An unconventional approach for assimilating aliased radar radial velocities

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 621-630

  Xu, Qin ^a   Nai, Kang ^b   Wei, Li ^b   Zhao, Qingyun ^c  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADAR;

ALIAS;

EID: 77249127911     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2009.00412.x     Document Type: Article

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