Polarimetric radar characteristics of melting hail. Part I: Theoretical simulations using spectral microphysical modeling

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2849-2870

  Ryzhkov, Alexander V ^a   Kumjian, Matthew R ^a,c   Ganson, Scott M ^a   Khain, Alexander P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Hail; Radars Radar observations

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; DIFFERENTIAL ATTENUATION; DIFFERENTIAL REFLECTIVITY; POLARIMETRIC RADAR OBSERVATION; RADAR REFLECTIVITY FACTOR; RADARS/RADAR OBSERVATIONS; SPECIFIC DIFFERENTIAL PHASE; THEORETICAL SIMULATION;

MELTING; POLARIMETERS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; REFLECTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; HAIL; ICE CORE; MELTING; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; RADAR IMAGERY; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84888418153     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-13-073.1     Document Type: Article

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