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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
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Reading, Reading, UK
J. Christine Chiu
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Robin J. Hogan
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK
Lin Tian
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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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.
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