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On the statistics of differential phases in C-band weather radar
T. Otto
tobias.otto@etit.tu-chemnitz.de
M. Chandra
Professorship of Microwave Engineering and Photonics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Differential phases open a new parameter in
polarimetric weather radar data analysis. In polarimetric
<b>S</b>-matrices measured at the linear polarisation bases (vertical and
horizontal) there exist basically three differential phases namely
the differential propagation phase and two co-to-crosspolar
phases. In this paper we shall investigate the statistics of
differential propagation phase and co-to-crosspolar phases in
weather radar data recorded with the C-band weather radar of DLR,
Wessling.
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