Evaluation of doppler radar velocity estimators

Radio Science

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 677-686

  Lottman, B T ^a,b   Frehlich, R G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DOPPLER RADAR; IONOSPHERE; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; BANDWIDTH; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; MEAN VELOCITIES; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; PARAMETER REGIMES; PERFORMANCE CURVE; RADAR VELOCITIES; STANDARD DEVIATION; TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES;

VELOCITY; DOPPLER RADAR;

VELOCITY ESTIMATORS;

EID: 0031098117     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96RS03329     Document Type: Article

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