Rainfall-induced changes in actual surface backscattering cross sections and effects on rain-rate estimates by spaceborne precipitation radar

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1693-1709

  Seto, Shinta ^a,b,c   Iguchi, Toshio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ALONGTRACK SPATIAL REFERENCE; HYBRID SPATIAL REFERENCE; PATH INTEGRATED ATTENUATION; RAIN-RATE ESTIMATES; SURFACE REFERENCE TECHNIQUES; TEMPORAL REFERENCE;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICAL METHODS;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; CROSS SECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; LAND SURFACE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINFALL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 35548966580     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH2088.1     Document Type: Article

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