The impact of doppler lidar wind observations on a single-level meteorological analysis

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 810-820

  Riishojgaard L P ^a   Atlas, R ^a   Emmitt, G D ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Simpson Weather Assiciates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER RADAR; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; LINE-OF-SIGHT (LOS);

WIND;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER LIDAR; INSTRUMENTATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; WIND MEASUREMENT;

EID: 3042852625     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2091.1     Document Type: Article

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