5. Credits

The snowScatt package is a project of the OPTIMICe research group at the Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology of the University of Cologne, Germany IGMK. OPTIMICe is funded by the German Science Foundation DFG through the Emmy Noether program.

The OPTIMICe team is lead by Dr Stefan Kneifel who gave the initial motivation for the development of snowScatt and initiated the application of SSRGA to radar remote sensing. The lead developer of snowScatt is Dr Davide Ori with the support of Leonie von Terzi and Markus Karrer

The snowScatt project wouldn’t have been possible without the studies on Self-Similar Rayleigh-Gans of Dr. Robin Hogan, Dr. Chris Westbrook and co-authors [Hogan2017] [Hogan2014]

We also thank Dr. Robin Hogan for making a public reference implementation of the SSRGA algorithm

5.1. Cite this code

To cite this code please use the following reference publication [Ori2021]

REFERENCE TO THE GMDD PUBLICATION

5.2. References

[Ori2021]

Ori snowScatt

[Hogan2017]

Hogan, R.J., Honeyager, R., Tyynelä, J. and Kneifel, S. (2017), Calculating the millimetre‐wave scattering phase function of snowflakes using the self‐similar Rayleigh–Gans Approximation. Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., 143: 834-844. doi:10.1002/qj.2968

[Hogan2014]

Hogan, R. J., and C. D. Westbrook, 2014: Equation for the Microwave Backscatter Cross Section of Aggregate Snowflakes Using the Self-Similar Rayleigh–Gans Approximation. J. Atmos. Sci., 71, 3292–3301, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-13-0347.1.