Identification of precipitation onset based on Cloudsat observations

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• 作者：Yu Wang^a ; ^{wangyu09@ustc.edu.cn} ; Yujue Chen^a ; Yunfei Fu^a ; Guosheng Liu^b
• 关键词：Identification of precipitation onset ; Cloud profiling radar ; Radar reflectivity threshold ; Liquid water path threshold
• 刊名：Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：188
• 期：Complete
• 页码：142-147
• 全文大小：1120 K
• 卷排序：188

文摘

A new method to determine precipitation onset by CloudSat observations. Radar reflectivity threshold varies from −18 to −13 dBZ for precipitation onset. Cloud liquid water path threshold varies from 150 to 300 gm-2 for precipitation onset.