A variational multiple-Doppler radar three-dimensional wind synthesis method and its impacts on thermodynamic retrieval

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3992-4010

  Liou, Yu Chieng ^a   Chang, Ya Ju ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND WINDS; BOTTOM BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CARTESIAN COORDINATE; CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; DOPPLER WINDS; DYNAMIC RETRIEVAL METHODS; ERROR ACCUMULATION; IN-FIELD; MONSOON RAINFALL; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; RADAR DATASETS; RADIAL-VELOCITY OBSERVATIONS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SIMULATED DATA; SOUTHWEST MONSOON; SPATIAL SMOOTHNESS; SYNTHESIS METHOD; TEMPORAL DERIVATIVES; THERMODYNAMIC FIELDS; THERMODYNAMIC PERTURBATION; TIME LEVEL; VERTICAL INTEGRATION; VERTICAL VELOCITY; VERTICAL VORTICITY; WEATHER SYSTEMS; WIND FIELD;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER RADAR; EXPERIMENTS; THERMODYNAMICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

RADAR;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BOUNDARY CONDITION; DOPPLER RADAR; THERMODYNAMICS; VORTICITY; WIND FIELD;

EID: 77649335119     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2980.1     Document Type: Article

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