Hydrometeor Detection Using Cloudsat—An Earth-Orbiting 94-GHz Cloud Radar
Hydrometeor Detection Using Cloudsat—An Earth-Orbiting 94-GHz Cloud Radar
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Boston: American Meteorological Society
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English
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In late April 2006, NASA launched Cloudsat, an earth-observing satellite that uses a near-nadir-pointing millimeter-wavelength radar to probe the vertical structure of clouds and precipitation. The first step in using Cloudsat measurements is to distinguish clouds and other hydrometeors from radar noise. In this article the operational Cloudsat hyd...
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Hydrometeor Detection Using Cloudsat—An Earth-Orbiting 94-GHz Cloud Radar
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_222528897
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_222528897
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0739-0572
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1520-0426
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10.1175/2007JTECHA1006.1
