Effects of propagation conditions on radar beam-ground interaction: Impact on data quality

Advances in Geosciences

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 201-208

  Fornasiero, A ^a,b   Alberoni, P P ^b   Amorati, R ^b   Ferraris, L ^a   Taramasso, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b ARPA Servizio Idrometeorologico   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA QUALITY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; RADAR; RAINFALL; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 33746741704     PISSN: 16807340     EISSN: 16807359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-2-201-2005     Document Type: Article

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