Scanning ARM cloud radars. part II: Data quality control and processing

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 583-598

  Kollias, Pavlos ^a   Jo, Ieng ^a   Borque, Paloma ^a   Tatarevic, Aleksandra ^a   Lamer, Katia ^a   Bharadwaj, Nitin ^b   Widener, Kevin ^b   Johnson, Karen ^c   Clothiaux, Eugene E ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING; DATA QUALITY CONTROL; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES; HIGH PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCY; LINE-BY-LINE ABSORPTION; RANGE-HEIGHT INDICATORS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

RADAR;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DATA QUALITY; DOPPLER RADAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; QUALITY CONTROL; VELOCITY PROFILE; WATER VAPOR; WIND PROFILE;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84896974934     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00045.1     Document Type: Article

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