Evaluation of X-band polarimetric-radar estimates of drop-size distributions from coincident S-band polarimetric estimates and measured raindrop spectra

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3067-3075

  Anagnostou, Marios N ^a   Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^a,b   Vulpiani, Gianfranco ^c   Montopoli, Mario ^d   Marzano, Frank S ^d,e   Vivekanandan, Jothiram ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c DIPARTIMENTO DELLA PROTEZIONE CIVILE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Drop size distribution (DSD) retrievals; Polarimetric radar; S band radar; X band radar

Indexed keywords

DROPS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; RADAR; RAIN; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION RETRIEVAL; POLARIMETRIC RADARS; S-BAND RADAR; X-BAND RADARS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 53849092116     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2000757     Document Type: Article

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