A variational scheme for retrieving rainfall rate and hail reflectivity fraction from polarization radar

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1544-1564

  Hogan, Robin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGLAND; PIXELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; RANDOM ERRORS;

HAIL REFLECTIVITY FRACTION; RAINFALL RATE; VARIATIONAL SCHEME;

NONBIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ERROR ANALYSIS; HAIL; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; POLARIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADAR; RADAR IMAGERY; RAINFALL; REFLECTIVITY; SMOOTHING; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 36549058299     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2550.1     Document Type: Article

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