Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Università di Roma Sapienza

 

DPCN

Dipartimento di Protezione Civile Nazionale (DPCN) - Roma

 

 


 

 

Joint Laboratory on

Radar Meteorology
(JLabRM)

Coordinator:  F. S. Marzano (DIET/CETEMPS)


Steering Committe:

M. Biscarini (DIET), M. Montopoli (CNR/CETEMPS), E. Picciotti (CETEMPS)


Contacts:

frank.marzano @ uniroma1.it, +39.06.44585847, 320.4357254

marianna.biscarini @ uniroma1.it, m.montopoli@isac.cnr.it, errico.picciotti @ aquila.infn.it


 

 

A research perspective

JLabRM OBJECTIVES

The Laboratory is a joint initiative of DIET, DPCN and CETEMPS to exploit radar systems for hydrometeorological and remote sensing purposes.

The JLabAP has the following objectives:

to support and foster higher education in radar meteorology and its applications;

to design and develop new microwave radar remote sensing algorithms for hydrometeorology;

to devise new algorithms to couple atmospheric models and electromgnaetic waves;

to exploit radar data and mosoaiking in hydrometeorology and civil protection.


The Joint Lab operates in 2 sites:


  • DIET, Sapienza University at Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 ROMA


  • DPCN, Via Vitorchiano 4, 00189 ROMA

 

JLabRM FACILITIES

>    DIET. A section of the Joint Laboratory is placed at the roof terrace of the  Faculty of Engineering  of the Sapienza University of Rome. The test site is exactly located at: Latitude 41° 53’ 37 N, Longitude 12° 29’ 38 E. The position of the Laboratory is amazing as it is on the top of the highest historical hills of Rome, Colle Fagutal. The view of the old city of Rome is unique, but also the optical visibility is very attractive both towards the Tyrrenian sea and the Appenine range. The LabRadioMet enumerates both in situ meteorological instrumentation coupled with microwave and optical sensors.

Laboratorio di RadioMeteorologia (F.S. Marzano)

>  DPCN. A section of the Joint Laboratory is placed at DPCN Central Functional Center. The latter manages the Italian radar network of 21+4 systems, some of them in dual-poalrization.

Centro Funzionale Nazionale (G. Vulpiani)


>  CETEMPS. A section of the Joint Laboratory is placed at the CETEMPS Laboratory of Radar and Satellite meteorology. The latter includes the capability to run hydro-meteorological forecast models, management of ground-based remote sensing instrumentation and satellite data.

Laboratorio CETEMPS (M. Montopoli)


JLabRM at Via Eudossiana 18, Roma



JLabRM at Viale Vitorchiano, Roma



JLabRM at Via Vetoio 1, L'Aquila

 

JLabRM EDUCATION

The JLabAP is aimet at establishing a cooperation for undergraduate, graduate and doctoral education programs.

Current activities include:

Laboratory training within the “Antennas” course at Sapienza University

Laboratory training in the “Radiometeorology course at Sapienza University

Bachelor Theses (Laurea) on radar meteorology and applications

Bachelor Theses (Laurea) on radar meteorology and applications

Master Theses (Laurea Magistrale) on radar meteorology

Master Theses (Laurea Magistrale) on radar meteorology

PhD programs (Dottorati di ricerca) on radar meteorology

Within the JLabRM tasks, there are also educational purposes. So far several undergraduatestudents, graduate students and Ph.D. students have been working on the topics of interest of the Joint Laboratory.


Graduate students

 - Jan.-Oct. 2012:       M. Ronzoni, Italian radar network errors

 - Jul.-Dec. 2012:        M. Colantonio, Disdrometry and radar polarimetry

 - Feb.-Sep. 2012:       P. Gentile, X-band radar applications

 - Jul.-Mar. 2013:        A. Corini, X-band radar calibrations

 

Educational activities

 

LABORATORIO INTERDISCIPLINARE

Corso di Antenne I (in Italian)


Il Laboratario interdisciplanare – Antenne prevede un ciclo di seminari su misure di parametri caratteristici di sistemi a radiofrequenza (ricevitori satellitari in banda Ka) con prove di laboratorio presso l'Istituto Superiore delle Comunicazioni (ISCOM)  a Roma (fermata metro B EUR Palasport) e seminari (da confermare) su antenne per misure di campo elettromagnetico in ambiente urbano, su simulatori CAD per antenne lineari, su antenne per applicazioni spaziali, e su antenne per sistemi di trasmissione a radiofrequenza.

La prenotazione elettronica del Lab. Interdisciplinare di Antenne è possibile attraverso posta elettronica o lista distribuita in aula, fornendo gli estremi di un documento. Delle 4 sedute (lezione, visita, 2 seminari) è possibile solo 1 assenza; la visita presso ISCOM è obbligatoria.

 

Visita il Laboratorio di Microonde ISCOM


 

JLabRM RESEARCH

The Joint Laboratory  current research concerns radar meteorology and remote sensing of the atmosphere from ground-based, airborne, and space-borne platforms, with a particular focus on clouds and precipitation using microwave and infrared data, development of inversion methods, and radiative transfer modelling of absorbing and scattering media. Other main topics of interest are radiometeorology for rain, wind and ash retrieval and synthetic aperture radar data processing for land-use applications.

Currents projects are:

Italian radar network error characterization

Comparison between radar estimates and rain gauges

Parameterization of  radar error

Radar polarimetry in complex orography

Retrieval in complex orography

Validation with disdrometers


JLabRM PUBLICATIONS


-     Marzano F.S., D. Cimini, M. Montopoli, “Investigating precipitation microphysics using ground-based microwave remote sensors and disdrometer data”, Atmospheric Research, ISSN: 0169-8095, vol. 97, pp. 583–600, 2010.

-     Marzano F.S., G. Botta and M. Montopoli, “Iterative Bayesian Retrieval of Hydrometeor Content from X-band Polarimetric Weather Radar”, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sensing, ISSN: 0196-2892, vol. 48, pp. 3059-3074, 2010.

-     Vulpiani G., M. Montopoli, L. Delli Passeri, A. G. Gioia, P. Giordano, and F.S. Marzano, “On the use of dual-polarized C-band radar for operational rainfall retrieval in mountainous areas”, J. Appl. Meteor. Climat., ISSN: 1558-8424, DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-10-05024.1, vol. 51, pp. 405-425, 2012.

-     Marzano F.S., S. Mori, J.A. Weinman and M. Montopoli, “Modeling Polarimetric Response of Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Due to Precipitating Clouds From X- to Ka-Band”, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens., ISSN: 0196-2892, vol. 50, pp. 687-703, March 2012.

-     Montopoli M., F.S. Marzano, E. Picciotti, and G. Vulpiani, “Spatially-adaptive Advection Radar Technique for Precipitation Mosaic Nowcasting”, IEEE J. Selected Topics in Appl. Rem. Sens., ISSN: 1939-1404, vol. 3, pp. 874-884,

JLabRM DATA


Visit the following sites to look at real meteorological radar measurements:


X-band singol-pol radar at Sapienza, Rome
http://radarweb.aquila.infn.it/rome/

Italian national radar mosaik:
http://www.protezionecivile.gov.it/jcms/it/mappa_radar.wp















 

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