Utilization of the first three Stokes parameters for the determination of precipitation characteristics

Author

Schroth, A. ; Hornbostel, A. ; Kutuza, B.G. ; Zagorin, G.K.

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Hochfrequenztech., Deutsche Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

6-10 Jul 1998

Firstpage

141

Abstract

The magnitudes of the third Stokes parameter for up- and downwelling microwave emission and scattering by layers consisting of oriented nonspherical hydrometeors are estimated. In the case of downwelling radiation, incident Sun emission is also considered. It is shown that the third Stokes parameter has measurable values under certain conditions and can be utilized in addition to the first and the second Stokes vector components in order to derive microphysical parameters of the precipitation

Keywords

atmospheric precipitation; atmospheric radiation; Stokes parameters; Stokes vector components; downwelling microwave emission; downwelling radiation; incident Sun emission; oriented nonspherical hydrometeor layers; precipitation characteristics determination; precipitation microphysical parameters; scattering; upwelling microwave emission; Atmospheric measurements; Attenuation; Ice; Particle scattering; Polarization; Rain; Rayleigh scattering; Sea measurements; Stokes parameters; Sun;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4403-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1998.702827

Filename

702827