Extracting bird migration information from C-band Doppler weather radars

Ibis

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 674-686

  Gasteren, Hans Van ^a,c   Holleman, Iwan ^b   Bouten, Willem ^a   Loon, Emiel Van ^a   Shamoun Baranes, Judy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c Royal Netherlands Air Force   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Altitude profile; Bird migration; Bird radar; Comparison; Flight speed; Radar ornithology; Verification scores; Weather radar

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER RADAR; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; ORNITHOLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; REFLECTIVITY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; HEXAPODA;

EID: 52649148536     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00832.x     Document Type: Article

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