Polarimetric Radar Measurements of Rainfall Compared with Ground-Based Rain Gauges During MAYPOLE’84

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 443-449

  Aydin, Kultegin ^a   Lure, Yuan Ming ^a   Seliga, Thomas A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADAR--METEOROLOGICAL;

DIFFERENTIAL REFLECTIVITY; POLARIMETRIC RADAR; RAIN GAGES;

RAIN AND RAINFALL;

EID: 0025456069     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1990.572914     Document Type: Article

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