Weather Radar Networking

Preface.- Opening Session.- Speech of Welcome.- Introductory Statement.- Session 1 - Radar Networking Programmes.- Cost-73: The Development of a Weather Radar Network in Wester Europe(Keynote paper).- The Prospects and Promise of NEXRAD: 1990's and beyond (Keynote paper).- Radar netwoking in Eastern Europe (Keynote paper).- A Nordic Weather Radar Network.- The Sao Paulo Weather radar network program.- The unified meteorological radar network of CSSR and central meteorological subsystem.- Une revue du programme ARAMIS.- The Weather radar network of the Deutscher Wetterdienst Progress Report.- Operational experiences with the Finnish Weather radar network.- Attempts in Hungary for Automation of Weather radar observations.- Overview of national and regional radar meteorological activities in Italy.- Overview of radar networking by MOC, Japan and its data dissemination system (FRICS).- Composite radar and satellite data processing in the meteorological system in Spain (A brief description of SIRAM project).- The United Kingdom weather radar network.- Composite weather radar displays.- ATC radar data networking in the Benelux and Northern Germany.- Weather radar networking: computing versus communications.- Transmission and visualisation techniques for a remote weather radar display.- Session 2 - The Role, of Reflectivity-Based Techniques in Operational Radar Networks.- Ways of using, and correcting for errors in conventional radar reflectivity data (Keynote paper).- Review of the telecommunications work of cost 73 project (Keynote paper).- Estimation of the areal coverage of radars and radar networks from radar site horizon data.- An operation system for display and analysis of hydrometeorological radar data.- Castor project improved processing of radar data in france.- Ground clutter reduction during rain measurements by a noncoherent radar system.- The operational use of a high speed interactive radar data processing system (RDPS) PART 1 : A Technical Description.- Siting of a weather radar network for operational hail suppression in Greece.- Sur la possibilitye de reproduire le facteur de reflectivite pres du sol du champ tridimensionnel radar.- Session 3 - The Role of New Techniques in Operational Radar Networks.- New weather radar techniques: ready for operational use? (keynote paper).- Canada's Operational Doppler radar.- A Doppler Appliance to MRL-5.- Doppler Facilities for the UK MET Office.- Bright band errors in radar estimates of rainfall: Identification and correction using polarization diversity.- Rainrate measurements using a circular polarisation-diversity radar.- Session 4 - Combining adar, satellite and onventional meteorological data.- An integrated approach to the display of doppler radar and other meteorological data (Keynote data).- Near-real-time precipitation analysis over Europe.- Analyses of a mesoscale heavy rain system in the area of Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan.- Real-time combination of radar and satellite data for very-short-period precipitation forecasting.- A professional meteorological information processing system.- Automating precipitation nowcasts based on satellite and radar imagery combined with numerical model products.- Session 5 - Meteorological and Otim Applications of Weather Radar Data.- The impact of radar and satellite imagery in a mesoscale nwp system (keynote paper).- PROMIS 600; An operational system for very short range weather forecasting in Sweden.- Radar for electrical studies and storm warnings.- The operational use of a high speed interactive radar data processing system - RDPS Part II : Application in real time severe thunderstorm detection and forecasting.- Determination cloud field evolution by the method of correspondence between radar reflectivity isosurfaces.- Comparision of radar precipitation measurements with a dence network of daily raingauges - Aplications to radar networking.- Session 6 - Hydrological and Other Applications of Weather Radar Data.- Practical applications of weather radar data in Europe (keynote paper).- Real-time forecasting: model structure and data resolution.- On the usefulness of weather radar data in real-time hydrological forecasting in Belgium.- A radar reflectivity-runoff model for use in flood warning.- The impact of weather radar on aspects of operational management in the thames region.- Feasibility studies on the use of the french "Aramis" radar network for hydrologic applications.- Radar data for hydrological users.- Urban hydrology and hail detection experiments made with a raingage-hailpad network and with a dual polarization radar.- Radar estimation of areal rainfall in switzerland - the genira project.- Agricultural use of weather radar data in Emilia-Romagna Italy.- Nowcasting for agriculture with the sao paulo radar network.- The distribution of weather radar images to agricultural end users.- The use of weather radar data in road weather services: present and future needs.- Some Conclding Remarks.- List of Participants.- Index of Authors.