Evaluation of hurricane ocean vector winds from WindSat

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 656-667

  Adams, Ian S ^a,b,e,f   Hennon, Christopher C ^c,d,f,g   Jones, W Linwood ^{a,b,f,h,i,j,k}   Ahmad, Khalil A ^a,b,l  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c University Corporation for Atmospheric Research   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE   (United States)

^e NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION   (United States)

^g American Meteorological Society   (United States)

^h Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

ⁱ Central Florida Remote Sensing Laboratory   (United States)

^j Electrical and Computer Engineering Department ^*

^k Central Florida Remote Sensing Laboratory ^*

^l UCF   (United States)

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Author keywords

Hurricane; Ocean vector wind; Passive microwave polarimetry; Tropical cyclone (TC); WindSat

Indexed keywords

OCEAN VECTOR WIND; PASSIVE MICROWAVE POLARIMETRY; TROPICAL CYCLONES (TC); WINDSAT;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; HURRICANES; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; STATISTICS; STORMS;

WIND EFFECTS;

EID: 33244477235     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.862506     Document Type: Article

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