Real-Time Wind Synthesis from Doppler Radar Observations during the Mesoscale Alpine Programme

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2953-2962

  Chong, Michel ^a   Georgis, J F ^b   Bousquet, O ^c   Brodzik, S R ^c   Burghart, C ^d   Cosma, S ^b   Germann, U ^e   Gouget, V ^a   Houze Jr , R A ^c   James, C N ^c   Prieur, S ^b   Rotunno, R ^d   Roux, F ^b   Vivekanandan, J ^d   Zeng, Z X ^c  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e MeteoSvizzera   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0001515420     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(2000)081<2953:RTWSFD>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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