Hydrometeor profile characterization method for dual-frequency precipitation radar onboard the GPM

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3648-3658

  Le, Minda ^a   Chandrasekar, V ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne precipitation radar; dual frequency precipitation radar (DPR); Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM); hydrometeor profile characterization (HPC); melting layer detection

Indexed keywords

DUAL-FREQUENCY PRECIPITATION RADARS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS; HYDROMETEOR PROFILE CHARACTERIZATION (HPC); MELTING LAYERS; PRECIPITATION RADAR;

CHARACTERIZATION; MELTING; NASA; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLOUDS;

HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; SATELLITE DATA;

HONSHU; JAPAN; WAKASA BAY;

EID: 84878142247     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2224352     Document Type: Article

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