Rain field and reflectivity vertical profile reconstruction from C-band radar volumetric data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1033-1046

  Marzano, Frank Silvio ^a   Vulpiani, Gianfranco ^a   Picciotti, Errico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ground based C band radar; Imversion techniques; Radar meteorology; Rain field reconstruction; Rain rate retrieval; Vertical profile of reflectivity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING;

INVERSION TECHNIQUES; RADAR METEOROLOGY; RAIN FIELD RECONSTRUCTION; RAIN RATE RETRIEVAL; VERTICAL PROFILE;

RADAR;

EID: 2642552236     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.820313     Document Type: Article

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