Utilizing spaceborne radars to retrieve dry Snowfall

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2564-2580

  Kulie, Mark S ^a   Bennartz, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SENSOR; BACKSCATTER CROSS SECTION; CLOUD PROFILING RADAR; CLOUDSAT; COMPLEX TERRAINS; DATA SETS; DETECTABILITY; DOMINANT MODE; DUAL-FREQUENCY PRECIPITATION RADARS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS; GROUND CLUTTER; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; ICE PARTICLES; LIGHT REFLECTIVITY; MULTI FREQUENCY; NEAR-SURFACE; NON-SPHERICAL; RATE DISTRIBUTIONS; SPACEBORNE RADAR;

ICE; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR; REFLECTION; SENSORS; SNOW;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

BACKSCATTER; CLOUDSAT; DATA SET; NUMERICAL MODEL; REFLECTIVITY; SIR; SNOW; SNOW ACCUMULATION;

EID: 77952537951     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAMC2193.1     Document Type: Article

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