Radar Polarimetry for Weather Observations
Authors: Ryzhkov, Alexander V., Zrnic, Dusan S.
Free Preview- Offers a wide array of contemporary information on weather radar polarimetry and its applications
- Provides up-to-date methodologies for practicing radar meteorologists
- Contains the procedures to simulate realistic polarimetric variables
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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.
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Alexander Ryzhkov is a Senior Research Scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.
Dusan S. Zrnic is a Senior Scientist and Leader of the Doppler Radar and Remote Sensing Research at the National Severe Storms Laboratory. He is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma and is member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Polarization, Scattering, and Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves
Pages 1-18
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Polarimetric Doppler Radar
Pages 19-40
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Scattering by Ensemble of Hydrometeors: Polarimetric Perspective
Pages 41-61
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Microphysical and Dielectric Properties of Hydrometeors
Pages 63-96
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Polarimetric Variables
Pages 97-146
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Radar Polarimetry for Weather Observations
- Authors
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- Alexander V. Ryzhkov
- Dusan S. Zrnic
- Series Title
- Springer Atmospheric Sciences
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-05093-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-05093-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-05092-4
- Series ISSN
- 2194-5217
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 486
- Number of Illustrations
- 137 b/w illustrations, 167 illustrations in colour
- Topics