A simple biota removal algorithm for 35&thinsp;GHz   cloud radar measurements

Kalapureddy, Madhu Chandra R.; Sukanya, Patra; Das, Subrata K.; Deshpande, Sachin M.; Pandithurai, Govindan; Pazamany, Andrew L.; Ambuj K., Jha; Chakravarty, Kaustav; Kalekar, Prasad; Devisetty, Hari Krishna; Annam, Sreenivas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1417-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1417-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1417-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 3

Research article

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12 Mar 2018

Research article |

| 12 Mar 2018

A simple biota removal algorithm for 35 GHz cloud radar measurements

Madhu Chandra R. Kalapureddy, Patra Sukanya, Subrata K. Das, Sachin M. Deshpande, Govindan Pandithurai, Andrew L. Pazamany, Jha Ambuj K., Kaustav Chakravarty, Prasad Kalekar, Hari Krishna Devisetty, and Sreenivas Annam

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

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RC1: 'Reviewer Comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 28 Sep 2017
RC2: 'Referee Report', Anonymous Referee #2, 05 Oct 2017
- AC3: 'Author responses to the comments of Referee 2', Madhu Chandra R KALAPUREDDY, 24 Nov 2017
RC3: 'comment on paper AMT 2017-254', Anonymous Referee #3, 05 Oct 2017
- AC4: 'Author responses to the comments of Referee 3', Madhu Chandra R KALAPUREDDY, 24 Nov 2017
AC1: 'TEST performance where shallow ABL clouds in the presence of biota', Madhu Chandra R KALAPUREDDY, 26 Oct 2017
AC2: 'Author responses to the comments of Referee 1', Madhu Chandra R KALAPUREDDY, 24 Nov 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Madhu Chandra R KALAPUREDDY on behalf of the Authors (25 Nov 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (28 Nov 2017) by Gianfranco Vulpiani

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (11 Dec 2017)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (11 Dec 2017)

ED: Publish as is (12 Dec 2017) by Gianfranco Vulpiani

AR by Madhu Chandra R KALAPUREDDY on behalf of the Authors (15 Dec 2017) Manuscript

Short summary

A new technique to separate cloud and non-hydrometeor returns from a cloud radar high-resolution reflectivity measurements is proposed. The TEST algorithm potentially identifies cloud height with the theoretical echo sensitivity curves and observed echo statistics for the cloud height tracing. TEST is more robust in identifying and filtering out the biota contributions by constraining further with spectral width and LDR measurements. This algorithm improves the monsoon cloud characterization.