Radar Determination of Winds at Sea

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 1979, Pages 1504-1521

  Moore, Richard K ^a   Fung, Adrian K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY - WIND EFFECTS; RADAR - METEOROLOGICAL;

WIND EFFECTS;

EID: 0018546493     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/PROC.1979.11510     Document Type: Article

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