Melting-layer modelling at C-Band
Stratiform cloud formations, such as a uniform type of precipitating clouds, are sub dividable into layers with different aggregate states. In this way, it is adaptable to measurements with polarimetric radar. An important task here is the detection of the transition zone between the liquid particle...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Copernicus Publications
2010-11-01
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| Series: | Advances in Radio Science |
| Online Access: | http://www.adv-radio-sci.net/8/285/2010/ars-8-285-2010.pdf |
| Summary: | Stratiform cloud formations, such as a uniform type of precipitating clouds,
are sub dividable into layers with different aggregate states. In this way,
it is adaptable to measurements with polarimetric radar. An important task
here is the detection of the transition zone between the liquid particles
(raindrops) below and the frozen particles (ice crystals) above, i.e. the
melting-layer. Linked to the physical behaviour of melting, the measured
signatures, from this area, include ice crystals and raindrops in different
aggregate stages. A given melting-layer model will be analysed and the
comparison to models for raindrops and ice particles from earlier studies
will be done. Then the results are compared with measured signatures from the
C-Band radar, POLDIRAD (Oberpfaffenhofen). So we shall seek an answer to the
question whether the results are sufficient to create a melting-layer-class
for hydrometeor classification. |
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| ISSN: | 1684-9965 1684-9973 |