ARM Users Gear Up for 38th American Meteorological Society Radar Conference

 
Published: 14 April 2017

This summer, the ARM Climate Research Facility will be well represented at the 38th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Radar Conference in Chicago, Illinois.

ARM precipitation radar translator Scott Collis, a radar products lead at Argonne National Laboratory, is a conference chair along with Scott Ellis of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

The conference will take place August 28 to September 1, 2017, at the Swissotel Chicago. The AMS sponsors the conference, which is held every two years, and the AMS Committee on Radar Meteorology organizes the event.

The Swissotel Chicago will be the host site of the 38th American Meteorological Society Radar Conference.

The conference will feature five short courses, including the ARM-specific Millimeter-Wavelength Radars: Engineering, Theory, and Science Applications course led by Nitin Bharadwaj, ARM radar engineering lead, Joseph Hardin, and Bradley Isom of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; and Pavlos Kollias of Stony Brook University.

Collis says the Open-Source Radar Short Course will include teachings on the Python ARM Radar Toolkit (Py-ART), a module that helps examine, process, and analyze weather radar data. Collis is the science lead for Py-ART.

The other three short courses are:

  • Spaceborne Radar: Data, Retrievals, and Validation
  • ZDR (Differential Reflectivity) Calibration
  • Phased Array Antennas for Weather Radar Applications.

Collis is on the program committee along with Hardin, Isom, and Laura Riihimaki, a lead translator for ARM at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Their specific committees are as follows:

  • Hardin: Radar Networks, Quality Control, Processing, and Software
  • Isom: New and Emerging Radar Technology
  • Riihimaki: Cloud Studies Using Radars.

Registration opens June 2, with early registration closing July 21. On-site registration also will be available.

Collis says abstracts can be submitted until April 21, and sponsors and exhibitors are still sought.

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The ARM Climate Research Facility is a national scientific user facility funded through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The ARM Facility is operated by nine Department of Energy national laboratories, including Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory.