SSM/I measured microwave brightness temperature (TB's), anomalies of TB's, and their relationship to typhoon intensification

Natural Hazards

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-19

  Rao, Gandikota V ^a   Mccoy, Jeffrey H ^a,b  

^a Saint Louis University   (United States)

^b TASC   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave TB's; SSM I TB's; Typhoon intensification

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; SSM/I; TYPHOON INTENSIFICATION;

EID: 0031451416     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007963829299     Document Type: Article

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