Calibrating the Quikscat/SeaWinds radar for measuring rainrate over the oceans

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 12 PART I, 2003, Pages 2814-2820

  Weissman, David E ^a   Bourassa, Mark A ^b   O'Brien, James J ^b   Tongue, Jeffrey S ^c  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c National Weather Service Eastern Region Headquarters   (United States)

Author keywords

Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD); Precipitation; Radar reflectivity; Scatterometer normalized radar cross section (NRCS); Space based radar; Tropical Rain Measuring Mission (TRMM)

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BACKSCATTERING; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR CROSS SECTION;

NEXT GENERATION WEATHER RADAR; NORMALIZED RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADAR REFLECTIVITY; SPACE-BASED RADAR; TROPICAL RAIN MEASURING MISSION;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0442295648     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.817975     Document Type: Article

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