The potential for water vapor and precipitation estimation with a differential-frequency radar

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1647-1653

  Meneghini, Robert ^a   Liao, Liang ^b   Tian, Lin ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Caelum Research Corporation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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