Retrieval of atmospheric reflectivity profiles in case of long radar pulses

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 72, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 187-196

  Schutgens, Nick ^a,b   Donovan, David P ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b Cloud Profiling Radar Group   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Phillips Thikhonov; Radar; Reflectivity profile; Regularisation

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; METEOROLOGY; REFLECTION;

ATMOSPHERIC REFLECTIVITY; CLOUD BOUNDARIES; CLOUD PROFILING RADAR (CPR);

RADAR;

DECONVOLUTION; INSTRUMENTATION; RADAR; REFLECTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE MISSION;

EID: 8644251269     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2004.03.014     Document Type: Article

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