Technical Papers

- Weather Services

• Application of optical-flow technique to significant convection nowcast for terminal areas in Hong Kong(P. Cheung and H.Y. Yeung, The 3rd WMO International Symposium on Nowcasting and Very Short-Range Forecasting (WSN12), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 6-10 August 2012)
• Seamless Weather Forecast from Minutes to Days to Support Air Travel(W.K. Wong, S.M. Tse and P. Cheung, HKIE ICT Conference: Technologies for a Smart City, Hong Kong, China, 11 May 2012)
• Application of Multi-platform Satellite Surface Wind Analysis in Aerodrome Wind Forecasting during the Passage of Tropical Cyclones (P. Cheung, C.C. Lam and Y.L. Chan, 15th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; Los Angeles, CA, 1-4 August 2011)
• Development of Satellite-based Significant Convection Nowcasting Product in Support of Air Traffic Flow Management in Hong Kong (P. Cheung, C.C. Lam and T.K.H. Ng, 15th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; Los Angeles, CA, 1-4 August 2011)
• The latest services for ICAO (Albersheim, S, D. Hart, C.M. Cheng and L. Burch, Meteorological Technology International, May 2011 issue, pp 62-65)
• New Meteorological Services Supporting Air Traffic Management (C.M. Shun and Sandy M.K. Song, ICAO Journal -- APAC Regional Report, December 2010)
• Objective calibrated wind speed and crosswind probabilistic forecasts for the Hong Kong International Airport (P. Cheung and C.C. Lam, Second Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration, Seattle, WA, 23-27 January 2011)
• Development of significant convection forecast product and service for air traffic flow management in Hong Kong (P. Cheung and C.C. Lam, Second Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration, Seattle, WA, 23-27 January 2011)
• Aviation Applications of a New Generation of Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction System of the Hong Kong Observatory (W.K. Wong, P.W. Chan and C.K. Ng, The 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, American Meteorological Society, Seattle, USA, 24-27 January 2011)
• Advanced Applications of Numerical Weather Prediction Models - Case Studies (P.W. Chan, Numerical Simulations - Examples and Applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Chapter 5, pp. 71-96)
• Remote Sensing Observations of the Subsidence Zone within the Eye of Typhoon Nuri in Hong Kong in 2008 (C.P. Wong and P.W. Chan, Weather, Vol. 65, pp. 299-302)
• Determination of Backscatter-Extinction Coefficient Ratio for LIDAR-Retrieved Aerosol Optical Depth Based on Sunphotometer Data (P.W. Chan, Remote Sensing Vol.2(9), pp. 2127-2135)
• Climatology and Performance of LIDAR-based Visibility Map at the Hong Kong International Airport (P.W. Chan and C. M. Li, First International Conference on Sustainable Urbanization, 15 - 17 December 2010, Hong Kong)
• Retrieval of Aerosol Optical Depth from Geostationary Satellite, MTSAT-1R, over East Asia (J. Kim, M. Kim, J. Lee, J. Yoon, D. Wu, P.W. Chan, J.E. Nichol and C. Wong,17th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 27 - 30 September 2010, Annapolis, MD, USA)
• Performance of Temperature and Dew Point Data Based on Collection 5 algorithm of MODIS and Their Application in Numerical Modelling of Tropical Cyclones (H.Y. Yip and P.W. Chan, 17th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 27 - 30 September 2010, Annapolis, MD, USA)
• Application of Variational Analysis of Wind Field Based on Lidar Conical Scans to Air Quality Monitoring (P.W. Chan and Frank Yu, The Open Atmospheric Science Journal, Volume 4, p.64-77, May 2010)
• Improving Wind and Rain Simulations for Tropical Cyclones with the Assimilation of Doppler Radar Data (T.C. Cheung and P.W. Chan, The Open Atmospheric Science Journal, Volume 4, p.57-63, May 2010)
• Numerical Simulation of Fog Using Non-Hydrostatic NWP Model With Third-Order Turbulence Closure (W.K. Wong and S.T. Lai, Journal of Hydro-environment Research Volume 4, Issue 2, (2010), Pages 131-141)
• Atmospheric Phenomena Observed over the South China Sea by the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar Onboard the Envisat Satellite (W. Alpers, W. Huang, P.W. Chan, W.K. Wong, C.M. Cheng and A. Mouche, Proceedings of the Dragon 2 Programme Mid Term Results Symposium, Guilin, P.R. China, 17-21 May 2010, ESA publication SP-684)
• Wind Data Collected by a Fixed-wing Aircraft in the Vicinity of a Typhoon over the South China Coastal Waters (P.W. Chan and K.K. Hon, The 29th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 10-14 May 2010, Tucson, Arizona, USA)
• Impact of Different Cumulus Parameterizations on the Numerical Simulation of Rain over Southern China (P.W. Chan, The 29th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 10-14 May 2010, Tucson, Arizona, USA)
• The Use of Neural Network Retrieval for Thermodynamic Profiles of a Ground-based Microwave Radiometer (P.W. Chan, The 11th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment, 1-4 March 2010, Washington, DC, USA)
• Application of a Ground-based Microwave Radiometer in Cloud Observations (P.W. Chan and C.M. Li, The 11th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment, 1-4 March 2010, Washington, DC, USA)
• Performance of Instability Indices of the Troposphere as Derived from a Ground-based Microwave Radiometer (P.W. Chan and K.K. Hon, The 11th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment, 1-4 March 2010, Washington, DC, USA)
• Local Random Errors in Drop-counting Rain Gauges (P.W. Chan, C.M. Li and G.J. Ciach, 15th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 17-21 Jan 2010)
• Development of an Advanced Aviation Nowcasting System by Including Rapidly Updated NWP Model in Support of Air Traffic Management (P.W. Li and W.K. Wong, 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 17-21 Jan 2010)

