Performance of five 915-MHz wind profilers and an associated automated quality control algorithm in an operational environment

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1488-1495

  Lambert, Winifred C ^a   Merceret, Francis J ^b   Taylor, Gregory E ^a   Ward, Jennifer G ^b  

^a ENSCO INC   (United States)

^b KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DATA ACQUISITION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); QUALITY CONTROL; WIND;

WIND PROFILERS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; WIND MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0347478206     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(2003)020<1488:POFMWP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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