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- Title
Retrieval of the raindrop size distribution from polarimetric radar data using double-moment normalisation.
- Authors
Raupach, Timothy H.; Berne, Alexis
- Abstract
A new technique for estimating the raindrop size distribution (DSD) from polarimetric radar data is proposed. Two statistical moments of the DSD are estimated from polarimetric variables, and the DSD is reconstructed using a double-moment normalisation. The technique takes advantage of the relative invariance of the double-moment normalised DSD. The method was tested using X-band radar data and networks of disdrometers in three different climatic regions. Radar-derived estimates of the DSD compare reasonably well to observations. In the three tested domains, in terms of DSD moments, rain rate, and characteristic drop diameter, the proposed method performs similarly to and often better than a state-of-the-art DSD-retrieval technique. The approach is flexible because no specific DSD model is prescribed. In addition, a method is proposed to treat noisy radar data to improve DSD-retrieval performance with radar measurements.
- Subjects
RAINDROP size; POLARIMETRY
- Publication
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2017, Vol 10, Issue 7, p2573
- ISSN
1867-1381
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/amt-10-2573-2017