Study on the variational assimilation technique for the retrieval of wind fields from Doppler radar data

Acta Meteorologica Sinica

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-19

  Wan, Qilin ^a   Xue, Jishan ^b   Zhuang, Shiyu ^b  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

Doppler radar data; Variational assimilation technique; Wind fields

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND FIELD;

EID: 33646809011     PISSN: 08940525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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