Validation of the gridded weekly and monthly wind fields calculated from ERS-1 scatterometer wind observations

Global Atmosphere and Ocean System

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 373-396

  Abderrahim, Bentamy ^a   Grima, Nicolas ^a   Quilfen, Yves ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

European Remote Sensing Satellite; Scatterometer winds

Indexed keywords

ERS-1; SCATTEROMETER; WIND FIELD;

EID: 0032461676     PISSN: 10236732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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