3-D storm automatic identification based on mathematical morphology

Acta Meteorologica Sinica

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 156-165

  Han, Lei ^a,b   Zheng, Yongguang ^c   Wang, Hongqing ^b   Lin, Yinjing ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Doppler radar; Mathematical morphology; Nowcasting; Storm identification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; DOPPLER RADAR; FORECASTING METHOD; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; NOWCASTING; NUMERICAL METHOD; STORM; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRACKING;

EID: 67651115820     PISSN: 08940525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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