Relationship between SAR-derived wind vectors and wind at 10-m height represented by a mesoscale model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1505-1517

  Koch, Wolfgang ^a   Feser, Frauke ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND;

IMAGE FILTERING; STANDARD DEVIATION; WIND SPEED; WIND VECTORS;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 33744773858     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3134.1     Document Type: Article

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