QuikSCAT Wind Retrievals for Tropical Cyclones

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 11 PART I, 2003, Pages 2616-2628

  Yueh, Simon H ^a   Stiles, Bryan W ^a   Liu, W Timothy ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricane; Ocean wind; Rain attenuation; Rain scattering; Scatterometer; Tropical cyclone

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; SCATTERING; SPEED; STORMS; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND POWER;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER; WIND RETRIEVALS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0344877369     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.814913     Document Type: Article

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