Microwave radiative transfer intercomparison study for 3-D dichroic media

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 55-67

  Battaglia, A ^a   Davis, C P ^b   Emde, C ^c   Simmer, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 Deffects; Dichroic media; Microwave radiative transfer; Polarization

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLARIZATION; RAIN;

DICHROIC MEDIA; ORIENTED OBLATE RAINDROPS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

MICROWAVES;

MICROWAVE RADIATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; STOKES FORMULA;

EID: 33846694491     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2006.09.017     Document Type: Article

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