Calibration of absolute reflectivity at C-band using redundancy of the polarization parameters in rain

11th Conference on Mesoscale Processes and the 32nd Conference on Radar Meteorology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 949-952

  Gourley, Jonathan J ^a,c   Illingworth, Anthony J ^b  

^a MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c DSO   (France)

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