Calibration of radar differential reflectivity  using quasi-vertical profiles

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

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-503-2022

Articles | Volume 15, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-503-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-503-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 2

Research article

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31 Jan 2022

Research article |

| 31 Jan 2022

Calibration of radar differential reflectivity using quasi-vertical profiles

Daniel Sanchez-Rivas and Miguel A. Rico-Ramirez

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Final revised paper (published on 31 Jan 2022)
Preprint (discussion started on 06 Jul 2021)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

RC1:
'Comment on amt-2021-194', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Aug 2021

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2021-194-RC1
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Daniel Sanchez-Rivas, 10 Oct 2021
  
  The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://amt.copernicus.org/preprints/amt-2021-194/amt-2021-194-AC1-supplement.pdf
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2021-194-AC1
RC2:
'Comment on amt-2021-194', Anonymous Referee #2, 10 Aug 2021

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Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2021-194-RC2
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Daniel Sanchez-Rivas, 10 Oct 2021
  
  The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://amt.copernicus.org/preprints/amt-2021-194/amt-2021-194-AC2-supplement.pdf
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2021-194-AC2

Peer review completion

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

AR by Daniel Sanchez-Rivas on behalf of the Authors (09 Nov 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (17 Nov 2021) by Gianfranco Vulpiani

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (28 Nov 2021)

ED: Publish as is (29 Nov 2021) by Gianfranco Vulpiani

Short summary

In this work, we review the use of quasi-vertical profiles for monitoring the calibration of the radar differential reflectivity Z_DR. We validate the proposed method by comparing its results against the traditional approach based on measurements taken at 90°; we observed good agreement as the errors are within 0.2 dB. Additionally, we compare the results of the proposed method with Z_DR derived from disdrometers; the errors are reasonable considering factors discussed in the paper.