NSF Research Experience for Graduates and Post-Doctoral Scholars: Support to attend and participate in Weather Radar and Hydrology (WRaH) Conference in 2014

该项目旨在创建一个名为天气雷达与水文学(WRaH)的专业研讨会。这次专题讨论会将讨论基于雷达的降水估计的快速进展，有助于增进对最先进的降水处理工具和产品的了解。预期将阐明雷达降水产品的若干问题，其中包括：1)改进雷达降水处理算法，从而改进降水产品；2)雷达降水的偏差校正方法；3)将降水产品纳入分布式水文建模工作的新兴工具；4)可供实时应用的降水产品；5)利用雷达历史降雨数据制定基于降雨的水文设计标准的新办法；6)将雷达数据用于各种应用方面的国家和国际经验教训。雷达降雨技术的经济驱动力对美国乃至最终对世界经济都很重要。这项专题讨论会活动将改进根据雷达雨量数据得出的水文设计标准，并为许多机构创造经济发展机会。

This project is to create a specialty symposium titled Weather Radar and Hydrology (WRaH). This symposium will discuss the rapid advances in radar-based estimation of precipitation contributing to the improvement of understanding the state-of-the-art precipitation processing tools and products. It is expected to shed light on several issues of radar-based precipitation products which include: 1) Enhancements in radar-based precipitation processing algorithms resulting in improved precipitation products; 2) Bias correction methods for radar-based precipitation; 3) emerging tools to incorporate precipitation products in distributed hydrologic modeling efforts, 4) precipitation products that can be made available for real-time applications, 5) new approaches to rainfall-based hydrologic design standards utilizing historical radar rainfall data and 6) lessons learned from national and international experiences of use of radar data for variety of applications. The economic drivers of radar-rainfall technology are important to the US and, eventually, the world economy. This symposium activity will lead to improved hydrologic design standards derived from radar rainfall data and create economic development opportunities for many agencies.