Simulation-based error analysis of Doppler velocity measured by a spaceborne cloud-profiling radar in the W-band

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 425-435

  Ohsaki, Yuji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD; DOPPLER RADAR; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0042347637     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.81.425     Document Type: Article

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