Airborne radar observations of severe hailstorms: Implications for future spaceborne radar

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1851-1867

  Heymsfield, Gerald M ^a   Tian, Lin ^a,b   Li, Lihua ^a   Mclinden, Matthew ^a   Cervantes, Jaime I ^a,c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE RADAR MEASUREMENTS; AIRCRAFT MEASUREMENT; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT MISSIONS; IMAGING WIND AND RAIN AIRBORNE PROFILERS; IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURES; POLARIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

AIRCRAFT; CLOUDS; DOPPLER RADAR; IMPATT DIODES; NASA; POLARIMETERS; RAIN; REFLECTION; SPACE APPLICATIONS; THUNDERSTORMS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

AIRBORNE SENSING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DOPPLER RADAR; HAIL; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; RADAR; SIR; THUNDERSTORM; TRMM;

KANSAS; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884237223     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0144.1     Document Type: Article

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