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The current study develops and assesses a radar-only, moment-based phase partition technique for the demarcation of supercooled liquid water volumes in arctic, MPC conditions. The study utilizes observations from the Ka band profiling radar, the collocated high spectral resolution lidar, and ambient temperature profiles from radio sounding deployments following a statistical analysis of 5.5 years of data (January 2014\u2013May 2019) from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement observatory at the North Slope of Alaska. The ice\/liquid phase partition occurs via a per-pixel, neighborhood-dependent algorithm based on the premise that the partitioning can be deduced by examining the mean values of locally sampled probability distributions of radar-based observables and then compare those against the means of climatologically derived, per-phase probability distributions. Analyzed radar observables include linear depolarization ratio (LDR), spectral width, and vertical gradients of reflectivity factor and radial velocity corrected for vertical air motion. Results highlight that the optimal supercooled liquid water detection skill levels are realized for the radar variable combination of spectral width and reflectivity vertical gradient, suggesting that radar-based polarimetry, in the absence of full LDR spectra, is not as critical as Doppler capabilities. The cloud phase masking technique is proven particularly reliable when applied to cloud tops with an Equitable Threat Score (ETS) of 65%; the detection of embedded supercooled layers remains much more uncertain (ETS = 27%).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13152891","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,23]],"date-time":"2021-07-23T10:31:44Z","timestamp":1627036304000},"page":"2891","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Supercooled Liquid Water Detection Capabilities from Ka-Band Doppler Profiling Radars: Moment-Based Algorithm Formulation and Assessment"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6413-1267","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Petros","family":"Kalogeras","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK"},{"name":"National Centre for Earth Observation, Leicester LE4 5SP, UK"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9243-3484","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alessandro","family":"Battaglia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK"},{"name":"National Centre for Earth Observation, Leicester LE4 5SP, UK"},{"name":"DIATI, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5984-7869","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pavlos","family":"Kollias","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Environmental and Climate Sciences, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA"},{"name":"Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1967","DOI":"10.1175\/1520-0450(2001)040<1967:ACPC>2.0.CO;2","article-title":"Assessing Cloud-Phase Conditions","volume":"40","author":"Cober","year":"2001","journal-title":"J. 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