Overview: Fusion of radar polarimetry and numerical atmospheric modelling towards an improved understanding of cloud and precipitation processes

S Trömel, C Simmer, U Blahak, A Blanke… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Cloud and precipitation processes are still the main source of uncertainties in numerical
weather prediction and climate change projections. The Priority Program" Polarimetric …

Observed relations between snowfall microphysics and triple‐frequency radar measurements

S Kneifel, A von Lerber, J Tiira… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Recently published studies of triple‐frequency radar observations of snowfall have
demonstrated that naturally occurring snowflakes exhibit scattering signatures that are in …

PAMTRA 1.0: the Passive and Active Microwave radiative TRAnsfer tool for simulating radiometer and radar measurements of the cloudy atmosphere

M Mech, M Maahn, S Kneifel, D Ori… - Geoscientific Model …, 2020 - gmd.copernicus.org
Forward models are a key tool to generate synthetic observations given knowledge of the
atmospheric state. In this way, they are an integral part of inversion algorithms that aim to …

[HTML][HTML] A dual-polarization radar hydrometeor classification algorithm for winter precipitation

EJ Thompson, SA Rutledge, B Dolan… - … of Atmospheric and …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
A Dual-Polarization Radar Hydrometeor Classification Algorithm for Winter Precipitation in:
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Volume 31 Issue 7 (2014) Jump to …

Retrievals of riming and snow density from vertically pointing Doppler radars

SL Mason, CJ Chiu, RJ Hogan… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Retrievals of ice and snow are made from Ka‐and W‐band zenith‐pointing Doppler radars
at Hyytiälä, Finland, during the snow experiment component of the Biogenic Aerosols …

The microphysics of stratiform precipitation during OLYMPEX: Compatibility between triple‐frequency radar and airborne in situ observations

F Tridon, A Battaglia, RJ Chase, FJ Turk… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The link between stratiform precipitation microphysics and multifrequency radar observables
is thoroughly investigated by exploiting simultaneous airborne radar and in situ observations …

Solid hydrometeor classification and riming degree estimation from pictures collected with a Multi-Angle Snowflake Camera

C Praz, YA Roulet, A Berne - Atmospheric Measurement …, 2017 - amt.copernicus.org
A new method to automatically classify solid hydrometeors based on Multi-Angle Snowflake
Camera (MASC) images is presented. For each individual image, the method relies on the …

Combining triple‐moment ice with prognostic liquid fraction in the P3 microphysics scheme: Impacts on a simulated squall line

M Cholette, JA Milbrandt, H Morrison… - Journal of Advances …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Predicted Particle Properties (P3) bulk microphysics scheme has been recently
modified to combine the two major innovations. The triple‐moment approach to represent …

Microphysical and thermodynamic phase analyses of Arctic low-level clouds measured above the sea ice and the open ocean in spring and summer

M Moser, C Voigt, T Jurkat-Witschas… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Airborne in-situ cloud measurements were carried out over the northern Fram Strait between
Greenland and Svalbard in spring 2019 and summer 2020. In total, 815 minutes of low-level …

The formation of ice in a long‐lived supercooled layer cloud

CD Westbrook, AJ Illingworth - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This article focuses on the characteristics of persistent thin single‐layer mixed‐phase
clouds. We seek to answer two important questions:(i) how does ice continually nucleate …