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QUALITY CONTROL FOR DOPPLER WIND PROFILERS USINGNIMACorinne S. Morse 1 , Robert K. Goodrich 1, 2 , Larry B. Cornman 1 , and Stephen A. Cohn 11. National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, Colorado 80307 USA2. Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USAIntroductionThe NCAR Improved Moments Algorithm (NIMA) was developed to support the use ofDoppler wind pro<strong>file</strong>rs for wind hazard detection in an airport environment. (Cornman, et al.,1998; Morse, et al., 2002) In this application, rapidly updated winds are required and thetraditional quality control method of long term moments averaging is not appropriate. Humanexperts can often discern the atmospheric signal in a spectral plot, rejecting clutter and othercontaminants, but this approach is also not practical in a real-time application. NIMAattempts to mimic the performance of the human expert (Cohn, et al., 2001) to detect features<strong>with</strong>in the spectra and identify them as atmospheric, ground clutter, radio-frequencyinterference(RFI), or noise, and to do so in a totally automated fashion.Because each pro<strong>file</strong>r site has some unique characteristics, NIMA was designed to beconfigurable for each application. The default parameters of the NIMA configuration weredeveloped in response to our primary application on three 915 MHz pro<strong>file</strong>rs in Juneau,Alaska. Some other users of NIMA have been able to use these default parameter settings andobtain satisfactory results. Other sites produce spectra <strong>with</strong> significantly differentcharacteristics and tuning has been required to optimize the performance. This posterillustrates one such case for a pro<strong>file</strong>r operating in a very dry climate.NIMA Algorithm OverviewFigure 1. Summary of overall NIMA processing and data flow.399

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