Sounding the vertical thermodynamic structure of precipitation using standard and polarimetric Radio Occultations


Ramon Padulles1, Joe J Turk2, Chi O Ao3, Manuel de la Torre-Juárez1, J David Neelin4, Yi-Hung Kuo5 and Estel Cardellach6, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)University of California, Los Angeles, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), Barcelona, Spain