Characteristics and performance of the operational wind profiler network of the Japan Meteorological Agency

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1085-1096

  Ishihara, Masahito ^a   Kato, Yoshio ^a   Abo, Toshihiro ^a   Kobayashi, Kenji ^a   Izumikawa, Yasushi ^a  

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; DATA QUALITY; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND PROFILE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

AVES;

EID: 33847650870     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.84.1085     Document Type: Article

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