Vertical air motion retrievals in deep convective clouds using the ARM scanning radar network in Oklahoma during MC3E

North, Kirk W.; Oue, Mariko; Kollias, Pavlos; Giangrande, Scott E.; Collis, Scott M.; Potvin, Corey K.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2785-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2785-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2785-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 8

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04 Aug 2017

Research article |

| 04 Aug 2017

Vertical air motion retrievals in deep convective clouds using the ARM scanning radar network in Oklahoma during MC3E

Kirk W. North, Mariko Oue, Pavlos Kollias, Scott E. Giangrande, Scott M. Collis, and Corey K. Potvin

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Final revised paper (published on 04 Aug 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 01 Sep 2016)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Reviewer Comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 Sep 2016
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer Comment #1', Kirk North, 04 Jun 2017
RC2: 'Comments on Vertical Air Motion Retrievals in Deep Convective Clouds', Anonymous Referee #2, 28 Sep 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to RC2', Kirk North, 18 Jan 2017
- AC3: 'Response to Reviewer Comment #2', Kirk North, 04 Jun 2017
RC3: 'Minor comments about manuscript', Anonymous Referee #3, 02 Oct 2016
- AC4: 'Response to Reviewer Comment #3', Kirk North, 04 Jun 2017
RC4: 'Review: Vertical air motion retrievals in deep convective clouds using the ARM scanning radar network in Oklahoma during MC3E', Anonymous Referee #4, 14 Oct 2016
- AC5: 'Response to Reviewer Comment #4', Kirk North, 04 Jun 2017

Short summary

Vertical air motion retrievals from 3DVAR multiple distributed scanning Doppler radars are compared against collocated profiling radars and retrieved from an upward iteration integration iterative technique to characterize their veracity. The retrieved vertical air motions are generally within 1–2 m s⁻¹ of agreement with profiling radars and better solution than the upward integration technique, and therefore can be used as a means to improve parameterizations in numerical models moving forward.