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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4865-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4865-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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Research article
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15 Sep 2020
Research article |
| 15 Sep 2020
| 15 Sep 2020
Mind the gap – Part 2: Improving quantitative estimates of cloud and rain water path in oceanic warm rain using spaceborne radars
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
National Centre for Earth Observation, Leicester, UK
DIATI, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Pavlos Kollias
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Ranvir Dhillon
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Katia Lamer
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA
Marat Khairoutdinov
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Daniel Watters
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
National Centre for Earth Observation, Leicester, UK
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Latest update: 02 Apr 2025
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.
Warm rain accounts for slightly more than 30 % of the total rain amount and 70 % of the total...
