Drop size effects on rain-generated ring-waves with a view to remote sensing applications

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2345-2357

  Lemaire, D ^a   Bliven, L F ^a   Craeye, C ^a   Sobieski, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROP FORMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WATER WAVES;

RADAR SCATTEROMETERS;

REMOTE SENSING;

RAINDROP; REMOTE SENSING; ROUGHNESS; SCATTEROMETER; SEA SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SIZE EFFECT;

EID: 0037142212     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160110107617     Document Type: Article

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