Unraveling hydrometeor mixtures in polarimetric radar measurements

Besic, Nikola; Gehring, Josué; Praz, Christophe; Figueras i Ventura, Jordi; Grazioli, Jacopo; Gabella, Marco; Germann, Urs; Berne, Alexis

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4847-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4847-2018

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4847-2018

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

Articles | Volume 11, issue 8

Research article

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22 Aug 2018

Research article |

| 22 Aug 2018

Unraveling hydrometeor mixtures in polarimetric radar measurements

Nikola Besic, Josué Gehring, Christophe Praz, Jordi Figueras i Ventura, Jacopo Grazioli, Marco Gabella, Urs Germann, and Alexis Berne

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Final revised paper (published on 22 Aug 2018)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 Apr 2018
- AC1: 'Responses to Reviewers', Nikola Besic, 11 Jul 2018
RC2: 'Reviewing of: Unraveling hydrometeor mixtures in polarimetric radar measurements by Besic et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Apr 2018
- AC2: 'Responses to Reviewers', Nikola Besic, 11 Jul 2018
RC3: 'Unraveling hydrometeor mixtures in polarimetric radar measurements', Anonymous Referee #3, 20 Apr 2018
- AC3: 'Responses to Reviewers', Nikola Besic, 11 Jul 2018
RC4: 'Refere comment', Anonymous Referee #4, 25 Apr 2018
- AC4: 'Responses to Reviewers', Nikola Besic, 11 Jul 2018
RC5: 'Unraveling hydrometeor mixtures in polarimetric radar measurements', Anonymous Referee #5, 10 May 2018
- AC5: 'Responses to Reviewers', Nikola Besic, 11 Jul 2018

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

AR by Nikola Besic on behalf of the Authors (11 Jul 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (12 Jul 2018) by Gianfranco Vulpiani

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (31 Jul 2018)

ED: Publish as is (02 Aug 2018) by Gianfranco Vulpiani

AR by Nikola Besic on behalf of the Authors (14 Aug 2018) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

In this paper we propose an innovative approach for hydrometeor de-mixing, i.e., to identify and quantify the presence of mixtures of different hydrometeor types in a radar sampling volume. It is a bin-based approach, inspired by conventional decomposition methods and evaluated using C- and X-band radar measurements compared with synchronous ground observations. The paper also investigates the potential influence of incoherency in the backscattering from hydrometeor mixtures in a radar volume.