Radar rEflectivity in Snowfall

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 454-461

  Matrosov, S Y ^a  

^a Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences University of Colorado NOAA Wave Propagation Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES; RADAR - MEASUREMENTS; RADAR - REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW AND SNOWFALL - MEASUREMENTS;

COMPLEX REFRACTIVE INDICES; SNOWFLAKES;

SNOW AND SNOWFALL;

EID: 0026867006     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.142923     Document Type: Article

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