Talks

Oral presentation

Presented on analysis-ready, cloud-optimized data formats for scalable weather and climate science:

• ARCO principles and best practices

• Cloud-native radar data workflows

• Performance benchmarks and scalability

• Real-world applications in weather forecasting

Oral presentation

Advancing Open Radar Science: FAIR Principles and Cloud-Native Data Management

• FAIR data principles for radar datasets

• Cloud-native storage formats (Zarr)

• Open-source tools and workflows

• Community collaboration and impact

Oral presentation

Efficient Weather Radar Data Management in Practice: FAIR Principles and Cloud-Native Solutions

• Practical implementation of FAIR principles

• Cloud-optimized radar data workflows

• Performance improvements and cost benefits

• Case studies and lessons learned

Co-organizer and instructor

Co-organized and taught a half-day short course on open radar science tools and practices:

• Introduction to xradar and the Python radar ecosystem

• FAIR principles for radar data

• Cloud-optimized data formats (Zarr)

• Hands-on tutorials with Jupyter notebooks

Materials | GitHub

Oral presentation

Presented deep learning approach for retrieving precipitation particle size distributions from GPM dual-frequency radar observations:

• Physics-informed neural network architecture

• Training on global TRMM/GPM datasets

• Validation against ground-based disdrometers

• Operational implementation considerations

Abstract | Slides

Lightning talk

Demonstrated the application of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles to weather radar data:

• Challenges with legacy radar data formats

• raw2zarr workflow for cloud optimization

• Publishing datasets to open repositories

• Community impact and adoption

Video | Slides

Poster presentation

Assessment of GPM dual-frequency precipitation retrieval algorithm using ground-based radar networks in South America:

• Systematic comparison of GPM DPR and ground radar

• Regional precipitation biases

• Implications for satellite algorithm development

Poster PDF

Invited talk

Invited presentation on open science practices for the Colombian atmospheric science community:

• Benefits and challenges of open science

• Tools and workflows for reproducible research

• Colombian radar data archive project

• Building collaborative research communities

Slides

Oral presentation

Overview of the Colombian weather radar network modernization and quantitative precipitation estimation:

• Network evolution (2000-2019)

• Operational radar data processing

• QPE algorithm development

• Applications for flood forecasting

Lead instructor

Lead instructor and contributor for a hands-on tutorial on cloud-native radar workflows using open-source tools such as xradar.

DOI: Ladino et al. (2024)

Lead instructor

Lead instructor and contributor for a hands-on tutorial on radar science using FAIR principles and cloud-native formats (Zarr).

DOI: Ladino et al. (2024)

Lead instructor

Lead instructor and contributor for a hands-on tutorial on teaching and exploring hydrometeorological data analysis with Python in Spanish.

DOI: Levin et al. (2023)

Contributing author and maintainer for the Radar Cookbook, an educational resource for radar data analysis with Python:

• Interactive Jupyter notebooks

• Data access and processing workflows

• Visualization techniques

• Best practices for reproducible research

Visit Cookbook

Regular presentations to the department seminar series on:

• Research progress updates

• Literature reviews

• Tool demonstrations

• Career development topics

Abstract submitted

Planned presentation on machine learning approaches for precipitation microphysics retrieval.

Co-chaired session on “Novel Radar Data Products and Applications”

• Organized 8 presentations

• Facilitated Q&A discussions

• Provided feedback to early-career scientists