Peer Reviewed:

• Saavedra Garfias, P., and H. Kalesse-Los: Observed modulation of Arctic mixed-phase cloud properties by sea ice conditions and their long-term climatological trends, Atmos. Chem. Phys., NOTE: Manuscript being reviewed, 2024.

• Foth, A., Lochmann, M., Saavedra Garfias, P., Kalesse-Los, H. : Determination of low-level temperature profiles from microwave radiometer observations during rain, Atomos. Meas. Tech., DOI: 10.5194/amt-17-7169-2024, 2024.

• Xie X., Xiao, X., He, J., Saavedra Garfias, P., Li, T., Yu, X., Gu, S., Guo, Y.: In situ observations of rain rate and precipitation microphysics over the coastal area of South China: Perspectives for satellite validation, AMS J. Hydrometeor., DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-22-0227.1, 2024.

• Saavedra Garfias, P., H. Kalesse-Los, K. Ebell : Estimation of Wintertime Cloud Radiative Effects in the Western Arctic, a Function of Cloud-Moisture-Coupl ing and Sea Ice Conditions, Radiation Processes in the Atmosphere and Ocean, American Institute of Physics (AIP) Proceedings, DOI: 10.1063/5.0182751, 2024.

• Saavedra Garfias, P., H. Kalesse-Los, L. von Albedyll, H. Griesche, and G. Spreen: Asymmetries in cloud microphysical properties ascribed to sea ice leads via water vapour transport in the central Arctic, Atmos. Chem. Phys., DOI:10.5194/acp-23-14521-2023, 2023.

• Saavedra Garfias, P., H. Kalesse-Los:Wintertime Arctic cloud properties coupled to sea ice leads during MOSAiC expedition, Harvard Dataverse, V1, DOI:10.7910/DVN/DZSUV7, 2023.

• Linke, O., Quaas, J., Baumer, F., Becker, S., Chylik, J., Dahlke, S., Ehrlich, A., Handorf, D., Jacobi, C., Kalesse-Los, H., Lelli, L., Mehrdad, S., Neggers, R. A. J., Riebold, J., Saavedra Garfias, P., Schnierstein, N., Shupe, M. D., Smith, C., Spreen, G., Verneuil, B., Vinjamuri, K. S., Vountas, M., and Wendisch, M.: Constraints on simulated past Arctic amplification and lapse rate feedback from observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., DOI:10.5194/acp-23-9963-2023, 2023.

• Schimmel, W., Kalesse-Los, H., Maahn, M., Vogl, T., Foth, A., Saavedra Garfias, P., and Seifert, P.: Identifying cloud droplets beyond lidar attenuation from vertically-pointing cloud radar observations using artificial neural networks, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 15, doi:10.5194/amt-15-5343-2022, 2022.

• Schalge, B., Baroni, G., Haese, B., Erdal, D., Geppert, G., Saavedra, P., Haefliger, V., Vereecken, H., Attinger, S., Kunstmann, H., Cirpka, O. A., Ament, F., Kollet, S., Neuweiler, I., Hendricks Franssen, H.-J., and Simmer, C.: Presentation and discussion of the high-resolution atmosphere–land-surface–subsurface simulation dataset of the simulated Neckar catchment for the period 2007–2015, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, doi:10.5194/essd-13-4437-2021, 2021.

• Cheynet, E., Flügge, M., Reuder, J., Jakobsen, J. B., Heggelund, Y., Svardal, B., Saavedra Garfias, P., Obhrai, C., Daniotti, N., Berge, J., Duscha, C., Wildmann, N., Onarheim, I. H., and Godvik, M.: The COTUR project: remote sensing of offshore turbulence for wind energy application, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 6137–6157, doi:10.5194/amt-14-6137-2021, 2021.

• Pejcic V., Saavedra Garfias P., Mühlbauer K., Trömel S., and C. Simmer: Comparison between precipitation estimates of ground-based weather radar composites and GPM’s DPR rainfall product over Germany, Meteorologische Zeitschrift (METZ), 07, 2020. doi:10.1127/metz/2020/1039

• Lv Sh., Schalge B., Saavedra Garfias P., and C. Simmer: Required sampling-density of ground-based soil moisture and brightness temperature observations for calibration/validation of L-band satellite observations based on a virtual reality, Journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS), doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1957-2020

• Schalge, Bernd; Baroni, Gabriele; Haese, Barbara; Erdal, Daniel; Geppert, Gernot; Saavedra, Pablo; Haefliger, Vincent; Vereecken, Harry; Attinger, Sabine; Kunstmann, Harald; Cirpka, Olaf A.; Ament, Felix; Kollet, Stefan; Neuweiler, Insa; Hendricks Franssen, Harrie-Jan; Simmer, Clemens (2020). Virtual catchment simulation based on the Neckar region. World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. doi:10.26050/WDCC/Neckar_VCS_v1

• Saavedra P., and C. Simmer : An Octave/MATLAB Interface For Rapid Processing SMOS L1C Full Polarization Brightness Temperature, Journal of Open Research Software (JORS), 6(1) p.2., 2018, doi:doi.org/10.5334/jors.165

• Xie X., Evaristo R., Troemel S., Saavedra P. and C. Simmer: Radar observation of evaporation and implications for rainfall precipitation and cooling rate estimation, J. Atmos. Ocea. Tech., 2016, doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-15-0244.1.

