CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DATA
Name
Dr. Alessandro Battaglia
Birthday
April 2, 1972
Place of Birth
Treviso, Italy
Nationality
Italian
Family
married, one four-year-old daughter, one one-year-old son
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
1990-1996
Studies of Physics at the University of Padova, Italy
Feb. 1996
Graduation in Physics, (110/110 cum Laude); Topic of thesis “Hierarchy mass
problem of quarks and leptons”
Mar.-Dec. 1996
Master Course in Particle Physics at the University of Padova.
1998-2001
PhD student at the Department of Physics (University of Ferrara)
Sept.-Oct.1998:
Visiting fellowship at the Helsinki Observatory, Helsinki, Finland
Sept.1999-Apr.2000:
Visiting fellowship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
Maryland, USA.
Jan. 2001
PhD examination at the University of Ferrara
PhD thesis: Microwave scattering from hydrometeors and radiative transfer in clouds and
precipitation, rating: “very good” Supervisor: Prof. F. Prodi
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
Nov. 2000-Nov. 2002 Research associate at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of
Bologna
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Participation within the ASI-IRMA project
Feb. 2001:
Habilitation for teaching both mathematics and physics in High School
Apr. 2001-Dec. 2001
Post-Doctoral-Fellow at Colorado State University, Department of
Meteorology, Fort Collins, Colorado
Jan. 2003-Aug. 2004
Research associate Department of Physics, University of Ferrara
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Participation within the EURAINSAT project
since Sep. 2004
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Contract Professor of the Course Laboratory of Radiative Transfer,
University of Ferrara (years 2003-2004)
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Contract Professor at a master course in Meteorology, University of
Bologna (years 2003-2004)
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Contract Professor at a master course in Meteorology, University of
Turin (year 2004)
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Contract Professor at a master course in Meteorological Risks for
Aviation Navigation, University of Forli’ (year 2004).
Assistant Professor at the Meteorological Institute, University Bonn
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Teaching in the areas Radiative Transfer, Radar Meteorology, Remote
Sensing and Interaction Land-Atmosphere
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Responsibility for the ESA-ESTEC RFQ/3-10865/03/NL/GSESA
project Development of an End-to End Simulator for the EGPM Mission
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Responsibility for the Precip-AMMA project Satellite based precipitation
estimation over the West African Monsoon area and ground-based remote sensing of
the state of the atmosphere
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Cooperation with Dr. M. O. Ajewole (visiting scientist in Bonn with
an A..v.Humboldt fellowship) to the Extension of a 3D Monte Carlo
Radiative Transfer code for Radar application
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Cooperation with Dr. Pascal Sahiri (visiting scientist in Bonn with a
DAAC fellowship) to the Exploitation of the X-band polarimetric
radar measurements during AMMA (ESA contract)
Since August 2008 part of the NASA Precipitating Measuring Mission Science Team
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
English
business fluent
German
basic
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Programming
Fortran, IDL, Matlab, LATEX
Operating Systems
Unix/Linux, Windows
Peer Reviewed Journal Papers
1. Battaglia, A., J. Haynes, T. L'Ecuyer, and C. Simmer, Identifying multiple-scattering-affected
profiles in CloudSat observations over the Oceans, J. Geoph. Res., 113, D00A17,
doi:101029/2008JD009960, 2008
2. A. Tokay, Peter Hartman, A. Battaglia, C. Williams, K. S., Gage and W. L. Clark, Spatial and
Temporal Variability of Z-R Relations within the Rain Layer, JAOT, in press
3. Hogan, R., Battaglia, A., Fast lidar and radar multiple-scattering models: Part 2: Wide-angle
scattering using the time-dependent two-stream approximation, J. Atmos. Sci., 65 (12), 3636–3651,
doi: 10.1175/2008JAS2643.1, 2008.
4. Sergey Y. Matrosov. A. Battaglia and Peter Rodriguez, A Method for Estimating Rainfall Rates
from Height Derivatives of CloudSat Measurements, J. Atm. Ocean. Tech., in publication, 2008
5. Battaglia, A., and C. Simmer, How does multiple scattering affect the spaceborne W-band radar
measurements at ranges close to and crossing the surface-range?, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience
and Remote Sensing, Vol 46, No 6, 1644-1651, 2008.
