| Download | - View final version: Determination of ice water content (IWC) in tropical convective clouds from X-band dual-polarization airborne radar (PDF, 1.8 MiB)
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| DOI | Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5897-2019 |
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| Author | Search for: Nguyen, Cuong M.1; Search for: Wolde, Mengistu1; Search for: Korolev, Alexei |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council Canada. Aerospace
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Abstract | This paper presents a methodology for ice water content (IWC) retrieval from a dual-polarization side-looking X-band airborne radar. Measured IWC from aircraft in situ probes is weighted by a function of the radar differential reflectivity (Zdr) to reduce the effects of ice crystal shape and orientation on the variation in IWC – specific differential phase (Kdp) joint distribution. A theoretical study indicates that the proposed method, which does not require a knowledge of the particle size distribution (PSD) and number density of ice crystals, is suitable for high-ice-water-content (HIWC) regions in tropical convective clouds. Using datasets collected during the High Altitude Ice Crystals – High Ice Water Content (HAIC-HIWC) international field campaign in Cayenne, French Guiana (2015), it is shown that the proposed method improves the estimation bias by 35 % and increases the correlation by 4 % on average, compared to the method using specific differential phase (Kdp) alone. |
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| Publication date | 2019-11-08 |
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| Publisher | Copernicus on behalf of the European Geosciences Union |
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| Language | English |
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| Peer reviewed | Yes |
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| Record identifier | 3e00d8fb-0bef-4ece-823c-db18dd73f421 |
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| Record created | 2020-11-24 |
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| Record modified | 2021-01-22 |
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