Validation and ground truth for TRMM precipitation radar using the MU radar

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E79-B, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 744-750

  Sato, Toru ^a   Teraoka, Toshihiro ^b   Kimura, Iwane ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ground truth; MU radar; Numerical simulation; Rain retrieval algorithm; TRMM precipitation radar

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DROPSIZE DISTRIBUTION; GROUND TRUTH; RAIN RETRIEVAL; RAIN RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 0030171140     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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