Rainfall Doppler velocity measurements from spaceborne radar: Overcoming nonuniform beam-filling effects

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 27-44

  Tanelli, Simone ^a   Im, Eastwood ^a   Durden, Stephen L ^a   Facheris, Luca ^b   Giuli, Dino ^b   Smith, Eric A ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; DATA REDUCTION; RADAR; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPACECRAFT;

DOPPLER VELOCITY; RAIN FIELDS;

RAIN;

DATA PROCESSING; DOPPLER RADAR; RADAR IMAGERY; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 1342266489     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(2004)021<0027:RDVMFS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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