Improved scattering radiative transfer for frozen hydrometeors at microwave frequencies

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1839-1860

  Geer, A J ^a   Baordo, F ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MIE THEORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SCATTERING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SNOW;

EID: 84903306284     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-7-1839-2014     Document Type: Article

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