The relationship between winds, surface roughness, and radar backscatter at low incidence angles from TRMM precipitation radar measurements

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 549-562

  Freilich, Michael H ^a   Vanhoff, Barry A ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; RADAR; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND;

WIND SPEED;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BACKSCATTER; DATA PROCESSING; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE WIND;

EID: 0141452215     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(2003)20<549:TRBWSR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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