Weather radar ground clutter. Part I: Identification, modeling, and simulation

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1165-1180

  Hubbert, J C ^a   Dixon, M ^a   Ellis, S M ^a   Meymaris, G ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE VARIABILITY; DENVER , COLORADO; DUAL-POLARIZATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FUZZY LOGIC ALGORITHMS; GROUND CLUTTER; IDENTIFICATION PARAMETERS; IN-PHASE; NEXT GENERATION WEATHER RADARS; PHASE ALIGNMENT; PHASE TIME SERIES; RADAR RESOLUTION; WEATHER MODELS; WEATHER RADARS;

AIRPORT SECURITY; DOPPLER RADAR; FUZZY LOGIC; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; RADAR; TIME SERIES;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY);

ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA QUALITY; DOPPLER RADAR; ECHO SOUNDING; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; REAL TIME; TIME SERIES; WEATHER;

COLORADO; DENVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 73149113962     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JTECHA1159.1     Document Type: Article

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