{"575571":{"#nid":"575571","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Ph.D. Dissertation Defense - Jenny Reed","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E:\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETheoretical Performance Bounds for Estimation of Drop Size Distribution Parameters and Rain Rate\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECommittee:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Aaron Lanterman, ECE, Chair , Advisor\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Douglas Williams, ECE\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Mark Richards, ECE\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Gregory Durgin, ECE\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Branislav Vidakovic, BME\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERadar is an indispensable tool in the observation, analysis, and prediction of weather.\u0026nbsp; The Weather Surveillance Radar 1988-Doppler (WSR-88D) is the primary source of weather-radar data in the United States (U.S.), providing dual-polarimetric (dual-pol) radar measurements for the inference of meteorological phenomena.\u0026nbsp; The objective of this dissertation is to derive fundamental performance bounds for the variance of any unbiased estimator of the drop size distribution (DSD) parameters of rain, given the dual-pol measurements recorded by operational weather radars, e.g., the WSR-88D.\u0026nbsp; This dissertation further establishes similar bounds for the estimation of rain rate and liquid water content (LWC).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Theoretical Performance Bounds for Estimation of Drop Size Distribution Parameters and Rain Rate"}],"uid":"28475","created_gmt":"2016-09-12 15:00:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:19:19","author":"Daniela Staiculescu","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-10-12T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-10-12T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-10-12T16:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-10-12 18:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-10-12 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-10-12 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"434381","name":"ECE Ph.D. Dissertation Defenses"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"},{"id":"100811","name":"Phd Defense"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}