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...el) layers, descends as the surface precipitation changes from rain to wet snow [[Image:desc_ldr_anot_scale.png|left|LDR color scale]][[Image:desc_dbz_anot ...to melt as they fall through the 0C temperature level. During the initial melting stage, the outer surface of the ice particles starts to become wet causing ...

...r. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 73, pp 1365-1374.</ref>. These large melting snow particles generally wobble as they fall; on average the orientation of thei ...completely melted drops and larger, irregularly-shaped, melting aggregated snow particles causes a localized <math>\rho_{HV}</math> decrease in this mixed ...

...th wet snow after 01&nbsp;UTC. By the following morning, about 6 inches of snow had accumulated at the CHILL site. ...Reflectivity maximized in a thin layer near the surface where wet, melting snow particles existed. ...

On 9 January 2002 the Denver NWS office issued a snow advisory for most of the area covered by the CSU dual Doppler network. In a ...es of the echo area when its coverage was expanding and when both rain and snow were being observed. Figure 1 is the 1.6 degree elevation angle reflectivit ...

.... The melting process takes longer for larger, more massive ice particles; melting also locally cools the environment (Stewart and King, 1987 MWR, p1894-1907) ...rticles were lowered in the higher reflectivity areas where larger, slower melting particles were likely to exist. (Reflectivity maxima at the lowest height a ...

...o melting as precipitation particles descend through the 0&deg;C level. As melting occurs, the refractive index of the particles changes from that of ice to t ...significantly. This causes the drops to accelerate downward away from the melting zone. This locally decreases the particle concentration which tends to redu ...

Radial velocities observed in a snow shower during initial testing of the CSU-CHILL radar's newly-added X-Band c ==11 January 2012 light snow shower== ...

...weather observations (METARS), a combination of thunderstorm activity and snow (-TSSN) was reported during two time periods: 2333 - 2350 and 0011 - 0026 U ...ng irregularly shaped, gyrating graupel particles into the more widespread snow echo. (According to the METAR remarks, both in-cloud and cloud to ground l ...

...AGL in the 00 UTC Denver / DNR sounding data. Hydrometeor evaporation and melting lowered the 0C height within the precipitation core.) ...mbination of drop freezing, ice particles undergoing "wet growth", and the melting of ice hydrometeors locally enhanced Ldr in this area. ...

...y of this layer increased by ~10 dB as the hydrometeors passed through the melting level. :A Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow network (CoCoRaHS) observer documented the occurrence of irregularly-shaped ...

.... Russchenberg, and V. Chandrasekar, "Radar Observations of Snow Above the Melting Layer", (2004). Abstract, ...