Weather radar data processing and atmospheric applications: An overview of tools for monitoring clouds and detecting wind shear
Rain, snow, and volcanic ash clouds contain particles generated by different physical and chemical processes. When electromagnetic radiation interacts with particle distribution, causing absorption and scattering, the backscattered power enables the retrieval of useful geophysical parameters of particle distribution. This is the measurement principle of microwave weather (meteorological) radar, monostatic remote sensing that can exploit Rayleigh and Mie backscattering to remotely probe atmospheric clouds.