6. Battaglia, A., S. Kobayashi, S. Tanelli, E. Im, and C. Simmer, Multiple scattering effects in pulsed
radar systems: an intercomparison study, J. Atm. Ocean. Tech.., 25 (9), 1556–1567, doi:
10.1175/2008JTECHA1023.1, 2008
7. Battaglia, A. , M. O. Ajewole and C. Simmer, Evaluation of radar multiple scattering effects in
Cloudsat configuration, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2007, 7, 1719-1730.
8. Battaglia, A., C. Davis and C. Emde and C. Simmer, Microwave radiative transfer intercomparison
study for 3-D dichroic media, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer,
2007,105(1), 55-67.
9. Battaglia, A. and C. Simmer, Explaining the polarization signal from rain dichroic media, Journal of
Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, 2007, 105(1), 84-101.
10. Battaglia, A.; Ajewole, M.O.; Simmer, C. (2006): Evaluation of radar multiple scattering effects
from a GPM perspective. Part I: model description and validation, J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., 45(12),
1634-1647.
11. Battaglia, A.; Ajewole, M.O.; Simmer, C. (2006): Evaluation of radar multiple scattering effects
from a GPM perspective. Part II: model results., J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., 45(12), 1648-1664.
12. Battaglia, H. Czekala and C. Simmer, Three dimensional effects in polarization signatures as
observed from precipitating clouds by low frequency microwave radiometer, Atmos. Chem. Phys.,
2006
13. Caracciolo, F. Prodi, A. Battaglia and F. Porcu', Analysis of the moments and parameters of a
gamma DSD to infer precipitation properties: A convective stratiform discrimination algorithm,
Atmospheric Research, 2006, Vol. 80, Issue 2-3, pp. 165-186, 2006.
14. Battaglia A. and Mantovani, S., Forward Montecarlo computations of fully polarized microwave
radiation in non isotropic media, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, 2005,
95, 285-308.
15. Battaglia, A., Ajewole, M. O. and Simmer, C., Multiple scattering effects due to hydrometeors on
precipitation radar systems, Geophysical Research Letters, 2005, vol. 32 (19),
doi:10.1029/2005GL023810.
16. Battaglia, A., Kummerow, C., Dong-Bin Shin, and Williams, C., Toward characterizing the effect
of radar bright bands on microwave brightness temperatures, J. Atmospheric and Oceanic
Technology, Vol. 20, No. 6, 856-871, 2003.
17. Battaglia, A., Sturniolo, O., Prodi, F., Radar multi-parameter analyses for ice cloud, Atm. Res., 2001,
59-60, 231-250.
18. Battaglia A., Sturniolo, O., and Prodi F., Radar and scattering parameters through falling
hydrometeors with axially-symmetric shapes. Applied Optics, 2001, 40, 3092-3100.
19. Prodi F., Battaglia A., Brunelli F. and Sturniolo, O., 2000: Measurements of natural precipitation
with 35 GHz scatterometer and corresponding simulations, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (B),
Vol. 25, No. 10-12, pp.1343-1346.
20. Prodi, F., Sturniolo, O., Medini, R., and Battaglia, A., 1999: Radar parameters simulation for
populations of spherical and non-spherical hydrometeors: dependence on size distributions, shapes
and composition, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, 63, 677-699.
21. Battaglia A., Muinonen, K., Nousiainen, T., and Peltoniemi, J.I., 1999: Light scattering by Gaussian
particles: Rayleigh-ellipsoid approximation, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative
Transfer, 63, 277-303.
22. Prodi, F., Medini, R., Battaglia, A.,and Sturniolo, O., 1998: Radar parameters calculations for Γ
distribution of cloud particles in single scattering, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Vol. B, No.
3, 213-218.
