Ocean surface wind fields estimated from satellite active and passive microwave instruments

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 5 II, 1999, Pages 2469-2486

  Bentamy, Abderrahim ^a   Queffeulou, Pierre ^a   Quilfen, Yves ^a   Katsaros, Kristina ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANEROID ALTIMETERS; BUOYS; CALIBRATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; SURFACE WAVES;

SCATTEROMETERS; SURFACE WINDSPEEDS; WIND ESTIMATES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033321601     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.789643     Document Type: Article

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