Investigation of vertical profile of rain microstructure at Ahmedabad in Indian tropical region

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1235-1243

  Das, Saurabh ^a   Shukla, Ashish K ^b   Maitra, Animesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b Indian Space Research Organization Space Application Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Bright band; Micro Rain Radar; Rain drop size distribution; Rain microstructure; Tropical rainfall

Indexed keywords

DROPS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; MICROSTRUCTURE; REFLECTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TROPICS;

BRIGHT BAND; COMPARISON OF MEASUREMENTS; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; LIQUID WATER CONTENT; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; RAIN DROP SIZE; RAIN RADAR; TROPICAL RAINFALL;

RAIN;

EID: 77950524800     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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