Advanced radar wind profiling

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 609-625

  Muschinski, Andreas ^a   Lehmann, Volker ^b   Justen, Lutz ^c   Teschke, Gerd ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; RADAR CLUTTER; RADIO INTERFERENCE;

INTERFEROMETRY; METEOROLOGY; RADAR; WIND PROFILE;

AVES;

EID: 33646055499     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2005/0067     Document Type: Article

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