Collaborative adaptive sensing of the atmosphere: New radar system for improving analysis and forecasting of surface weather conditions

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1948, 2006, Pages 145-151

  Brotzge, Jerald A ^a   Droegemeier, Kelvin ^a   McLaughlin, David J ^b  

^a Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; RADAR SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING;

COLLABORATIVE ADAPTIVE SENSING; COLLABORATIVE ADAPTIVE SENSING OF THE ATMOSPHERE (CASA); DUAL-POLARIZATION; SURFACE WEATHER CONDITIONS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 33750378337     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1948-16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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