From 2001-11-19 to 2001-11-22

Venue: Heian-Kaikan
Kyoto, Japan

Summary:
As radar remote sensing technology is rapidly changing operational hydrology and is supplying hydrological science and engineering with data-rich information, this symposium provides a forum for exchange of experiences and ideas on its use. This fifth meeting in a series initiated more than 10 years ago in Salford, England, will be held for the first time in Japan. The meeting will provide hydrologists and meteorologists an opportunity to share experience from the rapidly growing number of radar and radar network installations around the world.

Topics:
- Estimation and prediction of precipitation using radar data
- Distributed hydrologic modeling
- Hydroclimatic studies based on radar data
- Application of weather radars for hydrologic forecasting in different climates
- Contributions of radar data to water management
- Emerging radar technologies and their potential for hydrologic applications
- Progress in application of polarimetric techniques
- Space-born radar
- Operational experience in radar hydrology
- Coupling meteorological and hydrological models assimilating radar data
- Radar Hydrology in urban areas
- Scale issues radar observation can solve
- Advanced microwave technology for hydrological and meteorological observation
- Application for forecasting of dangerous hydrologic phenomena.

Organizers: Water Resources Research Center
Kyoto University
Contact Name: Prof. Eiichi Nakakita
E-mail: radconf@civil.ac
URL: http://www.fishawr.civil.ac/