Articles | Volume 18, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-5141-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-5141-2025
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07 Oct 2025
Research article |  | 07 Oct 2025

Vertical wind and drop size distribution retrieval with the CloudCube G-band Doppler radar

Nitika Yadlapalli Yurk, Matt D. Lebsock, Juan M. Socuellamos, Raquel Rodriguez Monje, Ken B. Cooper, and Pavlos Kollias

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Current knowledge of the link between clouds and climate is limited by a lack of observations of the drop size distribution (DSD) within clouds, especially for the smallest drops. We demonstrate a method of retrieving DSDs down to small drop sizes using observations of drizzling marine layer clouds captured by the CloudCube millimeter-wave Doppler radar. We compare the shape of the observed spectra to theoretical expectations of radar echoes to solve for DSDs at each time step and elevation.
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