Simulation of spaceborne radar observations of precipitation: Application to GPM-DPR

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Khajonrat, Direk ^a   Chandrasekar, V ^a  

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

Author keywords

DPR; GPM; Ka band

Indexed keywords

DPR; DUAL FREQUENCY; DUAL-FREQUENCY PRECIPITATION RADARS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS; GPM; INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE; KA-BAND; KU-BAND; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SIMULATION-BASED; SPACE-BORNE; SPACEBORNE RADAR; SYSTEM DESIGN;

RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE APPLICATIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 67649760242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779756     Document Type: Conference Paper

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