MRR noise processing
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| Title: | Main Title: MRR noise processing |
| Description: | Abstract: Measuring solid precipitation is complex, because traditional gauges are highly biased, e.g by wind under-catch or blowing snow (Rasmussen et al., 2011). In addition, only few surface measurements are available in high latitudes where snow is the predominant type of precipitation (Ellis et al., 2009). Thus, observations of snow by remote sensing are needed to fill gaps in the observation of precipitation. Moreover, remote sensing instruments can also provide insights into the microphysical processes related to the formation of snowfall. Cloud and precipitation radars are increasingly used to study snow (Turk et al., 2011; Leinonen et al., 2012), especially from space using the satellite Cloudsat (Matrosov et al., 2008; Kulie and Bennartz, 2009) The Micro Rain Radar 2 (MRR) is a small vertically pointing precipitation K-band radar (Figure 1). The frequency modulated continuous wave (FM-CW) principle allows a very compact and power efficient design. Even though MRRs have been widely used to study liquid precipitation (Löffler-Mang et al., 1999; Peters et al., 2002, 2005) and the bright band (Kunhikrishnan et al., 2006; Cha et al., 2009), its potential for studying snow had not been analysed before the study of Kneifel et al. (2011). Although they found sufficient agreement between a MRR and a MIRA35 cloud radar for reflectivities exceeding 3 dBz, Kulie and Bennartz (2009) showed that approximately half of the snow events are occurring at reflectivities below 3 dBz, thus MRR has only limited use for studying snow climatologies. Kneifel et al. (2011) supposed that the decreasing performance of MRR below 3 dBz is most likely related to problems in the noise processing. This assumption, however, could not be proofed, because only noise-corrected data was avail able. In addition, MRR can be affected by aliasing effects due to turbulence as shown by Tridon et al. (2011). They, however, did not correct aliasing effects. This study presents a new data processing routine for MRR featuring an improved noise removal using non noise-corrected raw data. The routine includes also a dynamic method to dealiase the spectrum. The new routine provides reflectivity, Doppler velocity and spectral width, which are tested by comparison with a MIRA35 cloud radar at the Umweltforschungsstation Schneefernerhaus (UFS) close to the Zugspitze in the German Alps at an altitude of 1650m above sea level. From this comparison the suitability of MRR for observing snow is discussed and the question whether a MRR can be used to study snow climatologies is reevaluated. |
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| Creator: | Maximilian Maahn (Author) |
| Publisher: | CRC/TR32 Database (TR32DB) |
| Publication Year: | 2013 |
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| TR32 Topic: | Remote Sensing |
| Related Subproject: | D5 |
| Subject: | Keyword: PhD Report |
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| Filename: | Report2_Maahn_2012.pdf |
| Data Type: | Text - Text |
| File Size: | 3.4 MB |
| Date: | Available: 01.04.2012 |
| Mime Type: | application/pdf |
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| Language: | English |
| Status: | Completed |
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| General Access and Use Conditions: | According to the TR32DB data policy agreement. |
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| Licence: | [TR32DB] Data policy agreement |
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| Report Date: | 1st of April, 2012 |
| Report Type: | PhD Report |
| Report City: | Cologne, Germany |
| Report Institution: | Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Germany |
| Number of Pages: | 22 (1 - 22) |
| Further Information: | TR32 Student Report Phase II |
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| Metadata Creator: | Maximilian Maahn |
| Metadata Created: | 16.12.2013 |
| Metadata Last Updated: | 16.12.2013 |
| Subproject: | D5 |
| Funding Phase: | 2 |
| Metadata Language: | English |
| Metadata Version: | V50 |
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