- Windshear and Turbulence

• Remote-sensing observations of a gust front at Hong Kong International Airport(P.W. Chan, Weather, 67, 176¡V181)
• Application of LIDAR-based F-factor in windshear alerting(P.W. Chan, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 21, 193¡V204)
• Numerical simulation study of the effect of buildings and complex terrain on the low-level winds at an airport in typhoon situation(L. Li and P.W. Chan, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 21, 183¡V192)
• Automated Processing of Doppler Radar Data for Severe Weather Warnings(P. Joe, S. Dance, V. Lakshmanan, D. Heizenreder, P. James, P. Lang, T. Hengstebeck, Y. Feng, P.W. Li, H.Y. Yeung, O. Suzuki, K. Doi and J. Dai, Doppler Radar Observations - Weather Radar, Wind Profiler, Ionospheric Radar, and Other Advanced Applications, InTech, 470 pages)
• Aviation Applications of Doppler Radars in the Alerting of Windshear And Turbulence(P.W. Chan and P. Zhang, Doppler Radar Observations - Weather Radar, Wind Profiler, Ionospheric Radar, and Other Advanced Applications, InTech, 470 pages)
• A significant wind shear event leading to aircraft diversion at the Hong Kong international airport(P.W. Chan, Met. Apps, 19: 10¡V16. doi: 10.1002/met.242)
• Application of Short-Range Lidar in Wind Shear Alerting(P.W. Chan and Y.F. Lee, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 29, 207¡V220)
• Application of a method for the automatic detection and Ground-Based Velocity Track Display (GBVTD) analysis of a tornado crossing the Hong Kong International Airport(P.W. Chan, J. Wurman, C.M. Shun, P. Robinson and K. Kosib, Atmospheric Research, 106, 18¡V29)
• Combined use of headwind ramps and gradients based on LIDAR data in the alerting of low-level windshear/turbulence (P.W. Chan, K.K. Hon and D.K. Shin, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 20, 661-670, 2011)
• Lagrangian Coherent Structure Analysis of Terminal Winds Detected by Lidar. Part II: Structure Evolution and Comparison with Flight Data (Wenbo Tang, P. W. Chan and George Haller, J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 50, 2167¡V2183, 2011)
• Implementation and applications of chaotic oscillatory based neural network for wind prediction problems (K.M. Kwong, F.W. Tee, J.N.K. Liu and P.W. Chan, Atmˆusfera, Volume 24, 397-416, 2011)
• Large-eddy simulation of the wind flow across a terminal building on the airfield (J.O.P. Cheung, P.W. Chan and D.Y.C. Leung, International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Volume 04, 486-489, 2011)
• Application of ground-based, multi-channel microwave radiometer in the nowcasting of intense convective weather through instability indices of the atmosphere (P.W. Chan and K.K. Hon, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Volume 20, 431-440, 2011)
• Application of a ground-based, multi-channel microwave radiometer to the alerting of low-level windshear at an airport (P.W. Chan and Y.F. Lee, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Volume 20, 423-429, 2011)
• Wind data collected by a fixed-wing aircraft in the vicinity of a tropical cyclone over the south China coastal waters (P.W. Chan, K.K. Hon and S. Foster, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Volume 20, Number 3, June 2011, pp. 313-321)
• Lagrangian Coherent Structure Analysis of Terminal Winds Detected by Lidar. Part I: Turbulence Structures (Wenbo Tang, P.W. Chan and George Haller, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 50, 325¡V338, February 2011)
• Generation of an Eddy Dissipation Rate Map at the Hong Kong International Airport Based on Doppler Lidar Data (P.W. Chan, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 28, 37¡V49, January 2011 )
• Verification of NWP Turbulence Intensity Guidance Using Eddy Dissipation Rate from Aircraft Data (W.K. Wong, P.W. Chan and C.M. Li, The 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, American Meteorological Society, Seattle, USA, 24-27 January 2011)
• LIDAR-Based Turbulence Intensity Calculation Using Glide-Path Scans of the Doppler LIght Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) systems at the Hong Kong International Airport and Comparison with Flight Data and a Turbulence Alerting System (P.W. Chan, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Vol.19, No. 6, pp. 549-563, December 2010)
