Ocean surface wind retrievals using the TRMM microwave imager

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 4 II, 2000, Pages 2009-2016

  Connor, Laurence N ^b   Chang, Paul S ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b University Corporation for Atmospheric Research   (United States)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTAMINATION; IMAGE SENSORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RADIOMETRY; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SPEED; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WIND;

MATRIX WIND SPEED RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM; MICROWAVE IMAGER; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; OCEAN SURFACE WIND SPEED; SURFACE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0034224535     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.851782     Document Type: Article

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