An assessment of the performance of a 1.5 μm Doppler lidar for operational vertical wind profiling based on a 1-year trial

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2251-2266

  Paschke E ^a   Leinweber, R ^a   Lehmann, V ^a  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AZIMUTH; DOPPLER LIDAR; DOPPLER RADAR; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOSONDE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; VERTICAL PROFILE; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FIELD; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84930635111     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-8-2251-2015     Document Type: Article

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