Retrieving ocean surface wind speed from the TRMM precipitation radar measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1271-1282

  Li, Li ^a   Im, Eastwood ^a   Connor, Laurence N ^b   Chang, Paul S ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Natl Oceanic/Atmosph Admin   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave remote sensing; Ocean surface wind; Precipitation radar (PR); Tropical rainfall measuring mission (TRMM)

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; SCATTERING; SPEED; VECTORS; WIND;

MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; OCEAN SURFACE WINDS; PRECIPITATION RADARS (PR); TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION (TRMM);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 3042513339     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.828924     Document Type: Article

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