Links Between Weather Phenomena and Characteristics of Refractivity Measured by Precipitation Radar

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-95

  Besson, Lucas ^a   Boudjabi, Chiraz ^a   Caumont, Olivier ^b   du Chatelet, Jacques Parent ^a  

^a MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Aliasing; Meso NH numerical model; Refractivity; Weather radar

Indexed keywords

ALIASING; ALIASING PROBLEMS; ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATIONS; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; CONVECTIVE EVENTS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PHASE AMBIGUITY; PRECIPITATION RADAR; RADAR FREQUENCIES; RADAR NETWORK; REFRACTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; SAMPLING TIME; SPATIAL SAMPLING; STATISTICAL APPROACH; TURBULENT FLUX; WATER VAPOUR PRESSURE; WEATHER PHENOMENA;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; NUMERICAL MODELS; RAIN; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL ENERGY; RADAR; REFRACTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; TURBULENT FLOW; VAPOR PRESSURE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84857996599     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-011-9656-7     Document Type: Article

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