• Saavedra P., and A. Battaglia : GPM Ground Validation Advanced Microwave Radiometer Rain Identification (ADMIRARI) GCPEx, Dataset from the NASA EOSDIS Global Hydrology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A., on-line, 2012, doi: 10.5067/GPMGV/GCPEX/ADMIRARI/DATA201.

• Saavedra P., Battaglia A. and C. Simmer: Partitioning of cloud water and rain water content by ground-based observations with the Advanced Microwave Radiometer for Rain Identification (ADMIRARI) in synergy with a micro rain radar, JGR, Atmosphere, 2012, 117,D05203, doi:10.1029/2011JD016579.

• Battaglia, A., P. Saavedra, C. A. Morales and C. Simmer: Understanding 3D effects in polarized observations with the ground-based ADMIRARI radiometer during the CHUVA campaign, JGR, Atmosphere , 2011, 116:D09204, 2011, doi:10.1029/2010JD015335.

• Battaglia, A., P. Saavedra, T. Rose and C. Simmer: Characterization of Precipitating Clouds by Ground-Based Measurements with the Triple-Frequency Polarized Microwave Radiometer ADMIRARI, J. Appl. Met. Clim., 49(3), pp. 394-414, 2010.

• Battaglia, A., P. Saavedra, T. Rose and C. Simmer: Rain observations by a multi-frequency dual polarized radiometer, IEEE Geo. Rem. Sens. Lett., 6(2), 354-358, 2009.

Proceedings:

• Saavedra Garfias, P., Bhandari A., Reuder J., Imaki M., Kotake N. and Kameyama Sh.: Comparison and investigation on the lidar-measured turbulence intensities in the measurement campaign using two independent lidars. , Vol. 41, p. 261-264, 2019. 41th Wind Energy Symposium, Tokyo, Japan. Japan Wind Energy Association. (DOI: doi.org/10.11333/jweasympo.41.0_261)

• Saavedra P., Simmer C. and B. Schalge: Evaluation of Modeled high Resolution Virtual Brightness Temperatures Compared to Space-borne Observations for the Neckar Catchment. 2016, 14th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment (MICRORAD), Espoo,pp. 85-90, doi: 10.1109/MICRORAD.2016.7530510. (PDF)

• Saavedra P., Battaglia A., Ryzhkov A. and C. Simmer: Melting Layer Attenuation as Observed by Polarimetric Radar-Radiometer Synergistic Approach. 8th European Conference on Radar Meteorology and Hydrology (ERAD2014), Conf. Proc. (PDF)

• Saavedra P., Battaglia A., Ryzhkov A. and C. Simmer: Synergy between polarimetric radar and radiometer ADMIRARI for estimation of precipitating parameters. 36th Conference of Radar Meteorology, American Meteorological Society (AMS), Conf. Proc. (PDF)

• Saavedra P., Battaglia A., Simmer C., Vega M. and V. Chandrasekar: On the feasibility to combine observations from multi-wavelength radar and the multi-frequency radiometer ADMIRARI to retrieve precipitating clouds parameters. American Institute of Physics (AIP), Conf. Proc. 1531 pp. 260-263;doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4804756. (PDF)

• Saavedra P., Battaglia A. and C. Simmer: The contribution of the microwave radiometer ADMIRARI to the NASA GPM ground validation field experiments. American Institute of Physics (AIP), Conf. Proc. 1531 pp. 592-595; doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4804839. (PDF)

• Lautaporti S., Moisseev D., Saavedra P., Battaglia A. and V. Chandrasekar: Dual polarization radar and microwave radiometer observations of winter precipitation during LPVEx, at the European Radar Conference 2012, Toulouse-France. (PDF)

• Saavedra P., Battaglia A. and C. Simmer: Partitioning of cloud and rain water content by ground-based observations with a multi-frequency microwave radiometer in synergy with a micro rain radar, at the 8th International Symposium  on Tropospheric Profiling 2009, Delft-The Netherlands. (PDF)

Theses:

• Doctoral. Title: "Retrieval of cloud and rainwater from ground-based passive microwave observations with the multi-frequency dual-polarized radiometer ADMIRARI", Faculty of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, University of Bonn, Germany. (HTML)
• Diploma. Title: "Diseño y construcción de un instrumento de deteccion de nubosidad para el estudio de los efectos de la radiación UV", Facultad de Ciencias Puras y Naturales, Universidad Mayor de San Andres, Bolivia.

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