Precipitation measurements using VHF wind profiler radars: Measuring rainfall and vertical air velocities using only observations with a VHF radar

Radio Science

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Campos, Edwin F ^a   Fabry, Fred́eŕic ^a   Hocking, Wayne ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-LOCATED; DATA SETS; DIELECTRIC FACTOR; DOPPLER SPECTRA; DROP SIZE; FAR-FIELD REGION; GENERAL VERSION; GROUND LEVEL; LINEAR CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION; RADAR CALIBRATION; RADAR DATA; RADAR EQUATION; RAINDROP SIZES; SAMPLING VOLUME; SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVATION; VERTICAL AIR VELOCITY; VERTICAL VELOCITY; VHF RADAR; WIND PROFILER; WIND PROFILER RADAR;

AIR; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; DOPPLER EFFECT; RADAR; RAIN; REFLECTION; SET THEORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VELOCITY;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 65549137153     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006RS003540     Document Type: Article

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