Abstract:Compared with conventional radar, dual-polarization weather radar has obvious advantages in precipitation system detection, data quality improvement, etc. However, X-band dual-polarization radar data are so easily influenced by attenuation and ground clutter, so that attenuation and clutter corrections are necessary for them. Based on the X-band dual-polarization radar data from the test carried out by China Meteorological Administration in July 2010 in Yangjiang, Guangdong, the attenuation effect on ZH is corrected by ZH and ZDR; ground clutter is identified by the variance of ZH and ZDR, and the data combination affected by ground clutter is corrected by the vertical profile of reflectivity factor. In order to verify the effect of corrections, we compared the corrected ZH with that detected by S-band radar, the scatter plot of ZH and KDP after corrections with the fitted curve of them. The results show the corrected ZH is consistent with that detected by S-band radar as well as with the fitted curve, it means that the methods can improve the quality of the radar data effectively.