Simulation of passive microwave wind direction signatures over the ocean using an asymmetric-wave geometrical optics model

Radio Science

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-78

  Kunkee, D B ^a,b   Gasiewski, A J ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE WAVES; WIND; GEOMETRY; LUMINANCE; MICROWAVE SENSORS; TEMPERATURE; WATER WAVES;

SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER (SSM/I);

MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; OCEANOGRAPHY;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; ELECTROMAGNETIC EMISSIONS; FREQUENCY INDEPENDENT; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS MODELS; MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; MODEL CALCULATIONS; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS;

EID: 0030811469     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96RS02434     Document Type: Article

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