A new parametric approach for wind profiling with Doppler Radar

Radio Science

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1391-1408

  Le Foll, Gwenaëlle ^a   Larzabal, Pascal ^a   Clergeot, Henri ^a   Petitdidier, Monique ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; OPTIMIZATION; RADAR CLUTTER; WIND EFFECTS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; DOPPLER RADAR; EXTRACTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; RADAR; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

STEEPEST DESCENT ALGORITHM; WIND PROFILE EXTRACTION;

DOPPLER RADAR; OPTIMIZATION;

ANALYSIS AND MODELING; CLEAR-AIR TURBULENCES; EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PARAMETRIC APPROACH; STATISTICAL PERFORMANCE; STEEPEST DESCENT ALGORITHM; TEMPORAL MODELING;

EID: 0031186226     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97RS00087     Document Type: Article

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