Estimating hurricane wind structure in the absence of aircraft reconnaissance

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 89-101

  Kossin, James P ^a   Knaff, John A ^b   Berger, Howard I ^a   Herndon, Derrick C ^a   Cram, Thomas A ^b   Velden, Christopher S ^a   Murnane, Richard J ^c   Hawkins, Jeffrey D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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

^c Bermuda Biological Station for Research   (United States)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; INFRARED IMAGING; RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT; STORMS; WIND;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE INFRARED (IR) IMAGERY; HURRICANE WIND STRUCTURE; INFRARED SATELLITE DATA; POSTANALYSIS TOOL;

METEOROLOGY;

ESTIMATION METHOD; HURRICANE; INFRARED IMAGERY; SATELLITE DATA; WIND FIELD; WIND FORCING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 33947205624     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF985.1     Document Type: Article

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