Hydrometeor detection using Cloudsat - An earth-orbiting 94-GHz cloud radar

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 519-533

  Marchand, Roger ^a,d   Mace, Gerald G ^b   Ackerman, Thomas ^a   Stephens, Graeme ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DETECTORS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; NASA; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADIO; SATELLITES; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPACE PROBES; TRACKING RADAR;

(P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); CALIPSO; CLOUD AEROSOL LIDAR; CLOUD RADARS; CLOUDSAT; DETECTION ALGORITHMS; INFRARED (IR); PRECIPITATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SURFACE CLUTTER; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

CLOUDS;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETECTION METHOD; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; RADAR IMAGERY; RADARSAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 40449109594     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JTECHA1006.1     Document Type: Article

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