Radar reflectivity and rainfall rate relation from weibull raindrop-size distribution

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E79-B, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 797-800

  Jiang, Hua ^a   Sano, Motoaki ^a   Sekine, Matsuo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Radar equation; Raindrop size distribution; TRMM; Z R relation

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR THEORY; RAIN; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

RADAR EQUATION; RADAR REFLECTIVITY; RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL RATE;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0030168945     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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