Detection of the melting level with polarimetric weather radar

Sanchez-Rivas, Daniel; Rico-Ramirez, Miguel A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2873-2021

Articles | Volume 14, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2873-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2873-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 4

Research article

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13 Apr 2021

Research article |

| 13 Apr 2021

Detection of the melting level with polarimetric weather radar

Daniel Sanchez-Rivas and Miguel A. Rico-Ramirez

Data sets

Met Office Herstmonceux station high resolution radiosonde data Met Office https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/51b40654ef68462c818677963651a7bb

Chenies C-band rain radar dual polar products Met Office https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/bb3c55e36b4a4dc8866f0a06be3d475b

Short summary

In our paper, we propose a robust and operational algorithm to determine the height of the melting level that can be applied to either quasi-vertical profiles (QVPs) or vertical profiles (VPs) of polarimetric radar variables. The algorithm is applied to 1 year of rainfall events that occurred over southeast England and validated using radiosonde data. The algorithm proves to be accurate as the errors (mean absolute error and root mean square error) are close to 200 m.