A C-band scatterometer simultaneous wind/rain retrieval method

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3618-3631

  Nie, Congling ^a   Long, David G ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; Radar cross section; Radar meteorological factors

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN GAGES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS; DATA SETS; ERS SCATTEROMETER; EUROPEANS; HEAVY RAINS; HIGH ACCURACIES; HIGH INCIDENCES; INCIDENCE ANGLES; PRECIPITATION RADARS; RAIN RATES; SCATTEROMETER; SIMULTANEOUS WIND/RAIN RETRIEVALS; TRACK DIRECTIONS; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND SPEEDS; WIND VECTORS; WIND VELOCITIES;

RAIN;

EID: 56849117878     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.922146     Document Type: Article

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