Abstract:Detection data, from the Micro Rain Radar (MRR-2) and microwave radiometer situated in Liupan Mountain area, southern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China, were used to explore the cloud microphysical and Bright Band (BB) characteristics of convective cloud, stratiform cloud and shallow cloud precipitation in ridge and valley in Liupan Mountain area. According to the distribution characteristics of raindrop spectrum in the bright zone of mountain ridges and valleys and the layers below the bright zone in typical stratiform cloud precipitation events, the classification of hydraulic condensate in the layers above the bright zone were explored. The results showed that the reflectivity and reflectivity attenuation of three kinds of precipitation clouds in Liupan Mountain ridges were higher than those in valleys, indicating that terrain forcing made the physical and dynamic processes of precipitation clouds on ridges more intense than those in valleys. The reflectivity above the isotherm of 0℃ of the ridges was obviously higher than that of the valleys in the process of stratiform cloud precipitation, which indicated that there were more hydrates in the ridge above the isotherm of 0℃. Specifically, a stratiform precipitation event that occurred in 28 July 2017 featured a BB was studied. It was found that during the event, the Drop Size Distribustion(DSD) in each layer below the BB conformed to the Gamma distribution, the correlation of Gamma distribution of the ridge stations was better than that of the valley stations of the Liupan Mountain area. Meanwhile, according to the falling velocity characteristics of various hydrometeors, this paper attempted to classify the hydrometeors in each layer between -4℃ and 0℃ isotherms above the BB. It was found that at the beginning of the precipitation event, the graupel was dominant at the ridge stations, and the main hydrometeors were snow particles and graupel then after, while the snow particles and large graupel were dominant at the beginning of the precipitation event at the valley stations, and graupel was the main hydrometeors in each layer then after.