Articles | Volume 13, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6645-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6645-2020
Research article
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09 Dec 2020
Research article |  | 09 Dec 2020

Detecting the melting layer with a micro rain radar using a neural network approach

Maren Brast and Piet Markmann

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An artificial neural network was trained to identify melting layers in micro rain radar data. It was successfully tested on simple and complex cases, which are difficult to identify using classical approaches, and also provided information on the melting layer width.