INVESTIGATION OF THE QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF POINT AND AREAL PRECIPITATION BY RADAR ECHO MEASUREMENTS

Abstract

A review of work accomplished on this contract is presented including references to the appropriate interim reports for details. The limiting accuracy for radar estimation of rainfall rate is determined to be plus or minus 40 percent. The location of the medium range raingage network is shown along with the amount of data collected thus far. No results from this network are available at present. A Doctoral thesis entitled, 'Radar Cross Sections from Drop Size Spectra,' is included as an Appendix.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0645218

Entities

People

  • A. L. Sims
  • E. A. Mueller

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Aircrafts
  • Contracts
  • Diffraction
  • Equations
  • Light Sources
  • Marshall Islands
  • Measurement
  • Meteorological Radar
  • Meteorology
  • New Jersey
  • Normal Distribution
  • North Carolina
  • Radar Cross Sections
  • Rainfall
  • Statistics
  • United States

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.