Toward an optimal inversion method for synthetic aperture radar wind retrieval

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Portabella, M ^a   Stoffelen, A ^a   Johannessen, J A ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Inversion theory; Mesoscale winds; Nonlinearity; SAR; Underdetermination problem

Indexed keywords

MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND FIELD;

EID: 0037104879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jc000925     Document Type: Article

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