Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-811-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-811-2019
Research article
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06 Feb 2019
Research article |  | 06 Feb 2019

X-band dual-polarization radar-based hydrometeor classification for Brazilian tropical precipitation systems

Jean-François Ribaud, Luiz Augusto Toledo Machado, and Thiago Biscaro

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The dominant hydrometeor types associated with Brazilian tropical precipitation systems are identified for the Amazon region during both the wet and dry seasons. Overall the stratiform regions are composed of five hydrometeor classes: drizzle, rain, wet snow, aggregates, and ice crystals, whereas convective echoes are generally associated with light rain, moderate rain, heavy rain, graupel, aggregates and ice crystals.
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