Rainfall and snowfall observations by the airborne dual-frequency precipitation radar during the Wakasa Bay Experiment

Author

Tanelli, Simone ; Im, Eastwood ; Durden, Stephen L. ; Meagher, Jonathan P.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA

Volume

5

fYear

2004

fDate

20-24 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

3195

Abstract

Radar data obtained through the NASA/JPL Airborne Precipitation Radar APR-2 during the Wakasa Bay Experiment in January/February 2003 were processed to obtain calibrated reflectivity measurements, rainfall/snowfall velocity measurements, classification of the surface type and detection of the boundaries of the melting layer of precipitation. In this paper the processing approach is described together with an overview of the resulting data quality and known issues

Keywords

hydrological techniques; meteorological radar; rain; snow; AD 2003 01 to 02; Japan; NASA/JPL APR-2; Wakasa Bay Experiment; airborne precipitation radar; data quality; radar data; rainfall observations; rainfall/snowfall velocity measurements; reflectivity measurements; snowfall observations; Airborne radar; Calibration; NASA; Pulse compression methods; Radar detection; Radar measurements; Reflectivity; Sea measurements; Spaceborne radar; Velocity measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Anchorage, AK

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8742-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1370380

Filename

1370380