. (Roberts)

Se.2 

Nowcasting Using Heuristic Rules (Wilson, Roberts)

PM  Se.1

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Se.2

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 Thursday 15 August
AM  Se.1

Nowcasting for heavy rainfall over complex terrain. (Wilson, Roberts, Joe)

Se.2 

Ensemble and probabilistic forecasting. (Saulo & Ruiz)

PM  Se.1

Scale dependence of nowcasting skill by Lagrangian persistence and by NWP. (Zawadzki)

Se.2

Hi-res Ensemble Prediction system at AEMET. (García-Moya Zapata)

 Friday 16 August
AM  Se.1

Forecast Verification. (Saulo & Ruiz)

Se.2 

Lab: Forecast verification. (Saulo & Ruiz)

PM  Se.1

Building & designing nowcasting capabilities in S. America. (all)

Se.2

Workshop wrap-up & closing.