Radar and scattering parameters through falling hydrometeors with axisymmetric shapes

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 3092-3100

  Battaglia, Alessandro ^a   Prodi, Franco ^a   Sturniolo, Orazio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLYNOMIALS; QUANTUM THEORY;

MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES;

RADAR;

EID: 0007432607     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.003092     Document Type: Article

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