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Radar polarimetry for weather observations / Alexander V. Ryzhkov, Dusan S. Zrnic.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Springer atmospheric sciencesPublisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: xviii, 486 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9783030050924
  • 3030050920
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QC973.5 .R99 2019
Contents:
Polarization, Scattering, and Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves -- Polarimetric Doppler Radar -- Scattering by Ensemble of Hydrometeors: Polarimetric Perspective -- Microphysical and dielectric properties of hydrometeors -- Polarimetric Variables -- Data quality and measurement errors -- Polarimetric "fingerprints" of different microphysical processes in clouds and precipitation -- Polarimetric characteristics of deep convective storms -- Polarimetric classification of radar echo -- Polarimetric measurements of precipitation -- Polarimetric microphysical retrievals.
Awards:
  • ASLI Choice Award
Summary: This monograph offers a wide array of contemporary information on weather radar polarimetry and its applications. The book tightly connects the microphysical processes responsible for the development and evolution of the clouds' bulk physical properties to the polarimetric variables, and contains the procedures on how to simulate realistic polarimetric variables. With up-to-date polarimetric methodologies and applications, the book will appeal to practicing radar meteorologists, hydrologists, microphysicists, and modelers who are interested in the bulk properties of hydrometeors and quantification of these with the goals to improve precipitation measurements, understanding of precipitation processes, or model forecasts.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab QC973.5 .R99 2019 1 Available 50583020009340
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Polarization, Scattering, and Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves -- Polarimetric Doppler Radar -- Scattering by Ensemble of Hydrometeors: Polarimetric Perspective -- Microphysical and dielectric properties of hydrometeors -- Polarimetric Variables -- Data quality and measurement errors -- Polarimetric "fingerprints" of different microphysical processes in clouds and precipitation -- Polarimetric characteristics of deep convective storms -- Polarimetric classification of radar echo -- Polarimetric measurements of precipitation -- Polarimetric microphysical retrievals.

This monograph offers a wide array of contemporary information on weather radar polarimetry and its applications. The book tightly connects the microphysical processes responsible for the development and evolution of the clouds' bulk physical properties to the polarimetric variables, and contains the procedures on how to simulate realistic polarimetric variables. With up-to-date polarimetric methodologies and applications, the book will appeal to practicing radar meteorologists, hydrologists, microphysicists, and modelers who are interested in the bulk properties of hydrometeors and quantification of these with the goals to improve precipitation measurements, understanding of precipitation processes, or model forecasts.

ASLI Choice Award

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