Observational evidence of a wind direction signal in SSM/I passive microwave data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 2 I, 2000, Pages 823-837

  Wick, Gary A ^a,b   Bates, John J ^a   Gottschall, Chris C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; IMAGE SENSORS; OCEANOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WIND;

OCEAN SURFACE WINDS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 0033906626     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.842011     Document Type: Article

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