Determination and validation of average wind fields from ERS-1 scatterometer measurements

Global Atmosphere and Ocean System

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-29

  Bentamy, A ^a   Quilfen, Y ^a   Gohin, F ^a   Grima, N ^a   Lenaour, M ^a   Servain, J ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Objective analysis; Remote senning; Scattermeter; Wind vector

Indexed keywords

ERS-1; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTEROMETER; SEA SURFACE; SURFACE WIND; WIND FIELD;

EID: 0030561879     PISSN: 10236732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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