Assessing water vapor tomography in Hong Kong with improved vertical and horizontal constraints

Xia, Pengfei; Ye, Shirong; Jiang, Peng; Pan, Lin; Guo, Min

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-36-969-2018

Articles | Volume 36, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-36-969-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-36-969-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 36, issue 4

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09 Jul 2018

Regular paper |

| 09 Jul 2018

Assessing water vapor tomography in Hong Kong with improved vertical and horizontal constraints

Pengfei Xia, Shirong Ye, Peng Jiang, Lin Pan, and Min Guo

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RC1: 'Review of Xia et al. (submitted to Annales Geophysicae)', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Jun 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to RC1', Pengfei Xia, 05 Jun 2018
RC2: 'Reviewers comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 17 Jun 2018
- SC1: 'Reply to RC2', Pengfei Xia, 19 Jun 2018
- AC2: 'Reply to RC2', Pengfei Xia, 26 Jun 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (26 Jun 2018) by Vassiliki Kotroni

AR by Pengfei Xia on behalf of the Authors (27 Jun 2018) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

We proposed a new method to determine the scale height of water vapor, which will improve the quality of vertical constraints. Then, the smoothing factor in the horizontal constraint was determined based on ERA-Interim products. The evaluation results show that the water vapor density quality obtained by the optimized technique is 13.8 % better below 3.8 km and 8.1 % better above 3.8 km than that obtained by the traditional technique.