An evaluation of two NEXRAD wind retrieval methodologies and their use in atmospheric dispersion models

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2351-2371

  Fast, Jerome D ^a   Newsom, Rob K ^a   Allwine, K Jerry ^a   Xu, Qin ^b   Zhang, Pengfei ^b   Copeland, Jeffrey ^c   Sun, Juanzhen ^c  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIOACTIVITY; ATMOSPHERICS; DISPERSIONS; HURRICANE EFFECTS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; WIND EFFECTS;

3D WIND FIELDS; APPLICATIONS.; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION MODELS; BACKGROUND ERRORS; DISPERSION MODELS; DIURNAL VARIATIONS; HORIZONTAL WINDS; MESOSCALE; OKLAHOMA; OKLAHOMA CITIES; OPERATIONAL DATUMS; PROFILER MEASUREMENTS; RADAR WIND PROFILERS; RADIAL VELOCITIES; REAL TIMES; REMOTE SENSING RADARS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; TEMPORAL VARIATIONS; TRANSPORT PATTERNS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATIONS; VARIATIONAL METHODS; WIND RETRIEVALS; WIND SPEEDS; WINDS ALOFT;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; JET STREAM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; RADAR IMAGERY; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FIELD; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57649146468     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC1853.1     Document Type: Article

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