A comparative study of rainfall retrievals based on specific differential phase shifts at X- and S-band radar frequencies

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 952-963

  Matrosov, Sergey Y ^a   Cifelli, Robert ^b   Kennedy, Patrick C ^b   Nesbitt, Steven W ^b   Rutledge, Steven A ^b   Bringi, V N ^b   Martner, Brooks E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RAIN; REFLECTION;

DIFFERENTIAL PHASE SHIFTS; NON-RAYLEIGH ROSONANT EFFECTS; POLARIZATION REFLECTIVITY; RAINFALL RETRIEVALS;

METEOROLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; METEOROLOGY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RAIN; REFLECTION;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODELING; RADAR; RAINFALL; REFLECTIVITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33747172835     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH1887.1     Document Type: Article

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