Manual and semiautomated wind direction editing for use in the generation of synthetic aperture radar wind speed imagery

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 776-790

  Young, George S ^a   Sikora, Todd D ^b   Winstead, Nathaniel S ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND;

SATELLITE SCATTEROMETER; WIND DIRECTION; WIND SPEED;

METEOROLOGY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR IMAGERY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTEROMETER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 34547194308     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2507.1     Document Type: Article

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