Application of a threshold method to airborne-spaceborne attenuating-wavelength radars for the estimation of space-time rain-rate statistics

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 924-938

  Meneghini, Robert ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINFALL;

EID: 0032463801     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1998)037<0924:AOATMT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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