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Characterization of shallow oceanic precipitation using profiling and scanning radar observations at the Eastern North Atlantic ARM observatory
| العنوان: | Characterization of shallow oceanic precipitation using profiling and scanning radar observations at the Eastern North Atlantic ARM observatory |
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| المؤلفون: | K. Lamer, B. Puigdomènech Treserras, Z. Zhu, B. Isom, N. Bharadwaj, P. Kollias |
| المصدر: | Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Vol 12, Pp 4931-4947 (2019) |
| بيانات النشر: | Copernicus Publications, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Environmental engineering LCC:Earthwork. Foundations |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Environmental engineering, TA170-171, Earthwork. Foundations, TA715-787 |
| الوصف: | Shallow oceanic precipitation variability is documented using three second-generation radar systems located at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Eastern North Atlantic observatory: ARM zenith radar (KAZR2), the Ka-band scanning ARM cloud radar (KaSACR2) and the X-band scanning ARM precipitation radar (XSAPR2). First, the radar systems and measurement post-processing techniques, including sea-clutter removal and calibration against colocated disdrometer and Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) observations are described. Then, we present how a combination of profiling radar and lidar observations can be used to estimate adaptive (in both time and height) parameters that relate radar reflectivity (Z) to precipitation rate (R) in the form Z=αRβ, which we use to estimate precipitation rate over the domain observed by XSAPR2. Furthermore, constant altitude plan position indicator (CAPPI) gridded XSAPR2 precipitation rate maps are also constructed. Hourly precipitation rate statistics estimated from the three radar systems differ because KAZR2 is more sensitive to shallow virga and XSAPR2 suffers from less attenuation than KaSACR2 and as such is best suited for characterizing intermittent and mesoscale-organized precipitation. Further analysis reveals that precipitation rate statistics obtained by averaging 12 h of KAZR2 observations can be used to approximate that of a 40 km radius domain averaged over similar time periods. However, it was determined that KAZR2 is unsuitable for characterizing domain-averaged precipitation rate over shorter periods. But even more fundamentally, these results suggest that these observations cannot produce an objective domain precipitation estimate and that the simultaneous use of forward simulators is desirable to guide model evaluation studies. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1867-1381 1867-8548 |
| Relation: | https://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/12/4931/2019/amt-12-4931-2019.pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/1867-1381; https://doaj.org/toc/1867-8548 |
| DOI: | 10.5194/amt-12-4931-2019 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/9424fda1ec10425684c06d3ceeca03a4 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.9424fda1ec10425684c06d3ceeca03a4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 18671381 18678548 |
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| DOI: | 10.5194/amt-12-4931-2019 |