Radar Polarimetry for Weather Observations

• Main Authors: Ryzhkov, Alexander V. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Zrnic, Dusan S. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Atmospheric Sciences,
• Subjects: Atmospheric sciences.; Meteorology.; Physical measurements.; Measurement .; Physical geography.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.; Earth System Sciences.
• Physical Description: XVIII, 486 p. 304 illus., 167 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030050931
• ISSN: 2194-5217
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05093-1

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.