Articles | Volume 15, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-291-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-291-2022
Model evaluation paper
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17 Jan 2022
Model evaluation paper |  | 17 Jan 2022

Evaluation of the COSMO model (v5.1) in polarimetric radar space – impact of uncertainties in model microphysics, retrievals and forward operators

Prabhakar Shrestha, Jana Mendrok, Velibor Pejcic, Silke Trömel, Ulrich Blahak, and Jacob T. Carlin

Model code and software

Software documentation for COSMO model (v5.1) evaluation with X-band polarimetric radar data using B-PRO (v2.0) Shrestha, Prabhakar; Mendrok, Jana; Pejcic, Velibor; Trömel, Silke; Blahak, Ulrich; Carlin, Jacob T. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5218717

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Short summary
The article focuses on the exploitation of radar polarimetry for model evaluation of stratiform precipitation. The model exhibited a low bias in simulated polarimetric moments at lower levels above the melting layer where snow was found to dominate. This necessitates further research into the missing microphysical processes in these lower levels (e.g. fragmentation due to ice–ice collisions) and use of more reliable snow-scattering models in the forward operator to draw valid conclusions.