An updated analysis of the ocean surface wind direction signal in passive microwave brightness temperatures

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1230-1240

  Meissner, Thomas ^a,b   Wentz, Frank ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometers; Ocean wind vector retrieval

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; OCEAN SURFACE WIND DIRECTION; OCEAN WIND VECTOR RETRIEVAL; PASSIVE MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; IMAGE SENSORS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; VAPORS;

WIND;

EID: 0036613502     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.800231     Document Type: Article

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