The NASA High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 298-310

  Li, Lihua ^a   Heymsfield, Gerald ^a   Carswell, James ^b   Schaubert, Daniel H ^c   McLinden, Matthew L ^a   Creticos, Justin ^d   Perrine, Martin ^a   Coon, Michael ^a   Cervantes, Jaime I ^e   Vega, Manuel ^a   Guimond, Steve ^f   Tian, Lin ^g   Emory, Amber ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b 248 E Foothill Blvd   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^e SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clouds; dual frequency; imaging; precipitation; radar; scanning; Wind

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DOPPLER RADAR; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NASA; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; RAIN; SCANNING; WIND;

BACKSCATTERING MEASUREMENT; DUAL FREQUENCY; DUAL-FREQUENCY PRECIPITATION RADARS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS; IMAGING WIND AND RAIN AIRBORNE PROFILERS; INSTRUMENT INCUBATOR PROGRAMS; SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ALTITUDE; BACKSCATTER; CLOUD COVER; DOPPLER RADAR; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; IMAGING METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROFILER; QUIKSCAT; REFLECTIVITY; SEAWINDS; STORM; SURFACE WIND; UNMANNED VEHICLE; WEATHER MODIFICATION; WIND FIELD;

EID: 84947017474     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2456501     Document Type: Article

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