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
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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

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Final revised paper (published on 13 Apr 2021)
Preprint (discussion started on 28 Sep 2020)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'amt-2020-375', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Oct 2020
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Daniel Sanchez-Rivas, 01 Jan 2021
RC2: 'Review comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 26 Oct 2020
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Daniel Sanchez-Rivas, 01 Jan 2021
RC3: 'Review of AMT-2020-375', Anonymous Referee #3, 26 Oct 2020
- AC3: 'Reply on RC3', Daniel Sanchez-Rivas, 01 Jan 2021

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Daniel Sanchez-Rivas on behalf of the Authors (13 Feb 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (15 Feb 2021) by Gianfranco Vulpiani

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (01 Mar 2021)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (02 Mar 2021)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (02 Mar 2021) by Gianfranco Vulpiani

AR by Daniel Sanchez-Rivas on behalf of the Authors (10 Mar 2021) Author's response Manuscript

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.