The accuracy of radar estimates of ice terminal fall speed from vertically pointing doppler radar measurements

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2120-2138

  Protat, Alain ^a,b   Williams, Christopher R ^c  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^c Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; CLOUDS; DOPPLER RADAR; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ICE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REFLECTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; VELOCITY;

DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; DOPPLER VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTY; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; RETRIEVAL METHODS; SENSITIVITY TESTS; VERTICAL AIR VELOCITY;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DOPPLER RADAR; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; REFLECTIVITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 81355139196     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-10-05031.1     Document Type: Article

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