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GPS & VLBI Meteorology over Northeast Brazil: Perspectives

GPS & VLBI Meteorology over Northeast Brazil: Perspectives. Alexandre 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 and

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GPS & VLBI Meteorology over Northeast Brazil: Perspectives

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  1. GPS & VLBI Meteorology over Northeast Brazil: Perspectives Alexandre 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 and Professor, Applied Physical Sciences Graduate Program, UECE

  2. Eusébio Station • Radio-observatory linked to INPE • Prospectives of cooperative agreement with FUNCEME and UECE (focus on meteorology and atmospheric physics).

  3. Role of the Tropics...

  4. Every year... ... ITCZ visits Northeast Brazil: March-April

  5. 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

  6. UECE’s Research Infrastructure • Instrumented Aircraft

  7. FSSP and Csiro-King OAP 200X and 200Y Data Acquisition System Global Positioning System Meteorological instrumentation CCN counter

  8. 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

  9. Observational Network meteorological satellites Meteorological Radar Oceanographic Buoy PIRATA Project DCP´s Network Conventional Rain Gage Network

  10. PC cluster for climate simulations(funding for a second cluster for weather/wind energy prediction was aproved)

  11. 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...

  12. 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

  13. 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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