Hailstorm climo derived from AMSR-E

Paraitinga

Foz do Iguacu

CHUVA - Foz do Iguacu (Nov 2012 - Jan 2013) is along edge of the region with possibly the world’s most frequent severe thunderstorms

Active Severe Tstm

environment in MSG Seviri

domainDual-pol Doppler radars in the area for CHUVA

Extra soundings, sites and # TBD

Opportunity to prepare for total lightning + ABI-like data for svr tstms

View angle from MSG at ~26 S, 56 E is similar to view angle of Northern Plains from GOES-East

CHUVA-FozBrazilians to deploy to Foz Do Iguacu in late 2012:

X-band dual-pol radar

5-10 rain gauges

4 disdrometers

1 micro-rain radar

Additional upper-air soundings and ground instrumentation

S-band dual-pol likely in Cascavel (~120 km NE)

Several of us (Cecil, Nesbitt, Zipser, Houze, Salio, Machado, others) hope to augment the 2012 campaign:

Extra soundings

LMA

Extra radar

Then build toward a more comprehensive campaign in Northern Argentina after GOES-R launch