Assimilation of altimeter significant wave height into a third-generation global spectral wave model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 110-116

  Bhatt, Vihang ^a   Kumar, Raj ^a   Basu, Sujit ^a   Agarwal, Vijay K ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Assimilation; European Remote Sensing Satellite 2 (ERS 2); Jason 1; QuikSCAT scatterometer; Significant wave height (SWH); Topex Poseidon (T P); WAve Model (WAM)

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WAVES;

OCEAN SURFACE WAVES; QUICKSCAT SCATTEROMETERS; RADAR ALTIMETERS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 12844262905     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.839436     Document Type: Article

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