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Articles | Volume 12, issue 7
Articles | Volume 12, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3743-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3743-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 7
Research article
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11 Jul 2019
Research article |  | 11 Jul 2019

Estimation of liquid water path below the melting layer in stratiform precipitation systems using radar measurements during MC3E

Jingjing Tian, Xiquan Dong, Baike Xi, Christopher R. Williams, and Peng Wu

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Liquid water path (LWP) is a combination of rain liquid water path (RLWP) and cloud liquid water path (CLWP) in stratiform precipitation systems. LWP partitioning is important but poorly understood. Here we estimate the RLWP and CLWP below the melting base simultaneously and separately using ceilometer and radar measurements. Results show that the occurrence of cloud particles below the melting base is low; however, when cloud particles exist, the CLWP value is much larger than the RLWP.
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