Cloud radar with hybrid mode towards estimation of shape and orientation of ice crystals

Myagkov, A.; Seifert, P.; Bauer-Pfundstein, M.; Wandinger, U.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-469-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-469-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-469-2016

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

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

Research article

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12 Feb 2016

Research article |

| 12 Feb 2016

Cloud radar with hybrid mode towards estimation of shape and orientation of ice crystals

A. Myagkov, P. Seifert, M. Bauer-Pfundstein, and U. Wandinger

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RC C3141: 'Referee Comment', Valery Melnikov, 25 Sep 2015
- AC C3192: 'Reply to Dr. Melnikov', Alexander Myagkov, 02 Oct 2015
RC C3498: 'Radar Design', Anonymous Referee #2, 24 Oct 2015
- AC C3711: 'Reply to Referee #2 and changes introduced in the manuscript', Alexander Myagkov, 03 Nov 2015

Short summary

In this paper a newly developed scanning 35 GHz cloud radar MIRA-35 is described. The issues concerned with implementation, polarization calibration, and data processing are considered. Also, an algorithm for a characterization of shape and orientation distribution based on polarimetric observations from the cloud radar is presented. For demonstration, the developed retrieval technique is applied to a cloud system containing ice crystals with different habits.