Rainfall profiling using atmospheric radiation measurement program vertically pointing 8-mm wavelength radars

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1478-1491

  Matrosov, Sergey Y ^a,c   May, Peter T ^b   Shupe, Matthew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c R/PSD2 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; POLARIZATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION PROGRAM; PRECIPITATION POLARIMETRIC RADAR; WAVELENGTH RADARS;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; METEOROLOGY; POLARIZATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN;

POLARIZATION; RADAR; RADAR IMAGERY; RAINFALL; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 33845648909     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH1957.1     Document Type: Article

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