Papers submitted
1. A. Battaglia, P. Saavedra and C. Simmer, Rain observations by a multi-frequency dual polarized
radiometer, IEEE letter, under final revision
Most of these papers are available in .pdf format for download at
http://www.meteo.uni-bonn.de/mitarbeiter/battaglia/publications.html
Book Contributions
1. Battaglia, A., Prodi F. , Porcu F., and Dong-Bin Shin, 3D effects in MW radiative transport inside
precipitating clouds: modeling and applications, chapter in the book Measuring Precipitation from
space: EURAINSAT and the future, edited by V. Levizzani, P. Bauer e F. J. Turk, Eds., Springer,
113-126.
2. Battaglia A., Simmer,C., Crewell,S., Czekala, H., Emde, C., Marzano, F., Mishchenko,M., Pardo,
J., and Prigent, C., Emission and scattering by clouds and precipitation, chapter in the book
"Thermal Microwave Radiation - Applications for Remote Sensing", IEE Electromagnetic Waves
Series, London, UK, 2006, edited by C. Mätzler.
International workshops and conferences
A. Battaglia, Pablo Saavedra,C. Simmer Ground-based observations of precipitating clouds by a scanning
polarimetric 10-21-36 GHz microwave radiometer, Oral presentation at the Int. Rad. Symp.2008, Foz do
Iguacu, Brazil 3 - 8 August
A. Battaglia and C. Simmer, Simulating the backscattering enhancement in polarimetric radars, Oral
presentation at the Int. Rad. Symp.2008, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil 3 - 8 August
A. Battaglia, J. M. Haynes, T. L'Ecuyer, C. Simmer, Flagging profiles burdened by multiple-scattering in the
CloudSat rain product over ocean, Oral presentation at EGU2008, Vienna, 13-18 April 2008.
T. Rose, H. Czekala, U. Löhnert, A. Battaglia, A New Generation of Passive Microwave Radiometers for
Atmospheric Remote Sensing, Proc 10th Microrad, 11-14 March 2008, Florence, Italy.
A. Battaglia, P. Saavedra, C. Simmer, T. Rose Ground-based observations of precipitating clouds by a
scanning polarimetric triple-frequency microwave radiometer, Poster Presentation at the 10th Microrad, 1114 March 2008, Florence, Italy.
Hogan, R. J., and A. Battaglia, Accounting for multiple scattering in spaceborne radar and lidar observations
Proc 33rd AMS Conf. on Radar Meteorology, 2007, Cairns, Queensland:
Alessandro Battaglia, C. Simmer, D. Schuettemeyer and H. Bogena, Physical validation: the contribution of
the Bonn University and Research Center Julich, Oral presentation at GPM Ground Validation Workshop,
March 3-7, 2008, Buzios, Brasil.
Elke Rustemeier, Ali Tokay, V. N. Bringi, G. Huang, Michael Schönhuber, David Hudak, Gail SkofronickJackson, Walter A. Petersen, and Alessandro Battaglia Snowfall Size Distribution Measurements in
Southern Ontario, Canada, Poster presentation at the TRMM Science Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, Feb
4-8 2008.
Peter Hartmann, Ali Tokay, Alessandro Battaglia, Kenneth S. Gage, Christopher R. Williams, Wallace L.
Clark, Spatial and Temporal Variability of Z-R relations, Poster Presentation at the TRMM Science
Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, Feb 4-8 2008.
Battaglia, A. and Simmer, C., Simulations and observations of multiple scattering effects in space-borne
radars when observing precipitation systems, Oral presentation at IUGG, Perugia, Italy 2-13 July 2007.
Battaglia, A. and Simmer, C., 3D radiative transfer effects as observed by ground-based passive microwave
radiometers, Oral presentation at IUGG, Perugia, Italy 2-13 July 2007.
Battaglia, A. and Simmer, C., Multiple scattering effects foreseen in the EarthCARE Radar Observations,
Poster presentation at EarthCARE workshop, ESA/ESTEC Noordwijk, 7-9 May 2007.
Battaglia, A. and Simmer, C., The role of multiple scattering effects in space-borne radar-based rainfall
estimates, Oral presentation at EGU2007, Vienna, 15 -20 April 2007.
Rose, T., Battaglia A., Crewell, S., Löhnert, U. (2006): High accuracy determination of temperature, water
vapor and cloud parameters with a novel suite of microwave channels in an alpine environment. 7th
International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling: Needs and Technologies (ISTP), Boulder, Colorado,
11-17 June 2006.
