Enhancing the consistency of spaceborne and ground-based radar comparisons by using beam blockage fraction as a quality filter

Crisologo, Irene; Warren, Robert A.; Mühlbauer, Kai; Heistermann, Maik

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5223-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5223-2018

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5223-2018

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

Articles | Volume 11, issue 9

Research article

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18 Sep 2018

Research article |

| 18 Sep 2018

Enhancing the consistency of spaceborne and ground-based radar comparisons by using beam blockage fraction as a quality filter

Irene Crisologo, Robert A. Warren, Kai Mühlbauer, and Maik Heistermann

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Final revised paper (published on 18 Sep 2018)
Preprint (discussion started on 10 Apr 2018)

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

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SC1: 'Review', Daniel Michelson, 12 May 2018
- SC2: 'Better formatted review', Daniel Michelson, 12 May 2018
  - AC1: 'Responses to reviewers', Irene Crisologo, 29 Jun 2018
RC1: 'Please find my review as a .pdf file in attachment', Marco Gabella, 22 May 2018
- AC2: 'Responses to reviewers', Irene Crisologo, 29 Jun 2018
RC2: 'Paper Reviews', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 May 2018
- AC3: 'Responses to reviewers', Irene Crisologo, 29 Jun 2018

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

AR by Irene Crisologo on behalf of the Authors (17 Aug 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (24 Aug 2018) by Gianfranco Vulpiani

RR by Marco Gabella (27 Aug 2018)

ED: Publish as is (27 Aug 2018) by Gianfranco Vulpiani

AR by Irene Crisologo on behalf of the Authors (28 Aug 2018)

Short summary

The calibration of ground-based weather radar (GR) can be improved a posteriori by comparing observed GR reflectivity to well-established spaceborne radar platforms (SR), such as TRMM or GPM. Our study shows that the consistency between GR and SR reflectivity measurements can be enhanced by considering the quality of GR data from areas where signals may have been blocked due to the surrounding terrain, and provides an open-source toolset to carry out corresponding analyses.