Why the melting layer radar reflectivity is not bright at 94 GHz

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Kollias, Pavlos ^a   Albrecht, Bruce ^b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REFLECTION;

MELTING PARTICLE MODELS; RADAR REFLECTIVITY; STRATIFORM PRECIPITATION;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

RADAR IMAGERY; REFLECTIVITY;

EID: 32644443141     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024074     Document Type: Article

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