Apologies for cross-postings -
This is a preliminary announcement of a meeting
to be held by the RAINMAP network
(www.rainmap.rl.ac.uk), which may be of interest.
Details are below. Enquiries should be sent to
Angela Vernon ([log in to unmask]).
With best wishes,
Richard
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"The Ultimate Rainmap: Rainmap Achievements and
the Future In Broad–Scale Rain Modelling"
Thursday & Friday 13th & 14th September 2007
Assembly Room, Oxford City Hall, St Aldates, Oxford
Provisional Agenda:
Thursday 13th 10:00 Welcome and Introduction
(Dr Kevin Paulson, Univ. Of Hull)
10:10 Retrieval uncertainties of weather
radar and radio links associated
with the stochastic nature of
rainfall
(Dr Remko Uijlenhoet, Wageningen
University)
10:40 To be announced
(Dr Daniel Schertzer, Ecole Nationale
des Ponts et Chaussées)
11:10 Coffee and biscuits
11:25 Can a simple stochastic model
generate a plethora of rainfall
patterns?
(Dr Demetris Koutsoyiannis,
National Technical University
of Athens)
11:55 Changing rectangular pulses to
series of rain pulses and thus
adapting the Poisson-cluster models
to finer time-scales
(Dr Christian Onof, Imperial
College
12:25 Comparing the observed statistics
of rain rate with cloud-resolving
models
(Mr John Marsham, Univ. of Leeds)
12:55 Lunch at Bangkok House
2:45 Predicting the effects of weather on
EHF and SHF communications links
(Dr Robert Watson, Univ. of Bath)
3:15 Predicting rain fade time-series on
arbitrary networks of radio links
(Dr Kevin Paulson, Univ. of Hull)
3:45 Coffee and biscuits
4:00 Experience with a Network of Micro-Rain
Radars
(Dr Chris Kidd, University of Birmingham)
4:30 Modelling Spatial Rain Rate Fields as
Multiplicative Dirichlet Cascades
(Ms Jenny Tickner, Univ. of Leeds)
5:00 Finish
Friday 14th 10:00 Rain Modelling Research in the UK
(Dr Kevin Paulson, Univ. Of Hull)
10:20 Discussion on the future of rain
modelling research in the UK
(All)
12:00 Lunch
Refreshments will be available on arrival. Lunch
will be provided on the 13th and 14th and an
evening meal will be organised for the night of the 13th for those who wish.
To attend Ultimate Rainmap Oxford 2007 you must
register your interest by sending an email to the
Network coordinator Angela Vernon ([log in to unmask]).
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Richard E. Chandler
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Room 135, Dept of Statistical Science, University College London,
1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 1880 Fax: +44 (0)20 7383 4703
Internet: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Stats (department)
http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakarc (personal)
email: [log in to unmask]
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