Radio wave scattering and attenuation in hail clouds and precipitation with mixed microstructure
Abstract
Scattering and attenuation in a three-component medium - hail with rain and a fine-drop cloud fraction with various component contents - are examined. Using exact diffraction formulas, the contribution of the fine-drop fraction and rain to the hail attenuating characteristics in the cm-wave range is determined. It is shown that the contribution of the fine-drop fraction to the hail and rain radar reflectivity values in the entire range of cm waves with lambda greater than 0.86 is negligibly small, regardless of its content.
- Publication:
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IN: Cloud physics (A90-30452 12-47). Moscow
- Pub Date:
- 1989
- Bibcode:
- 1989clph.book...76A
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Attenuation;
- Hail;
- Ice Clouds;
- Radio Scattering;
- Rain;
- Atmospheric Temperature;
- Cloud Physics;
- Communications and Radar