Range profiling of the rain rate by an airborne weather radar

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 193-209

  Meneghini, Robert ^a   Nakamura, Kenji ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADAR--METEOROLOGICAL; RADIOMETERS;

AIRBORNE WEATHER RADAR; HITSCHFELD-BORDAN SOLUTION; RANGE PROFILING;

RAIN AND RAINFALL;

AIRBORNE WEATHER RADAR; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; HITSCHFELD BORDAN SOLUTION; HYDROMETEOR; RADAR; RAIN RATE;

EID: 0025573139     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-4257(90)90089-5     Document Type: Article

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