Processing reflectivity and Doppler velocity from EarthCARE's cloud-profiling radar: the C-FMR, C-CD and C-APC products

Kollias, Pavlos; Puidgomènech Treserras, Bernat; Battaglia, Alessandro; Borque, Paloma C.; Tatarevic, Aleksandra

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1901-2023

Articles | Volume 16, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1901-2023

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EarthCARE Level 2 algorithms and data products

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1901-2023

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Articles | Volume 16, issue 7

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12 Apr 2023

Research article |

| 12 Apr 2023

Processing reflectivity and Doppler velocity from EarthCARE's cloud-profiling radar: the C-FMR, C-CD and C-APC products

Pavlos Kollias, Bernat Puidgomènech Treserras, Alessandro Battaglia, Paloma C. Borque, and Aleksandra Tatarevic

Data sets

EarthCARE level-2 demonstration products from simulated scenes G.-J. van Zadelhoff, H. W. Barker, E. Baudrez, S. Bley, N. Clerbaux, J. N. S. Cole, J. de~Kloe, N. Docter, C. Domenech, D. P. Donovan, J.-L. Dufresne, M. Eisinger, J. Fischer, R. García-Marañón, M. Haarig, R. J. Hogan, A. Hünerbein, P. Kollias, R. Koopman, N. Madenach, S. L. Mason, R. Preusker, B. Puigdomènech~Treserras, Z. Qu, M. Ruiz-Saldaña, M. Shephard, A. Velázquez-Blazquez, N. Villefranque, U. Wandinger, P. Wang, and T. Wehr https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7117116

Short summary

The Earth Clouds, Aerosols and Radiation (EarthCARE) satellite mission developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) features the first spaceborne 94 GHz Doppler cloud-profiling radar (CPR) with Doppler capability. Here, we describe the post-processing algorithms that apply quality control and corrections to CPR measurements and derive key geophysical variables such as hydrometeor locations and best estimates of particle sedimentation fall velocities.