High-temporal-resolution capabilities of the National Weather Radar Testbed Phased-Array Radar

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 579-593

  Heinselman, Pamela L ^a   Torres, Sebastián M ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Radar observations

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SCANNING; ARTIFACT REMOVAL; BEAM MULTIPLEXING; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; DATA ARCHIVING; DATA COLLECTION; DATA QUALITY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ARCHITECTURES; ELECTRONIC SCANNING; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; PHASED ARRAY RADARS; RADAR CONTROL; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; REAL-TIME CONTROLLERS; RESOLUTION CAPABILITY; RESOLUTION SAMPLING; SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; SIGNAL PROCESSOR; VELOCITY AMBIGUITY; WEATHER RADARS;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; SCANNING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TEST FACILITIES; TESTBEDS;

RADAR;

DATA QUALITY; HARDWARE; METEOROLOGY; RADAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79955011081     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2588.1     Document Type: Article

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