The Christmas Island Wind Profiler: A Prototype VHF Wind-Profiling Radar for the Tropics
- 1 February 1994
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
- Vol. 11 (1) , 22-31
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0426(1994)011<0022:tciwpa>2.0.co;2
Abstract
After a decade of development, VHF wind profilers are being used for atmospheric research at several locations in the tropical Pacific. A prototype 50-MHz wind profiler was installed on Christmas Island in 1985 and has operated continuously since March 1986 to monitor tropical wind fields in the altitude range 1.8–1 8 km. This paper presents an overview of the Christmas Island wind profiler and reviews its performance. A survey of sample wind observations and a brief climatology of the observed winds are included.Keywords
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