The impact of Doppler lidar wind observations on a single-level meteorological analysis

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4484, Issue , 2002, Pages 93-102

  Riishojgaard L P ^a   Atlas, R ^a   Emmitt, G D ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Doppler lidar; Meteorology; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER RADAR; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METEOROLOGY; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; WIND;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER LIDAR; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SINGLE-LEVEL METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 18244431448     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.452789     Document Type: Article

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