Retrieval Single-Doppler Radar Wind with Variational Assimilation Method-Part I: Objective Selection of Functional Weighting Factors

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 553-568

  Wei, Ming ^a   Dang, Renqing ^a   Ge, Wenzhong ^a   Takao, Takeda ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Minimum variance; Objective selection; Variation; Weighting factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 2742610610     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-998-0032-6     Document Type: Article

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