Hartmann, P., Tokay, A, and A. Battaglia, Comparison of reflectivity measurements by vertically pointing
radars and disdrometer, Poster presentation at ERAD2006, Barcelona, 18-22 September 2006.
Battaglia, A., and Simmer, A simulator for polarized active sensors: validation and examples of multiple
scattering effects, Oral presentation at 12th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, 10-14 July 2006,
Madison, WI
Diederich, M., Battaglia, A., Bozoglu, A., and Simmer, C., Satellite-based rainfall estimates over West
Africa based on combining Morphing and the Histogram-Matching techniques, Oral presentation at
EGU2006, Vienna, 02 - 07 April 2006.
Battaglia, A. and Ajewole, M. O., and Simmer, C., Relevance of multiple scattering effects in space-borne
radar-based rainfall retrievals, Poster presentation at the EGU2006, Vienna, 02 - 07 April 2006.
A. Battaglia, H. Czekala and C. Simmer, Three dimensional effects in polarization signatures as observed
from precipitating clouds by low frequency microwave radiometer. Poster presentation at MicroRad'06,28
Feb - 03 Mar 2006, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Battaglia, A. and Ajewole, M. O., and Simmer, C., When does multiple scattering due to hydrometeors
become relevant to space-borne radar measurements?, Poster presentation at the 32th Conference on Radar
Meteorology, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 2005
Diederich, M., Simmer, C. and Battaglia, A., A combined Micro-Rain-Radar (MRR) and weather radar
system for improved real-time quantitative precipitation measurement (QPM), Oral presentation at the 32th
Conference on Radar Meteorology, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 2005
Milan, M., Amen, F., Venema, V., Battaglia, A., and Simmer, C., Physical initialization to incorporate radar
precipitation data into a numerical weather prediction model (Lokal model), Poster presentation at the 32th
Conference on Radar Meteorology, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 2005
Battaglia, A., Prodi F., Porcù F. and Mantovani S., Montecarlo computations of solar reflectance from ice
and water clouds at near infrared frequencies, Poster presentation at ICCP, Bologna 2004
V. Levizzani, C. Adamo, P. P. Alberoni, A. Antonini, A. Battaglia, J. P. V. Poiares Baptista, P. Bauer, A.
Buzzi, D. Capacci, C. Caracciolo, E. Cattani, M. Celano, D. Cimini, M. J. Costa, S. Davolio, S. Dietrich, M.
Fantini, S. di Michele, G. Giuliani, D. E. Hinsman, M. Kästner, A. Khain, C. Kidd, J. Kidd, D. Kniveton, R.
Lahav, R. Layberry, I. Lensky, P. Malguzzi, S. Mantovani, F. S. Marzano, A. Maurizi, C. M. Medaglia, S.
Melani, F. Meneguzzo, G. Messeri, A. Mugnai, S. Natali, A. Orlandi, A. Ortolani, G. Panegrossi, M. Pasqui,
S. Pinori, V. Poli, F. Porcu, F. Prodi, J. F. W. Purdom, D. Rosenfeld, V. Sanderson, J. Schmetz, E. A. Smith,
R. Solomon, J. Steinwagner, F. Tampieri,F. J. Tapiador, A. Tassa, F. Torricella, G. J. Tripoli, F. J. Turk, G.
A. Vicente,M. G. Villani, Precipitation estimation: from the RAO to EURAINSAT and beyond, Proc.
Second MSG RAO Workshop, Salzburg, Austria 9-10 September 2004
Capacci, D., Battaglia, A., Conway, B. J., Mantovani, S., Porcù, F., and Prodi F., On the sensitivity of
MODIS visible/1.6 micron channels to radar-measured ground precipitation, Poster presentation at ICCP,
Bologna 2004
Papa, A., Porcù F., Battaglia A., Wang, P.K., Natali, S., and Prodi, F., Insights on the updraft extinction by
satellite observations and cloud microphysical model, Poster presentation at ICCP, Bologna 2004
Caracciolo, C., Prodi, F. and Battaglia, A., Relationship between the hydrometeor size distribution and cloud
microphysical properties using disdrometer data, 14th ICCP 2004. 18-23 July 2004. ISAC-CNR, Bologna Italy. Vol. 1, p. 499-502
Diederich, M., Simmer, C. and Battaglia, A., Spatial and temporal variability of drop size distribution from
vertically pointing micro rain radar (MRR), Proceeding of 2th Workshop of the International Precipitation
Working Group, Monterey, California, USA, pp. 313-326, 2004.
