Applications of a velocity dealiasing scheme to data from the China new generation weather radar system (CINRAD)

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 218-230

  He, Guangxin ^a   Li, Gang ^a   Zou, Xiaolei ^a,b   Ray, Peter Sawin ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Quality assurance control; Radars radar observations

Indexed keywords

ALIASED; DATA ASSIMILATION; DEALIASING ALGORITHMS; HEAVY RAINS; NEXT GENERATION WEATHER RADARS; PERFORMANCE LEVEL; RADIAL VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS; RADIAL-VELOCITY OBSERVATIONS; S-BAND RADAR; SQUALL LINES; VELOCITY DEALIASING; VELOCITY DEALIASING ALGORITHMS; WEAK SIGNALS; WEATHER SYSTEMS;

DATA PROCESSING; HURRICANES; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; RAIN; STORMS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR; RAINFALL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SQUALL LINE; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHINA;

EID: 84863144579     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-11-00054.1     Document Type: Article

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