Kun Zhao

Combined Assimilation of Radar and AWS Data From Mesoscale Networks for the Record‐Breaking Heavy Rainfall in China

Radar data assimilation (DA) alone remains insufficient for precipitation forecasts due to the lack of thermodynamic information in the pre‐storm environment. This study investigates the assimilation of dense automatic weather station (AWS) observations from China's mesoscale network alongside radar during an extreme r...

Microphysical variability in stratiform clouds: Aircraft observations

Impact of Radar-Constrained Effective Drop-Shape Relations on Polarimetric Radar Quantitative Precipitation Estimation in Typhoons

Accurate typhoon quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) with polarimetric radar depends on the assumed drop-shape relation (DSR), but typhoon DSRs derived from surface 2D video disdrometer (2DVD) observations may not represent elevated radar sampling volumes. To address this issue, we apply the established polarim...