Impact of WSR-88D scanning strategies on severe storm algorithms

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 90-102

  Brown, Rodger A ^a   Janish, Janelle M ^b   Wood, Vincent T ^a  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; METEOROLOGY; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COARSER VERTICAL SAMPLING; VOLUME COVERAGE PATTERN;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; FORECASTING METHOD; STORM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034058601     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2000)015<0090:IOWSSO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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