Determining the phase of cloud tops and their heights using combined observations with GOES-R satellite and WSR-88D ground-based radars

Jiaxi Hu1, Charles Kuster1, Pengfei Zhang1, Alexander Ryzhkov1, Valery Melnikov1 and Daniel Rosenfeld2, (1)Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (2)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel