Retrieval of eddy dissipation rate from derived equivalent vertical gust included in Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay (AMDAR)

Kim, Soo-Hyun; Chun, Hye-Yeong; Kim, Jung-Hoon; Sharman, Robert D.; Strahan, Matt

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1373-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 1373–1385, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1373-2020

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Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 1373–1385, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1373-2020

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

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

Research article 26 Mar 2020

Research article | 26 Mar 2020

Retrieval of eddy dissipation rate from derived equivalent vertical gust included in Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay (AMDAR)

Soo-Hyun Kim et al.

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RC1: 'Initial review', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Dec 2019
- AC1: 'Author response to anonymous referee', Soo-Hyun Kim, 04 Feb 2020
RC2: 'Retrieval of Eddy Dissipation Rate from Derived Equivalent Vertical Gust included in Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay (AMDAR) by S.-H. Kim, H.-Y. Chun, J.-H. Kim, R. Sharman and M. Strahan', Anonymous Referee #3, 10 Jan 2020
- AC2: 'Author response to anonymous referee', Soo-Hyun Kim, 04 Feb 2020

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

AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (17 Feb 2020) Author's response

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (17 Feb 2020) by Wiebke Frey

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (24 Feb 2020)

Suggestions for revision or reasons for rejection

I think the paper is in quite good shape after the changes made in response to the initial round of comments. Now I have just a couple of recommendations, and a list of incidental language usage corrections.

1. In the response to Referee #1's major comment 1a, there is some information that I did not see in the revised paper. Specifically, the statement: "[P]ossible reasons [for] suspicious DEVG values [could] be power loss [at the] electrical contact[s] and a bug in the DEVG initialization logic, which is related to [an] intermittently added 1-g-bias, where g is the acceleration due to gravity (D. Body, personal communication)." This information would be useful to include in the paper.

2. p. 2, line 20: Rather than saying that the DEVG uncertainties are assumed to be negligible, it would be more informative to quote the actual figures from the AMDAR manual (3 to 4% typically, 10 to 12% in the extreme).

Language corrections

1. p. 1, line 20: "statistics by" --> "statistics obtained by"
2. p. 1, line 28: "routine, therefore PIREPs" --> "routine; therefore, PIREPs"
3. p. 2, line 6: "metrics are" --> "metrics were"
4. p. 3, line 2: "adopted the" --> "adopted a"; "and different" --> "and a different"
5. p. 3, line 3: "between two" --> "between the two"
6. p. 3, line 4: "metric detection" --> "detection metric"
7. p. 4, line 2: "NOAA include" --> "NOAA that include"
8. p. 4, line 13: "This reporting" --> "The reporting"
9. p. 4, line 15: "lower reporting time window" --> "long reporting time windows"
10. p. 4, line 16: "counts either" --> "counts on either"
11. p. 5, line 32: "to" --> "for"
12. p. 6, line 8: "reason of" --> "reason for"
13. p. 7, line 5: Delete "forecast"
14. p. 7, line 11: "the lognormal property of" --> "a lognormal property for"
15. p. 8, line 5: Delete "for"
16. p. 8, line 14: "bands of" --> "bands with"
17. p. 8, line 15: "for" --> "for the"
18. p. 8, line 22: "which developed the best-fit" --> "based on the best-fit"
19. p. 8, line 29: Delete "for"
20. p. 9, line 16: "with" --> "as"
21. p. 10, line 23: "the lognormal property of" --> "a lognormal property for"
22. p. 10, line 23: "proposed the" --> "proposed a"
23. p. 10, line 24: "on the" --> "on a"
24. p. 10, line 28: "The robust" --> "A robust"
25. p. 11, line 5: "of global" --> "of a global"

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (26 Feb 2020) by Wiebke Frey

Dear Soo-Hyun Kim et al.,

as you can see from the reviewers report, there are a few minor points which I'd like to ask you to consider, see below, before publication of the manuscript.

best wishes,
Wiebke Frey

Anonymous Referee:
I think the paper is in quite good shape after the changes made in response to the initial round of comments. Now I have just a couple of recommendations, and a list of incidental language usage corrections.

1. In the response to Referee #1's major comment 1a, there is some information that I did not see in the revised paper. Specifically, the statement: "[P]ossible reasons [for] suspicious DEVG values [could] be power loss [at the] electrical contact[s] and a bug in the DEVG initialization logic, which is related to [an] intermittently added 1-g-bias, where g is the acceleration due to gravity (D. Body, personal communication)." This information would be useful to include in the paper.

2. p. 2, line 20: Rather than saying that the DEVG uncertainties are assumed to be negligible, it would be more informative to quote the actual figures from the AMDAR manual (3 to 4% typically, 10 to 12% in the extreme).

Language corrections

1. p. 1, line 20: "statistics by" --> "statistics obtained by"
2. p. 1, line 28: "routine, therefore PIREPs" --> "routine; therefore, PIREPs"
3. p. 2, line 6: "metrics are" --> "metrics were"
4. p. 3, line 2: "adopted the" --> "adopted a"; "and different" --> "and a different"
5. p. 3, line 3: "between two" --> "between the two"
6. p. 3, line 4: "metric detection" --> "detection metric"
7. p. 4, line 2: "NOAA include" --> "NOAA that include"
8. p. 4, line 13: "This reporting" --> "The reporting"
9. p. 4, line 15: "lower reporting time window" --> "long reporting time windows"
10. p. 4, line 16: "counts either" --> "counts on either"
11. p. 5, line 32: "to" --> "for"
12. p. 6, line 8: "reason of" --> "reason for"
13. p. 7, line 5: Delete "forecast"
14. p. 7, line 11: "the lognormal property of" --> "a lognormal property for"
15. p. 8, line 5: Delete "for"
16. p. 8, line 14: "bands of" --> "bands with"
17. p. 8, line 15: "for" --> "for the"
18. p. 8, line 22: "which developed the best-fit" --> "based on the best-fit"
19. p. 8, line 29: Delete "for"
20. p. 9, line 16: "with" --> "as"
21. p. 10, line 23: "the lognormal property of" --> "a lognormal property for"
22. p. 10, line 23: "proposed the" --> "proposed a"
23. p. 10, line 24: "on the" --> "on a"
24. p. 10, line 28: "The robust" --> "A robust"
25. p. 11, line 5: "of global" --> "of a global"

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AR by Soo-Hyun Kim on behalf of the Authors (26 Feb 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

We retrieve the eddy dissipation rate (EDR) from the derived equivalent vertical gust included in the Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay data for more reliable and consistent observations of aviation turbulence globally with the single preferred EDR metric. We convert the DEVG to the EDR using two methods (lognormal mapping scheme and best-fit curve between EDR and DEVG), and the DEVG-derived EDRs are evaluated against in situ EDR data reported by US-operated carriers.