A VAD-based dealiasing method for radar velocity data quality control

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 50-62

  Xu, Qin ^a   Nai, Kang ^b   Wei, Li ^b   Zhang, Pengfei ^b   Liu, Shun ^c   Parrish, David ^d  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c IM Systems Group Inc   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Data quality control; Radars radar observations

Indexed keywords

ALIASED; CHECK-IN; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA POINTS; DATA QUALITY CONTROL; HIGH-QUALITY STANDARDS; MULTIPLE THRESHOLD; RADAR DATA ASSIMILATION; RADAR VELOCITIES; RADARS/RADAR OBSERVATIONS; RADIAL VELOCITY; REFERENCE CHECK; THRESHOLD CONDITION; VELOCITY-AZIMUTH DISPLAY; WEATHER CONDITIONS; WIND CONDITIONS;

DATA PROCESSING; DATA REDUCTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADAR; VELOCITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

AZIMUTH; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA QUALITY; HURRICANE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; QUALITY CONTROL; RADAR;

ALIAS;

EID: 79952283996     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JTECHA1444.1     Document Type: Article

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