Measurements of heavy convective rainfall in the presence of hail in flood-prone areas using an X-band polarimetric radar

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 395-407

  Matrosov, Sergey Y ^a   Cifelli, Robert ^b   Gochis, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Hail; Radars Radar observations; Rainfall; Surface observations

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATED RAINFALL; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE; RADARS/RADAR OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; SPECIFIC DIFFERENTIAL PHASE; SURFACE OBSERVATION; X-BAND POLARIMETRIC RADARS;

FLOODS; LIQUIDS; POLARIMETERS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN GAGES;

RAIN;

HAIL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADAR; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE;

BOULDER; COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875030679     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-052.1     Document Type: Article

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