GPS & VLBI Meteorology over Northeast Brazil: Perspectives
Alexandre A. CostaAlexandre A. Costa (*), A. M. P. de Lucena, P.Kaufmann, F. S. A. Cavalcante, F. G. M. Pinheiro, F.
A. T. F. da Silva, J. B. V. Leal Jr., V. P. Silva-Filho
(*) Head, Meteorology Department, FUNCEME andProfessor, Applied Physical Sciences Graduate Program, UECE
Eusébio Station
• Radio-observatory linked to INPE
• Prospectives of cooperative agreement with FUNCEME and UECE (focus on meteorology and atmospheric physics).
Role of the Tropics...
Every year...
... ITCZ visits Northeast Brazil: March-April
UECE’s Graduate Program
• Applied Physical Sciences (started working on “Meteorology and Energy” as its major research line): 16 students in March-06.
• Atmospheric Physics Group: 4 Ph.D.’s, 2 M.Sc., graduate and undergraduate students
UECE’s Research Infrastructure
• Instrumented Aircraft
Meteorological instrumentation
FSSP and Csiro-KingOAP 200X and 200Y
CCN counter
Global Positioning System
Data Acquisition System
FUNCEME: 30 years of Operational Meteorology
• Department of Meteorology and Oceanography: 4 Ph.D. (2 more being hired), 5 M.Sc. (2 more being hired)
• Infrastructure: Satellite images (NOAA, Meteosat, MSG being installed), Doppler radar (at UECE campus), 70 automatic surface stations, about 600 raingauges, 30-processor, 7 TB PC Cluster, PIRATA office
Observational Network
Meteorological Radar
Conventional Rain Gage Network
DCP´s Network
meteorological satellites
Oceanographic Buoy PIRATA Project
PC cluster for climate simulations(funding for a second cluster for weather/wind
energy prediction was aproved)
EXIMIA:EXperimento Integrado de MeteorologIA(Integrated Meteorological Experiment)
2005 – Initial Planning
2006 – Final Planning and Funding submission
2007 – Preparation, Training
2007-2008 – Field Campaigns (dry season and wet season)
After that:
Data analysis...
EXIMIA components
• EMAS-2 (Experimento de Mesoescala na Atmosfera do Sertão, Mesoscale Experiment in the Dry Land Atmosphere)
• EMfiN! (Experimento de Microfísica de Nuvens, Cloud Microphysics Experiment)
• Micrometeorological measurements• Surface meteorological observations• Radiation observations• Calibration of radar, satellite and GPS-VLBI
retrievals for the tropical region
In Place of Conclusions
• Nice combination of infrastructure in meteorology and atmospheric physics, personnel, operation and education+research potential
• Interest of cooperating with VLBI-GPS community as “end” user (the end is actually in the society)
• Hope to show results next time...
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