Determination of Rain Rate from a Spaceborne Radar Using Measurements of Total Attenuation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn GE-21, Issue 1, 1983, Pages 34-43

  Meneghini, Robert ^a   Eckerman, Jerome ^a   Atlas, David ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN AND RAINFALL; SATELLITES - WEATHER;

RADAR;

EID: 0020633471     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1983.350528     Document Type: Article

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