Open AccessThe separation of rain and hail using single polarisation radar echoes and IR cloud‐top temperatures
Author(s) -
Hardaker P J,
Auer A H
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
meteorological applications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1469-8080
pISSN - 1350-4827
DOI - 10.1002/met.5060010301
Subject(s) - radar , cloud computing , separation (statistics) , meteorology , environmental science , remote sensing , drop (telecommunication) , computer science , geology , physics , telecommunications , machine learning , operating system
A previous study has combined infrared cloud‐top temperature and single polarisation radar reflectivity to delineate between had and no‐hail situations and also to estimate had diameter assuming a mono‐disperse drop‐size distribution. The ‐work presented here builds on this previous study, to formalise the empirically derived results into an algorithm that is intended to be of benefit to an operational forecast system.