1. SAAWSO PROJECT SUMMARY AND ITS GOALS Ismail Gultepe EC, Cloud Physics and Severe Weather Research Section Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T4, Canada

2. SAAWSO PROJECT Satellite Application for Arctic Weather and SAR Operations SAR: Search and Rescue Main goal: Validate satellite based nowcasting products using observations over northern latitudes

3. SUMMARY Project sites IOPs Instruments Measurements Weather conditions

4. PROJECT SITES 1.MOUNT PEARL SITE (MAIN SITE) 2.HOLYROOD SITE (SW) 3.BAY BULLS SITE(SE) 4.FLATROCK SITE (NE)

5. MAP FOR THE PROJECT REGION BAY BULLS FLATROCK HOLYROOD ST. JOHN’S

6. MOUNT PEARL SITE REFERENCE PRECIP MICROPHYSICS [03-100 MICRON] VISIBILITY-PRECIP-TURB

7. REMOTE SENSING PLATFORMS McGill x-band radar (McGill University) CL-51 Ceilometer (Vaisala) 3027A PMWR (Radiometrics) IR sensors

8. REMOTE SENSING PLATFORMS TP3017A

9. Microphysical platform

10. REFERENCE PRECIP MEASUREMENTS

11. PRECIP SENSOR

12. VIS/FOG AND PRESENT WEATHER SENSORS

13. ICING-TURBULENCE-RADIATION

14. T & RH MEASUREMENTS HMP 45C HMP 45C212 MP102 WXT50 MP102 DSC101 IRTu;d

15. HOLYROOD SITE

16. FLAT ROCK SITE

17. BAY BULLS SITE

18. IOPs IOP1:Winter cold clouds/snow[St. John’s] Jan 7-Feb 7, 2013 IOP2:Mixed phase clouds/fog[St. John’s] April 2-May 1, 2013 IOP3:Arctic ice clouds and snow[Goose Bay] Jan 15-Feb 28, 2014

19. MEASUREMENTS Microphysics: PR, PA, Precip type, fog, visibility, reflectivity, cloud ceiling, snow crystals, aerosol and fog from 0.3 micron to cm size range), icing, LWP Radiation: Direct and diffiuse solar radiation as well as SW up(down) and IR up (down) Dynamics: Doppler velocity, turbulence, wind speed Profiling: Ceiling, reflectivity, T, LWC, qv, RH, Doppler velocity Satellite based products

20. CASE SUMMARIES/EXAMPLES Feb 2 Feb 4 Feb 6 Feb 8 Feb 9 Feb 20-22 Jan 3 Jan 5 Jan 10 Jan 11 Jan 18 Jan 22 Jan 23 Jan 24 Jan 31 Mar 14 Mar 15 Mar 17 Mar 25 Mar 28 Mar 29 Mar 30 Apr 2 Apr 6 Apr 12 SIGNIFICANT PRECIP EVENTS (SN(RN) DEPTH> 1 cm/day (5 mm/day)

22. PMWR-April 10

23. JAN 10 2013-SNOW STORM

24. JAN-10/11 SNOW STORM

26. APRIL 2

29. RADIOMETRIC-PMWR PROFILES

30. FEBRUARY 4 FOG CASE

33. SNOW TYPES APRIL 10

34. APRIL 12 APRIL 10 FEBRUARY 2

35. FEBRUARY 6 2013

36. JANUARY 22 2013

37. FUTURE WORK Snow type prediction using LPM Improve Fog/precipitation Vis parameterizations Develop algorithms for satellite retrievals of cold cloud microphysics Improve snow precipitation measurements for satellite applications Collaborations……………….