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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-150
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-150
04 Jun 2024
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The PAZ Polarimetric Radio Occultation Research Dataset for Scientific Applications

Ramon Padullés, Estel Cardellach, Antía Paz, Santi Oliveras, Douglas C. Hunt, Sergey Sokolovskiy, Jan P. Weiss, Kuo-Nung Wang, F. Joe Turk, Chi O. Ao, and Manuel de la Torre Juárez

Abstract. Polarimetric Radio Occultations (PRO) represent an augmentation of the standard Radio Occultation (RO) technique that provides precipitation and clouds vertical information along with the standard thermodynamic products. A combined dataset that contains both the PRO observable and the RO standard retrievals, the resPrf, has been developed with the aim to foster the use of these unique observations and to fully exploit the scientific implication of having information about vertical cloud structures with intrinsically collocated thermodynamic state of the atmosphere. This manuscript describes such dataset and provides detailed information on the processing of the observations. The procedure followed at UCAR to combine both H and V observations to generate the equivalent profiles as in standard RO missions is described in detail, and the obtained refractivity is shown to be of equivalent quality as that from TerraSAR-X. The steps of the processing of the PRO observations are detailed, derived products such as the top-of-the-signal are described, and validation is provided.

Furthermore, the dataset contains the simulated ray-trajectories for the PRO observation, and co-located information with global satellite-based precipitation products, such as merged rain rate retrievals or passive microwave observations. These co-locations are used for further validation of the PRO observations and they are also provided within the resPrf profiles for additional use. It is also shown how accounting for external co-located information can improve significantly the effective PRO horizontal resolution, tackling one of the challenges of the technique.

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Ramon Padullés, Estel Cardellach, Antía Paz, Santi Oliveras, Douglas C. Hunt, Sergey Sokolovskiy, Jan P. Weiss, Kuo-Nung Wang, F. Joe Turk, Chi O. Ao, and Manuel de la Torre Juárez

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Ramon Padullés, Estel Cardellach, Antía Paz, Santi Oliveras, Douglas C. Hunt, Sergey Sokolovskiy, Jan P. Weiss, Kuo-Nung Wang, F. Joe Turk, Chi O. Ao, and Manuel de la Torre Juárez

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resPrf [dataset] Ramon Padullés, Estel Cardellach, and Santi Oliveras https://doi.org/10.20350/digitalCSIC/16137

Ramon Padullés, Estel Cardellach, Antía Paz, Santi Oliveras, Douglas C. Hunt, Sergey Sokolovskiy, Jan P. Weiss, Kuo-Nung Wang, F. Joe Turk, Chi O. Ao, and Manuel de la Torre Juárez

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This dataset provides, for the first time, combined observations of clouds and precipitation with coincident retrievals of atmospheric thermodynamics obtained from the same space based instrument. Furthermore, it provides the locations of the ray-trajectories of the observations, along various precipitation-related products interpolated into them, with the aim to foster the use of such dataset in scientific and operational applications.
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