Abstract: It was recently demonstrated that magnitudes of the power-normalized cross-correlation functions of complex amplitudes in neighboring range bins are identical to the fractional contributions made by radar coherent backscatter ...

Abstract: The clustering or clumping of droplets appears to be nearly ubiquitous in clouds. Clustering likely plays roles in a number of different physical processes, from the growth of hail, to snow aggregation, to the growth of ...

Abstract: s precipitation sediments and interacts with turbulence, spatial structures appear as the familiar ?streamers? of precipitation sweeping across the road during a thunderstorm or like those so obvious in snow that is backlit. ...

Abstract: The spatial variability and temporal variability of precipitation are widely recognized. In particular, rainfall rates can fluctuate widely in regions where the raindrops are clustered and where mean conditions are changing ...

Abstract: Previous work showed that the magnitudes of the radar-backscattered amplitudes have statistically significant periodic components of frequencies (?f?) in excess of those arising from the Doppler velocity fluctuations of ...

Abstract: Most variables in meteorology are statistically heterogeneous. The statistics of data from several different locations, then, can be thought of as an amalgamation of information contained in several contributing probability ...

Abstract: Backscatter amplitude ratios are defined for horizontal and vertical polarizations. These new parameters of linear polarization provide not only a coherent interpretation of the magnitude of the cross-correlation function ...

Abstract: Parameters derived from measurements using circular and linear polarizations are mathematically interrelated. In this work this interdependence is investigated. It is shown that circular and linear polarization parameters ...

Abstract: In rain radars can measure various powers of the drop diameter averaged over the drop size distribution. These averages can then be used to infer rain water content (W) or the rainfall rate in still air (R0). Besides being ...

Abstract: While there are many microwave techniques proposed for measuring the rate of rainfall in still air (Ro) there is a scarcity of methods for accurately estimating the mass of rainwater rather than its flux. A recently proposed ...