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Polarimetric radar terminology

February 27, 2014 Filed under Blog, Featured, Writing 

Polarimetric radar

My colleague Joey Picca from the Upton NWS Forecast Office tells me that the term “dual-polarimetric” is redundant because “polarimetric” already implies the use of a radar with multiple polarizations. Thus, “polarimetric” or “dual-polarization” are more proper.

Image from http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~schuur/radar.html

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  1. This is a good reminder, Dave (and Joey), with an increasing volume of papers related to polarimetric radar landing the journals. Thanks. As an author, editor and reviewer, I’ll certainly be more vigilant for this terminological redundancy.