Modelling of radar echoes from rain by a physically-based simulator
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چکیده
It is well known that in order to obtain meaningful results, radar measurements must be carried out according to specific rules. This requirement is even more strict for polarimetric measurements: a non accurate estimation of their values reflects usually in large discrepancies of the meteorological quantities of interest (e.g. rain intensity). Moreover, when polarimetric measurements are used to infer the nature of the ensemble of scatterers in the resolution volume, high accuracy of the measurements is needed (Bringi and Chandrasekar (2001)).
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