PRD (IMAGE)

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

PRD

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Sketch of the different components for optimal utilization of PRD and connections between observation-based retrieval (red) that can be used in radar meteorology and DA-based retrieval (blue) used in NWP. Acronyms/abbreviations are: polarimetric radar data (PRD); quality control (QC); microphysics (MP); electromagnetic (EM); forward observation operators (Fd obs. operators); variational (VAR); Ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF); quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE); quantitative precipitation forecast (QPF), numerical weather prediction (NWP); data assimilation (DA).

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Guifu Zhang

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