An examination of the validity of the mean raindrop-shape model for dual-polarization radar rainfall retrievals

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2752-2761

  Gorgucci, Eugenio ^a   Baldini, Luca ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atmospheric techniques; Meteorological radar; Radar polarimetry; Radar precipitation retrieval

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; AXIS RATIO; D-SPACE; DIFFERENTIAL REFLECTIVITY; DUAL-POLARIZATION; EQUIVALENT-LINEAR; FOURTH-ORDER; INTEGRAL QUANTITY; LINEAR RELATION; MEAN VALUE THEOREM; MODEL-BASED; OBLATENESS; OPERATING FREQUENCY; POLARIMETRIC RADAR MEASUREMENTS; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; RADAR POLARIMETRY; RAIN ESTIMATION; RAINFALL RATES; RAYLEIGH-GANS; SELF-CONSISTENCY EQUATIONS; SHAPE MODEL; SPECIFIC DIFFERENTIAL PHASE;

DROPS; ELLIPSOMETRY; ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN; REFLECTION;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; METEOROLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLARIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINDROP;

EID: 67949114174     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2017936     Document Type: Article

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