What should be considered when simulating Doppler velocities measured by ground-based weather radars?

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2256-2262

  Caumont, Olivier ^a   Ducrocq, Véronique ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; RADAR; REFLECTION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; DOPPLER VELOCITIES; FLEXIBLE SIMULATORS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; NONHYDROSTATIC; PHYSICAL PROCESSES; SENSITIVITY EXPERIMENTS; VERTICAL BEAMS; WEATHER RADARS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DOPPLER RADAR; GROUND SETTLEMENT; REFLECTIVITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

EID: 57649174299     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC1894.1     Document Type: Article

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