High-Resolution Wind Fields within the Inner Core and Eye of a Mature Tropical Cyclone from GOES 1-min Images

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2483-2496

  Hasler, A Frederick ^a   Palaniappan, K ^b   Kambhammetu, C ^c   Black, P ^a   Uhlhorn, E ^a   Chesters, D ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLONE; GOES; WIND FIELD;

EID: 0032450076     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1998)079<2483:HRWFWT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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