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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">NHESS</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">NHESS</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">1684-9981</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/nhess-6-285-2006</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title>Doppler radar wind field retrieval over the Po Valley</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Goh</surname>
<given-names>Y. K.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Holt</surname>
<given-names>A. R.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Alberoni</surname>
<given-names>P. P.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman 13 Jalan 13/6, 46200 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>ARPA-SIM, Viale Silvani 6, 40122, Bologna, Italy</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>04</day>
<month>05</month>
<year>2006</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>6</volume>
<issue>2</issue>
<fpage>285</fpage>
<lpage>291</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2006 Y. K. Goh et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2006</copyright-year>
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<p>Although methods of using multiple Doppler radars to study wind fields have
long been proposed, and many research studies have been made, very few
operational radar operators adopt methods which require the use of specific
scanning strategies to allow the extraction of wind information. Here we
report a collaborative study on dual-Doppler radars based on two Doppler
radars in the Po valley, Italy. Unusually, the radars are only about 90 km
apart, though operated by the same authority. The wind field syntheses are
carried out on a 30 km by 30 km region where the two radars have overlapping
scan coverage. An iterative method based on the linear wind model and the
equation of mass continuity is used to construct the wind fields. The
methodology has been validated by two different methods. The first method is to
reconstruct the radial wind observed by each radar, and the second method is
calculating and comparing the along-track component with that derived from the
observations. Both two comparisons show good agreement with the original
data.</p>
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