SAR signatures of the marine atmospheric boundary layer: Implications for numerical forecasting

Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory)

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-32

  Young, George S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND;

MARINE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER (MABL) PROCESS; SPACEBORNE SCATTEROMETERS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033903079     PISSN: 02705214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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