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

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

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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

Prabhakar Shrestha

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR

pshrestha@uni-bonn.de

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0840-0717

Institute for Geosciences, Department of Meteorology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Jana Mendrok

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0032-2021

Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany

Velibor Pejcic

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0274-5084

Institute for Geosciences, Department of Meteorology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Silke Trömel

Institute for Geosciences, Department of Meteorology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Laboratory for Clouds and Precipitation Exploration, Geoverbund ABC/J, Bonn, Germany

Ulrich Blahak

Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany

Jacob T. Carlin

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7841-3217

Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA

NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma, USA

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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.

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