COMET Training Facility
Boulder, Colorado
June 19-20, 2001

Instructors:
Jay Breidenbach, Lead Instructor, NWS/OHD Hydrology Laboratory
Matthew Kelsch, COMET/UCAR
Paul Tilles, NWS/OHD Hydrology Laboratory
John Kuhn, NWS/OCWWS Hydrologic Services Division

Note: On-line lectures below are a mixture of Corel WordPerfect, Presentations, and MS Powerpoint files that can be downloaded to your computer and extracted by double-clicking on the *.exe filename.

Basics of Radar Rainfall Estimation
Precipitation Processing System (PPS) Problems and Solutions

• Climatology-based vs. Terrain-based Hybrid Scan
• VPR Range Correction
• Raingage Bias Correction
• Truncation Problem

Capabilities of RFC-wide MPE

• Improved Mosaicking
• Graphical User Interface
• Description of Available Rainfall Fields
• Improved Radar-gage Mean-field Bias Adjustment
• Improved Multisensor Rainfall Estimation
• New Local Bias Adjustment
• Incorporating Satellite Rainfall Estimates

RFC-wide MPE System Administration

• Database Tables
• Directory Structure
• Crontabs
• Scripts
• Decode_DPA
• SII Preprocessor (SIIPP)
• Log Files

Operational Perspectives from Beta Test Sites

• West Gulf RFC
• Mid Atlantic RFC

MPE Documentation

• Radar Climatology Analysis and Display (RADCLIM)
• User's Guide and System Documentation
• Published Papers on PPS and MPE