Mind the gap – Part 2: Improving quantitative estimates of  cloud and rain water path in oceanic warm rain using spaceborne radars

Battaglia, Alessandro; Kollias, Pavlos; Dhillon, Ranvir; Lamer, Katia; Khairoutdinov, Marat; Watters, Daniel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4865-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4865-2020

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4865-2020

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

Articles | Volume 13, issue 9

Research article

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15 Sep 2020

Research article |

| 15 Sep 2020

Mind the gap – Part 2: Improving quantitative estimates of cloud and rain water path in oceanic warm rain using spaceborne radars

Alessandro Battaglia, Pavlos Kollias, Ranvir Dhillon, Katia Lamer, Marat Khairoutdinov, and Daniel Watters

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RC1: 'Sensitivity study', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 May 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to Reviewer 2', Alessandro Battaglia, 25 Jul 2020
RC2: 'referee comment', Matthew Lebsock, 28 Jun 2020
- AC1: 'Review', Alessandro Battaglia, 25 Jul 2020

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AR by Alessandro Battaglia on behalf of the Authors (27 Jul 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (28 Jul 2020) by Vassilis Amiridis

AR by Alessandro Battaglia on behalf of the Authors (28 Jul 2020)

Short summary

Warm rain accounts for slightly more than 30 % of the total rain amount and 70 % of the total rain area in the tropical belt and usually appears in kilometer-size cells. Spaceborne radars adopting millimeter wavelengths are excellent tools for detecting such precipitation types and for separating between the cloud and rain components. Our work highlights the benefits of operating multifrequency radars and discusses the impact of antenna footprints in quantitative estimates of liquid water paths.