Microwave Properties of Ice-Phase Hydrometeors for Radar and Radiometers: Sensitivity to Model Assumptions

@article{Johnson2012MicrowavePO,
  title={Microwave Properties of Ice-Phase Hydrometeors for Radar and Radiometers: Sensitivity to Model Assumptions},
  author={Benjamin T. Johnson and Grant W. Petty and Gail M. Skofronick-Jackson},
  journal={Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology},
  year={2012},
  volume={51},
  pages={2152-2171}
}
A simplified framework is presented for assessing the qualitative sensitivities of computed microwave properties, satellite brightness temperatures, and radar reflectivities to assumptions concerning the physical properties of ice-phase hydrometeors. Properties considered included the shape parameterm of a gamma size distribution and the melted-equivalent mass median diameter D0, the particle density, the dielectric mixing formula, and the choice of complex index of refraction for ice. These… 
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