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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)
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
P. Kollias
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
S. Matrosov
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado and NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, USA
W. Szyrmer
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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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.
An automated algorithm is developed for routinely retrieving rain rates from the profiling...
