Weather Radar Applications on Meteorology and Hydrology in East Asia

Dear Colleagues,

There have been many natural disasters caused by high-impact weather such as torrential rainfall, hail, tornadoes, and typhoons as climate change progresses around the world. Frontal systems (Changma, Baiu and Meiyu front), typhoons, and tornadoes in some countries are becoming increasingly severe, especially in East Asia. Complex terrain plays an important role in these systems’ development and enhancement in that area.

Weather radars (Doppler, polarimetric, phased array, etc.) have been crucial instruments for monitoring chaff diffusion, precipitation, winds, and forecasting high-impact weather systems with higher spatial and temporal resolution than other remote sensing equipment. Polarimetric capabilities help to understand the microphysical characteristics of precipitation systems and improve radar quantitative precipitation estimation/forecasting.

The goal of this Special Issue is to share the recent achievements in various applications using operational or research radar data, such as field observation campaigns, rainfall estimates, chaff diffusion in clear sky, nowcasting of precipitation, microphysical features of precipitation systems, hydrological modeling, and forecasting in East Asia using Doppler radar and polarimetric radar. We encourage contributions on the current state-of-the-art in the field, including challenges and discussions toward better utilization of radar data.

We invite manuscripts on the following topics:

• Field observation campaigns;
• Radar data quality control;
• Quantitative precipitation estimation;
• Wind field retrieval and analyses;
• Short-term range forecast of precipitation;
• Assimilation of radar data into NWP;
• Orographic precipitation;
• Hydrological applications using weather radar;
• High-impact weather such as hail, tornadoes, typhoons, and lightning;
• Atmospheric diffusion by chaff experiments.

Prof. Dong-In Lee
Dr. Cheol-Hwan You
Guest Editors

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