The effect of radial velocity gridding artifacts on variationally retrieved vertical velocities

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1239-1246

  Collis, Scott ^a   Protat, Alain ^a   Chung, Kao Shen ^b  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Interpolation scheme; Radars radar observations; Updrafts; Variation analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATIONS; AUSTRALIA; GRIDDING; INTERPOLATION SCHEMES; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; LINEAR INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUE; PERIODIC PERTURBATION; QUALITATIVE REASONING; RADARS/RADAR OBSERVATIONS; RADIAL VELOCITY; SCANNING RADAR; VARIATION ANALYSIS; VERTICAL VELOCITY; WARM POOLS; WEATHER EVENTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY;

INTERPOLATION;

ALGORITHM; INTERPOLATION; MONSOON; NUMERICAL METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERTURBATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR ALTIMETRY; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; UPDRAFT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77955582599     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JTECHA1402.1     Document Type: Article

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