Improved polarimetric calibration for atmospheric radars

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1968-1977

  Moisseev, Dmitri N ^a   Unal, Christine M H ^a   Russchenberg, Herman W J ^a   Ligthart, Leo P ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

POLARIMETRIC RADARS;

RADAR;

ANTENNA; CALIBRATION; POLARIZATION; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0036971064     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(2002)019<1968:IPCFAR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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