Articles | Volume 17, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-9035-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-9035-2017
Research article
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27 Jul 2017
Research article |  | 27 Jul 2017

An improved hydrometeor detection method for millimeter-wavelength cloud radar

Jinming Ge, Zeen Zhu, Chuang Zheng, Hailing Xie, Tian Zhou, Jianping Huang, and Qiang Fu

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A modified method with a new noise reduction scheme that can reduce the noise distribution to a narrow range is proposed to distinguish clouds and other hydrometeors from noise and recognize more features with weak signal in cloud radar observations. It was found that our method has significant advantages in reducing the rates of both failed negative and false positive hydrometeor identifications in simulated clouds and recognizing clouds with weak signal from our cloud radar observations.
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