The use of digital warping of microwave integrated water vapor imagery to improve forecasts of marine extratropical cyclones

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1469-1496

  Alexander, G David ^a   Weinman, James A ^b   Schols, J L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLONE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY;

EID: 0032413697     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<1469:TUODWO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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