On deriving vertical air motions from cloud radar doppler spectra

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 547-557

  Shupe, Matthew D ^a,e   Kollias, Pavlos ^b   Poellot, Michael ^c   Eloranta, Edwin ^d  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; DETECTORS; DOPPLER EFFECT; DROP FORMATION; DROPS; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUIDS; MEASUREMENTS; RADAR; RADIO; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH AIRCRAFT; TURBULENCE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND POWER;

(P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; AIRCRAFT MEASUREMENTS; AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); APPLIED (CO); ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAM (ARM); BEAM WIDTHS; CLOUD RADARS; DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (U.S.); DOPPLER (DP) SPECTRUM; GROUND-BASED; LIQUID DROPLETS; REMOTE SENSORS; RETRIEVAL (MIR); SMALL PARTICLES; TURBULENT DISSIPATION; VERTICAL VELOCITIES; WIND SHEAR;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; CLOUD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER RADAR; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING BIAS;

ALASKA; BARROW; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 45749114968     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JTECHA1007.1     Document Type: Article

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