@Article{SchneebeliSBACMBM:2012:FiReCH,
               author = "Schneebeli, M. and Sakuragi, Jojhy and Biscaro, Thiago Souza and 
                         Angelis, C. F. and Carvalho da Costa, I. and Morales, C. and 
                         Baldini, L. and Machado, Luiz Augusto Toledo",
          affiliation = "Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´ erale de Lausanne (EPFL), School of 
                         Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), 
                         Lausanne, Switzerland and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
                         Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais 
                         (INPE)} and {} and {} and Instituto de Astronomia, Geofisica e 
                         Ci{\^e}ncias Atmosf{\'e}ricas, Universidade de S{\~a}o Paulo, 
                         S{\~a}o Paulo, Brazil and nstituto di Scienze dell’Atmosfera e 
                         del Clima (CNR), Rome, Italy and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
                         Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Observations of tropical rain with a polarimetric X-band radar: 
                         first results from the CHUVA campaign",
              journal = "Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions",
                 year = "2012",
               volume = "5",
               number = "1",
                pages = "1717--1761",
                 note = "{Setores de Atividade: Pesquisa e desenvolvimento 
                         cient{\'{\i}}fico.}",
             keywords = "Polarimetric radar, Atenuation, Tropical rain.",
             abstract = "A polarimetric X-band radar has been deployed during one month 
                         (April 2011) for a field campaign in Fortaleza, Brazil, together 
                         with additional sensors like a Ka-band vertically pointing 
                         frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar and three laser 
                         disdrometers. The disdrometers as well as the FMCW radar are 
                         capable of measuring 5 the rain drop size distributions (DSDs), 
                         hence making it possible to forward-model theoretical polarimetric 
                         X-band radar observables at the point where the instruments are 
                         located. This set-up allows to thoroughly test the accuracy of the 
                         X-band radar measurements as well as the algorithms that are used 
                         to correct the radar data for radome and rain attenuation. In the 
                         first campaign in Fortaleza it was found that radome atten- 10 
                         uation dominantly affects the measurements. With an algorithm that 
                         is based on the self-consistency of the polarimetric observables, 
                         the radome induced reflectivity offset was estimated. Offset 
                         corrected measurements were then further corrected for rain 
                         attenuation with two different schemes. The performance of the 
                         post-processing steps is being analyzed by comparing the data with 
                         disdrometer-inferred polarimetric variables 15 that were measured 
                         in a distance of 20 km to the radar.",
                  doi = "10.5194/amtd-5-1717-2012",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/amtd-5-1717-2012",
                 issn = "1867-8610",
                label = "lattes: 5379515759830546 8 SchneebeliSBACMBM:2012:FiReCH",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "amtd-5-1717-2012.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "30 abr. 2024"
}