Improved rain rate and drop size retrievals from airborne Doppler radar

Improved rain rate and drop size retrievals from airborne Doppler radar

Satellite remote sensing of rain is important for quantifying the hydrological cycle, atmospheric energy budget, and cloud and precipitation processes; however, radar retrievals of rain rate are sensitive to assumptions about the raindrop size distribution. The upcoming EarthCARE satellite will feature a 94 GHz Doppler radar alongside lidar and radiometer instruments, presenting opportunities f...

Interactive comment on “Improved rain-rate and drop-size retrievals from airborne and spaceborne Doppler radar” by Shannon L. Mason et al

A common thread across the reviews was a request for more justification of the retrieval of a height-invariant Nw, and for evaluation of the retrievals through the vertical profile. In response we have added Figs. 5, 9 & 12 evaluating the averaged vertical profile of retrieved and forward-modelled variables in key precipitation regimes: moderate stratiform rain (case 1), light stratiform rain w...

A method for estimating rain rate and drop size distribution from polarimetric radar measurements

Polarimetric radar measurements are sensitive to the size, shape and orientation of raindrops and provide information about drop size distribution (DSD), canting angle distribution and rain rate. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a method for retrieving DSD parameters for calculating rain rate and the characteristic particle size. The DSD is assumed to be a Gamma distribution and the go...

Vertical Profiles Of: Rain Drop Size Distribution & Radar Reflectivity Factor-rain Rate (z-r) Relation

Rain Rate-Radar Reflectivity Relationship for Drop Size Distribution and Rain Attenuation Calculation of Ku Band Signals

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