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For NEXRAD WSR-88D weather radars to correctly measure reflectivity, the targets should be much than the wavelength of the emitted pulses.
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If radar targets are similarly sized or larger in size than the wavelength of the pulses, Rayleigh scattering processes no longer apply and errors will be introduced in the reflectivity calculation.

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