Tropical cyclone wind retrievals from the advanced microwave sounding unit: Application to surface wind analysis

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 399-415

  Bessho, Kotaro ^a   DeMaria, Mark ^b   Knaff, John A ^c  

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HURRICANE EFFECTS; MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY; SCATTERING; WIND EFFECTS;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT; TROPICAL CYCLONE WIND RETRIEVALS;

STORMS;

ALGORITHM; SCATTEROMETER; SURFACE WIND; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 33646573044     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2352.1     Document Type: Article

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