Classification and Characterization of Tropical Precipitation Based on High-Resolution Airborne Vertical Incidence Radar. Part I: Classification

Author:

Geerts Bart1,Dawei Yu1

Affiliation:

1. University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming

Abstract

Abstract Airborne measurements of vertical incidence radar reflectivity and radial velocity are analyzed for some 21 231 km of high-altitude flight tracks over tropical precipitation systems, in order to describe their characteristic vertical structure. The strength of the radar dataset lies in its superb vertical resolution, sufficient to detect unambiguously a bright band and the coincident Doppler velocity change, which identify the melting layer in stratiform precipitation. In this first of a two-part study, a technique based on the detection of this stratiform precipitation signature is developed to classify hydrometer profiles as convective, stratiform, or shallow. Even though the profiles are classified individually, stratiform and convective regions emerge, whose characteristics are described. The hydrometeor vertical velocity variability is smaller in stratiform profiles, which is consistent with the physical concept of a stratiform region. The purpose of the classification is to describe, in Part II, the composite vertical structure of the various rain types in hurricanes, as well as in isolated to organized precipitating convection sampled in Florida and Brazil.

Publisher

American Meteorological Society

Subject

Atmospheric Science

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