Calibration of a 35-GHz airborne cloud radar: lessons learned and intercomparisons with 94-GHz cloud radars

• Published in: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
• Main Authors: Ewald, Florian, Groß, Silke Martha, Hagen, Martin, Hirsch, Lutz, Delanoë, Julien, Bauer-Pfundstein, Matthias
• Other Authors: Amiridis, Vassilis
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2019
• Subjects: Lidar; Mira; Rasta; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/127140/; https://elib.dlr.de/127140/1/amt-12-1815-2019.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1815-2019

This study gives a summary of lessons learned during the absolute calibration of the airborne, high-power Ka-band cloud radar HAMP MIRA on board the German research aircraft HALO. The first part covers the internal calibration of the instrument where individual instrument components are characterize...