On the optimum time of integration for estimation of momentum flux from VHF radar data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Dutta, Gopa ^a   Rao, P V ^a   Kumar, M C Ajay ^a   Vinay Kumar, P ^a   Basha, H Aleem ^a   Anandan, V K ^b   Ghosh, A K ^b  

^a OSMANIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b National MST Radar Facility   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETERS; ERROR ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND;

GEOPHYSICAL NOISE; MOMENTUM FLUX; VHF RADAR; WIND FLUCTUATIONS;

METEOROLOGY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 25844491004     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023777     Document Type: Article

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