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When using triple-frequency ground-based radar measurements, evaluating the attenuation of the three radars at different heights is common to derive attenuation-corrected effective reflectivity. Therefore, this study proposes a novel quality-controlled approach to identify radar attenuation due to gases and stratiform clouds that can be neglected due to varying snowfall microphysical properties and assess attenuation along the radar observation path. The key issue lies in the lack of information about vertical hydrometeor and cloud distribution. Therefore, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) reanalysis data are employed. The Self-Similar-Rayleigh-Gans Approximation (SSRGA) for the nonspherical scattering model in the Passive and Active Microwave TRAnsfer model 2 (PAMTRA2) is compared and analyzed against other scattering models to obtain the optimal triple-frequency radar attenuation correction strategies for stratiform cloud meteorological conditions with varying snowfall microphysical properties. This methodology paves the way for understanding differential attenuation attributed to gas and stratiform clouds with snowfall microphysical properties. Simultaneously, the bin-by-bin approximation method is used to perform the attenuation correction. The two-way attenuation correction increased up to 4.71 dB for heights above 6 km, remaining minimal for regions with heights below 6 km. These values, attributable to gases and stratiform clouds\u2019 two-way attenuation, are nonnegligible, especially at distances far from the W-band radar at heights above 6 km. Both values are relatively small for the X- and Ka-band radars and can be neglected for the varying snowfall microphysical properties. The attenuation correction of triple-frequency radar reflectivity is validated using the cross-calibration and dual-frequency reflectivity ratios. The results show that the method is valid and feasible.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15194843","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,6]],"date-time":"2023-10-06T07:49:29Z","timestamp":1696578569000},"page":"4843","update-policy":"https:\/\/2.zoppoz.workers.dev:443\/https\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Correction for the Attenuation Due to Atmospheric Gas and Stratiform Clouds in Triple-Frequency Radar Observations of the Microphysical Properties of Snowfall"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Yue","family":"Chang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China"},{"name":"College of Electronic Engineering, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu 610225, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hongbin","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaosong","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yongheng","family":"Bi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shu","family":"Duan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Pucai","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jie","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Meteorological Observation Center of China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4893","DOI":"10.5194\/amt-14-4893-2021","article-title":"Analysis of the microphysical properties of snowfall using scanning polarimetric and vertically pointing mul-ti-frequency Doppler radars","volume":"14","author":"Oue","year":"2021","journal-title":"Atmos. 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