Potential utilization of specific attenuation for rainfall estimation, mitigation of partial beam blockage, and radar networking

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 599-619

  Ryzhkov, Alexander ^a,b   Diederich, Malte ^c   Zhang, Pengfei ^a,b   Simmer, Clemens ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADAR; RAIN GAGES; REFLECTION;

DIFFERENTIAL REFLECTIVITY; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; PARTIAL BEAM BLOCKAGES; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; RAINFALL ESTIMATIONS; SPECIFIC ATTENUATION; SPECIFIC DIFFERENTIAL PHASE; WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR-1988 DOPPLER;

RAIN;

DOPPLER RADAR; DROPLET; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINGAUGE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84890834806     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00038.1     Document Type: Article

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