Automatic designation of the melting layer with a polarimetric prototype of the WSR-88D radar

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1354-1364

  Giangrande, Scott E ^a   Krause, John M ^a   Ryzhkov, Alexander V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; SURVEILLANCE RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AND MODELS; DETECTION ALGORITHMS; DOPPLER; MELTING LAYERS; MELTING LEVELS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OKLAHOMA; OPERATIONAL DEPLOYMENTS; POLARIMETRIC RADARS; SQUARE ERRORS;

MELTING;

ALGORITHM; DETECTION METHOD; DOPPLER RADAR; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOSONDE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

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

EID: 57649213547     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1634.1     Document Type: Article

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