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However, the small-magnitude polarimetric measurements were negatively affected by the scattering characteristics of ground clutter and the filter\u2019s response to the ground clutter. This polarimetric contamination was characterized by decreased differential reflectivity (ZDR) and cross-correlation coefficient (\u03c1hv), as well as an increased standard deviation of the differential phase (\u03a6DP), generating a large-area and long-term observational anomaly for eight polarimetric radars in South China. Considering that outliers simultaneously appeared in the radar mainlobe and sidelobe, the variations in the reflectivity before and after clutter mitigation (\u0394ZH) and \u03c1hv were used for quantitatively describing the random dispersion caused by mainlobe and sidelobe clutters. The performance of polarimetric algorithms was also reduced by clutter contamination. The deteriorated membership functions in the hydrometeor classification algorithm changed the proportion of classified echoes. The empirical relations of R(ZH, ZDR) and R(KDP) were broken in the quantitative precipitation estimation algorithm and the extra error considerably exceeded the uncertainty caused by the drop-size distribution (DSD) variability of R(ZH). 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