The operational weather radar network in Europe

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 897-907

  Huuskonen, Asko ^a   Saltikoff, Elena ^a   Holleman, Iwan ^b  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

BEST PRACTICES; DATA PRODUCTION; NEXT GENERATION WEATHER RADARS; RADAR INFORMATION; RADAR NETWORK; SCANNING STRATEGIES; VOLUMETRIC DATA; WEATHER RADAR NETWORKS;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 84905689716     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00216.1     Document Type: Article

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