Dimension statistics of rain cell cores and associated rain rate isopleths derived from radar measurements in the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States

Author

Goldhirsh, Julius ; Musiani, Bert H.

Author_Institution

Appl. Phys. Lab., Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD, USA

Volume

30

Issue

1

fYear

1992

fDate

1/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

28

Lastpage

37

Abstract

Employing a multi-year radar database of precipitation in a mid-Atlantic coast region, the authors have characterized rain cell size statistics. The measurements were made with a high resolution, high power radar in which equicircle diameter contours of resolutions of 1 km and greater were identified out to ranges of 100 km from the radar. The rain cell was constructed by its core intensity isopleth and a family of enveloping contours having defined rain rate intervals in the regions between them. The isopleth statistics were extracted from a database of cores with rain level number 7 (18-24 mm/h) and greater

Keywords

rain; remote sensing by radar; 0 to 100 km; 2.84 GHz; Atlantic coast; S-band; SPANDAR; UHF; United States; cell size statistics; precipitation; radar database; radar measurements; rain cell cores; rain rate isopleths; Algorithm design and analysis; Frequency; NASA; Radar measurements; Rain; Reflectivity; Shape; Size measurement; Space missions; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0196-2892

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/36.124213

Filename

124213