Removing ground and intermittent clutter contamination from wind profiler signals using wavelet transforms

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1280-1297

  Jordan, James R ^a   Lataitis, Richard J ^a   Carter, David A ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0000902637     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(1997)014<1280:RGAICC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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