An innovation method for estimating radar radial-velocity observation error and background wind error covariances

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 623, 2007, Pages 407-415

  Xu, Qin ^a   Nai, Kang ^b   Wei, Li ^b  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Background wind; Error covariance estimation; Radar radial velocity

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; ERROR ANALYSIS; VECTORS; WIND;

BACKGROUND VECTOR WIND ERROR COVARIANCE FUNCTIONS; ERROR COVARIANCE ESTIMATION; RADAR RADIAL-VELOCITY;

DOPPLER RADAR;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DOPPLER RADAR; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 34247232556     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.21     Document Type: Article

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