On the study of rain profile retrieval algorithm development: First results from airborne rain radar field campaign in China

This paper describes field campaign situations of first spaceborne rain radar in China, including related background introduction, instrument parameters-, field campaign atmospheric condition and so on. What's more, based on the high precision Goddard Cumulus Ensemble (GCE) model, this paper focused on the calculation of two main rain parameter relations (k Z
_e
and RZ
_e
relations) for Ka band. Then, by using this filed campaign observation data and the rain parameter relations mentioned above, the rain attenuation corrections were done and rain profiles were retrieved. Finally, some rain-profiling retrieval results were shown. Comparing with the local weather situation, the retrieval results are reasonable.