Effects of humidity and precipitation on VHF radar vertical beam echoes

Radio Science

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1389-1398

  Vaughan, G ^a   Worthington, R M ^a,b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REFRACTION; TROPOSPHERE; RADAR;

VERTICAL BEAM ECHOES;

RADAR; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

HIGH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; HUMIDITY GRADIENTS; ON POTENTIALS; RADAR ECHOES; SATURATED AIR; SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURES; THE STANDARD MODEL; VERTICAL BEAMS;

EID: 0034314049     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999RS002260     Document Type: Article

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