in Switzerland, Locarno,

We invite you to join

the online/onsite hybrid conference ERAD 2022

11th European Conference

on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology

GET

INSPIRED

BY OUR

FULLY HYBRID

EVENT

from 29th August

to 2nd September 2022

REGISTRATION

We are happy to announce that the ERAD2022 conference will be held in Switzerland from 29 August to 2 September.

Because of COVID19, we have opted for a fully hybrid format: participants have the possibility to attend either remotely or onsite in Locarno.

If you are sure to join ERAD2022 at least virtually, you are asked to register for the ONLINE participation.

The ONSITE UPGRADE option provides the participants the opportunity to upgrade their registration for their onsite presence during the summer.

Participants that are already sure to come to ERAD2022 in Locarno can select directly the ONLINE + ONSITE UPGRADE.

VAT included

No refunds

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEES

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.

Online registration includes:

Full conference attendance online.

Rates are in Swiss Francs (CHF)
Exchange rate: 1CHF = 0.96EURO (May 2022)

ABSTRACTS

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION IS CLOSED.

Thank you for having submitted 373 abstracts! More information about oral/poster presentation will be given around mid-May. You can submit your extended abstract until 7th August. For more information press the button below.

SESSIONS AND ABSTRACT

Monte Lema - Ticino

KEYWORDS

Following the main keywords that will be targeted during the conference.

METEOROLOGY

Microphysics

Particle size distributions

Precipitation physics

Orographic precipitation

Climatological studies

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

RADAR PROCESSING

Doppler and wind

Spectral processing

Advanced radar signal processing

Synergetic use of data from different sources

Artificial intelligence

Big data approaches

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)

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

TECHNOLOGY

New and emerging radar technologies

Multi-frequency radar

Phased-array radars

Millimeter wavelength radars

Space-borne radars

Airborne radars

LOCATION

The conference will be held at Palacinema, a beautiful theatre inaugurated in 2017 in the city centre of Locarno for the International Film Festival Locarno.

Palacinema is located next to Piazza Grande, in walking distance from the train station, the lake and the hotel with preserved rooms.

PALACINEMA LOCARNO

ACCOMMODATION

The Ascona-Locarno Tourism Organization has pre-reserved hotel rooms in Locarno for the participants of ERAD-2022. There are rooms in different price categories. The pre-reserved rooms are blocked until June 30th 2022.

BOOKING

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.