Operational monitoring of weather radar receiving chain using the sun

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 159-166

  Holleman, Iwan ^a   Huuskonen, Asko ^b   Kurri, Mikko ^b   Beekhuis, Hans ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA GAINS; ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY; FINNISH; INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS; OFFLINE; ONLINE METHODS; ONLINE MONITORING; OPERATIONAL MONITORING; RADAR DATA; ROUTINE MONITORING; SOLAR FLUX; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUN FLUX; SUN-TRACKING; VOLUME DATA; WEATHER RADARS;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; MONITORING; RADAR ANTENNAS; SUN; SYSTEM STABILITY;

RADAR;

ANTENNA; MONITORING SYSTEM; RADAR; WEATHER;

EID: 77952515449     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JTECHA1213.1     Document Type: Article

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