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- Title
Profiles of Raindrop Size Distributions as Retrieved by Microrain Radars.
- Authors
Peters, Gerhard; Fischer, Bernd; Münster, Hans; Clemens, Marco; Wagner, Andreas
- Abstract
Data of vertically pointing microrain radars (MRRs), located at various sites around the Baltic Sea, were analyzed for a period of several years. From the Doppler spectra profiles of drop size distributions (DSDs) are obtained. A significant height dependence of the shape of the DSDs—and thus of the Z–R relations—is observed at high rain rates. This implies, for the considered sites, that ground-based Z–R relations lead to underestimation of high rain rates by weather radars.
- Subjects
BALTIC Sea; WEATHER radar networks; METEOROLOGICAL radar stations; PRECIPITATION anomalies; DOPPLER radar; DOPPLER effect; RAINFALL; RAIN gauges; RAINDROPS
- Publication
Journal of Applied Meteorology (1988), 2005, Vol 44, Issue 12, p1930
- ISSN
0894-8763
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1175/JAM2316.1