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Variation with height of rainfall below the melting level
Author(s) -
Harper W. G.
Publication year - 1957
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.49708335712
Subject(s) - snowflake , precipitation , environmental science , terminal velocity , atmospheric sciences , radar , meteorology , variation (astronomy) , range (aeronautics) , front (military) , intensity (physics) , materials science , climatology , geology , mechanics , physics , optics , snow , composite material , astrophysics , telecommunications , computer science
3‐cm radar signal intensity measurements, made at a range of heights up to 6,000 ft on three days with widespread moderate rain, suggest that there was considerable uniformity of drop‐size distribution and of rainfall rate with height once melting of snowflakes was complete and terminal velocity was achieved, and that in these warm‐front type situations no significant growth of precipitation was taking place below the melting layer.