Dual-Parameter Radar Rainfall Measurement From Space: A Test Result From an Aircraft Experiment

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1991, Pages 690-703

  Kozu, Toshiaki ^a   Nakamura, Kenji ^a   Meneghini, Robert ^b   Boncyk, Wayne C ^b  

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

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; RAIN AND RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING;

KA-BAND; RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

RADAR;

EID: 0026220560     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.83983     Document Type: Article

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