The joint polarization experiment: Polarimetric rainfall measurements and hydrometeor classification

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 809-824

  Ryzhkov, Alexander V ^a,b   Schuur, Terry J ^a   Burgess, Donald W ^a   Heinselman, Pamela L ^a   Giangrande, Scott E ^a   Zrnic, Dusan S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DOPPLER RADAR; ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; RAIN;

HYDROMETEOR CLASSIFICATION; NEXT GENERATION WEATHER RADARS; POLARIMETRIC RAINFALL MEASUREMENT;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 21844464836     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-86-6-809     Document Type: Review

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