Validation of polarimetric hail detection

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 839-850

  Heinselman, Pamela L ^a,b,c   Ryzhkov, Alexander V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c National Weather Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; FUZZY SETS; PROBABILITY; RADAR REFLECTION; SURVEILLANCE RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DIFFERENTIAL REFLECTIVITY; HAIL DETECTION; HYDROMETEOR CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; DETECTION METHOD; HAIL; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PROBABILITY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

AVES; HEXAPODA;

EID: 33750523845     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF956.1     Document Type: Article

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