On the correction of partial beam blockage in polarimetric radar data

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 943-957

  Lang, Timothy J ^a   Nesbitt, Stephen W ^b   Carey, Lawrence D ^c  

^a Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM INTERACTIONS; CORRECTION METHOD; CORRECTION TECHNIQUES; DATA SETS; DIGITAL TERRAIN MAPS; GROUND RADARS; INTERCOMPARISONS; ME-XICO; NORTH AMERICAN MONSOON EXPERIMENTS; PARTIAL BEAM BLOCKAGES; POLARIMETRIC RADARS; RADAR BEAM; RADAR DATA; RADAR REFLECTIVITY FACTOR; SELF-CONSISTENCY; SPECIFIC DIFFERENTIAL PHASE; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION SATELLITES;

CLIMATOLOGY; MOTION ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; RAIN;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

AZIMUTH; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; ERROR CORRECTION; RADAR; RAINFALL;

EID: 70349167355     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JTECHA1133.1     Document Type: Article

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