Construction of surface wind stress fields with high temporal resolution using ERS-1 scatterometer data

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 247-256

  Kubota, Masahisa ^a   Yokota, Hidekazu ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERS-1; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTEROMETER; SEA SURFACE; WIND FIELD; WIND STRESS;

(NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032414967     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02751700     Document Type: Article

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