Articles | Volume 18, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-5177-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-5177-2025
Research article
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08 Oct 2025
Research article |  | 08 Oct 2025

Augmenting the German weather radar network with vertically pointing cloud radars: implications of resolution and attenuation

Christian Heske, Florian Ewald, and Silke Groß

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This study proposes a new technique to augment polarimetric radar measurements of the national German operational radar network with vertically looking cloud radars. The method is tested in two different case studies by comparison to dedicated scanning radars revealing promising results. Future usage of the method is motivated by analyzing the coverage of the operational radar network finding advantageous locations with good radar coverage.
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