• Validating the Turbulence Parameterization Schemes of a Numerical Model Using Eddy Dissipation Rate and Turbulent Kinetic Energy Measurements in Terrain-Disrupted Airflow (P.W. Chan, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, Vol. 108, Nos. 3-4, pp. 95-112)
• LIDAR Windshear Alerting System at the Hong Kong International Airport - An Application of Information and Communication Technologies (P.W. Chan, ICT Conference: The Way to Digital City - Sustainable Public Services and Solutions, 1- 2 November 2010, Hong Kong)
• Lagrangian Characterization of Terrain Induced Turbulence Based on LIDAR Observations: Flow Characteristics and Airplane Approaches at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) (W. Tang, G. Haller and P.W. Chan,14th Conference on Mountain Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, 30 August - September 2010, Olympic Valley, CA, USA)
• Combined Use of Headwind Ramps and Gradients Based on LIDAR Data in the Alerting of low-level Windshear/Turbulence (P.W. Chan, K.K. Hon and D.K. Shin,14th Conference on Mountain Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, 30 August - September 2010, Olympic Valley, CA, USA)
• Study of Wind Fields Associated with Subtropical Squall Lines using ENVISAT Synthetic Aperture Radar Images and Ground-based Weather Radar Data (P.W.Chan, C.M. Cheng and W. Alpers, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 31, Nos. 17-18, pp 4897-4914, September 2010)
• Investigation of Trapped Atmospheric Gravity Waves over the South China Sea using Envisat Synthetic Aperture Radar Images (C.M. Cheng and W. Alpers, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 31, Nos. 17-18, pp 4725-4743, September 2010)
• Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of the Wind Flow over an Airport Terminal Building (C.H. Liu, Dennis Y.C. Leung, Alex C.S. Man and P.W. Chan, Zhejiang University Science A, Volumn 11, No. 6, p.389 - 401, June 2010)
• Lagrangian Coherent Structures in Finite Domains(W. Tang, P.W. Chan and G. Haller, The 16th US National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, June 27-July 2, 2010, State College, Pennsylvania, USA)
• LIDAR and Chaotic Oscillatory-based Neural Network for Wind Shear Forecasting (K.M. Kwong, James N.K. Liu and P.W. Chan, The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing 12-15 July 2010, Las Vegas, NV, USA)
• Determination of Backscatter-Extinction Coefficient Ratio for LIDAR-retrieved Aerosol Optical Depth Based on Sunphotometer Data (P.W. Chan and M.L. Kuo, The 25th International Laser Radar Conference 5-9 July 2010, St. Petersburg, Russia)
• Forecasting Headwind Profiles and Low Level Windshear Using LIDAR Velocity Data and a Chaotic Oscillatory-based Neural Network (P.W. Chan and K.M. Kwong, The 25th International Laser Radar Conference 5-9 July 2010, St. Petersburg, Russia)
• Applications of a Short-Range LIDAR at the Hong Kong International Airport (P.W. Chan, The 25th International Laser Radar Conference 5-9 July 2010, St. Petersburg, Russia)
• LIDAR Data Analysis for a Tornado on 6 September 2004 at the Hong Kong International Airport (P.W. Chan and Frank Yu, International Symposium for the Advancement of Boundary Layer Remote Sensing 2010, 28 - 30 June 2010, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France)
• Gust Measurements by a Monostatic Minisodar (P.W. Chan and K.K. Hon, International Symposium for the Advancement of Boundary Layer Remote Sensing 2010, 28 - 30 June 2010, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France)
• Low Level Wind Effects of the Hangars at the Hong Kong International Airport (P.W. Chan, W.Y. Lo and D.Y.C. Leung, The 5th International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering, 23 - 27 May 2010, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
• Accurate extraction of Lagrangian coherent structures over finite domains with application to flight data analysis over Hong Kong International Airport (W.Tang, P.W. Chan and G. Haller, Chaos, volume 20, 017502 (2010))
• Alerting of Terrain-induced Windshear Using Wind Data Measured over the Mountains (G. Kuhlmann, T. Hauf and P.W. Chan, 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 17-21 Jan 2010)
• Latest Developments of Windshear Alerting Services at the Hong Kong International Airport (P.W. Chan, C.M. Shun and M.L. Kuo, 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 17-21 Jan 2010)
• Doppler Effect - The Glide Path Scan That Alerts for Low-level Windshear (P.W. Chan, Meteorological Technology International, 2010)

