Range-correcting Azimuthal shear in doppler radar data

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 194-211

  Newman, Jennifer F ^a   Lakshmanan, Valliappa ^a,b   Heinselman, Pamela L ^b   Richman, Michael B ^a   Smith, Travis M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTHAL SHEAR; DETECTION ALGORITHM; FALSE DETECTIONS; LOCAL , LINEAR LEAST SQUARES; NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORIES; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; NONLINEAR NATURE; REAL RADAR DATA;

DOPPLER RADAR; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADAR SYSTEMS; VELOCITY;

SHEAR FLOW;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AZIMUTH; DOPPLER RADAR; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHEAR FLOW; TORNADO;

EID: 84874850247     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-11-00154.1     Document Type: Article

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