Evaluation of differential absorption radars in the 183&thinsp;GHz band for profiling water vapour in ice clouds

Battaglia, Alessandro; Kollias, Pavlos

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3335-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3335-2019

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3335-2019

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

Articles | Volume 12, issue 6

Research article

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24 Jun 2019

Research article |

| 24 Jun 2019

Evaluation of differential absorption radars in the 183 GHz band for profiling water vapour in ice clouds

Alessandro Battaglia and Pavlos Kollias

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review', Richard Roy, 12 Mar 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to Reviewer's comments', Alessandro Battaglia, 09 May 2019
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 26 Mar 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to Reviewer's comments', Alessandro Battaglia, 09 May 2019

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

AR by Alessandro Battaglia on behalf of the Authors (09 May 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (10 May 2019) by Mark Kulie

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (06 Jun 2019)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (06 Jun 2019) by Mark Kulie

AR by Alessandro Battaglia on behalf of the Authors (07 Jun 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (07 Jun 2019) by Mark Kulie

Short summary

This work investigates the potential of an innovative differential absorption radar for retrieving relative humidity inside ice clouds. The radar exploits the strong spectral dependence of the water vapour absorption for frequencies close to the 183 GHz water vapour band. Results show that observations from a system with 4–6 frequencies can provide novel information for understanding the formation and growth of ice crystals.