{"id":273,"date":"2012-04-24T21:12:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T21:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/?p=273"},"modified":"2022-04-28T06:22:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T06:22:51","slug":"vol-7-3-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/2012\/vol-7-3-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Vol 7-3 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Image Processing of Weather Radar Reflectivity Data: Should It be Done in <em>Z<\/em> or dB<em>Z<\/em>?<\/h4>\n<p><em>Valliappa Lakshmanan<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Abstract<\/h4>\n<p>It appears to be a common belief that processing, such as interpolation, clustering or smoothing, of weather radar re\ufb02ectivity \ufb01elds ought to be carried out on the re\ufb02ectivity factor (<em>Z<\/em>) and not on its logarithm (dB<em>Z<\/em>). It is demonstrated here by means of a statistical study on a large dataset that, contrary to common belief, processing in dB<em>Z<\/em> is better for such applications.<\/p>\n<p>Full Text: <a href=\"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vol7-3.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Citation:<br \/>\nLakshmanan, V., 2012:\u00a0Image processing of weather radar reflectivity data: Should it be done in\u00a0<i>Z<\/i>\u00a0or dB<i>Z<\/i>?.\u00a0<i>Electronic J. Severe Storms Meteor.<\/i>,\u00a0<b>7<\/b>\u00a0(3), 1-8.<\/p>\n<p>Keywords:<br \/>\nradar tools, operational forecasting, data processing, algorithms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h5>Image Processing of Weather Radar Reflectivity Data: Should It be Done in Z or dBZ?<\/h5>\n<p><i>Valliappa Lakshmanan<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,25,21,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-article","7":"tag-algorithms","8":"tag-data-processing","9":"tag-operational-forecasting","10":"tag-radar-tools","11":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Elke","author_link":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/author\/elke\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}