Clutter mitigation, multiple peaks, and high-order spectral moments in 35&thinsp;GHz vertically pointing radar velocity spectra

Williams, Christopher R.; Maahn, Maximilian; Hardin, Joseph C.; de Boer, Gijs

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4963-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4963-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4963-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 9

Research article

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03 Sep 2018

Research article |

| 03 Sep 2018

Clutter mitigation, multiple peaks, and high-order spectral moments in 35 GHz vertically pointing radar velocity spectra

Christopher R. Williams, Maximilian Maahn, Joseph C. Hardin, and Gijs de Boer

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RC1: 'referee comment on Williams et al AMTD 2018', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 May 2018
- AC2: 'Author Replies to Reviewer #2', Christopher Williams, 02 Aug 2018
- AC3: 'Revised Manuscript with Track Changes', Christopher Williams, 02 Aug 2018
- AC1: 'Author Replies to Reviewer #1', Christopher Williams, 02 Aug 2018
- AC5: 'Revised Manuscript', Christopher Williams, 02 Aug 2018
RC2: 'Referee comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 May 2018
- AC1: 'Author Replies to Reviewer #1', Christopher Williams, 02 Aug 2018
- AC4: 'Revised Manuscript with Track Changes', Christopher Williams, 02 Aug 2018
- AC6: 'Revised Manuscript', Christopher Williams, 02 Aug 2018

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

AR by Christopher Williams on behalf of the Authors (02 Aug 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (11 Aug 2018) by Murray Hamilton

AR by Christopher Williams on behalf of the Authors (20 Aug 2018) Manuscript

Short summary

This study presents three signal-processing methods to improve estimates derived from a vertically pointing 35 GHz cloud radar deployed at Oliktok Point, Alaska. The first method removes ground clutter from the Doppler velocity spectra. The second method estimates multiple peaks and high-order moments from the improved spectra. The third method removes high-frequency variability in high-order moments by shifting original 2 s spectra to a common reference before averaging over a 15 s interval.