Design and deployment of a portable, pencil-beam, pulsed, 3-cm Doppler radar

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1502-1512

  Wurman, Joshua ^a   Straka, Jerry ^a   Rasmussen, Erik ^b   Randall, Mitch ^c   Zahrai, Allen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d National Weather Service   (United States)

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EID: 5344256279     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(1997)014<1502:DADOAP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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