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Alexander B. Kostinski
Researcher at Michigan Technological University
Publications - 164
Citations - 4479
Alexander B. Kostinski is an academic researcher from Michigan Technological University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Polarization (waves) & Supercooling. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 161 publications receiving 4109 citations. Previous affiliations of Alexander B. Kostinski include Goddard Space Flight Center & University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
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On foundations of radar polarimetry
TL;DR: In this article, the optimization problem of radar polarimetry is formulated and the method of finding optimal polarizations is modified and extended to non-reciprocal and bistatic cases.
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Scale-dependent droplet clustering in turbulent clouds
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined one-dimensional cuts through clouds, using a theory originally developed for x-ray scattering by liquids, and obtained statistics of droplet spacing, which revealed droplet clustering even in cumulus cloud cores free of entrained ambient air.
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What is a Raindrop Size Distribution
TL;DR: In this article, it is shown that the interpretation of the measured distribution depends upon whether the rain is statistically homogeneous or not, and it is argued and demonstrated using Monte Carlo simulations that as the number of patches included increases, the observed spectrum of drop sizes approaches a steady distribution.
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On the extinction of radiation by a homogeneous but spatially correlated random medium
TL;DR: It is shown that when a dilute random medium is statistically homogeneous but spatially correlated, the attenuation of incoherent radiation with depth is often slower than exponential, because spatial correlations among obstacles of the medium spread out the probability distribution of photon extinction events.
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Do all raindrops fall at terminal speed
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that many intermediate sized raindrops fall up to an order of magnitude faster than expected and that these super-terminal drops are differently sized fragments of a recent break-up, moving with the speed of the parent drop and relaxing towards vt(D).