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Analysis of differential Doppler velocity for remote sensing of clouds and precipitation with dual-polarization S-band radar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2010

Dmitry N. Glushko  and
Felix J. Yanovsky
Dmitry N. Glushko
Affiliation:
National Aviation University, 1 Prospect Komarova, 03680 Kiev, Ukraine.
Felix J. Yanovsky*
Affiliation:
National Aviation University, 1 Prospect Komarova, 03680 Kiev, Ukraine.
*
Corresponding author: F. Yanovsky Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper presents the results of Doppler-polarimetric radar signal analysis, computer modeling, and real data processing that show the correlation between differential Doppler velocity (DDV), which is a difference between mean Doppler velocities measured at orthogonal polarizations of electromagnetic waves, and parameters of rain including both rain microstructure (parameters of drop-size distribution) and turbulence intensity in resolution volume. The reasonability to use DDV as one of the informative parameters in the recognition neural network system is checked.

Keywords

Meteorological radarPolarization radarDoppler radarDifferential Doppler velocityPolarimetric measurementRemote sensing of rainSignal modelingSignal processing
Type
Original Article
Information
International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies , Volume 2 , Special Issue 3-4: European Microwave Week 2009 , August 2010 , pp. 391 - 398
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and the European Microwave Association 2010

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