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Z-R Relationships for a Weather Radar in the Eastern Coast of Northeastern Brazil

Tenorio Ricardo Sarmento (Departamento de Meteorologia, Universidade Federal de Alagoas)
Kwon Byung-Hyuk (Department of Environtal and Atmospheric Sciences)
Silva Moraes Marcia Cristina da (Fundacao para Estudos Avancados do Tropico Semi-Arido)

Publication Information

Journal of information and communication convergence engineering / v.4, no.1, 2006 , pp. 41-45 More about this Journal

Abstract

A disdrometer has been used to determine Z-R relationships for the weather radar, which is unique coastal radar operating regularly in western tropical south Atlantic. Rainfall rates were divided into the stratiform rain and the convective rain on the basis of $10\;mm\;h^{-1}$ . The Z-R relationship for the stratiform class was similar to the general one since the convective clouds did not developed and two classes of the rain rate were mixed.

Keywords

Z-R relationship; disdrometer; weather radar;

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