Objectives and Characteristics of the Spaceborne Dual Frequency Precipitation Radar for GPM
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The Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) installed on the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) core satellite is being developed by JAXA and NICT. This paper describes the mission objectives, the precipitation measurement method and techniques, and the construction of the DPR. Keywords-GPM; DPR; precpitation measurement
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