Master seminar 2019: "Nowcasting"
-  Wednesday/Thursday, 9.10./10.10.2019 
-  Room A249 
-  each talk is based on 2 publications 
-  30 min presentation, 10-15 minutes discussion 
-  Language: English or Deutsch 
 
Draft schedule
Wednesday, 9.10.2019
9:15
„The GOES-R geostationary lightning mapper“, Sebastian Stadler
10:15
„Lightning and severe weather: A comparison between total and cloud-to-ground lightning trends“, Sabrina Pavicic
11:15
Combining lightning, radar, and satellite data to improve thunderstorm warnings, Lucie Chabert
13:30
Radar‐based cell tracking with a fuzzy logic approach, Eric Reusch
15:30
Determining the flight icing threat to aircraft from operational satellite data, Felicitas Sakellariou
Thursday, 10.10.2019
9:15
Nowcasting challenges during the Beijing Olympics: Successes, failures, and implications for future, Jonas Späth
10:15
Use of NWP for nowcasting convective precipitation: Recent progress and challenges, Matjaz Puh
11:15
Estimating the uncertainty of areal precipitation using data assimilation, Paul Ockenfuß
13:30
Probabilistic precipitation forecasting using nowcast and NWP model, Felix Negwer
 
Papers
Lightning detection from space and ground
Sebastian Stadler, (Fabian Jakub)
-  Goodman, S.J., R.J. Blakeslee, W.J. Koshak, D. Mach, J.C. Bailey, L.D. Carey, D.E. Buechler, C.D. Schultz, M. Bateman, E. McCaul and G. Stano, 2013: The GOES-R geostationary lightning mapper. Atmospheric Research, 125–126:34–49,  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2013.01.006- .  
-  TBD 
Sabrina Pavicic, (Tobias Zinner)
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-  Schultz, C.J., W.A. Petersen, and L.D. Carey, 2009: Preliminary Development and Evaluation of Lightning Jump Algorithms for the Real-Time Detection of Severe Weather. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 48, 2543–2563,  https://doi.org/10.1175/2009JAMC2237.1
 
Multi-source observation based
Lucie Chabert (Tobias Zinner)
-  Bedka, K., C. Wang, R. Rogers, L.D. Carey, W. Feltz and J. Kanak, 2015: Examining deep convective cloud evolution using total lightning, WSR-88D, and GOES-14 super-rapid scan datasets. Weather Forecasting, 30:571–590,  https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/WAF-D-14-00062.1
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Radar based nowcasting
 Eric Reusch (Gregor Möller)
 
Olympic test beds
Jonas Späth (Christian Keil)
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-  Nerini, D., L. Foresti, D. Leuenberger, S. Robert, and U. Germann, 2019: A Reduced-Space Ensemble Kalman Filter Approach for Flow-Dependent Integration of Radar Extrapolation Nowcasts and NWP Precipitation Ensembles. Mon. Wea. Rev., 147, 987–1006,  https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-18-0258.1
 
Blending/ Model/ Observation Mix
Felix Negwer (Christian Keil)
 
Icing
Felicitas Sakellariou (Julien Savre)
-  Smith, W.L., P. Minnis, C. Fleeger, D. Spangenberg, R. Palikonda and L. Nguyen, 2012:  Determining the flight icing threat to aircraft with single-layer cloud parameters derived from operational satellite data. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 51:1794–1810.,  https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/JAMC-D-12-057.1
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Data Assimilation & Model based
Paul Ockenfuß (Tijana Janjic-Pfander)
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-  van Horne, M.P., (2003), Short-Term Precipitation Nowcasting for Composite Radar Rainfall Fields, Master thesis, MIT, September 2003 (  Thesis PDF-  ). 
Matjaz Puh (Tijana Janjic-Pfander)
-  Juanzhen, S., M. Xue, J.W. Wilson, I. Zawadzki, S.P. Ballard, J. Onvlee-Hooimeyer, P. Joe, D. Barker, P.W. Li, B. Golding, M. Xu and J. Pinto, 2014: Use of NWP for nowcasting convective precipitation: Recent progress and challenges. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 95:409–426.,  https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00263.1
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