Assimilation method for retrieving horizontal wind field from single-doppler data

Acta Meteorologica Sinica

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages

  Wu, Shaorong ^a   Xu, Baoxiang ^a   Zhou, Xiuji ^a  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

Doppler weather radar; Plane assimilation retrieval (PAR); Wind field

Indexed keywords

EID: 7944236585     PISSN: 08940525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Browning, R. A. and Wexler, R. (1968), The determination of kinematic properties of a wind field using Doppler radar, J. Appl. Meteor., 7: 105-113.
2. Gu Yingxin and Chen Jinqiang (1994), Analysis of the heavy rain on July 31-Aug. 1, 1993, Data Set of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Mesoscale Meteorological Experiment Base (1993), Institute of Mesoscale Meteorology, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, pp. 147-157 (in Chinese).
3. Laroche, S. and Zawadzki, I. (1989), Retrieval of horizontal wind field from single-Doppler observations, Proc. 24th Conf. on Radar Meteor., Tallahassee, Amer. Meteor. Soc., pp. 425-428.
4. Lhermitte, R. M. and Atlas, D. (1961), Precipitation motion by pulse Doppler, Proc. Ninth Weather Radar Conf., Boston, Amer. Meteor. Soc., pp. 218-223.
5. Qiu, C. J. and Xu, Q. (1992), A simple adjoint method of wind analysis for single-Doppler data, J. Atmos. and Oceanic Tech., 9: 588-598.
6. Sun, J. Z., Flicker, D. W. and Lilly, D. K. (1991), Recovery of three-dimensional wind and temperature fields from simulated single-Doppler radar data, J. Atmos. Sci., 48: 876-890.
7. Sun, J. Z. (1992), Convective scale SDPR data assimilation using simulated single Doppler radar observations, Ph. D. dissertation, Univ. of Oklahoma.
8. Tao Zuyu (1992), The VAP method for retrieving wind vector field from single-Doppler velocity data, Acta Meteor. Sinica, 50: 81-90 (in Chinese).
9. Tuttle, J. D. and Foote, G. B. (1990), Determination of boundary layer airflow from single Doppler radar, J. Atmos. and Oceanic Tech., 7: 218-232.
10. Xu, Q., Qiu, C. J. and Yu, J. X. (1994), Adjoint-method retrievals of low-altitude wind fields from single-Doppler wind data, J. Atmos. and Oceanic Tech., 11: 579-585.