A new approach to MF radar interferometry for estimating mean winds and momentum flux

Radio Science

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 707-726

  Thorsen, Denise ^a,b   Franke, Steven J ^a,c   Kudeki, Erhan ^a,c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; DOPPLER EFFECT; GRAVITY WAVES; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR ANTENNAS; TENSORS; WIND; ANTENNAS; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MOMENTUM; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

MEDIUM FREQUENCY RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; REYNOLDS STRESS TENSOR;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ANGLE OF ARRIVAL; DOPPLER VELOCITY; FULL CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL WINDS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; REYNOLDS STRESS TENSORS; SCATTERING MODEL; TIME-DOMAIN INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0031098622     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96RS03422     Document Type: Article

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