A rainrate-attenuation-reflectivity relation for use in the spaceborne and airborne sensing of rain

Robert J. Watson; Anthony R. Holt; Virginie Marécal; Jacques Testud

doi:10.1109/36.763308

A rainrate-attenuation-reflectivity relation for use in the spaceborne and airborne sensing of rain

Robert J. Watson, Anthony R. Holt, Virginie Marécal, Jacques Testud

Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering

University of Essex

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Abstract

A relationship linking rainfall rate with powers of radar reflectivity and specific attenuation is considered. It is shown that at frequencies used for the spaceborne monitoring of rain, such a relationship exists that is relatively insensitive to dropsize distribution (dsd) and temperature over a wide range of rainrates.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1447-1450
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Volume	37
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/36.763308
Publication status	Published - 1999

Funding

Manuscript received April 21, 1998; revised June 24, 1998. This work was supported by the European Space Agency (ESTEC) under Contract 10146/92/NL/PB. R. J. Watson and A. R. Holt are with the Mathematics Department, University of Essex, CO4 3SQ Colchester, U.K. (e-mail: [email protected]). V. Marécal and J. Testud are with CETP, IUT Velizy, 78140 Velizy, France. Publisher Item Identifier S 0196-2892(99)03467-1.

Keywords

Radar
Rainfall
Spaceborne sensing

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering
General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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