Wind fields over the Great Lakes measured by the SeaWinds scatterometer on the QuikSCAT satellite

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 148-165

  Nghiem, Son V ^a   Leshkevich, George A ^b   Stiles, Bryan W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NOAA GREAT LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Great Lakes; Remote sensing; Satellite; Scatterometer; Storm; Wind fields

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; LAUNCHING; SATELLITES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND EFFECTS;

SCATTEROMETERS; WIND SPEED MEASUREMENT;

LAKES;

LAKE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE; SCATTEROMETER; WIND FIELD;

GREAT LAKES; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 1942445366     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0380-1330(04)70337-8     Document Type: Article

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