On the remote sensing of oceanic and atmospheric convection in the Greenland Sea by synthetic aperture radar

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Romeiser, Roland ^a   Ufermann, Susanne ^b   Androssov, Alexei ^a   Wehde, Henning ^a   Mitnik, Leonid ^c   Kern, Stefan ^a   Rubino, Angelo ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c IL ICHEV PACIFIC OCEANOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Convection; Greenland Sea; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 18544395138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003jc001975     Document Type: Article

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