Improved fuzzy logic method to distinguish between meteorological and non-meteorological echoes using C-band polarimetric radar data

Zhang, Shuai; Huang, Xingyou; Min, Jinzhong; Chu, Zhigang; Zhuang, Xiaoran; Zhang, Hengheng

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-537-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-537-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-537-2020

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

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

Research article

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07 Feb 2020

Research article |

| 07 Feb 2020

Improved fuzzy logic method to distinguish between meteorological and non-meteorological echoes using C-band polarimetric radar data

Shuai Zhang, Xingyou Huang, Jinzhong Min, Zhigang Chu, Xiaoran Zhuang, and Hengheng Zhang

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RC1: 'Review of the manuscript AMT-2019-227', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Oct 2019
- AC1: 'Responses to Anonymous Referee #1', Shuai Zhang, 22 Nov 2019
RC2: 'Referee Comment on "Improved fuzzy logic method to distinguish between meteorological and non-meteorological echoes using C-band polarimetric radar data"', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Nov 2019
- AC2: 'Responses to Anonymous Referee #2', Shuai Zhang, 22 Nov 2019

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AR by Shuai Zhang on behalf of the Authors (23 Nov 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (27 Nov 2019) by Gianfranco Vulpiani

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (16 Dec 2019)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (23 Dec 2019)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (27 Dec 2019) by Gianfranco Vulpiani

AR by Shuai Zhang on behalf of the Authors (28 Dec 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (10 Jan 2020) by Gianfranco Vulpiani

AR by Shuai Zhang on behalf of the Authors (11 Jan 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

The discrimination between meteorological and non-meteorological echoes is necessary to obtain better meteorological application performance. However, the widely used algorithms have high expectations for polarimetric data, which have similar characteristics between meteorological and non-meteorological echoes in the weak-signal regions. Therefore, an improved fuzzy logic method is proposed in this paper to improve the classification performance in weak-signal regions.