Differential absorption radar techniques: water vapor retrievals

Millán, Luis; Lebsock, Matthew; Livesey, Nathaniel; Tanelli, Simone

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2633-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2633-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2633-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 6

Research article

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21 Jun 2016

Research article |

| 21 Jun 2016

Differential absorption radar techniques: water vapor retrievals

Luis Millán, Matthew Lebsock, Nathaniel Livesey, and Simone Tanelli

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RC1: 'Comments on ‘Differential Absorption Radar Techniques: Water Vapor Retrievals’ by Millan et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 06 Apr 2016
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer 1', Luis Millan, 16 Apr 2016
RC2: 'review of amt-2016-72', Anonymous Referee #2, 27 Apr 2016
- AC2: 'Response to referee 2', Luis Millan, 20 May 2016
SC1: 'Omission of the authors', Volker Wulfmeyer, 17 May 2016
- AC3: 'Response to comment by Dr. Wulfmeyer', Luis Millan, 20 May 2016

Short summary

We discuss the theoretical capabilities of a radar technique to measure profiles of water vapor in cloudy/precipitating areas. The method uses two radar pulses at different frequencies near the 183 GHz H₂O absorption line to determine water vapor profiles by measuring the differential absorption on and off the line. Results of inverting synthetic data assuming a satellite radar are presented.