Radar Polarimetry for Weather Observations

✍ Scribed by Alexander V. Ryzhkov, Dusan S. Zrnic

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 497
• Series: Springer Atmospheric Sciences
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii
Polarization, Scattering, and Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves (Alexander V. Ryzhkov, Dusan S. Zrnic)....Pages 1-18
Polarimetric Doppler Radar (Alexander V. Ryzhkov, Dusan S. Zrnic)....Pages 19-40
Scattering by Ensemble of Hydrometeors: Polarimetric Perspective (Alexander V. Ryzhkov, Dusan S. Zrnic)....Pages 41-61
Microphysical and Dielectric Properties of Hydrometeors (Alexander V. Ryzhkov, Dusan S. Zrnic)....Pages 63-96
Polarimetric Variables (Alexander V. Ryzhkov, Dusan S. Zrnic)....Pages 97-146
Data Quality and Measurement Errors (Alexander V. Ryzhkov, Dusan S. Zrnic)....Pages 147-205
Polarimetric “Fingerprints” of Different Microphysical Processes in Clouds and Precipitation (Alexander V. Ryzhkov, Dusan S. Zrnic)....Pages 207-268
Polarimetric Characteristics of Deep Convective Storms (Alexander V. Ryzhkov, Dusan S. Zrnic)....Pages 269-307
Polarimetric Classification of Radar Echo (Alexander V. Ryzhkov, Dusan S. Zrnic)....Pages 309-372
Polarimetric Measurements of Precipitation (Alexander V. Ryzhkov, Dusan S. Zrnic)....Pages 373-433
Polarimetric Microphysical Retrievals (Alexander V. Ryzhkov, Dusan S. Zrnic)....Pages 435-464
Back Matter ....Pages 465-486

✦ Subjects

Earth Sciences; Atmospheric Sciences; Meteorology; Measurement Science and Instrumentation; Earth System Sciences