Abstract: The impacts of the differential phase of incident radar waves (ψi) on measured differential reflectivity (ZDR), differential phase, and correlation coefficient from ice cloud particles are presented for radars employing ...

Abstract: AbstractThe mean axis ratio (length/width) and the degree of orientation of cloud ice particles are retrieved from radar differential reflectivity (ZDR) and the copolar correlation coefficient (?hv) measured with the S-band ...

Abstract: Estimators of the linear depolarization ratio (LDR) and cross-polarization correlation coefficients (?xh) free from noise biases are devised. The estimators are based on the 1-lag correlation functions. The 1-lag estimators ...

Abstract: novel method of retrieving the mean axis ratio (width/length) and standard deviation of orientation angles (σ?, which is called herein the intensity of fluttering) of ice cloud particles from polarimetric radar data is ...

Abstract: AbstractIt is shown that the NEXRAD weather radar with enhanced detectability is capable of observing the evolution of convective thermals. The fields of radar differential reflectivity show that the upper parts of the ...

Abstract: Weather radar observations of stratiform precipitation often reveal regions having very large measured Doppler spectrum widths, exceeding 7, and sometimes 10, m s?1. These widths are larger than those typically found in ...

Abstract: ulse-to-pulse switching of polarizations (alternate transmission mode) is considered for polarimetric phased array radar (PAR). It is argued that the performance of the radar in terms of data quality should match or exceed ...

Abstract: A new Doppler spectrum width estimator using the absolute power differences (APDs) at lag one is presented, and its performance is evaluated using simulated signals as well as those recorded from the National Severe Storms ...

Abstract: Spectrum widths, one of the three moments measured and displayed by the Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D), are categorized for various weather conditions showing both expected and unexpected results. Weather ...

Abstract: The authors demonstrate that there are maximum measurable (saturation) spectrum widths for standard autocovariance techniques, the 0,1-lag autocovariance estimator and the 1,2-lag estimator. The maximal mean measurable ...