Spaceborne cloud and precipitation radars: Status, challenges, and ways forward

A Battaglia, P Kollias, R Dhillon, R Roy… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Spaceborne radars offer a unique three‐dimensional view of the atmospheric components
of the Earth's hydrological cycle. Existing and planned spaceborne radar missions provide …

[HTML][HTML] Applications of a CloudSat-TRMM and CloudSat-GPM satellite coincidence dataset

FJ Turk, SE Ringerud, A Camplani, D Casella… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar
(DPR)(Ku-and Ka-band, or 14 and 35 GHz) provides the capability to resolve the …

[HTML][HTML] Improving the representation of aggregation in a two-moment microphysical scheme with statistics of multi-frequency Doppler radar observations

M Karrer, A Seifert, D Ori… - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Aggregation is a key microphysical process for the formation of precipitable ice particles. Its
theoretical description involves many parameters and dependencies among different …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating total attenuation using Rayleigh targets at cloud top: applications in multilayer and mixed-phase clouds observed by ground-based multifrequency …

F Tridon, A Battaglia, S Kneifel - Atmospheric Measurement …, 2020 - amt.copernicus.org
At millimeter wavelengths, attenuation by hydrometeors, such as liquid droplets or large
snowflakes, is generally not negligible. When using multifrequency ground-based radar …

[HTML][HTML] Adapting passive microwave-based precipitation algorithms to variable microwave land surface emissivity to improve precipitation estimation from the GPM …

FJ Turk, SE Ringerud, Y You… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
A fully global satellite-based precipitation estimate that can transition across the changing
Earth surface and complex land/water conditions is an important capability for many …

[HTML][HTML] Cross validation of active and passive microwave snowfall products over the continental United States

K Mroz, M Montopoli, A Battaglia… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Surface snowfall rate estimates from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's
Core Observatory sensors and the CloudSat radar are compared to those from the Multi …

[HTML][HTML] The State of Precipitation Measurements at Mid-to-High Latitudes

L Milani, C Kidd - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
The measurement of global precipitation is important for quantifying and understanding the
Earth's systems. While gauges form the basis of conventional measurements, global …

[HTML][HTML] snowScatt 1.0: consistent model of microphysical and scattering properties of rimed and unrimed snowflakes based on the self-similar Rayleigh–Gans …

D Ori, L von Terzi, M Karrer… - Geoscientific Model …, 2021 - gmd.copernicus.org
More detailed observational capabilities in the microwave (MW) range and advancements in
the details of microphysical schemes for ice and snow demand increasing complexity to be …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme lake-effect snow from a GPM microwave imager perspective: Observational analysis and precipitation retrieval evaluation

L Milani, MS Kulie, D Casella… - … of atmospheric and …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Extreme Lake-Effect Snow from a GPM Microwave Imager Perspective: Observational Analysis
and Precipitation Retrieval Evaluation in: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology …

[HTML][HTML] A machine learning snowfall retrieval algorithm for ATMS

P Sanò, D Casella, A Camplani, LP D'Adderio… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
This article describes the development of a machine learning (ML)-based algorithm for
snowfall retrieval (Snow retrievaL ALgorithm fOr gpM–Cross Track, SLALOM-CT), exploiting …