Evaluation of the hurricane research division doppler radar analysis software using synthetic data

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1055-1071

  Lorsolo, Sylvie ^a,b   Gamache, John ^b   Aksoy, Altug ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTHAL STRUCTURES; DOPPLER MEASUREMENT; HURRICANE RESEARCH; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SIMULATION METHODOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; VERTICAL COMPONENT; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; ERRORS; RESEARCH; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HURRICANES;

AZIMUTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; HURRICANE; SOFTWARE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84880762088     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-12-00161.1     Document Type: Article

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