Articles | Volume 12, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-4031-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-4031-2019
Model description paper
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13 Sep 2019
Model description paper |  | 13 Sep 2019

A radar reflectivity operator with ice-phase hydrometeors for variational data assimilation (version 1.0) and its evaluation with real radar data

Shizhang Wang and Zhiquan Liu

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A reflectivity operator was developed for directly assimilating radar reflectivity involving contributions from ice species with the variational data assimilation method. Its current version was implemented in WRFDA 3.9.1. This operator allows for not only the dry snow/graupel but also the wet species so that it can effectively obtain the rainwater, snow, and graupel analysis which improved the short-term precipitation forecasts compared to those of the experiment without DA.