WEATHER AND HYDROLOGICAL NOWCASTING/FORECASTING BASED ON OBSERVATIONS
INCLUDING WEATHER RADAR AND ATMOSPHERIC MODELLING, AND THEIR APPLICATIONS.
Roelof T Bruintjes
National Center for Atmospheric Research
With new observing technologies such as satellite, Doppler and Dual Polarization radars, and other
sensors new opportunities for nowcasting and forecasting of several applications becomes a reality.
The talk will focus on applications in several areas as it relates to measurements from weather
radars and advanced new nowcast models. The applications are amongst others:

• Accurate and timely detection, nowcasting and forecasting of severe weather for aviation
• and other applications
• Accurate rainfall measurements and flood prediction
• Cloud and precipitation climatology's
• Understanding human effects on precipitation and climate
• Hydro-meteorological products such as flood forecasting and water Resources
• management
• Detect changes and differences in cloud microphysics and dynamics in time and space to
• determine climate and pollution effects
•  Assimilation of radar data into numerical meso-scale models.

In addition new applications for the following topics will be explored as part of the talk

• Weather nowcasting/forecasting
• Aviation
• Water Resources Management
• Agriculture
• Industry
• Global Climate Change studies
• Pollution
• Wind energy
• Metropolitan areas