Can synthetic radars be used to estimate hurricane force winds?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Horstmann, J ^a,b   Thompson, D R ^c   Monaldo, F ^c   Iris, S ^d   Graber, H C ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; HURRICANES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; RADAR IMAGING; WIND;

WIND DIRECTION; WIND FIELD ESTIMATES; WIND SPEED;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

HURRICANE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 30744441860     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023992     Document Type: Article

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