Improved rain rate and drop size retrievals from airborne Doppler radar

Mason, Shannon L.; Chiu, J. Christine; Hogan, Robin J.; Tian, Lin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-11567-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 18

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-11567-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-11567-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 18

Research article

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27 Sep 2017

Research article |

| 27 Sep 2017

Improved rain rate and drop size retrievals from airborne Doppler radar

Shannon L. Mason, J. Christine Chiu, Robin J. Hogan, and Lin Tian

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Final revised paper (published on 27 Sep 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 12 Apr 2017)

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Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of the manuscript ACP “improved rain rate and drop size retrievals from airborne and spaceborne Doppler radar” by Mason et al. 2017.', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 May 2017
- AC1: 'Response to referee #1', Shannon Mason, 06 Jul 2017
  - AC5: 'Marked-up manuscript with track changes', Shannon Mason, 06 Jul 2017
RC2: 'review', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 May 2017
- AC2: 'Response to referee #2', Shannon Mason, 06 Jul 2017
  - AC4: 'Marked-up manuscript with track changes', Shannon Mason, 06 Jul 2017
RC3: 'Referee comment', Alain Protat, 22 May 2017
- AC3: 'Response to Alain Protat', Shannon Mason, 06 Jul 2017
  - AC6: 'Marked-up manuscript with track-changes', Shannon Mason, 06 Jul 2017

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Shannon Mason on behalf of the Authors (06 Jul 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (24 Jul 2017) by Timothy J. Dunkerton

RR by Alain Protat (24 Jul 2017)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (24 Jul 2017)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (01 Aug 2017)

ED: Publish as is (30 Aug 2017) by Timothy J. Dunkerton

AR by Shannon Mason on behalf of the Authors (31 Aug 2017) Manuscript

Short summary

Airborne Doppler radar measurements are used to estimate the properties of tropical stratiform rain. Doppler velocity measurements provide sufficient information to estimate the rain rate over land and also to retrieve the raindrop size distribution over ocean, addressing major uncertainties in current satellite measurements of rain. These results suggest that EarthCARE, with the first space-borne Doppler radar, will facilitate improved global measurements of rain.