Stratiform and convective precipitation observed by multiple radars during the DYNAMO/AMIE experiment

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2503-2523

  Deng, Min ^a   Kollias, Pavlos ^b   Feng, Zhe ^c   Zhang, Chidong ^d   Long, Charles N ^c   Kalesse, Heike ^b   Chandra, Arunchandra ^d   Kumar, Vickal V ^e   Protat, Alain ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Instrumentation sensors; Radars Radar observations; Remote sensing; Surface observations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; DOPPLER RADAR; DROPS; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; COMPOSITE DISTRIBUTIONS; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; INSTRUMENTATION/SENSORS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; RADARS/RADAR OBSERVATIONS; SHARED MOBILE ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH AND TEACHINGS; SURFACE OBSERVATION;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADAR; RAINDROP; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 84910672368     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0311.1     Document Type: Article

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