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Research article
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20 Jul 2017
Research article |
| 20 Jul 2017
Retrieval of the raindrop size distribution from polarimetric radar data using double-moment normalisation
Timothy H. Raupach
Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, School of
Architecture, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, École
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne,
Switzerland
Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, School of
Architecture, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, École
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne,
Switzerland
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Short summary
The raindrop size distribution (DSD) describes the microstructure of rain. It is required knowledge for weather radar applications and has broad applicability to studies of rainfall processes, including weather models and rain retrieval algorithms. We present a new technique for estimating the DSD from polarimetric radar data. The new method was tested in three different domains, and its performance was found to be similar to and often better than an an existing DSD retrieval method.
The raindrop size distribution (DSD) describes the microstructure of rain. It is required...
