Calibration of a 35&thinsp;GHz airborne cloud radar: lessons learned and intercomparisons with 94&thinsp;GHz cloud radars

Ewald, Florian; Groß, Silke; Hagen, Martin; Hirsch, Lutz; Delanoë, Julien; Bauer-Pfundstein, Matthias

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1815-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1815-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1815-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

Research article

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20 Mar 2019

Research article |

| 20 Mar 2019

Calibration of a 35 GHz airborne cloud radar: lessons learned and intercomparisons with 94 GHz cloud radars

Florian Ewald, Silke Groß, Martin Hagen, Lutz Hirsch, Julien Delanoë, and Matthias Bauer-Pfundstein

Data sets

A unified data set of airborne cloud remote sensing using he HALO Microwave Package (HAMP) H. Konow, M. Jacob, F. Ament, S. Crewell, F. Ewald, M. Hagen, L. Hirsch, F. Jansen, M. Mech, and B. Stevens https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2018-116

Short summary

This study gives a summary of lessons learned during the absolute calibration of the airborne, high-power Ka-band cloud radar HAMP MIRA on board the German research aircraft HALO. The first part covers the internal calibration of the instrument where individual instrument components are characterized in the laboratory. In the second part, the internal calibration is validated with external reference sources like the ocean surface backscatter and different air- and spaceborne cloud radars.