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, Hagen, Martin, Hirsch, Lutz, Delanoë, Julien, Bauer-Pfundstein, Matthias
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2019
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Mira; Rasta; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1815-2019; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00002894; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00002852/amt-12-1815-2019.pdf; https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/12/1815/2019/amt-12-1815-2019.pdf

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...