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Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2381-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2381-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
Research article
 | 
09 May 2023
Research article |  | 09 May 2023

Calibrating radar wind profiler reflectivity factor using surface disdrometer observations

Christopher R. Williams, Joshua Barrio, Paul E. Johnston, Paytsar Muradyan, and Scott E. Giangrande

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This study uses surface disdrometer observations to calibrate 8 years of 915 MHz radar wind profiler deployed in the central United States in northern Oklahoma. This study had two key findings. First, the radar wind profiler sensitivity decreased approximately 3 to 4 dB/year as the hardware aged. Second, this drift was slow enough that calibration can be performed using 3-month intervals. Calibrated radar wind profiler observations and Python processing code are available on public repositories.
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