Disentangling Mie and attenuation effects in rain using a Ka-W dual-wavelength Doppler spectral ratio technique

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 5548-5552

  Tridon, Frédéric ^a   Battaglia, Alessandro ^a   Kollias, Pavlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Doppler spectral ratio; dual wavelength radar; precipitation

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION EFFECT; DIFFERENTIAL ATTENUATION; DOPPLER VELOCITY; DUAL-WAVELENGTH; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PRECIPITATING SNOW; RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES; SPECTRAL RATIOS;

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RADAR; RAIN; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

DOPPLER EFFECT; MIE THEORY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 84886067431     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL057454     Document Type: Article

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