Articles | Volume 17, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6965-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6965-2024
Research article
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12 Dec 2024
Research article |  | 12 Dec 2024

Dual-frequency (Ka-band and G-band) radar estimates of liquid water content profiles in shallow clouds

Juan M. Socuellamos, Raquel Rodriguez Monje, Matthew D. Lebsock, Ken B. Cooper, and Pavlos Kollias

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This article presents a novel technique to estimate liquid water content (LWC) profiles in shallow warm clouds using a pair of collocated Ka-band (35 GHz) and G-band (239 GHz) radars. We demonstrate that the use of a G-band radar allows retrieving the LWC with 3 times better accuracy than previous works reported in the literature, providing improved ability to understand the vertical profile of LWC and characterize microphysical and dynamical processes more precisely in shallow clouds.