The basic performance of a precipitation retrieval algorithm for the global precipitation measurement mission's single/dual-frequency radar measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 5239-5251

  Seto, Shinta ^a   Iguchi, Toshio ^b   Oki, Taikan ^c  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^c INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Radar; Rain

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; ATTENUATION CORRECTION METHOD; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; DUAL-FREQUENCY PRECIPITATION RADARS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT MISSIONS; LIQUID PHASE PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION RETRIEVALS; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

BINS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINFALL; SATELLITE MISSION; TRMM;

EID: 84889676423     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2231686     Document Type: Article

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