The S2K severe weather detection algorithms and their performance

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-63

  Joe, Paul ^a   Burgess, Don ^b   Potts, Rod ^c   Keenan, Tom ^c   Stumpf, Greg ^b   Treloar, Andrew ^d  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Burea of Meteorology Research Centre   (Australia)

^d BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RADAR; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; STORMS;

RADAR ALGORITHMS; WEATHER DETECTION ALGORITHMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADAR; SEVERE WEATHER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 1642371454     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2004)019<0043:TSSWDA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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