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Radar evidence for aggregation and orientation of melting snowflakes
Author(s) -
Mason B. J.
Publication year - 1955
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49708134813
Subject(s) - snowflake , oblate spheroid , snow , orientation (vector space) , materials science , radar , geology , mineralogy , geometry , meteorology , physics , mathematics , classical mechanics , telecommunications , computer science
Measured values of the relative intensities of the echoes received from the melting zone, the snow above, and the rain beneath suggest that, in general, each snowflake in the melting zone coagulates with one or more (on average, two) others of much the same mass to form horizontally‐oriented aggregates which scatter as oblate water spheroids of mean diameter/axis ratio 4.