Comparison of spaced-antenna baseline wind estimators: Theoretical and simulated results

Radio Science

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 48-68

  Doviak, Richard J ^a   Zhang, Guifu ^b   Cohn, Stephen A ^b   Brown, William O J ^b  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FUNCTIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WIND EFFECTS;

SPACED-ANTENNA BASELINE; WIND ESTIMATORS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 1942506762     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003rs002931     Document Type: Article

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