Field campaign of observing precipitation in the 2004 rainy season of Okinawa, Japan

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 7, Issue , 2005, Pages 5088-5091

  Nakagawa, Katsuhiro ^a   Kitamura, Yasushi ^a   Hanado, Hiroshi ^b   Iwanami, Koyuru ^c   Okamoto, Ken'ichi ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^d Osaka City University   (Japan)

Author keywords

400 MHz wind profiler; COBRA; GPM; Microwave radiometer algorithm; Vertical variation of rainfall

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

400-MHZ WIND PROFILER; CRL OKINAWA BISTATIC POLARIMETRIC RADAR (COBRA); GPM; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER ALGORITHMS; VERTICAL VARIATION OF RAINFALL;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EID: 33745728117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2005.1526824     Document Type: Conference Paper

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