Rain height characteristics in rainy and non rainy conditions over a tropical station
- Paper number
IAC-08.B2.5.6
- Author
Dr. Rajasri Sen Jaiswal, Sona College of Technology, India
- Coauthor
Mrs. S.Uma Vijaysrinivasan, India
- Year
2008
- Abstract
Forecasting rainfall is a crying need in present day in many fields, such as, agriculture, climatology, weather monitoring, weather modification, aviation etc. Rain height may be an important parameter in the prediction of rainfall. Moreover it is one of the most important parameters to estimate attenuation and cross polarization due to rain above 10 GHz. Hence it is necessary to study rain height in depth. In this paper an attempt has been made to study rain height characteristics in rainy and non rainy conditions over Trivandrum, a tropical station in India. The data required for the study are hourly rainfall data and daily radiosonde data during the period 1993-2002. The aim of this work is to find out whether there is any significant difference of rain height characteristics in rainy and non rainy conditions. Regression relations of rain height have been established with total daily rainfall and rainfall rate.
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