Wondering if other hydrometeor species are contained in the latest version of ''DualPol_simulator''

[zzwei1]

Dear professor,

Thank you for your reply in the previous question！

I have tried to reimplement your ''DualPol_simulator'' and add some other radar variables (such as Kdp, ρhv) for rain drops to study the micro-physical structure of the typhoon.
The following picture is one of my simulating results of Typhoon Usagi.

Now I wonna use the simulated data to do some research about hydrometeor classification and the melting layer identification.While I noticed that the current version of ''DualPol_simulator'' is for raindrops only, and no other hydrometeor species (such as snow, ice, graupel and melting hydrometeors ) yet. I have read some papers about simulating other hydrometeor species, and I got some difficulties encountered in the specific implementation.

So I wonna know, have you added other hydrometeor species in the latest version of ''DualPol_simulator'' and could I use it? If it is not convenient, I hope that you will not be angry for my unreasonable request.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Best regards,

Zewei Zhao

[mmbell]

Hello Zewei,

Thanks for implementing the additional polarimetric variables. If you are interested to incorporate this code into the repository you can issue a pull request and I can review the contributions.

With regards to the additional hydrometeor species, it would be great to have this functionality implemented in Julia, but my research group has been using CRSim since this functionality is already implemented there in Fortran. As you mention, ice species are a more difficult problem and moving to another community tool may be the best solution given the significant development effort happening in CRSim and POLARRIS. While I would welcome code contributions to add ice phase, I have not added it yet to this code and unfortunately do not have time to do so in the near future.

Thanks,
Michael