Precipitation and microphysical processes observed by three polarimetric  X-band radars and ground-based instrumentation during HOPE

Xie, Xinxin; Evaristo, Raquel; Simmer, Clemens; Handwerker, Jan; Trömel, Silke

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-7105-2016

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-7105-2016

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10 Jun 2016

Research article |

| 10 Jun 2016

Precipitation and microphysical processes observed by three polarimetric X-band radars and ground-based instrumentation during HOPE

Xinxin Xie, Raquel Evaristo, Clemens Simmer, Jan Handwerker, and Silke Trömel

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Final revised paper (published on 10 Jun 2016)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Referee's comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 Mar 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to Reviewer#1', Xinxin Xie, 06 May 2016
RC2: 'Review of the manuscript ACP-2016-124, "Precipitation and Microphysical Processes Observed by Three Polarimetric X-Band Radars during HOPE" by X. Xie et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Apr 2016
- AC2: 'Reply to Reviewer#2', Xinxin Xie, 06 May 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Xinxin Xie on behalf of the Authors (06 May 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (24 May 2016) by Herman Russchenberg

Short summary

This study provides a first analysis of rainfall observations and related microphysical processes during the HOPE campaign, which will benefit future studies on the evaluation and improvement of climate models within the HD(CP)² framework. The results conveyed in this study confirm that polarimetric radars have the capability to validate weather and climate models with respect to rainfall estimation and the ongoing microphysical processes.