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Articles | Volume 16, issue 6
Articles | Volume 16, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1683-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1683-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 6
Research article
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29 Mar 2023
Research article |  | 29 Mar 2023

The Virga-Sniffer – a new tool to identify precipitation evaporation using ground-based remote-sensing observations

Heike Kalesse-Los, Anton Kötsche, Andreas Foth, Johannes Röttenbacher, Teresa Vogl, and Jonas Witthuhn

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The Virga-Sniffer, a new modular open-source Python package tool to characterize full precipitation evaporation (so-called virga) from ceilometer cloud base height and vertically pointing cloud radar reflectivity time–height fields, is described. Results of its first application to RV Meteor observations during the EUREC4A field experiment in January–February 2020 are shown. About half of all detected clouds with bases below the trade inversion height were found to produce virga.
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