Abstract: The conversion of radar reflections into rain intensities is dependent upon assumptions regarding the drop size distribution. The gamma drop size distribution contains three unknown parameters; the number of parameters ...

Abstract: A model for the radar reflectivity of boundary layer water clouds is constructed using cloud droplet spectra fitted to a truncated gamma distribution. The spectra were derived from several recent field experiments. Realistic ...

Abstract: A new method for retrieving air velocity fluctuations in the cloud-capped boundary layer (BL) using radar reflectivity and the Doppler velocity fields is proposed. The method was developed on the basis of data obtained by ...

Abstract: In situ measurements indicate the complexity and nonunique character of radar reflectivity?liquid water content (Z?LWC) relationships in stratocumulus and cumulus clouds. Parameters of empirical (statistical) Z?LWC dependences ...

Abstract: A method is presented to obtain droplet concentration for water clouds from ground-based remote sensing observations. It relies on observations of cloud thickness, liquid water path, and optical extinction near the cloud ...

Abstract: Dual-polarization radar observations of precipitation depend on size?shape relations of raindrops. There are several studies presented in literature dedicated to the investigation of this relation. In this work a new ...

Abstract: Many radar measurements of the atmosphere can be explained in terms of two scattering mechanisms: incoherent scattering from particles, and coherent scattering from variations in the refractive index of the air, commonly ...

Abstract: This paper describes advances in ground-based thermodynamic profiling of the lower troposphere through sensor synergy. The well-documented integrated profiling technique (IPT), which uses a microwave profiler, a cloud ...

Abstract: In this study, a dual-polarization spectral analysis for retrieval of microphysical properties of ice hydrometeors is developed. It is shown that, by using simultaneous Doppler polarimetric observations taken at a 45° ...