Polarimetric radar characteristics of melting hail. part II: Practical implications

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2871-2886

  Ryzhkov, Alexander V ^a   Kumjian, Matthew R ^a   Ganson, Scott M ^a,b   Zhang, Pengfei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Hail; Radars Radar observations

Indexed keywords

CROSS-CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFERENTIAL REFLECTIVITY; PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATION; RADARS/RADAR OBSERVATIONS; SIZE-DEPENDENT MELTING; SPECIFIC DIFFERENTIAL PHASE; THEORETICAL SIMULATION; WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR-1988 DOPPLER;

ALGORITHMS; MELTING; POLARIMETERS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RAIN; REFLECTION;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHM; DOPPLER RADAR; HAIL; MELTING; RADAR IMAGERY; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84888415933     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-13-074.1     Document Type: Article

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