Fitting VAD winds to aliased doppler radial-velocity observations: A global minimization problem in the presence of multiple local minima

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 647, 2010, Pages 451-461

  Xu, Qin ^a   Nai, Kang ^b   Wei, Li ^b  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiple minima; Radar radial velocity aliasing; Velocity azimuth display (VAD)

Indexed keywords

ALIASED; ALIASING; DOPPLER; GLOBAL MINIMA; GLOBAL MINIMIZATION; HORIZONTAL WINDS; LOCAL MINIMUMS; MINIMIZATION PROBLEMS; MULTIPLE MINIMA; RADIAL-VELOCITY OBSERVATIONS; VECTOR WIND; VELOCITY-AZIMUTH DISPLAY; VERTICAL PROFILE; VOLUME VELOCITY PROCESSING; WIND PARAMETERS;

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; RADAR;

VELOCITY;

ALGORITHM; AZIMUTH; DATA PROCESSING; DOPPLER RADAR; ESTIMATION METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; VERTICAL PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 77949347954     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.589     Document Type: Article

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