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.

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 contai...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter1: Polarization, scattering, and propagation of electromagnetic waves
• Chapter2: Polarimetric Doppler radar
• Chapter3: Scattering by an ensemble hydrometeors - Polarimetric perspective. Chapter4: Microphysical and dielectric properties of hydrometeors
• Chapter5: Polarimetric variables
• Chapter6: Data quality and measurement errors
• Chapter7: Polarimetric "fingerprints" of microphysical processes in clouds and precipitation
• Chapter8: Polarimetric characteristics of deep convective storms
• Chapter9: Polarimetric Classification of radar echo
• Chapter10: Polarimetric measurements of precipitation
• Chapter11: Polarimetric microphysical retrievals.