An analysis of SeaWinds-based rain retrieval in severe weather events

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2870-2878

  Allen, Jeffrey R ^a,b,c,d   Long, David G ^a,b,e,f  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^d Tau Beta Pi ^*  (United States)

^e BYU's Center for Remote Sensing

^f Microwave Earth Remote Sensing Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD); QuikSCAT; Rain; Scatterometer; SeaWinds; Simultaneous wind rain retrieval; Wind

Indexed keywords

NEXT GENERATION WEATHER RADAR (NEXRAD); QUIKSCAT; SCATTEROMETERS; SEAWINDS; SIMULTANEOUS WIND/RAIN RETRIEVAL;

BACKSCATTERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 29144492863     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.858431     Document Type: Article

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