Battaglia, A., and Dong-Bin Shin, Three dimensional precipitating clouds observed by passive MW
radiometers from different viewing angles, Poster presentation at GPM meeting, ESA-ESTEC, June 2003
Prodi, F., and Battaglia, A., Physical methods in evaluating the performances of hail suppression and rain
enhancement, Casablanca, Conference of WMO, 2003.
Prodi, F., and Battaglia, A., and Porcu, F., Physical aspects of active and passive remote sensing of rain,
ACTIVE conference, Bologna, Italy 2003
Battaglia, A., Mantovani, S., and Prodi, F., Polarimetric characteristic of radar bright band at C, X and Ka
band, oral presentation, Italian Society of Physics, Alghero, Italy 2002.
Battaglia, A., Radiative transfer in finite structured precipitating clouds in microwave region, Invited
presentation at the Italian Society of Physics, Alghero, Italy 2002.
Sturniolo, O., Battaglia, A. and Prodi, F., 2000: Depolarization ratios for partially aligned populations of
hydrometeors with axially-symmetric shapes, Proceeding of 13th International Conference on Clouds and
Precipitation, Reno Area, Nevada, USA, pp.276-279,2000.
Battaglia, A. and Kummerow, C., 2000: Forward Montecarlo computations of polarized microwave
radiation, Proceeding of 13th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation, Reno Area, Nevada,
USA, pp. 256-259, 2000.
Prodi, F., Battaglia, A., Brunelli, F. and Sturniolo, O., Measurements of natural precipitation with 35 GHz
scatterometer and corresponding simulations, Proceedings of 1st European Radar Conference ERAD,
Bologna 3-8 September, 2000.
Battaglia, A., Sturniolo, O., and Prodi, F., 1999: Radar parameters for partially aligned hydrometeors, with
axially-symmetric shapes, Proceeding of Cloud Symposium on Remote Sensing of Cloud Parameters:
Retrieval and Validation, IRCTR, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.
Prodi, F., Medini, R., Battaglia, A., and Sturniolo, O., 1998: Radar parameters calculations for Γ distribution
of cloud particles in single scattering EGS XXIII General Assembly, Nice, 20-24 April, 1998. Poster
presentation
Prodi, F., Sturniolo, O., Medini, R., and Battaglia, A.,1998: Simulation of cloud scenarios using
monodisperse and polydisperse populations of randomly oriented axially symmetric hydrometeors,
Proceeding of Conference on Light Scattering By Nonspherical Particles: Theory, Measurements, and
Applications, American Meteorological Society, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA, pp. 309312.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
I graduated at the University of Padova on 22/2/1996 with full marks (110/110 cum laude) with a
thesis in Particle Physics about hierarchy mass problem of quarks and leptons.
I started the Doctorate at Ferrara University in Physics (Physics of the Atmosphere) under the
guidance of Prof. Franco Prodi, Prof. of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Ferrara. First I
developed single scattering models for space-borne backscatter radar signal processing and I
collaborated with Dr. Cristina Flesia of the Groupe de Geophysique Appliquée, Geneve
(Switzerland) to assess possible synergies between radar and lidar in cloud properties retrievals.
In September and October 1998 I was hosted at the Helsinki Observatory by Prof. Karri Muinonen. I
worked on light scattering by Gaussian particle in Rayleigh-ellipsoid approximation.
From September 1999 to April 2000 I have been at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to work
inside the TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission) project on the implementation of a
fully polarized forward Montecarlo code under the guide of Dr. Chris Kummerow.
