Sensing Heavy Precipitation With GNSS Polarimetric Radio Occultations

Cardellach, E.; Oliveras, S.; Rius, A.; Tomás, S.; Ao, C. O.; Franklin, G. W.; Iijima, B. A.; Kuang, D.; Meehan, T. K.; Padullés, R.; de la Torre Juárez, M.; Turk, F. J.; Hunt, D. C.; Schreiner, W. S.; Sokolovskiy, S. V.; Van Hove, T.; Weiss, J. P.; Yoon, Y.; Zeng, Z.; Clapp, J.; Xia‐Serafino, W.; Cerezo, F.

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Sensing Heavy Precipitation With GNSS Polarimetric Radio Occultations

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2019
By Cardellach, E. ; Oliveras, S. ; Rius, A. ; ...

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Geophysical Research Letters
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Cardellach, E. ; Oliveras, S. ; Rius, A. ; Tomás, S. ; Ao, C. O. ; Franklin, G. W. ; Iijima, B. A. ; Kuang, D. ; Meehan, T. K. ; Padullés, R. ; de la Torre Juárez, M. ; Turk, F. J. ; Hunt, D. C. ; Schreiner, W. S. ; Sokolovskiy, S. V. ; Van Hove, T. ; Weiss, J. P. ; Yoon, Y. ; Zeng, Z. ; Clapp, J. ; Xia‐Serafino, W. ; Cerezo, F.
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Thisstudypresents,fortheﬁrsttimeever,occultingsignalsoftheGlobalNavigationSatellite Systems(GNSSs)acquiredattwopolarizationsfromaLowEarthOrbiter,anditshowsthattheysenseheavy precipitation.ThedatasetsareobtainedfromearlystagesoftheRadioOccultationandHeavyPrecipitation experimentaboardthePAZsatellite,launchedinFebruary2018andactivatedinMay2018.Preliminarycalibrationalgorithmsareappliedtoremoveothersystematiceﬀects,andtheresultingverticalproﬁlesof polarimetricphaseshiftobservationsarecomparedtoprecipitationinformationfromothermissions.The analysisofthedatashowsconsistencybetweenRadioOccultationandHeavyPrecipitationexperimentaboard the PAZ satellite polarimetric phase shift measurements and presence of hydrometeors, with strongsignaturesfromheavyprecipitation.Thepolarimetricmeasurementsalsocaptureverticalfeatures
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General Earth And Planetary Sciences Geophysics General Earth And Planetary Sciences General Earth And Planetary Sciences
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Geophysical Research Letters, 46(2), 1024-1031
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gl080412
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0094-8276 ; 1944-8007
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American Geophysical Union (AGU)
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