It was a pleasure meeting you
in Locarno, Switzerland, at the
11th European Conference
on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology
FULL HYBRID
EVENT
from 29th August
to 2nd September 2022
THANK YOU ALL!
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340 participants and 8 exhibitors came to Locarno,
120 people followed online!
379 abstracts have been submitted.
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Save the date for ERAD 2024 in Italy: 9 - 13 September 2024
Sapienza, Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
FIRST HYBRID CONFERENCE
For the first time ERAD was fully hybrid. Participants could attend and present both in person in Locarno and from remote. For the filming and streaming ERAD2022 was professionally accompanied by the international film school “CISA” (Conservatorio Internazionale di Scienze Audiovisive - FILM Academy).
KEYWORDS
Following the main keywords that will be targeted during the conference.
1
METEOROLOGY
Microphysics
Particle size distributions
Precipitation physics
Orographic precipitation
Climatological studies
2
APPLICATIONS
Hydrometeor classification
Solid precipitation
Hail
Mesoscale weather
Quantitative precipitation estimation QPE
Radar and raingauge integration
Nowcasting of precipitation
Nowcasting of convection and thunderstorms
Hydrological applications
Nowcasting of debris flows and flash floods
NWP data assimilation
NWP verification
End-to-end applications
Birds, insects, volcano ashes, wild fire and other non-meteorological targets
3
RADAR PROCESSING
Doppler and wind
Spectral processing
Advanced radar signal processing
Synergetic use of data from different sources
Artificial intelligence
Big data approaches
4
DATA QUALITY
Data quality and error structure
Clutter suppression
Uncertainty modelling and propagation
Verification of radar data using conventional and novel reference data (eg crowd sourcing)
5
ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS
Hardware calibration and hardware monitoring
Radar engineering
New transmitter, receiver, antenna solutions
Renewal and deployment of radar systems
Operational radar networks
Radar deployment for field experiments
Interferences (wind turbine, electromagnetic)
Networking and mosaicking
6
TECHNOLOGY
New and emerging radar technologies
Multi-frequency radar
Phased-array radars
Millimeter wavelength radars
Space-borne radars
Airborne radars
LOCARNO
The city Locarno is built on the delta of the magnificent Maggia river, in the western part of Ticino. The Locarno region is surrounded by Lake Maggiore, a breathtaking alpine landscape and several beautiful valleys, such as the Verzasca and Maggia valleys.
View from Locarno Monti - Ticino
PROGRAM COMMITTEE 2022
An International committee
ANNAKAISA VON LERBER
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
(chair of EUMETNET-OPERA)
DANIEL MICHELSON
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada (chair of ERAD 2004, chair of WMO IPET-OWR)
DANIEL SEMPERE TORRES
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain (chair of ERAD 2006)
DAVID BODINE
University of Oklahoma, USA (chair of AMS Radar 2023)
DMITRI MOISSEEV
University of Helsinki, Finland
EFRAT MORIN
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
FRANK MARZANO
Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
​HIDDE LEIJNSE
KNMI, Netherlands (chair of ERAD 2018)
KURTULUS ÖZTÜRK
Turkish State Meteorological Service, Turkey (chair of ERAD 2016)
LUCA BALDINI
ISAC-CNR, Italy
MARTIN HAGEN
DLR, Germany (chair of ERAD 2014)
MIGUEL RICO-RAMIREZ
University of Bristol, UK
REMKO UIJLENHOET
Wageningen University, Netherlands (chair of ERAD 2018)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 2022
The Federal Office of Metereology and Climatology MetewoSwiss and L’École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL have been nominated on behalf of the international program committee to organize ERAD 2022 in Switzerland.
ALEXIS BERNE
EPFL, Switzerland, chair of ERAD 2022
URS GERMANN
MeteoSwiss, Switzerland, chair of ERAD 2022
FRANZISKA KELLER
MeteoSwiss, Switzerland
SILVIA RAO
MeteoSwiss, Switzerland
MARCO GABELLA
MeteoSwiss, Switzerland
GIONATA GHIGGI - SUPPORT CREW
EPFL, Switzerland
MONIKA FELDMANN - SUPPORT CREW
EPFL, Switzerland
DANIELE NERINI - SUPPORT CREW
MeteoSwiss, Switzerland
GRETA FORNERA - SUPPORT CREW
MeteoSwiss, Switzerland
CORINA ZEHNDER - SUPPORT CREW
MeteoSwiss, Switzerland
JESSICA CURATO - SUPPORT CREW
Mandated by MeteoSwiss, Switzerland
RACHEL VON DACH - SUPPORT CREW
Mandated by MeteoSwiss, Switzerland
REGISTRATION FEES
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEES 2022
EARLY
31 May
REGULAR
30 June
LATE
ONLINE
175 CHF
225 CHF
275 CHF
(15th August)
ONSITE UPGRADE (if you already paid online fee)
245 CHF
295 CHF
345 CHF
(15th July)
ONLINE + ONSITE UPGRADE
420 CHF
520 CHF
620 CHF
(15th July)
Onsite registration includes:
Full conference attendance - Ice-Breaker - Coffee breaks - Lunches - Social event.
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Online registration includes:
Full conference attendance online.
Rates are in Swiss Francs (CHF)
Exchange rate: 1CHF = 0.96EURO (May 2022)
VAT included
No refunds