wradlib.dp.depolarization¶
- wradlib.dp.depolarization(zdr, rho)¶
Compute the depolarization ration.
Compute the depolarization ration using differential reflectivity \(Z_{DR}\) and crosscorrelation coefficient \(Rho_{HV}\) of a radar sweep ([Kilambi et al., 2018], [Melnikov et al., 2013], [Ryzhkov et al., 2017]).
- Parameters:
zdr (
float
ornumpy.ndarray
) – differential reflectivityrho (
float
ornumpy.ndarray
) – crosscorrelation coefficient
- Returns:
depolarization (
numpy.ndarray
) – array of depolarization ratios with the same shape as input data, numpy broadcasting rules apply