Long-term monitoring of French polarimetric radar data quality and evaluation of several polarimetric quantitative precipitation estimators in ideal conditions for operational implementation at C-band

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 669, 2012, Pages 2212-2228

  Figueras i Ventura, Jordi ^a   Boumahmoud, Abdel Amin ^a   Fradon, Béatrice ^a   Dupuy, Pascale ^a   Tabary, Pierre ^a  

^a Centre de Meteorologie Radar   (France)

Author keywords

Polarimetric processing; Polarimetry; Radar calibration; Radar raingauge comparisons

Indexed keywords

A-STABILITY; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE; DIFFERENTIAL REFLECTIVITY; HYBRID ALGORITHMS; LONG TERM MONITORING; OPERATIONAL USE; POLARIMETRIC RADARS; POLARIMETRIC VARIABLE; PROCESSING CHAIN; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; RADAR CALIBRATION; RADAR-RAINGAUGE COMPARISONS; RAIN RATES; SPECIFIC DIFFERENTIAL PHASE; VERTICAL PROFILE OF REFLECTIVITIES;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; POLARIMETERS; RADAR SYSTEMS; RAIN; REFLECTION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; DATA QUALITY; MONITORING SYSTEM; POLARIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR; RAINGAUGE; REFLECTIVITY; SATELLITE DATA;

FRANCE;

EID: 84871633563     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1934     Document Type: Article

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