Iodine-filter-based mobile Doppler lidar to make continuous and full-azimuth-scanned wind measurements: Data acquisition and analysis system, data retrieval methods, and error analysis

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 36, 2010, Pages 6960-6978

  Wang, Zhangjun ^a,c   Liu, Zhishen ^a   Liu, Liping ^b   Wu, Songhua ^a   Liu, Bingyi ^a   Li, Zhigang ^a   Chu, Xinzhao ^c  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA AS A SERVICE (DAAS); DOPPLER EFFECT; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; IODINE; OPTICAL RADAR; RANDOM ERRORS; SURFACE WATERS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

2008 BEIJING OLYMPICS; DATA ACQUISITION AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM; HORIZONTAL HOMOGENEITY; MEASUREMENT PROCEDURES; MEASUREMENT SENSITIVITY; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; PLAN POSITION INDICATORS; RANGE-HEIGHT INDICATORS;

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EID: 78650654724     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.006960     Document Type: Article

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