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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-3341</article-id>
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<article-title>Adaptive Observation Weighting in TCKF1D-Var for Ground-Based Multi-Sensor Thermodynamic Retrievals Prior to Nocturnal Heavy Precipitation over China</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Qi</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3723-222X</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Chen</surname>
<given-names>Tianmeng</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1564-7013</ext-link>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Guo</surname>
<given-names>Jianping</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8530-8976</ext-link>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Key Open Laboratory of Intelligent Meteorological Observation Technology, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China</addr-line>
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<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather Meteorological Science and Technology &amp; Specialized Meteorological Support Technology Research Center, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China</addr-line>
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<addr-line>Engineering Technology Research and Development Center, China Huayun Meteorological Technology Group Co. Ltd., Beijing 100081, China</addr-line>
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<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Field Scientific Experiment Base for Low-Altitude Economy Meteorological Support of Unmanned Aviation in Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, China Meteorological Administration, Shenzhen 518108, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>09</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>36</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Qi Zhang et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Ground-based microwave radiometers (GMWRs) and Mie&amp;ndash;Raman lidars (MRLs) provide valuable thermodynamic observations for atmospheric profiling, but conventional variational retrieval frameworks typically rely on static observation weighting assumptions that may not adequately represent varying observation quality under precipitation conditions. To address this limitation, an adaptive observation weighting framework based on the Thermodynamic-Constrained Kalman Filter 1D-Var framework (TCKF1D-Var) is developed and evaluated using 107 nocturnal heavy-precipitation cases. The proposed method dynamically estimates observational contributions during the retrieval process and is applied to GMWR, MRL, and GMWR&amp;ndash;MRL synergistic retrievals. Retrieval performance is assessed against radiosonde observations and compared with that of a conventional static-weighting TCKF1D-Var framework. Results show that the adaptive weighting approach consistently improves retrieval accuracy, with the largest benefits found for water vapor mass mixing ratio profiles. For both GMWR and MRL retrievals, reductions in mean bias and root-mean-square error are obtained relative to the static-weighting framework. The synergistic retrieval further improves moisture-profile retrievals and generally achieves the best overall performance among all experiments. Diagnostic analyses reveal that the adaptive framework dynamically adjusts the utilization of observational information according to sensor characteristics and atmospheric conditions, while redistributing observational influence between GMWR and MRL measurements during synergistic retrievals. These results demonstrate that adaptive observation weighting provides an effective strategy for improving thermodynamic profile retrievals under heavy-precipitation pre-onset conditions.</p>
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<funding-source>China Meteorological Administration</funding-source>
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