Humidity gradient profiles from wind profiling radars using the NOAA/ETL Advanced Signal Processing System (SPS)

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-22

  Stankov, B Boba ^a   Gossard, Earl E ^a   Weber, Bob L ^a   Lataitis, Richard J ^a   White, Allen B ^a   Wolfe, Daniel E ^a   Welsh, David C ^a   Strauch, Richard G ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DOPPLER EFFECT; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADIOSONDES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WIND EFFECTS;

DATA SETS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

ALGORITHM; DOPPLER RADAR; HUMIDITY; SHIPBORNE MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 0141566424     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(2003)020<0003:HGPFWP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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