Volume scanning strategies for 3D wind retrieval from dual-doppler lidar measurements

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1881-1892

  Drechsel, Susanne ^a   Mayr, Georg J ^a   Chong, Michel ^b   Chow, Fotini K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D WINDS; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; COMPLEX TERRAINS; DOPPLER; DOPPLER LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; DOPPLER LIDARS; INTERLACED SCANNING; MEASUREMENT RANGE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SCAN DURATION; SCANNING STRATEGIES; SPATIAL COVERAGE; TEMPORAL SMOOTHING; WIND FIELD; WIND RETRIEVALS;

DOPPLER EFFECT; OPTICAL RADAR; SCANNING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; COMPLEX TERRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER LIDAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SMOOTHING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WIND;

EID: 78649393960     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JTECHA1495.1     Document Type: Article

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