Patent Document ID: 8762061
Application ID: 12837909
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A spatially continuous vertical wind profile system, comprising: a wind profile data collector for transmitting and receiving a plurality of wind profile data; a radiosonde measurements collector for collecting a plurality of radiosonde measurements of winds; a processor for determining a plurality of weighted input data from said plurality of wind profile data and said radiosonde measurements for analysis by a neural network; a data screener for removing incomplete and erroneous data; a selector for selecting a coincident neighborhood data set for a plurality of geographical locations; an assembler for assembling a coincident neighborhood data sets; a trainer for training said neural network for said plurality of geographical locations; a coefficient computation element for computing a plurality of weighting coefficients correlating to wind at a plurality of atmospheric height levels of interest where measured winds are missing; an error computation element for computing a plurality of root mean square (RMS) errors using a plurality of archived wind profiler measurements obtained by said radiosonde measurements collector; and a storage element for archiving said plurality of weighting coefficients and said plurality of RMS errors; wherein said neural network analyzes a plurality of operational wind profiler measurements derived by elements of the system to provide a plurality of spatially continuous vertical wind profiles.