RONSARD radar: Implementation of dual polarization on a C-band doppler weather radar

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 132-136

  Scialom, Georges ^a   Faroux, Jacques ^a   Giraud, Manuel ^a   Ney, Richard ^a   Evaristo, Raquel ^a   Lemaitre, Yvon ^a   Viltard, Nicolas ^a  

^a SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Antenna with direct illumination; Polarimetric C band meteorological Doppler radar

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER RADAR; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; REFLECTION;

ANTENNA GEOMETRIES; CLEAR AIRS; COHERENCE COEFFICIENTS; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE SHIFTS; DOPPLER; DOPPLER SPECTRUMS; DOPPLER WEATHER RADARS; DUAL POLARIZATIONS; NEW DESIGNS; ONE HANDS; POLARIMETRIC C-BAND METEOROLOGICAL DOPPLER RADAR; POLARIZATION MODES; PRECIPITATION AREAS; PULSE PAIRS; RADIAL WINDS; RANGE RESOLUTIONS; SIDELOBE LEVELS; WIND VELOCITIES; WORK OVERS;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 58149490753     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.2008318     Document Type: Article

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