Precipitation and microphysical processes observed by three polarimetric X-band radars and ground-based instrumentation during HOPE

Precipitation and microphysical processes observed by three polarimetric X-band radars and ground-based instrumentation during HOPE

This study presents a first analysis of precipitation and related microphysical processes observed by three polarimetric X-band Doppler radars (BoXPol, JuXPol and KiXPol) in conjunction with a ground-based network of disdrometers, rain gauges and vertically pointing micro rain radars (MRRs) during the High Definition Clouds and Precipitation for advancing Climate Prediction (HD(CP)2) Observatio...

Interactive comment on “Precipitation and Microphysical Processes Observed by Three Polarimetric X-Band Radars during HOPE” by X. Xie et al

The interest of the paper lies in taking advantage of multi-parameter measurement capability to improve or assess microphysical phenomena knowledge. The data interpretation is quite consistent and well referenced, and recent and interesting approaches are used (e.g. QVP by Ryzhkov et al., 2016). However, even if the paper aims at presenting some preliminarily step to some more ambitious study (...

Interactive comment on “Precipitation and Microphysical Processes Observed by Three Polarimetric X-Band Radars during HOPE” by X. Xie et al

Interactive comment on “Precipitation and Microphysical Processes Observed by Three Polarimetric X-Band Radars during HOPE” by X. Xie et al

This paper presents some data from an two months experiment. The examined dataset included three polarimetric X-band weather radars supplemented by MRRs, disdrometers and rain-gauges. The focus of the paper is on the radar observations. The recorded rain events were of low intensity and this didn’t permit a more advanced evaluation of radars performance. Thus, instead of just showing some daily...

Heavy Rainfall Monitoring by Polarimetric C-Band Weather Radars

Piemonte region, in the north-western Italy, is characterized by complex orography and Mediterranean influence that often causes extreme rainfall event, during the warm season. Although the region is monitored by a dense gauge network (more than one gauge per 100 km 2 ), the ground measurements are often inadequate to properly observe intense and highly variable precipitations. Polarimetric wea...