Snowfall retrievals using millimeter-wavelength cloud radars

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 769-777

  Matrosov, Sergey Y ^a,b   Shupe, Matthew D ^a   Djalalova, Irina V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b R/PSD2 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GAGES; RADAR; SNOW; SURVEILLANCE RADAR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENTS; CLOUD RADARS; GAUGE MEASUREMENTS; GLOBAL WATER CYCLES; HEAVY SNOWFALLS; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PRECIPITATION RADARS; RADAR FREQUENCIES; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; SPACE BORNE; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGIES; VERTICAL PROFILES;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD; GAUGE; IMAGE PROCESSING; PIXEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; SNOW;

EID: 57649143276     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1768.1     Document Type: Article

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