Validating the NSCAT winds in the vicinity of the Pacific Intertropical Convergence Zone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 2121-2124

  Yu, Zuojun ^a   Moore, Dennis W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; SCATTEROMETER; WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ);

WIND STRESS; WIND;

EASTERN PACIFIC; EKMAN PUMPING; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; POTENTIAL ERRORS;

EID: 0034352799     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL011250     Document Type: Article

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