Spurious weather radar echo identification and removal using multisource temperature information

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-14

  Michelson, Daniel B ^a   Sunhede, Daniel ^a  

^a SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; QUALITY CONTROL; RADAR IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

IDENTIFICATION AND REMOVAL; METEOSAT SECOND GENERATIONS; NON-PRECIPITATION ECHOES; PRECIPITATING CLOUDS; RADAR DATA ANALYSIS; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; TEMPERATURE INFORMATION;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ECHO SOUNDER; METEOSAT; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THERMAL INFRARED MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 2942607313     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482703001129     Document Type: Article

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