Microwave remote sensing of tropical cyclones from space

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 137-151

  Katsaros, Kristina B ^a   Vachon, Paris W ^b   Liu, W Timothy ^c   Black, Peter G ^a  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave remote sensing; Rain radar; SAR synthetic aperture radar; Scatterometer; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTEROMETER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036276192     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015884903180     Document Type: Article

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