Clutter and rainfall discrimination by means of doppler-polarimetric measurements and vertical reflectivity profile analysis

Advances in Geosciences

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 135-138

  Silvestro, F ^a   Rebora, N ^a   Ferraris, L ^a   Morando, M ^a   Alberoni, P ^b   Fornasiero, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b ARPA Emilia Romagna   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DOPPLER RADAR; RAINFALL; REFLECTIVITY; VERTICAL PROFILE; WAVE SCATTERING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LIGURIA; SAVONA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33748076158     PISSN: 16807340     EISSN: 16807359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-2-135-2005     Document Type: Article

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