Paper Info
Title
Use of Disdrometer Data for X-Band Polarimetric Radar Simulation and Tropical Rain Characterization
Abstract
Natural variations in raindrop size distribution (DSD) were studied for simulated X band radar response from October 2004 to July 2005 (normal no-storm conditions) and during September 15th to 16th, 2004 when the tropical storm Jeanne passed over the island of Puerto Rico. Three types of estimators of rain rates were examined: A classical estimator R(ZH) and two polarimetric radar estimators R(KDP) and R(ZH,ZDR) . According to simulation results, the normalized errors (NEs) with respect data disdrometer of R(ZH),R(KDP) and R(ZHZDR) for all DSD samples in October 2004 to July 2005 data are 40.85%, 14.73%, and 15.83% respectively, while for the tropical storm Jeanne they are 23.39%, 9.35% and 14.53%. The results show that the estimator R(ZH) is the most sensitive to variations in DSD. Calibrated R-Z relations where developed for X-band for two conditions: storm/no-storm. Data from NASA TRMM satellite and rain gauges, the rain rate per hour was used for pinpointing areas of heaviest rain and for validation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/IGARSS.2006.492
Denver, CO
Keywords
Field
DocType
radar polarimetry,rain,remote sensing,storms,AD 2004 09 to AD 2005 07,NASA TRMM satellite data,Puerto Rico island,disdrometer data,polarimetric radar simulation,rain gauges data,raindrop size distribution,tropical rain characterization,tropical storm Jeanne
Radar,Meteorology,Satellite,Polarimetry,Computer science,Remote sensing,Storm,Disdrometer,Tropical cyclone,Estimator,X band
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2153-6996
0-7803-9510-7
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Margarita Baquero100.34
Sandra Cruz-Pol222.79
Bringi, V.N.35421.63
V. Chandrasekar422375.09