Many times, a key distinction between returns from atmospheric scatterers and those from ground targets is that ground returns have little or no motion. However, ground clutter has other important characteristics that can be used to identify it. Variables used to identify these characteristics include reflectivity texture, clutter phase alignment, and standard deviations of Differential Reflectivity (ZDR) and Differential Phase (phi). These variables are used by the Clutter Mitigation Decision (CMD) algorithm to detect areas of clutter on an elevation-by-elevation, bin-by-bin basis of every volume scan.