Microwave Problems

rain contamination example gif

Summary: Rain Contamination Rain is a well known problem affecting scatterometers It tends to result in erroneous cross track vectors and or unrealistically high speeds Here is an example Note the rain contaminated data in the image The scatterometer derived rainflag is used to draw the arrows grey instead of black Collocated radiometer rain rates are also available in

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