Ocean wind field mapping from synthetic aperture radar and its application to research and applied problems

Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory)

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 102-112

  Monaldo, Frank M ^a,b   Thompson, Donald R ^c   Winstead, Nathaniel S ^d   Pichel, William G ^a,c,e   Clemente Colón, Pablo ^c,f,g   Christiansen, Merete B ^h  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Ocean Remote Sensing Group ^*  (United States)

^c APL ^*

^d APL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f National Ice Center   (United States)

^g NESDIS Office of Research and Applications   (United States)

^h TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAP FLOWS; OCEAN SURFACE; OCEAN WIND FIELD; OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES;

COASTAL ZONES; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; MAPPING; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND TURBINES;

WIND;

EID: 33745458909     PISSN: 02705214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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