Tropical precipitating systems observed with Indian MST radar

Radio Science

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1125-1139

  Rao, T Narayana ^a   Rao, D Narayana ^a   Raghavan, S ^b  

^a SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIA METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLOUDS; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR REFLECTION; RADAR THEORY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VELOCITY; AIR; IONOSPHERE; RADAR; REFLECTION; TROPICS; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

CLOUD SYSTEMS; HYDROMETEORS; PRECIPITATING SYSTEMS; RADAR BRIGHT BAND; VERTICAL VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; MESOSPHERE-STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE RADARS; PRECIPITATING CLOUDS; REFLECTIVITY PROFILES; REFRACTIVE INDEX FLUCTUATIONS; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; STRATIFORM PRECIPITATION;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 0343517542     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999RS900054     Document Type: Article

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