| Session Details | |
| Section | AS - Atmospheric Sciences |
| Session Title | Radar Applications On High Impact Weather |
| Main Convener | Prof. Kun Zhao (Nanjing University, China) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Wenchau Lee (National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States) Prof. Rui Li (University of Science and Technology of China, China) |
| Session Description | High impact weather events (e.g., tropical cyclones, tornadoes, heavy rain events, flooding, surface damage wind events, etc.) affect human life around the world. Although knowledge gained on these high impact weather events has mostly come from airborne and ground-based research radars, operational polarimetric and Doppler radars installed in the United States, East Asian and European countries have enabled probing the microphysical structures of these storms and improving the quantitative precipitation estimation. Radar data can be assimilated into numerical models to better predict these high impact weather events. This session invites contributions from all aspects on the applications of Doppler and polarimetric radars on high impact weather events. Topics include: * Radar analysis techniques and algorithms including Doppler and polarization diversity * Future radar technologies * Kinematic, dynamic and microphysical structures of high impact weather * Climatology of high impact weather * Quantitative precipitation estimates * Nowcasting and short-term forecast using radar data * Radar data assimilation |