Simulations of Doppler spectra in the melting layer of precipitation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Skaropoulos, Nikolaos C ^a   Russchenberg, Herman W J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SCATTERING; DOPPLER EFFECT; RADAR;

MELTING LAYERS; DOPPLER RADAR OBSERVATION; DOPPLER SPECTRA; SCATTERING MODEL; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; SIMULATED RESULTS;

GEOPHYSICS; MELTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; DOPPLER RADAR; MELTING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 0346152837     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL016959     Document Type: Article

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