Correction for rain path specific and differential attenuation of X-band dual-polarization observations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2470-2480

  Anagnostou, Marios N ^a   Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^a   Vivekanandan, Jothiram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Polarimetric radar; Rainfall; S band; X band

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIZATION; RADAR SYSTEMS; RAIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIZE DETERMINATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

POLARIMETRIC RADARS; S-BAND; X-BAND;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 33748305818     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.873204     Document Type: Article

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