A novel approach to marine wind speed assessment using synthetic aperture radar

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 109-115

  Sikora, Todd D ^a   Young, George S ^b   Winstead, Nathaniel S ^c  

^a MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; MARINE APPLICATIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COASTAL REGIONS; MARINE WIND; SCATTEROMETRY TECHNIQUES; WIND DIRECTION FIELD; WIND SPEED;

WIND;

INSTRUMENTATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND FIELD;

EID: 33645639161     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF904.1     Document Type: Article

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