Fully Automated Cloud-Drift Winds in NESDIS Operations

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1121-1133

  Nieman, Steven J ^a   Menzel, W Paul ^b   Hayden, Christopher M ^b   Gray, Donald ^c   Wanzong, Steven T ^a   Velden, Christopher S ^a   Daniels, Jaime ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD DRIFT WIND; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE;

EID: 0031399676     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<1121:FACDWI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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