Stochastic method for convective storm identification, tracking and nowcasting

Progress in Natural Science

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1557-1563

  Han, Lei ^a,b   Fu, Shengxue ^a   Yang, Guang ^b   Wang, Hongqing ^b   Zheng, Yongguang ^c   Lin, Yingjing ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Convective storm; Doppler radar; Nowcasting

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER RADAR; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CONVECTIVE STORMS; CONVECTIVE WEATHER; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; NOWCAST; NOWCASTING; SHORT-TERM FORECASTS; STOCHASTIC METHODS; STORM IDENTIFICATION; TRACKING PROBLEM; VELOCITY CHANGES;

STORMS;

EID: 57949102782     PISSN: 10020071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnsc.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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