Study of a precipitating cloud system using Chung-Li VHF radar

Radio Science

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2002, Pages

  Reddy, K Krishna ^a   Shun Peng, Shih ^b   Chu, Yen Hsyang ^b  

^a Frontier Observational Res SGC   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Precipitation; Raindrop size distribution; Terminal velocity; Turbulence; Vertical velocity

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLOUDS; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; MICROWAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RADAR; RAIN; VELOCITY; WIND;

DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; HYDROMETEOR; REFLECTIVITY FLUCTUATION; WIND VELOCITY;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EID: 0036663862     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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