Local and global statistics of clear-air Doppler radar signals

Radio Science

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 93-115

  Muschinski, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Clear air radars; Scattering theory; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DOPPLER EFFECT; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIO WAVES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SAMPLING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THEOREM PROVING; TURBULENCE;

CLEAN-AIR DOPPLER RADAR (CDR); GLOBAL SAMPLING;

RADAR;

EID: 1942538591     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003rs002908     Document Type: Article

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