The First International Summer Snowfall Workshop: Scattering properties of realistic frozen hydrometeors from simulations and observations, as well as defining a new standard for scattering databases

Stefan Kneifel; José Dias Neto; Davide Ori; Dmitri Moisseev; Jani Tyynelä; Ian S Adams; Kwo-Sen Kuo; Ralf Bennartz; Alexis Berne; Eugene E Clothiaux; Patrick Eriksson; Alan J Geer; Ryan Honeyager; Jussi Leinonen; Christopher D Westbrook

doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0208.1

The First International Summer Snowfall Workshop: Scattering properties of realistic frozen hydrometeors from simulations and observations, as well as defining a new standard for scattering databases

Bull Am Meteorol Soc. 2018:March 2018:10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0208.1. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0208.1. Epub 2018 Apr 19.

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Affiliations

¹ Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
² University of Helsinki and Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland.
³ Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland.
⁴ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.
⁵ Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee and Space Science and Engineering Center, University ofWisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.
⁶ Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁷ Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.
⁸ Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
⁹ European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK.
¹⁰ Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
¹¹ Joint Institute for Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.
¹² Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK.

Abstract

(Beginning of WHAT, WHEN, WHERE Summary Box:) What: The work-shop gathered almost 50 scientists from Europe and the United States to discuss the progress towards developing electromagnetic scattering databases for ice and snow particles in the microwave region, their applications, the physical approximations used to compute these scattering properties, and how remote sensing and in situ observations can be used to validate scattering datasets. One of the main priorities of the workshop was to foster communication between users and developers of scattering databases, and to define standards and conventions for scattering data structures and variables. When: 28-30 June 2017. Where: Cologne, Germany (END of what, when, where summary box).

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