Yongheng Bi

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the statistical properties of summer and winter precipitation over the northern China plain by using a 2D video disdrometer and a micro-rain radar (MRR).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted coordinated field observations of thunderstorms in the Beijing metropolitan region (BMR) during the warm season from 2014 to 2018 to understand how dynamical, microphysical and electrical processes interact in severe thunderstorms and how to assimilate lightning data in numerical weather prediction models to improve severe thunderstorm forecasts.

TL;DR: It is shown that it is possible to retrieve the path-averaged rain rate from the measurement and to use both millimeter-wave transmission link and backhaul link to assist rainfall monitoring and there is room for improvement in the measurement design.

TL;DR: In this paper, the accuracy of cloud top heights derived from passive satellite data, ground-based Ka-band radar measurements from 2016 and 2017 in Beijing are compared with CTH data inferred from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI).

TL;DR: The results show that MODIS, on average, underestimates CTH relative to radar by -1.08 ± 2.48 km, but with a median difference of -0.65 km, and it is shown that the MODIS CO₂-slicing technique performs much better than IRW (infrared window) technique when cloud layer is higher than 2 km.