A new portable 449-MHz spaced antenna wind profiler radar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3544-3553

  Lindseth, Brad ^a,b   Brown, William O J ^a   Jordan, Jim ^c   Law, Daniel ^c   Hock, Terry ^a   Cohn, Stephen A ^a   Popović, Zoya ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

High power amplifier; push pull amplifier; wind profiler radar

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ELEMENT; ATMOSPHERIC WINDS; DUTY CYCLES; HEXAGONAL ARRAYS; HIGH POWER AMPLIFIER; LATERALLY DIFFUSED METAL-OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; PEAK POWER; POWER-ADDED EFFICIENCY; PULSED MODE; PUSH-PULL AMPLIFIERS; RETURN SIGNALS; SALT LAKE CITY; SIDE LOBES; TRANSMITTER DESIGN; WIND PROFILER RADAR; WIND PROFILING;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; MOS DEVICES; POWER AMPLIFIERS; RADAR; TRANSMITTERS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

ANTENNA; ARRAY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; RADAR; SIGNAL; WIND PROFILE;

BOULDER; COLORADO; SALT LAKE CITY; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 84865700108     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2184837     Document Type: Article

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