Properties of ice cloud over Beijing from surface Ka-band radar observations during 2014–2017

Huo, Juan; Tian, Yufang; Wu, Xue; Han, Congzheng; Liu, Bo; Bi, Yongheng; Duan, Shu; Lyu, Daren

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-14377-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 22

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-14377-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-14377-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 22

Research article

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27 Nov 2020

Research article |

| 27 Nov 2020

Properties of ice cloud over Beijing from surface Ka-band radar observations during 2014–2017

Juan Huo, Yufang Tian, Xue Wu, Congzheng Han, Bo Liu, Yongheng Bi, Shu Duan, and Daren Lyu

Data sets

ERA5 hourly data on pressure levels from 1979 to present H. Hersbach, B. Bell, P. Berrisford, G. Biavati, A. Horányi, J. Muñoz Sabater, J. Nicolas, C. Peubey, R. Radu, I. Rozum, D. Schepers, A. Simmons, C. Soci, D. Dee, and J.-N. Thépaut https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.bd0915c6

An introduction to himawari-8/9 — Japan's new-generation geostationary meteorological satellites (https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ptree/userguide.html) K. Bessho, K. Date, M. Hayashi, A. Ikeda, T. Imai, H. Inoue, Y. Kumagai, T. Miyakawa, H. Murata, T. Ohno, A. Okuyama, R. Oyama, Y. Sasaki, Y. Shimazu, K. Shimoji, and Y. Sumida https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2016-009

Short summary

A detailed analysis of ice cloud physical properties is presented based on 4 years of surface Ka-band radar measurements in Beijing, where the summer oceanic monsoon from the ocean and winter continental monsoon prevail alternately. More than 6000 ice cloud clusters were studied to investigate their physical properties, such as height, horizontal extent, temperature dependence and origination type, which can serve as a reference for parameterization and characterization in global climate models.