Tropospheric measurements of turbulence and characteristics of Bragg scatterers using the Jicamarca VHF radar

Radio Science

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 179-193

  Chau, Jorge L ^a,e   Doviak, Richard J ^b   Muschinski, Andreas ^c   Holloway, Christopher L ^d  

^a INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d Institute for Telecommunication Sciences   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE PIURA   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; RADAR; TURBULENCE;

BRAGG SCATTERERS; KOLMOGOROV THEORY; SPACE ANTENNA METHOD; TROPOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

COMPARISON RESULT; CORRELATION LENGTHS; FRESNEL SCATTERING; MEASUREMENTS OF; STANDARD DEVIATION; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; TURBULENT INTENSITIES; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS;

EID: 0033875902     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999RS002163     Document Type: Article

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