Empirical test of theoretically based correction for path integrated attenuation in simulated spaceborne precipitation radar observations

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 930-935

  Short, David A ^a   Nakagawa, Katsuhiro ^a   Iguchi, Toshio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attenuation measurement; meteorology; spaceborne radar

Indexed keywords

3D STRUCTURE; ATTENUATION MEASUREMENTS; CORRECTION PROCEDURE; DEEP CONVECTION; EMPIRICAL TEST; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GLOBAL TROPICS; GOVERNING PARAMETERS; GROUND-BASED SCANNING; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; HORIZONTAL VARIABILITY; NON-UNIFORM BEAM FILLINGS; PATH INTEGRATED ATTENUATIONS; PRECIPITATION RADAR; PRECIPITATION RATES; PRECIPITATION SYSTEMS; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; RADAR REFLECTIVITY FACTOR; RAIN RATES; SATELLITE DATA; SIMULATION STUDIES; SPACE-BORNE; SPACEBORNE RADAR; SPECIFIC ATTENUATION;

ESTIMATION; METEOROLOGY; RAIN; REFLECTION; SPACE APPLICATIONS; TROPICS;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

ALGORITHM; ERROR CORRECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SIR; TRMM;

JAPAN; OKINAWA [RYUKYU ISLANDS]; RYUKYU ISLANDS;

EID: 84863532677     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2194695     Document Type: Review

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