pyart.correct.est_rhohv_rain#

pyart.correct.est_rhohv_rain(radar, ind_rmin=10, ind_rmax=500, zmin=20.0, zmax=40.0, thickness=700.0, doc=None, fzl=None, rhohv_field=None, temp_field=None, iso0_field=None, refl_field=None, temp_ref='temperature')[source]#

Estimates the quantiles of RhoHV in rain for each sweep

Parameters:

  • radar (Radar) – radar object

  • ind_rmin, ind_rmax (int) – Min and max range index where to look for rain

  • zmin, zmax (float) – The minimum and maximum reflectivity to consider the radar bin suitable rain

  • thickness (float) – Assumed thickness of the melting layer

  • doc (float) – Number of gates at the end of each ray to to remove from the calculation.

  • fzl (float) – Freezing layer, gates above this point are not included in the correction.

  • temp_field, iso0_field, rhohv_field, refl_field (str) – Field names within the radar object which represent the temperature, the height over the iso0, co-polar correlation and reflectivity fields. A value of None will use the default field name as defined in the Py-ART configuration file.

  • temp_ref (str) – the field use as reference for temperature. Can be either temperature or height_over_iso0

Returns:

rhohv_rain_dict (dict) – The estimated RhoHV in rain for each sweep and metadata