Calibration and validation of the Polarimetric Radio Occultation and Heavy Precipitation experiment aboard the PAZ satellite

Padullés, Ramon; Ao, Chi O.; Turk, F. Joseph; de la Torre Juárez, Manuel; Iijima, Byron; Wang, Kuo Nung; Cardellach, Estel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1299-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1299-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1299-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

Research article

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19 Mar 2020

Research article |

| 19 Mar 2020

Calibration and validation of the Polarimetric Radio Occultation and Heavy Precipitation experiment aboard the PAZ satellite

Ramon Padullés, Chi O. Ao, F. Joseph Turk, Manuel de la Torre Juárez, Byron Iijima, Kuo Nung Wang, and Estel Cardellach

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RC1: 'Review of paper by Padullés et al. "Calibration and Validation of the Polarimetric Radio Occultation and Heavy Precipitation experiment Aboard the PAZ Satellite"', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Oct 2019
- AC1: 'Responses to Reviewer 1', Ramon Padullés, 03 Feb 2020
RC2: 'referee comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Oct 2019
- AC2: 'Responses to Reviewer 2', Ramon Padullés, 03 Feb 2020

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AR by Ramon Padullés on behalf of the Authors (03 Feb 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (04 Feb 2020) by Joanna Joiner

AR by Ramon Padullés on behalf of the Authors (07 Feb 2020)

Short summary

In this study we thoroughly address the calibration and validation of the new polarimetric radio occultation (PRO) observables. These represent an innovative way to obtain vertical profiles of precipitation along with thermodynamic observations of the same scene. First we perform the on-orbit calibration of the measurement. Then, we show how the PRO observables are sensitive to the presence and intensity of rain by looking for coincident precipitation measurements from independent missions.