Effects of wind field inhomogeneities on Doppler beam swinging revealed by an imaging radar

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1414-1422

  Cheong, Boon Leng ^a   Yu, T Y ^b   Palmer, R D ^a   Yang, K F ^c   Hoffman, M W ^d   Frasier, S J ^e   Lopez Dekker, F J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b University of Oklahoma   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTH ANGLES; BEAM DIRECTION; COHERENT RADAR; DOPPLER; ILL-CONDITIONED MATRIX; IMAGING RADAR; INHOMOGENEITIES; RADIAL VELOCITY; RMS ERRORS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; TURBULENT EDDY; UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS; VERTICAL BEAMS; WIND FIELD; WIND MEASUREMENT; ZENITH ANGLE;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; HOLOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENT SCALES; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WIND EFFECTS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ESTIMATION METHOD; IMAGING METHOD; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WIND FIELD; WIND MEASUREMENT; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 65949087458     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JTECHA969.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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