A Lower Troposphere Radar: 1.3-GHz active phased-array type wind profiler with RASS

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 915-931

  Hashiguchi, Hiroyuki ^a   Fukao, Shoichiro ^a   Moritani, Yuki ^a   Wakayama, Toshio ^b   Watanabe, Shinichiro ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENTATION; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 4344629971     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2004.915     Document Type: Article

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