WindSat ocean surface wind vector and sea surface temperature retrievals

Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS, 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Bettenhausen, Michael H ^a   Gaiser, Peter W ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; POLARIMETRIC MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE RETRIEVALS;

MICROWAVES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VECTORS; WATER VAPOR;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 33947144793     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2005.1639950     Document Type: Conference Paper

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