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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: feasibility of a dual-frequency radar system in studying the morphology of subtropical precipitation
  name:
    name part: Clark, Robert Alfred.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Harrington, Edwin L.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Luther. Herbert A.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Meyer, Vance E.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Reid, Robert O.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Schiller, Robert E.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Thompson, Alymer H.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: theses
  genre: Academic theses.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 1964
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 120 leaves
  abstract: Investigation has been conducted on the feasibility of a dual-frequency radar system for the study of the morphology of subtropical precipitation. The system considered for empirical verification of the theoretical feasibility consists of two radars having wave lengths of 3.2 cm (AN/CPS-9) and 10.3 cm (WSR/TAM-1). Various techniques are examined for determination of in-cloud liquid-water content. It is shown that an estimate of water content can be made if the drop-size distribution can be characterized realistically by a two-parameter distribution function. Attenuation coefficients for 3.2 cm radiation are determined from data from the dual-frequency system. These are employed in a technique for estimating the drop-size distribution. Empirical relationships between radar reflectively and liquid-water content which utilize data from a single radar also are examined. The computed in-cloud liquid-water fields appear realistic. Fields of vertical motion are computed by use of the continuity equation for liquid-water concentration. These yield volume-integrated values which appear realistic for the type of radar echoes examined. Problems attendant to the estimation of precipitation intensity by use of a radar system are examined. Variations of the pertinent equations relating radar reflectivity and precipitation intensity with various parameters of drop-size distribution are shown. It is found that the characteristics of the dual-frequency system used in this research in Central Texas are not sufficiently sensitive for optimum utilization of the theoretical dual-frequency technique.
  note: Ph. D. in Meteorology Texas A & M University
  subject:
    topic: Meterology
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-173006
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      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-173006
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 791116
    record change date: 20220104090653.0
    record identifier: in00000161557
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng