Specular null polarization theory: applications to radar meteorology

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 859-873

  Hubbert, John C ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METEOROLOGY; POLARIMETERS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR MEASUREMENT; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

BACKSCATTER ALIGNMENT CONVENTION; COHERENT SCATTERING; INCOHERENT SCATTERING; OPTIMUM POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION RESPONSES; RADAR ALIGNMENT CONVECTION; RADAR METEOROLOGY; RADAR POLARIMETRY; SPECULAR NULL POLARIZATION THEORY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION;

EID: 0030193742     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.508403     Document Type: Article

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