Stochastic Maximum Likelihood (SML) parametric estimation of overlapped Doppler echoes

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3983-3993

  Boyer, E ^a   Petitdidier, M ^b   Larzabal, P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (tropical meteorology); Radio science (signal processing; atmospheric propagation)

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; RADIOSONDE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 11844302926     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-22-3983-2004     Document Type: Article

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