Scopes and challenges of dual-doppler lidar wind measurements-an error analysis

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2044-2062

  Stawiarski, Christina ^a   Traumner, Katja ^a   Knigge, Christoph ^b   Calhoun, Ronald ^c  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION COSTS; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; DOPPLER LIDARS; HIGH-RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS; LIDAR SYSTEMS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; PULSED DOPPLER; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS;

INSTRUMENT ERRORS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS;

DOPPLER EFFECT;

ALGORITHM; DOPPLER LIDAR; ERROR ANALYSIS; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84884919564     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-12-00244.1     Document Type: Article

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