Supercooled Liquid Water Detection Capabilities from Ka-Band Doppler Profiling Radars: Moment-Based Algorithm Formulation and Assessment
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Lines 61-65: The two sentences are too brief. Please tell us more about your contribution and the novelty of your work. Variables, what type of variables are they? And how is this work different than [30].
Lines 86 – 92: Please explain the procedure, e.g which variables were used and how.
Table 1: How many pulses were used, what is the spectral resolution?
Section 2.2; Please add references.
Section 3, 4 and 5: The flow is confusing. Please consider a re-structure of these sections or at least a better connection among them. They are multiple thresholds, which were estimated and which were assumed?
Section 3.1 Occurrence of what? SLW? A schematic showing the cloud classes, thresholds, related variables, etc could improve the clarity of how the proposed fusion radar-lidar. What is radar-detected cloud-top downwards? How was the 0.5 km layer obtained?
Line 170: “… combined used of both … ” Please explain how they are combined or indicate in which section this combination is explained.
Line 187: Z > -20dBZ and 1 km thickness, how are they obtained?
Lines 194-195: Please explain how the intervals [-24,-8] and [-4,4] are mathematically obtained? What are the criteria?
Line 199: “… layer vertical thickness …” How was it estimated? Please clarify.
Line 203. When MWR was defined?
Line 237: “using the [47] method” Please explain how the method was implemented, was there any adaptation of it to employed radar, what constant values were used, etc?
Lines 252 – 273: Are the indicated values found from analyzing only one case study? If so, why?
Section 6: First the forecast metrics are defined then a sensitivity analysis is introduced and Fig 10. Later Fig 11 comes back to the metrics. Would it be possible to start with the sensitivity analysis and later the verification? The name of section 6 and section 6.1 are practically the same, why? Then you don’t need a section 6.1.
Section 7: Please add who and/or which sector (operationally or research) will be benefited from the presented work and findings. Indicate its impact by giving examples.
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Reviewer 2 Report
The paper presents the formulation and assessment of a radar-only moment-based technique for the detection of supercooled liquid water in arctic mixed-phase conditions. It is a suitable topic for Remote Sensing MDPI journal. The manuscript is professionally written, clear, and easy to read. Therefore, I would recommend a minor revision following my comments below.
- Line 74: The meaning of HSRL firstly appears at line 87.
- Tables 1 and 4 appear before being mentioned in the text.
- Lines 125, 135, and 156: no indentation is needed.
- Figures 1, 2, 6, 7, 9 and 10 appear before being mentioned in the text.
- Appendix A could be moved to (and merged with) section 2.2
- Lines 422-424: It would be better to describe these metrics as equations.
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