Automated rain rate estimates using the Ka-band ARM zenith radar (KAZR)

Chandra, A.; Zhang, C.; Kollias, P.; Matrosov, S.; Szyrmer, W.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3685-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3685-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3685-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 9

Research article

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14 Sep 2015

Research article |

| 14 Sep 2015

Automated rain rate estimates using the Ka-band ARM zenith radar (KAZR)

A. Chandra, C. Zhang, P. Kollias, S. Matrosov, and W. Szyrmer

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Final revised paper (published on 14 Sep 2015)
Preprint (discussion started on 25 Feb 2014)

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RC C227: 'Review of the manuscript amt-2014-12', Anonymous Referee #1, 21 Mar 2014
- AC C1223: 'Responses to referee 1, 2, and 3 are attached in a PDF document', Arunchandra Chandra, 06 Jun 2014
  - AC C1224: 'Responses to referee 1 are attached in a PDF document', Arunchandra Chandra, 06 Jun 2014
RC C270: 'Rev. amt-2014-12', Anonymous Referee #2, 26 Mar 2014
RC C339: 'Review_amt-2014-12', Anonymous Referee #3, 01 Apr 2014

Short summary

An automated algorithm is developed for routinely retrieving rain rates from the profiling Ka-Band zenith radars. The algorithm is implemented in two steps: higher rain rates are retrieved by using the amount of attenuation in rain layers, while low rain rates are retrieved from the reflectivity-rain rate (Ze-R) relation. Observations collected by rain gauge, disdrometer and scanning precipitation radars during the DYNAMO field campaign at Gan Island are used to validate the proposed approach.