Classification of particles in stratiform clouds using the 33 and 95 ghz polarimetric cloud Profiling Radar System (CPRS)

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 256-270

  Lohmeier, Stephen P ^a   Sekelsky, Stephen M ^a   Firda, John M ^a   Sadowy, Gregory A ^a   Mclntosh, Robert E ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; CLOUDS; ESTIMATION; HYDROMETERS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLOUD PROFILING RADAR SYSTEM; DUAL WAVELENGTH RATIO; HISTOGRAMS; LINEAR DEPOLARIZATION RATIO; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIER; STRATIFORM CLOUDS;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 0031098207     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.563264     Document Type: Article

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