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What Polarimetric Weather Radars Offer to Cloud Modelers: Forward Radar Operators and Microphysical/Thermodynamic Retrievals

Alexander V. Ryzhkov,
Jeffrey Snyder,
Jacob T. Carlin,
Alexander Khain and
Mark Pinsky

Atmosphere2020, 11(4), 362;https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11040362

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8 April 2020

The utilization of polarimetric weather radars for optimizing cloud models is a next frontier of research. It is widely understood that inadequacies in microphysical parameterization schemes in numerical weather prediction (NWP) models is a primary c...

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Geometrical and Microphysical Properties of Clouds Formed in the Presence of Dust above the Eastern Mediterranean

Eleni Marinou,
Kalliopi Artemis Voudouri,
Ioanna Tsikoudi,
Eleni Drakaki,
Alexandra Tsekeri,
Marco Rosoldi,
Dragos Ene,
Holger Baars,
Ewan O’Connor and
Vassilis Amiridis
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Remote Sens.2021, 13(24), 5001;https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13245001

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9 December 2021

In this work, collocated lidar–radar observations are used to retrieve the vertical profiles of cloud properties above the Eastern Mediterranean. Measurements were performed in the framework of the PRE-TECT experiment during April 2017 at the G...

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Raindrop Size Distributions of North Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclones Observed at the Coastal and Inland Stations in South India

Balaji Kumar Seela,
Jayalakshmi Janapati,
Chirikandath Kalath Unnikrishnan,
Pay-Liam Lin,
Jui Le Loh,
Wei-Yu Chang,
Utpal Kumar,
K. Krishna Reddy,
Dong-In Lee and
Mannem Venkatrami Reddy

Remote Sens.2021, 13(16), 3178;https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13163178

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11 August 2021

The current study summarizes the raindrop size distributions (RSDs) characteristic of the North Indian Ocean (NIO) tropical cyclones (TCs) measured with ground-based disdrometers installed at the coastal (Thiruvananthapuram, 8.5335°N, 76.9047°E) and...

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