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Airborne radar and radiometer experiment for quantitative remote measurements of rain (1989)

Kozu, Toshiaki ; Nakamura, Kenji ; Wilheit, Thomas T. ; [et al.]

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Publication Date: 2011-08-19

Description: An aircraft experiment has been conducted with a dual-frequency (10 GHz and 35 GHz) radar/radiometer system and an 18-GHz radiometer to test various rain-rate retrieval algorithms from space. In the experiment, which took place in the fall of 1988 at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility, VA, both stratiform and convective storms were observed. A ground-based radar and rain gauges were also used to obtain truth data. An external radar calibration is made with rain gauge data, thereby enabling quantitative reflectivity measurements. Comparisons between path attenuations derived from the surface return and from the radar reflectivity profile are made to test the feasibility of a technique to estimate the raindrop size distribution from simultaneous radar and path-attenuation measurements.

Keywords: METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY

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