P3a.7 Classification and Characterization of Tropical Precipitation Based on High-resolution Airborne Vertical-incidence Radar
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High-altitude airborne measurements of vertical incidence radar reflectivity and radial velocity are analyzed for some 21,231 km of flight tracks over tropical precipitation systems. The radar, the ER-2 Doppler radar (EDOP), was flown in three campaigns in central Florida, Brazil (near Ji Parana in the southeastern Amazon), and over hurricanes. The strength of the radar dataset lies in its superb vertical resolution, sufficient to unambiguously detect a bright band, which is a characteristic of stratiform precipitation. The detection of a bright band, which discriminates deep stratiform precipitation, is the basis of the classification of precipitation profiles primarily into stratiform or convective. The classification algorithm is based on the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar V-method (NASDA 1999).
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Classification and Characterization of Tropical Precipitation Based on High-Resolution Airborne Vertical Incidence Radar. Part I: Classification
Airborne measurements of vertical incidence radar reflectivity and radial velocity are analyzed for some 21 231 km of high-altitude flight tracks over tropical precipitation systems, in order to describe their characteristic vertical structure. The strength of the radar dataset lies in its superb vertical resolution, sufficient to detect unambiguously a bright band and the coincident Doppler ve...
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