Thermodynamic analytic fields from Doppler-radar data by means of the MANDOP analysis

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 124, Issue 549, 1998, Pages 1633-1668

  Protat, A ^a,b   Lemaitre, Y ^a   Scialom, G ^a  

^a Ctr d'Etud Environnements T   (France)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; RADAR; SCALE EFFECT;

EID: 0031764607     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.54913     Document Type: Article

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