- World Area Forecast System

• Visualization of WAFS Trial Gridded Forecasts (C.M. Shun, Thirteenth Meeting of the Communications/Navigation/Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-group of APANPIRG (CNS/MET SG13), Bangkok, Thailand, 20-24 July 2009)
• Further Observations on WAFS Trial Gridded Forecasts (C.M. Shun, Thirteenth Meeting of the Communications/Navigation/Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-group of APANPIRG (CNS/MET SG13), Bangkok, Thailand, 20-24 July 2009)
• Regional Progress in WAFS Implementation (C.M. Shun, Thirteenth Meeting of the Communications/Navigation/Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-group of APANPIRG (CNS/MET SG13), Bangkok, Thailand, 20-24 July 2009)
• Regional Progress in WAFS Implementation (C.M. Shun, Twelfth Meeting of the Communications/Navigation/Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-group of APANPIRG (CNS/MET SG12), Bangkok, Thailand, 21-25 July 2008)
• Observations on WAFS Trial Gridded Forecasts (M.K. Song and C.Y. Hong, Twelfth Meeting of the Communications/Navigation/Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-group of APANPIRG (CNS/MET SG12), Bangkok, Thailand, 21-25 July 2008)
• Improving Visualization of WAFS Forecasts (C.M. Shun, 4th Meeting of ICAO World Area Forecast System Operations Group (WAFSOPSG), Cairo, Egypt 26-28 February 2008 )
• Performance of WAFS Gridded Products ( C.M. Shun, The Eleventh Meeting of the Communications/Navigation/Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-group of APANPIRG (CNS/MET SG/11) Bangkok, Thailand, 11-20 July 2007 )
• Problems and Opportunities Arising from the Migration of OPMET Data to BUFR (C.M. Shun and Ken Macdonald, Commission For Aeronautical Meteorology Thirteenth Session, Geneva, Switzerland,23 November to 1 December 2006)
• Regional Progress in WAFS Implementation(C.M. Shun, Ninth Meeting of the Communications/Navigation/Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group (CNS/MET/SG/9) of APANPIRG, Bangkok, Thailand, 11¡V15 July 2005)
• BURF Migration Operational Trial and Airlines' Feedback (World Area Forecast System Operations Group (WAFSOPSG) Second Meeting, Bangkok, Thailand, 8-11 March 2005)

- Uplink / Downlink of Weather Information to / from Aircraft

• Uplink and Downlink of Weather Information ¡V Recent Development in Hong Kong, China (C.M. Shun, The Eleventh Meeting of the Communications/Navigation/Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-group of APANPIRG (CNS/MET SG/11) Bangkok, Thailand, 11-20 July 2007)
• Recent Developments in AMDAR and trends in Meteorological Data Downlink (C.M. Shun, Commission For Aeronautical Meteorology Thirteenth Session, Geneva, Switzerland, 23 November-1 December 2006)
• Recent Developments on Meteorological Information Datalink at the Hong Kong International Airport (M.K. Song, International Symposium on Electronics in Air Transport Industry (SEATI) 2006, Hong Kong, China, 8-9 March 2006 )
• Current Status of D-ATIS and D-VOLMET Implementation(M.K. Song, Ninth Meeting of the Communications/Navigation/Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group (CNS/MET/SG/9) of APANPIRG, Bangkok, Thailand, 11¡V15 July 2005)
• Identification of a Data Link for Uplinking Graphical Meteorological Information(C.M. Shun, Ninth Meeting of the Communications/Navigation/Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group (CNS/MET/SG/9) of APANPIRG, Bangkok, Thailand, 11¡V15 July 2005)
• Provision of Automated Aircraft Observations(C.M. Shun, Ninth Meeting of the Communications/Navigation/Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group (CNS/MET/SG/9) of APANPIRG, Bangkok, Thailand, 11¡V15 July 2005)
• Specification of Graphical Tropical Cyclone SIGMET for Uplink to Aircraft(H.G. Wai, Meteorological Information Data Link Study Group (METLINKSG), Eighth Meeting, Montreal, 1-4 February 2005)
• Uplink of Windshear and Turbulence Information to Aircraft(H.G. Wai, Meteorological Information Data Link Study Group (METLINKSG), Eighth Meeting, Montreal, 1-4 February 2005)