Dual-polarization radar to identify drizzle, with applications to aircraft icing avoidance

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 778-784

  Reinking, Roger F ^a   Matrosov, Sergey Y ^b   Martner, Brooks E ^a   Kropfli, Robert A ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DROP FORMATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ICE PROBLEMS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

AIRCRAFT ICING AVOIDANCE; DUAL POLARIZED RADARS; FREEZING DRIZZLE;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 0031269454     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.2243     Document Type: Article

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