Modeled radar surface signature of deep ocean convection

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2050-2067

  Fischer, Kenneth W ^a   Legg, Sonya ^a   Munk, Walter H ^a   Shuchman, Robert A ^a   Garwood, Roland W ^a  

^a ERIM International   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; HEAT CONVECTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADAR IMAGING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DEEP OCEAN CONVECTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); GLOBAL THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032630711     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.774715     Document Type: Article

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