Modeling of the Melting Layer. Part II: Electromagnetic

To complement the meteorological modeling of the melting layer, a model of the scattering properties at microwave frequencies for snow, melting snow, and rain is implemented. The scattering model, running in tandem with a meteorological model, generates the reflectivity fields associated with the hydrometeors in the model to facilitate comparisons with available observations. Several existing and a few new approaches for the scattering of melting snow are attempted. In addition, the models are run using several relationships for the density of snowflakes as a function of their size.