Whitening in range to improve weather radar spectral moment estimates. Part II: Experimental evaluation

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1449-1459

  Ivić, Igor R ^a   Zrnić, Dušan S ^b   Torres, Sebastián M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DOPPLER EFFECT; ESTIMATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

QUADRATURE-PHASE COMPONENTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ERROR ANALYSIS; RADAR; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0347478208     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(2003)020<1449:WIRTIW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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