Assessment of radar signal attenuation caused by the melting hydrometeor layer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1039-1047

  Matrosov, Sergey Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; Attenuation; Dielectric bodies; Meteorological radar; Scattering

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MILLIMETER WAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS; DIELECTRIC BODIES; MELTING HYDROMETEORS; PRECIPITATING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL ATTENUATION;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 41549168785     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.915757     Document Type: Article

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