QuikSCAT geophysical model function for tropical cyclones and application to Hurricane Floyd

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2601-2612

  Yueh, Simon H ^a,b   Stiles, Bryan W ^a,b   Tsai, Wu Yang ^b   Hu, Hua ^b   Liu, W Timothy ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Radar; Remote sensing; Sea surface; Wind

Indexed keywords

TROPICAL CYCLONES;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; HURRICANE EFFECTS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS; STORMS; WIND;

TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035694193     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.974995     Document Type: Article

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