A Riming-dependent Parameterization of Microwave Scattering by Snowflakes using the Self-similar Rayleigh-Gans Approximation

Nina Maherndl1, Maximilian Maahn2, Frederic Tridon3, Jussi S. Leinonen4, Davide Ori5 and Stefan Kneifel5, (1)University of Leipzig, Institute for Meteorology, Leipzig, Germany, (2)University of Leipzig, Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, Leipzig, Germany, (3)Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand, Aubiere Cedex, France, (4)MeteoSwiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, Locarno-Monti, Switzerland, (5)University of Cologne, Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, Cologne, Germany