A solo-based automated quality control algorithm for airborne tail Doppler radar data

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2509-2528

  Bell, Michael M ^a   Lee, Wen Chau ^b   Wolff, Cory A ^b   Cai, Huaqing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE DOPPLER RADAR; CONVECTIVE VORTICES; DATA ASSIMILATION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; INTENSITY CHANGE; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; PRE-PROCESSING ALGORITHMS;

DATA PROCESSING; DOPPLER RADAR; EXPERIMENTS; HURRICANES; QUALITY CONTROL; VORTEX FLOW;

ALGORITHMS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SURVEY; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; AUTOMATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; ERROR ANALYSIS; HURRICANE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RAINBAND; SOFTWARE; TORNADO; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND FIELD;

ELECTRA;

EID: 84888413957     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0283.1     Document Type: Article

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