Calibration of a 35&thinsp;GHz airborne cloud radar: lessons learned and intercomparisons with 94&thinsp;GHz cloud radars

Ewald, Florian; Groß, Silke; Hagen, Martin; Hirsch, Lutz; Delanoë, Julien; Bauer-Pfundstein, Matthias

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1815-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1815-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1815-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

Research article

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20 Mar 2019

Research article |

| 20 Mar 2019

Calibration of a 35 GHz airborne cloud radar: lessons learned and intercomparisons with 94 GHz cloud radars

Florian Ewald, Silke Groß, Martin Hagen, Lutz Hirsch, Julien Delanoë, and Matthias Bauer-Pfundstein

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Final revised paper (published on 20 Mar 2019)
Preprint (discussion started on 11 Oct 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 #2, 01 Nov 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #2', Florian Ewald, 07 Feb 2019
RC2: 'Review of manuscript of Ewald et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 13 Nov 2018
- AC2: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #3', Florian Ewald, 07 Feb 2019
RC3: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 21 Nov 2018
- AC3: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #1', Florian Ewald, 07 Feb 2019

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

AR by Florian Ewald on behalf of the Authors (08 Feb 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (14 Feb 2019) by Vassilis Amiridis

AR by Florian Ewald on behalf of the Authors (24 Feb 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

This study gives a summary of lessons learned during the absolute calibration of the airborne, high-power Ka-band cloud radar HAMP MIRA on board the German research aircraft HALO. The first part covers the internal calibration of the instrument where individual instrument components are characterized in the laboratory. In the second part, the internal calibration is validated with external reference sources like the ocean surface backscatter and different air- and spaceborne cloud radars.