Journal
JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC TECHNOLOGY
Volume 35, Issue 7, Pages 1415-1424Publisher
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-17-0175.1
Keywords
Radars; Radar observations; Weather radar signal processing; Classification
Funding
- Government of Canada through the Department of the Environment [GCXE16E336]
- NSF [NSF-AGS-1361237]
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To satisfy the needs of the meteorological and aeroecological communities wanting a simple but effective way of flagging each other's unwanted echo for a variety of different operational radar systems, we evaluated the ability of an estimate of depolarization ratio (DR) based on differential reflectivity (Z(DR)) and copolar correlation coefficient ((HV)) measurements to separate both types of echoes. The method was tested with data collected by S- and C-band radars used in the United States and Canada. The DR-based method that does not require training achieved 96% separation between weather and biological echoes. Since the misclassifications are typically caused by isolated pixels in the melting layer or at the edge of echo patterns, the addition of a despeckling algorithm considerably reduces further these false alarms, resulting in an increase in correct identification approaching 99% on test cases.
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