Rainfall rate measurement with a polarimetric radar at an attenuated wavelength

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2841-2844

  Sauvageot, Henri ^a,d   Mesnard, Frédéric ^a   Illingworth, Anthony J ^b   Goddard, John W F ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

Author keywords

Precipitation assessment; Radar; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; POLARIMETERS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RAIN;

ATTENUATED POLARIMETRIC METHOD; ATTENUATED WAVELENGTH; POLARIMETRIC RADAR; RAINFALL RATE MEASUREMENT; ANOMALOUS PROPAGATION; CALIBRATION ERROR; POLARIMETRIC RADARS; POWER COEFFICIENTS; RADAR CALIBRATION; RAIN RATES; RAINFALL RATES;

RAIN; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINFALL;

EID: 0032148099     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02209     Document Type: Article

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