Wind jets and wind waves off the Pacific coast of northern Japan under winter monsoon captured by combined use of scatterometer, synthetic aperture radar, and altimeter

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 109, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1-11

  Shimada, Teruhisa ^a   Kawamura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air sea land interaction; Coastal wind; SAR

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; REMOTE SENSING; WIND WAVE;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN; WORLD;

EID: 14744304445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JC002450     Document Type: Article

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