A proposed solution to the range-Doppler dilemma of weather radar measurements by using the SMPRF codes, practical results, and a comparison with operational measurements

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1375-1390

  Pirttilä, Juha ^a   Lehtinen, Markku S ^a   Huuskonen, Asko ^b   Markkanen, Markku ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c Eigenor Oy Ltd   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

RANGE-DOPPLER DILEMMA; SIMULTANEOUS MULTIPLE PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCY (SMPRF); WEATHER RADAR MEASUREMENT;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

DOPPLER RADAR; RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 27744580991     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2288.1     Document Type: Article

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