A C-band wind/rain backscatter model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 621-631

  Nie, Congling ^a,b   Long, David G ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscatter; European Centre for Medium range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF); European Remote Sensing (ERS); Rain; Scatterometer; Surface effects; Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR)

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS (ECMWF); EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING (ERS); PRECIPITATION RADAR (; SCATTEROMETER; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION (TRMM) PRECIPITATION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 33847696535     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.888457     Document Type: Article

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