Distortion of gravity wave spectra of horizontal winds measured in atmospheric radar experiments

Radio Science

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 105-118

  Rastogi, Prabhat K ^a,b   Kudeki, Erhan ^a,c   Sürücü, Fahri ^a,c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ATMOSPHERICS; DISTORTION (WAVES); DOPPLER EFFECT; GRAVITY WAVES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WIND; BEAMFORMING; RADAR; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVES; BEAM CONFIGURATION; DOPPLER BEAM SWINGING; IMAGING DOPPLER INTERFEROMETRY; SPACED ANTENNA; WIND MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES;

RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

BEAM CONFIGURATION; DOPPLER INTERFEROMETRY; FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; HORIZONTAL GRADIENTS; INTRINSIC FREQUENCY; STRONG ENHANCEMENT; THEORETICAL MODELING; WAVENUMBER SPECTRA;

EID: 0029777127     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95RS02059     Document Type: Article

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