contributor author | Saunders, Peter M. | |
contributor author | Ronne, F. Claude | |
date accessioned | 2017-06-09T16:29:00Z | |
date available | 2017-06-09T16:29:00Z | |
date copyright | 1962/09/01 | |
date issued | 1962 | |
identifier issn | 0021-8952 | |
identifier other | ams-6868.pdf | |
identifier uri | http://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4210266 | |
description abstract | A comparison is made between the angular elevation of the visible top of a cloud tower and the top of the radar echo associated with it. Employing a 10-cm WSR-57 radar, we find angular differences between 0 and +1° with the radar elevation higher. Our sample is 32 clouds with cops from 16,000 to 53,000 ft at ranges between 10 and 35 n mi in the vicinity of Miami, Fla. From the known sensitivity of the radar we have deduced that in the upper 500?1500 ft of these clouds the average equivalent reflectivity factor Z has values between a few tenths and a few mm6m?2. Because of these low values when the conventional beam-width correction is made, the height of the visible top exceeds that of the radar top by 200?3000 ft. | |
publisher | American Meteorological Society | |
title | A Comparison between the Height of Cumulus Clouds and the Height of Radar Echoes Received from Them1 | |
type | Journal Paper | |
journal volume | 1 | |
journal issue | 3 | |
journal title | Journal of Applied Meteorology | |
identifier doi | 10.1175/1520-0450(1962)001<0296:ACBTHO>2.0.CO;2 | |
journal fristpage | 296 | |
journal lastpage | 302 | |
tree | Journal of Applied Meteorology:;1962:;volume( 001 ):;issue: 003 | |
contenttype | Fulltext | |