Estimating the seaward extent of sea breeze from QuikSCAT scatterometry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Aparna, M ^a   Shetye, S R ^a   Shankar, D ^a   Shenoi, S S C ^a   Mehra, P ^a   Desai, R G P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; CORRELATION METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OCEANOGRAPHY; VECTORS;

SEA BREEZE; SEAWARD EXTENT; VECTOR CORRELATION;

METEOROLOGY;

REMOTE SENSING; SCATTEROMETER; SEA BREEZE;

EID: 24944554401     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023107     Document Type: Article

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