Estimation of Dual Polarization Weather Radar Variables

Principles and Applications of Dual-Polarization Weather Radar. Part I: Description of the Polarimetric Radar Variables

The United States Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) radar network has been upgraded to dual-polarization capabilities, providing operational and research meteorologists with a wealth of new information regarding the types and distributions of hydrometeors within precipitating storms, as well as a means for improved radar data quality. In addition to the conventional moments of r...

Rainfall estimation and ground clutter rejection with dual polarization weather radar

Conventional radars, used for atmospheric remote sensing, usually operate at a single polarization and frequency to estimate storm parameters such as rainfallrate and water content. Because of the high variability of the drop size distribution conventional radars do not succeed in obtaining detailed information because they just use horizontal reflectivity. The potentiality of the dual-polarize...

Detection of Ground Clutter from Weather Radar Using a Dual-Polarization and Dual-Scan Method

Mohammad-Hossein Golbon-Haghighi 1,2,*, Guifu Zhang 1,2,3, Yinguang Li 1 and Richard J. Doviak 1,3,4 1 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA; [email protected] (G.Z.); [email protected] (Y.L.); [email protected] (R.J.D.) 2 Advanced Radar Research Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73072, USA 3 School of Meteorology, University of O...

NEXT GENERATION WEATHER RADAR PROGRAM OPERATIONAL SUPPORT FACILITY Dual-Polarization Radar Fundamentals and Algorithm Prospects

Dual-Polarization Radar Rainfall Estimation over Tropical Oceans

Dual-polarization radar rainfall estimation relationships have been extensively tested in continental and subtropical coastal rain regimes, with little testing over tropical oceans where the majority of rain on Earth occurs. A 1.5-yr Indo-Pacific warm pool disdrometer dataset was used to quantify the impacts of tropical oceanic drop-size distribution (DSD) variability on dual-polarization radar...