CloudSat's cloud profiling radar after two years in orbit: Performance, calibration, and processing

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3560-3573

  Tanelli, Simone ^a   Durden, Stephen L ^a   Im, Eastwood ^b   Pak, Kyung S ^a   Reinke, Dale G ^c   Partain, Philip ^c,d   Haynes, John M ^e   Marchand, Roger T ^f  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

A train; Clouds; CloudSat; Radar

Indexed keywords

RADAR;

A-TRAIN; BACK SCATTERED; CLOUD PROFILING RADARS; CLOUD STRUCTURES; CLOUDSAT; CLOUDSAT MISSIONS; DATA PRODUCTS; GLOBAL TIMES; RADAR PERFORMANCES; SURFACE CLUTTERS;

CLOUDS;

EID: 56849129939     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2002030     Document Type: Article

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