Radar Polarimetry—Applications in Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere

Dear Colleagues,

Radar has been widely used for remote sensing of weather, climate, hydrology, and the environment. Over the past 30 years, numerous radar techniques and algorithms have been developed for measuring, modeling, simulating and forecasting the Earth’s atmosphere state. In particular, polarization diversity has great potential to characterize precipitation microphysics and different atmospheric properties. The ground-based polarimetric radar can also be used for validation of satellite (i.e., passive or active space-borne sensors) observations and products. This Special Issue focuses on recent advances in polarimetric radar applications in geoscience and remote sensing. Contributions are welcome from all areas of active remote sensing of the atmosphere. Submissions are solicited covering, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Concept of wave propagation and polarization
• Radar remote sensing of environment
• Advances in polarimetric radar hardware, signal processing, and data quality control
• Scanning and vertically pointing cloud and precipitation radars
• Identification of hydrometeor phase using polarimetric and Doppler spectra radar measurements
• Remote sensing precipitation measurement, validation, and applications
• The International Workshop on Small Weather Radars (ISWR 2018)

Dr. Haonan Chen  
Prof. V. Chandrasekar
Dr. Sanghun Lim
Prof. Tomoo Ushio
Guest Editors

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