Bright-band modeling of air/space-borne microwave radars

Author

Liao, Liang ; Meneghini, Robert ; Iguchi, Toshio

Author_Institution

Caelum Res. Corp., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

278

Abstract

In simulating the radar echo in the melting layer of stratiform rain, a melting snowflake is modeled as a spherical non-uniform mixture, prescribed as a stratified-sphere in that the fractional water content is given as a function of the radius of sphere. Combined with the melting layer model that depicts the melting fractions and fall velocities of hydrometeors, the radar profiles are produced and then compared with the measurements of TRMM PR and the dual-wavelength airborne radar.

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; backscatter; meteorological radar; radar cross-sections; radar theory; rain; remote sensing by radar; airborne radar; atmosphere; backscatter; bright band; fall velocity; fractional water content; hydrometeor; measurement technique; melting layer; melting snowflake; meteorological radar; meteorology; microwave radar; model; radar profile; radar remote sensing; radar scattering; simulation; spaceborne radar; spherical nonuniform mixture; stratiform rain; Airborne radar; Dielectric constant; NASA; Particle scattering; Radar imaging; Radar measurements; Radar scattering; Rain; Snow; Spaceborne radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7536-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1025012

Filename

1025012