Statistical characteristics of raindrop size distribution  during rainy seasons in the Beijing urban area and  implications for radar rainfall estimation

Ma, Yu; Ni, Guangheng; Chandra, Chandrasekar V.; Tian, Fuqiang; Chen, Haonan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4153-2019

Articles | Volume 23, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4153-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4153-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 10

Research article

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09 Oct 2019

Research article |

| 09 Oct 2019

Statistical characteristics of raindrop size distribution during rainy seasons in the Beijing urban area and implications for radar rainfall estimation

Yu Ma, Guangheng Ni, Chandrasekar V. Chandra, Fuqiang Tian, and Haonan Chen

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RC1: 'Comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 22 Jun 2019
- AC1: 'Response to comments from reviewer 1', Haonan Chen, 21 Aug 2019
- AC3: 'Revised manuscript - clean version', Haonan Chen, 21 Aug 2019
- AC4: 'Revised manuscript - with track changes', Haonan Chen, 21 Aug 2019
- AC7: 'Revised Supplementary Materials', Haonan Chen, 21 Aug 2019
RC2: 'Comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Aug 2019
- AC2: 'response to comments from reviewer 2', Haonan Chen, 21 Aug 2019
- AC5: 'Revised manuscript - clean version', Haonan Chen, 21 Aug 2019
- AC6: 'Revised manuscript - with track changes', Haonan Chen, 21 Aug 2019
- AC8: 'Revised Supplementary Materials', Haonan Chen, 21 Aug 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (21 Aug 2019) by Xing Yuan

AR by Haonan Chen on behalf of the Authors (21 Aug 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (22 Aug 2019) by Xing Yuan

RR by Long Yang (13 Sep 2019)

ED: Publish as is (13 Sep 2019) by Xing Yuan

Short summary

Raindrop size distribution (DSD) information is fundamental in understanding the precipitation microphysics and quantitative precipitation estimation. This study extensively investigates the DSD characteristics during rainy seasons in the Beijing urban area using 5-year DSD observations from a Parsivel² disdrometer. The statistical distributions of DSD parameters are examined and the polarimetric radar rainfall algorithms are derived to support the ongoing development of an X-band radar network.