I successfully defended my PhD thesis "Microwave scattering from hydrometeors and radiative
transfer in clouds and precipitation'' on January 19, 2001 at the University of Ferrara.
From November 2000 to November 2002, I had a research contract with University of Bologna,
Department of Aerospace Engineering. During this period from April 2001 until the end of 2001 I
worked at Colorado State University as a PostDoc on the modeling of radar bright band in passive
and active microwave in collaboration with Prof. Chris Kummerow.
During 2002 I have finished my work on the bright band and I have worked in collaboration with
Prof. A. Mugnai (IFA, Rome) at IRMA (Instrument for Rain Monitoring and Alarm), an ASI
(Italian Space Agency) project for a drone satellite equipped with a 35GHz cloud radar and TMI
(TRMM Microwave Imager)-like passive radiometers. In this project I have performed simulations
of raining profiles in mid-latitude scenarios for a space borne 35 GHz cloud radar to evaluate the
effects of some radar parameters (like minimum detected height, maximum slope of reflectivity,
freezing level height) to improve a TMI-based rainfall retrievals.
From January 2003 to August 2004 I had a Research Contract at the University of Ferrara in order
to study numerical modeling of the interaction of em radiation with hydrometeors financed by the
EC Eurainsat project. I started my project by studying the importance of 3-D effects in radiative
transfer at TMI frequencies with numerical comparisons between slant path and Montecarlo
methods applied to Goddard Cumulus Ensemble Cloud Resolving Models. A final assessment of
the accuracy of slant path 1-D versus 3-D Montecarlo radiative transfer codes has been done by
differentiating between pure geometrical effect due to the slant viewing geometry and scattering
effects. In this same context, the impact in bayesan method based RR estimates of a EGPM-type
satellite, equipped with a forward/backward looking multi-frequency radiometer, has been
evaluated.
Since Sept. 2004 I have been working at University of Bonn. My research have focused on groundbased radiometry (with the development of a full Stokes backward MonteCarlo suited for 3D
scenarios) and on simulations of high frequency space-borne radars (like CloudSat or those planned
for GPM and EarthCARE) trying to evaluate multiple scattering effects in presence of precipitation
(with the development of a full Stokes forwad MonteCarlo suited for 3D scenarios). The
MonteCarlo codes are participating to different inter-comparisons studies (like the I3RC project
leaded by T. Varnai, the ARTS codes or the code developed by S. Kobayashi et al. at NASA-JPL).
Currently I’m assessing the importance of multiple scattering in the CloudSat database trying to flag
the profiles which are burdened by this problem and to correct for it in the precipitation
retrievals(two papers on that .
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research interests mainly focus in active and passive remote sensing of clouds and precipitation
with a particular specialization in the microwave domain. I have a strong background in radiative
transfer modeling and in light scattering by non-spherical particles, fields in which I developed my
own codes (e.g. fully polarized forward and backward 3D codes). I have also a long experience in
using publicly available software like T-matrix codes by M. Mischchenko, DDSCAT by Draine and
Flatau, RT3 and RT4, SHDOM by F. Evans, Eddington code by C. Kummerow, and the Streamer
code. This competences in the forward modeling have been used to improve some components of
the inversion algorithms used in the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (evaluation of the
effect of the melting layer extinction enhancement) and in the CloudSat mission (by flagging
profiles which are multiple scattering affected). Most recently, besides satellite programs, I have
started working on ground-based measurements with two main interests: X-band polarimetric radar
(an optimally estimation algorithm is now under development in forecast of the new system soon
available in Bonn in June 2008) and passive microwave multi-wavelength radiometers by exploiting
the ADMIRARI measurements obtained during the COPS campaign (Aug-Dec 2007) and deploying
now the instrument at the CESAR observatory in Cabauw in the frame of the EUCAARI campaign.
Note that the ADMIRARI instrument (reinforced by an additional lower frequency channel) could
also be used to observe and characterize soil moisture.
A part of the Precipitation Measuring Missions Science Team I foreseen to strengthen international
collaborations in the frame of the future Earth Observing space missions with a particular focus on
the NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) and the ESA EarthCARE. I’m Collaborator
in the Instrument Simulator Suite for Atmospheric Remote Sensing project lead by Dr. S. Tanelli
(JPL) and funded for 2009-2011 by the NASA Advanced Information System Technology (AIST)
Program.
