Determining reflectivity measurement error from serial measurements using paired disdrometers and profilers

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 1-5

  Gage, Kenneth S ^a   Clark, Wallace L ^b   Williams, Christopher R ^b   Tokay, Ali ^c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

0634 Electromagnetics: Measurement and standards; 0910 Exploration Geophysics: Data processing; 3360 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Remote sensing; 3394 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Instruments and techniques; 6994 Radio Science: Instruments and Techniques

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; RADAR; RAIN; STANDARDS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

GAUSSIAN-LIKE DISTRIBUTION; JOSS-WALDVOGEL DISDROMETERS (JWD); LARGE-SCALE BIOSPHERE-ATMOSPHERE EXPERIMENTS; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION (TRMM);

GEOPHYSICS;

ERROR ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; REFLECTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 16644383622     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020591     Document Type: Article

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