Authors
Guifu Zhang, Vivek N Mahale, Bryan J Putnam, Youcun Qi, Qing Cao, Andrew D Byrd, Petar Bukovcic, Dusan S Zrnic, Jidong Gao, Ming Xue, Youngsun Jung, Heather D Reeves, Pamela L Heinselman, Alexander Ryzhkov, Robert D Palmer, Pengfei Zhang, Mark Weber, Greg M Mcfarquhar, Berrien Moore, Yan Zhang, Jian Zhang, J Vivekanandan, Yasser Al-Rashid, Richard L Ice, Daniel S Berkowitz, Chong-chi Tong, Caleb Fulton, Richard J Doviak
Publication date
2019/6
Source
Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
Volume
36
Pages
571-588
Publisher
Science Press
Description
After decades of research and development, the WSR-88D (NEXRAD) network in the United States was upgraded with dual-polarization capability, providing polarimetric radar data (PRD) that have the potential to improve weather observations, quantification, forecasting, and warnings. The weather radar networks in China and other countries are also being upgraded with dual-polarization capability. Now, with radar polarimetry technology having matured, and PRD available both nationally and globally, it is important to understand the current status and future challenges and opportunities. The potential impact of PRD has been limited by their oftentimes subjective and empirical use. More importantly, the community has not begun to regularly derive from PRD the state parameters, such as water mixing ratios and number concentrations, used in numerical weather prediction (NWP) models.
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