Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, Volume. 41, Issue 5, 831(2022)
Retrieval of supercooled water in convective clouds over Nagqu of the Tibetan Plateau using millimeter-wave radar measurements
Fig. 1. Flowchart of in-cloud supercooled water identification algorithm based on Ka-MMCR measurements
Fig. 2. Radar Doppler spectra detected at 23:21 on August 2,2015 over Nagqu at 3.06 km of the stratocumulus,(a)and(b)are spectra before and after dealiasing,respectively,the crosses and circles in figures represent start and end points and peaks of the cloud-precipitation signal
Fig. 3. Radar Doppler spectra detected at 23:22 on August 2,2015 over Nagqu at 2.7 km and 2.91 km of the stratocumulus,(a)and(b)reflect phenomena of multiple modals and multiple peaks,SP,
Fig. 4. Radar observations and retrievals of the stratocumulus cloud(case one)observed at Nagqu during 22:45–01:00 on August 2–3,2015,(a)–(h)are radar reflectivity factor
Fig. 5. Radar observations and retrievals of a cumulus congestus,an altocumulus,and a cumulus humilis observed at Nagqu during 15:45–17:30 on August 25,2015,the meaning of each subgraph is the same as described in captions of Fig. 4
Fig. 6. Time series of average updraft speed +
Fig. 7. Comparisons of liquid water paths LWPs retrieved radar(MMCR)and microwave radiometer(MWR),(a)and(b)are results of case one and case two,respectively
Fig. 8. The spatial distributions of supercooled water retrieving by different methods of two cases,(a1,a2)Fuzzy hydrometeor classification method(FHC),(b1,b2)Threshold method(Threshold),(c1,c2)K-means classification method(K-means),(d1,d2)our algorithm(Our Method)
Fig. 9. Time series of average microphysical parameters of supercooled water using diverse methods of two cases,(a1,a2)liquid water content LWC,(b1,b2)liquid water effective radius
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Tao REN, Jia-Feng ZHENG, Li-Ping LIU, Ming-Long ZOU, Shao-Jie CHEN, Jing-Shu HE, Jian-Jie LI. Retrieval of supercooled water in convective clouds over Nagqu of the Tibetan Plateau using millimeter-wave radar measurements[J]. Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 2022, 41(5): 831
Category: Research Articles
Received: Aug. 30, 2021
Accepted: --
Published Online: Feb. 6, 2023
The Author Email: Jia-Feng ZHENG (zjf1988@cuit.edu.cn)