Cross Validation of the Network of Ground-Based Radar with GPM during the Remote Sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Mesoscale/Microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations (RELAMPAGO) Field Campaign

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  • フィールドキャンペーンにおけるGPMを用いた地上レーダーのネットワークの相互検証
  • Cross Validation of the Network of Ground-Based Radar with GPM during the Remote Sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Mesoscale/Microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations (RELAMPAGO) Field Campaign : Special Edition on Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) : 5th Anniversary

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<p>The cross-validation of radars in a network is important in making consistent retrievals across the domain and assuring the product quality. During the Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Mesoscale/microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations (RELAMPAGO) field campaign, two C-band radars, namely the Colorado State University C-band Hydrological Instrument for Volumetric Observations (CSU-CHIVO) and the C-band Scanning ARM Precipitation Radar (CSAPR-2), were deployed near the Sierras de Cordoba in Argentina, a region known for having some of the most intense severe weather in the world. In addition to these two radars, the operational radar of the Cordoba City, the Radar Meteorologico Argentino 1 (RMA-1), adds another instrument to the RELAMPAGO network. This study presents an intercomparison between the RELAMPAGO C-band radars using the GPM spaceborne radar as a common reference. A method to bring ground-based radars into better agreement is also proposed. Moreover, the attenuation correction for the C-band radar is studied in the context of intercomparing two radars. The attenuation coefficients are computed for the RELAMPAGO domain using the local disdrometers deployed during the campaign. After the attenuation correction, CSU-CHIVO, CSAPR-2, and RMA-1 compare well with GPM-DPR with a high correlation and bias less than 1 dB.</p>

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