TEACHING ACTIVITY
I have a long record of teaching activities. During my stay in Italy I have been Contract Professor in
many graduate and undergraduate courses ranging for Introduction to dynamic meteorology,
microphysics of clouds, introduction to remote sensing and meteorological risks for aviation
navigation.
In 2001 I got the habilitation for teaching both mathematics and physics in High School and I won a
permanent position (not accepted) as a math teacher at the Gymnasium High School in Treviso,
Italy.
In 2002 together with Prof. F. Prodi and I have published (in Italian) three lesson notes: MeteorologyPart I: dynamic; Meteorology-Part II: microphysics; Radiation in the Atmosphere (available on my
web-page). Since the Winter semester of 2004 I have been teaching at the Meteorological Institute of
Bonn topics like Introduction to remote sensing, Radar meteorology, Radiative transfer, and seminar
courses.
MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
At the moment I am leading, as Principal Investigator, the following projects:
Project ADMIRARI (Development of an ADvanced MIcrowave Radiometer for Rain
Identification) funded by the German Science Foundation. This project, started in Jan. 2007 with the
duration of three years, aims at constructing and exploiting a new-generation multi-frequency (10.621.0-37.5 GHz) polarized (H-V) scanning (in zenith and azimuth) ground-based instrument capable
of estimating cloud and rain water liquid path.
Project SFB/TR TRANSREGIO (Patterns in soil-vegetation-atmosphere systems: monitoring,
modelling and data assimilation) funded by the German Science Foundation, started in January
2007 and will last for four years (with possibility of renewal to additional four years). The D5 subproject coordinated by myself, Prof. Simmer, Dr. T. Gerstner and Prof. Griebel, has its main goal in
detecting and monitoring structures of rain fields covering spatial scales from tens of metres to
hundreds of kilometres and temporal scales from minutes to months. Up- and down-scaling spacetime models will be developed, which are constrained by observed surface precipitation
information, and which will explicitly account for spatial and temporal structures of precipitation
events. The model will assimilate uncertain and sparse surface precipitation estimates reaching from
a fully polarimetric X-band Doppler radar (funded by the project and now installed at the
Meteorological Institute) to conventional rain gauges.
Project TOSCA (Towards an Optimal-estimation-technique for Snow Characterization Algorithm)
funded by the German Science Foundation. In the 3-year project (started in April 2007) an optimal
estimation technique to profile snow clouds will be developed by coupling detailed microphysical
and electromagnetic models of the cold segment of clouds and radiative transfer tools. The
algorithm will be applied to a suite of active and passive microwave sensors in two configurations
(one space-borne the A-train, another one ground-based at the Zugspitze).
In the frame of these three projects I supervise two PhD students and a Post-Doc student.
The full proposals of these projects are available in .pdf format at
http://www.meteo.uni-bonn.de/mitarbeiter/battaglia/projects.html
COPS 2007 measurements field campaign in the Black Forest: PI for the ADMIRARI (deployed at the
ARM facility) and the MICCY (9 channels in the 22.2 GHz water vapour absorption line) passive
microwave radiometers.
A DWD contract for an intercomparison study between the CloudSat Profiling Radar and the MIRA radar
(deployed at the Lindenberg site) reflectivities and derived cloud properties for coincident overpasses has
been carried out in October-November 2007.
References
1. Prof. Dr. Clemens Simmer,
Department of Meteorology, Auf dem Hügel, 20, 53121 Bonn, Germany
e-mail: csimmer@uni-bonn.de,
phone: (++49/0) 228-73-5181/5190
2. Prof. Dr. Christian D. Kummerow,
Department of Atm. Sciences, Colorado State University, 200 West Lake Street,
Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA,
e-mail:????kummerow@atmos.colostate.edu
phone: (++001) 970-491-7473
3. Prof. Franco Prodi
ISAC-CNR Via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, ITALY
Fax: +39 051 639 9658
e-mail: f.prodi@isac.cnr.it
el: +39 051 639 9618