A Study of the Rain Structure from Airborne Doppler Radar DataObtained during the TOGA/COARE Experimen
机载雷达定量测雨中衰减效应的订正研究

The application of spaceborne rain radar should satisfy some main requirements: high spatial resolution, wide coverage, large dynamic range for rainrate measurements and accurate rainfall rate measurements. Due to the technical constraints, the radars satisfying the above requirements work at the attenuated frequency, thus the algorithms should be studied to correct for the attenuation effect. For the single beam and single frequency rain radar, kZS algorithms works well for a quite large dynamic range of rainrate. This paper applies kZS algorithms to the airborne data gathered on January and February 1993 during the TOGA/COARE experiments and studies the rain structure. The results show the consistence with the simulation studies.