Polarimetric radar modeling of mixtures of precipitation particles

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1993, Pages 1017-1030

  Vivekanandan, J ^a   Raghavan, Ravikumar ^a   Bringi, V N ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); POLARIMETERS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; STORMS;

BACKSCATTER DIFFERENTIAL PHASE; COPOLAR CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT DISTRIBUTION; LINEAR DEPOLARIZATION RATIO; MICROPHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; MUELLER MATRIX COMPUTATION; POLARIMETRIC RADAR MODELING; PRECIPITATION PARTICLES; RADAR PARAMETERS; REFLECTIVITY MEASUREMENTS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0027668529     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.263772     Document Type: Article

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