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DOI | 10.5194/acp-17-11567-2017 |
Improved rain rate and drop size retrievals from airborne Doppler radar | |
Mason, Shannon L.1,2; Chiu, J. Christine1,2; Hogan, Robin J.1,3; Tian, Lin4,5 | |
2017-09-27 | |
发表期刊 | ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
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ISSN | 1680-7316 |
EISSN | 1680-7324 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 17期号:18 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | England; USA |
英文摘要 | Satellite remote sensing of rain is important for quantifying the hydrological cycle, atmospheric energy budget, and cloud and precipitation processes; however, radar retrievals of rain rate are sensitive to assumptions about the raindrop size distribution. The upcoming EarthCARE satellite will feature a 94 GHz Doppler radar alongside lidar and radiometer instruments, presenting opportunities for enhanced retrievals of the raindrop size distribution. We demonstrate the capability to retrieve rain rate as a function of drop size and drop number concentration from airborne 94 GHz Doppler radar measurements using CAPTIVATE, the variational retrieval algorithm developed for EarthCARE. For a range of rain regimes observed during the Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling field campaign, we explore the contributions of mean Doppler velocity and path-integrated attenuation (PIA) measurements to the retrieval of rain rate, and the retrievals are evaluated against independent measurements from an independent 9.6 GHz Doppler radar. The retrieved drop number concentrations vary over 5 orders of magnitude between very light rain from melting ice and warm rain from liquid clouds. In light rain conditions mean Doppler velocity facilitates estimates of rain rate without PIA, suggesting the possibility of EarthCARE rain rate estimates over land; in moderate warm rain, drop number concentration can be retrieved without mean Doppler velocity, with possible applications to CloudSat. |
领域 | 地球科学 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000411825100006 |
WOS关键词 | TRMM PRECIPITATION RADAR ; PROFILING ALGORITHM ; POLARIZATION RADAR ; DRIZZLE PARAMETERS ; CLOUD PHYSICS ; ER-2 AIRCRAFT ; SCATTERING ; SPECTRA ; DISTRIBUTIONS ; SYSTEM |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/29486 |
专题 | 地球科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Reading, Dept Meteorol, Reading, Berks, England; 2.Univ Reading, Natl Ctr Earth Observat, Reading, Berks, England; 3.European Ctr Medium Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, Berks, England; 4.NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD USA; 5.Morgan State Univ, Baltimore, MD 21239 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Mason, Shannon L.,Chiu, J. Christine,Hogan, Robin J.,et al. Improved rain rate and drop size retrievals from airborne Doppler radar[J]. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS,2017,17(18). |
APA | Mason, Shannon L.,Chiu, J. Christine,Hogan, Robin J.,&Tian, Lin.(2017).Improved rain rate and drop size retrievals from airborne Doppler radar.ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS,17(18). |
MLA | Mason, Shannon L.,et al."Improved rain rate and drop size retrievals from airborne Doppler radar".ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 17.18(2017). |
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