Scatterometer wind fields: A new release over the decade 1991‐2001

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 431-449

  Bentamy, Abderrahim ^a   Quilfen, Yves ^a   Flament, Pierre ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; REMOTE SENSING;

OBJECTIVE METHODS; SCATTEROMETER WINDS; SCATTEROMETERS; SURFACE PARAMETER; SURFACE WIND FIELDS; WIND RETRIEVALS;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 2242428221     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m02-041     Document Type: Article

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