Special Issue "Recent Advances in Precipitation Radar"

Dear Colleagues,

There have been many natural disasters caused by high-impact weather such as torrential rainfall, hail, flood, tornado, snow storm and tropical cyclone as climate change progresses around the world. Weather radars (Doppler, polarimetric, phased array etc.) have been crucial instruments to monitor chaff diffusion, precipitation and winds, and to forecast high-impact weather systems with higher spatial and temporal resolution than other remote sensing equipment. Polarimetric capabilities help to understand the microphysical characteristics of precipitation systems and improve radar quantitative precipitation estimation/forecasting. The newly developed and advanced analyses of radar precipitation included with hydrometeo classification and wind field retrieval for QPE/QPF are of special interest for this Special Issue.

The goal of this Special Issue is share the recent achievements in various applications using operational or research radar data (e.g., field observation campaign, rainfall estimation, chaff diffusion in clear sky, nowcasting of precipitation, microphysical features of precipitation systems, hydrological modeling and forecasting in severe weather using Doppler radar and polarimetric radar.  We encourage contributions on the current state-of-the-art in the field, including challenges and discussions toward the better utilization of radar data.

We invite manuscripts on the following topics:

• Field observation campaign;
• Radar data quality control;
• Quantitative precipitation estimation;
• Wind field retrieval and analyses;
• Short-term forecast of precipitation;
• Assimilation of radar data into NWP;
• Orographic/topographic precipitation;
• Hydrological applications using weather radar;
• High-impact weather such as hail, tornado, typhoon and lightning;
• Atmospheric diffusion by chaff experiments;
• Torrential rainfall and nowcasting;
• Hydrometeo classification in clouds and precipitation.

Prof. Dr. Dong-In Lee
Guest Editor

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• weather radar quality control algorithms
• quantitative precipitation estimation and forecasting
• microphysical characteristics of precipitation
• polarimetric and phased array radar applications
• field observational campaign of high-impact weather
• development mechanism of frontal systems and tropical cyclones
• radar wind field retrieval and analyses
• chaff diffusion analyses by radars
• radar nowcasting