Radar Polarimetry for Weather Observations

This monograph offers a wide array of contemporary information on weather radar polarimetry and its applications. The book tightly connects the microphysical processes responsible for the development and evolution of the clouds’ bulk physical properties to the polarimetric variables, and contains the procedures on how to simulate realistic polarimetric variables. With up-to-date polarimetric methodologies and applications, the book will appeal to practicing radar meteorologists, hydrologists, microphysicists, and modelers who are interested in the bulk properties of hydrometeors and quantification of these with the goals to improve precipitation measurements, understanding of precipitation processes, or model forecasts.

Alexander Ryzhkov is a Senior Research Scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He was named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society at their 2018 meeting in Austin, Texas.

Dusan Zrnic is a senior scientist and Leader of the Doppler Radar and Remote Sensing Research at the National Severe Storms Laboratory. He is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma's department of Electrical Engineering and the school of meteorology. He is a member of the US National Academy of Enbineering.