Radar characteristics of cloud fields

Abstract

Relations of several statistical parameters of the radio echo field to the types of cloud systems and weather phenomena in the cloud field are studied. Combinations of the statistical characteristics of radio echo are found which in certain cases permit the unique classification of cloud field according to the types of phenomena. The space-time variability of the radar characteristic was examined in connection with the transformation of the cloud field, and the question of the variation of the statistical characteristics of the echoes from cloud field was examined in connection with changes in the dimensions of the quantization cell.