Quality assessment of weather radar wind profiles during bird migration

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2188-2198

  Holleman, Iwan ^a   van Gasteren, Hans ^b,c   Bouten, Willem ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Royal Netherlands Air Force   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD MIGRATIONS; HIGH QUALITIES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PERFORMANCE STATISTICS; QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; RADIAL VELOCITIES; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; VOLUME VELOCITY PROCESSING; WEATHER RADAR WIND PROFILES; WEATHER RADARS; WIND PROFILES; WIND VECTORS;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; DOPPLER RADAR; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR; TRACKING RADAR; VECTORS;

RADAR TRACKING;

BIRD; DOPPLER RADAR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIGRATION; RADAR IMAGERY; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

AVES;

EID: 65549120671     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JTECHA1067.1     Document Type: Article

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